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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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It all kind of rests on whether you can wrap your head around the concept that it's only infinite
to human perception. Like Comrade was saying, if you couldn't look up to see the sky, you could walk on the Earth forever, thinking it was all there was. The only thing that lets us see that the Earth isn't all there is because we can see the sky and the stars and stuff.

We can't see beyond the universe because we can't perceive the stuff beyond it. We can't travel in it and therefore, to us, it's infinite. Or at least so close to infinite given our current science that we can't see the end.
(, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 14:22, 1 reply, 14 years ago)
And I think that's my problem
forcing my brain to accept the concept. It just won't 'stay'. I always think I've understood the theory and then suddenly, BANG! my head just forces it out again to be replaced by something akin to 'Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck'
(, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 14:28, Reply)

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