The infinite space of the Universe

I think the universe must be inifite for practicle purposes, otherwise it would collapse onto itself at some point.I think we'd like to believe the universe is finite for comprehension purposes, similar to like how people in ancient times thought the earth was flat because it was easier to comprehend.Another thing that's difficult to comprehend is the difference between "empty space" and "nothingness". Space is some "stuff" that extends infinitely in all directions around us.

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Empty Space isn't empty/void/null.Current research seems to indicate that what you describe as "matter" is actually produced by some other currrently undetectable energies existing in the "empty space".There's a reason it's often called "fabric of space".Simple logic tells us that if "nothing" separates two things they must be adjacent. Further still, if space was "nothingness" or "empty" then fields (such as gravity) couldn't exist in it by definition.Edited by Marcosll, : No reason given.

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Agobot: "Lots of unsupported claims in this thread. What makes you think there is gravity in the empty space of the universe(beyong where we think matter ends, say 90 billion light years away from us)? How could you state that as a fact?"LOL. You, my man, are funny. Compltely missunderstood what I wrote. I was talking about the non-null empty space, not what borders it at infity.

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Something's just occurred to me. If you know the answer, please by all means do tell!At a back hole, the mass is so large that even light cannot escape. The mass of the big bang would be far far superior to that of a black hole. How then could the mass be expelled? Wouldn't the gravitational field be so massive there's no way the universe could expand from it?Edited by Marcosll, : No reason given.Edited by Marcosll, : Spelling

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