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To: 1Old Pro
"Has anyone figured out how big space is ? Is it infinite?"

First, one needs to define "space".

Second, mathematically, as Georg Cantor showed, infinity comes in different sizes. If space is infinite, is it just Aleph-null infinite?

17 posted on 01/30/2024 9:44:49 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse

I’m sure if you substitute “universe” for “space”, this is what he means.

“Space” is such a general catch-all term, it has no real meaning.

Just my take, if you will...

CA....


19 posted on 01/30/2024 10:53:29 AM PST by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: Carl Vehse
First, one needs to define "space".

I have a suspicion that it is in the "beyond all understanding" category.

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Wisdom in Proverbs speaking:
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the *highest part of the dust of the world.

{*The highest part of the dust of the world —( ראש עפרות תבל rosh aphroth tebel ), "the first particle of matter." The prima materia, the primitive atom.}

21 posted on 01/30/2024 11:01:32 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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