[Dr. Thorne]

What are answers to these three questions:

1. Where did the physical matter that comprises the Universe come from?

2. How far does it extend?

3. How long has it existed?

[null and void]

1. Where did the physical matter that comprises the Universe come from?

Elsewhere

2. How far does it extend?

To the end.

3. How long has it existed?

Since the beginning.

Bonus question:

4. How high is 'up'?

125 miles. After which it becomes 'out'...

[CarrotAndStick]

Why look so far into the universe, when there's an enigma right here in our notebooks? Have you heard of the Koch Snowflake? Here it is:

http://ecademy.agnesscott.edu/~lriddle/ifs/ksnow/ksnow.htm

This representation, as the iterations proceed, has physically limited area, but an infinite outer boundary. God?