(For general consideration. I’m not expecting you to answer these questions. I quite agree with you on it being Infinite. Thanks for bringing up the issue)
The reason they claim the Universe (which I always understood to be defined as Eternal and Infinite) is finite because all celestial objects are moving AWAY from a central point, ergo that point would be the origin of the big bang and it has expanded to size xxx based on it’s age. It’s age is based on it’s size. Huh?
(Akin to aging the underlying layers of Earth based on the fossil inclusion, and the fossils age is based on the layer they are found in)
If all objects are moving away from a central point, where is that point ?
Since our only point of view is Earth/our solar system, we must be the center.
Red shift stars are traveling away from us. Blue shift stars are traveling toward us. Supposedly they should all be moving away from us. Which is based on observation with a time period of say several thousand years. But the Universe operates on a time scale that is 10’s if not 100’s of MILLIONS times larger. It may be that every 5000 years, the blue and red shifted objects completely reverse their direction. It is possible that mankind won’t even be around to see that kind of thing occur.
EVEN IF the Universe were finite, due to the supposed speed of expansion, and the limitations of the speed of light, we will NEVER EVER be able to prove it. Due to the size, the rate of expansion at the ‘edge’ has already exceeded the speed of light. We can never catch up with it.
IF we even COULD, what proof would we get ? Beyond the ‘finite’ universe, there would be NOTHING. No way to image it , no way to describe it, no way to see it. How would we know or prove it was there ? But it can’t be ‘there’ because it doesn’t ‘exist’.
Thus the dilemma of the ‘finite universe’ concept.
Terence McKenna quote:
“Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.’ The one free miracle is the appearance of all the mass and energy in the universe and all the laws that govern it in a single instant from nothing”.
Follow the science and get beclowned.
Lol.
Scientists have preached about the Big Bang Theory as long as I can remember, the James Webb Telescope we are told allows us to see back in time to withing a few million years of when the big bang occurred.
To me this theory raises more questions than it answers, before the big bang, what was the universe, what materials were gathered together when the big bang happened, what caused the big bang, scientists offer a solution to something that is not scientific, a large mass of material we have no idea how it got there or why it exploded or even when it happened, but we know it did...
What if our universe is but one of an infinite number of universes all in different dimensions.
IMO, the answers to how the universe was formed and when are unknowable, unless you have a belief in a supreme being aka God or some power far beyond anything we can comprehend.
We can’t even explain the ancient history of Earth much less the galaxy or universe.
No one has a proven explanation of how the pyramids were built or why other ancient cultures have pyramid type structures of a similar shape and design, this is just one example of an ancient culture with some type of technology we have yet to explain, I read articles and hear from supposedly knowledgeable people that provide evidence of advanced cultures far earlier than current science says ancient cultures existed.
My point, we don’t even know how the Earth was formed and how intelligent life came about or even a reliable timeline of the development of advanced ancient cultures, much less trying to figure out the origins of the galaxy or universe.