Why The Universe is Not Infinite.

A Story by i.am.the.sun.

this was written 4 years ago. i'm not sure if i was nuts or if i was genius, but i'm going to just believe that i still agree because i don't want to re-read it again.

Ok, so… this is gonna be some revised remembered rambling about the universe…
So… why the PARTICLE universe is not infinite…
The particle universe is not infinite (by the way, this is all based off the idea that the big bang happened to the way I understand it) simply because if all the matter in the “universe” was expelled and exploded and forced outward from the center of a sphere of which was all the matter in the universe compacted into the size of about a grapefruit, then our “universe” would be roughly a giant sphere*. Of which we would not be able to find the exact center of**. So if the particles are constantly expanding, then the universe must be finite (particle universe). Because they are fillin empty space of which they have not filled yet. So it has an infinite potential to expand forever, but it can never encompass everything.
Then again, if there is nothing other than particles, other than space which is lack there of particles, then the particle universe IS everything. If something exists that is not particle, then it is not part of the particle universe, so then the particle universe would be finite. But as far as we know, nothing can exist without being either an abstract idea, or a material object*** if something was/is an abstract idea, then it cannot change anything in the physical realm****. So if space is nothing but a vaccum, and lack of particles thereof, then it is an abstract idea. Nothing but a name given to the absence of eveidence. And the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence*****. So abstract ideas like space and the “non particle” universe cannot expand the borders of our “particle” universe.
(after thought, a few days after i wrote this) - the particle universe would be infinite... after you read why the non particle universe isnt infinite you will understand this. because if there is nothing, space doesnt exist, and there is no non particle universe, there is only infinite potential for the expansion of the particle universe, then if the particle universe is its own universe, then it automatically takes up every bit of availible space, since it is its own infinite boundaries. the particle universe is as big as it can possibly go. if there was part of the universe (particle, non particle doesnt exist) that you didnt think was filled with particles, therefore, prarticle univeres not infinite because there is room to be filled. well here you are proven wrong, the universe consists of particles, and solely particles, there is no "nothing", no "space" in the particle universe, and if there is, then its not part of the universe. so lets not even worry about that eh? if theres any particles out there, that is the universe, they are included in the universe. the universe doesnt have to be one solid thing. its like an archepellego, they arnt all one big island, they are a group unto themselves. all the galexies, space rocks, etc... (particles) are like these islands, and theres trillions times trillions of them out there. and they are all brought together under one name, the universe. the ocean is not part of the archepelligo is it? neither is the border between the local universes. (local universe - a single island in an archepelligo. a planet is a local universe... as long as there isnt any kind of gaseous cloud connecting it to mars (not just mars, but you get it right?). but even so, that would just mean that earth, the cloud, and mars are all a local universe... etc... etc... etc...)

Non particle universe, and why its not infinite aswell.
Ok, well, at first. It is.
But when you think….. great things can happen…
Ok, space, vaccum, nothing, is what our “universe” consists of. A great empty void. Of which does exist…….! Space is a lie, and its simple to understand. Weve for somereason giving a name to the absence of something, (space). Space can only be measured by other means, means of which are derived from the physical realm, and not the etherrealm (I call it this because it’s a semi familiar word, and I don’t know what else to call it). Space is measured in the distance between physical objects. Like, the one foot marker is two feet away from the 3 foot marker on a tape measure…. Our non particle universe can not be infinite because, it cant exist outside the boundaries of our particle universe… imagine this, your standing at the edge of the universe, like standing on the edge of the ocean, and there is nothing beyond you, (hence the EDGE of the universe). It is the edge of the universe because there is nothing beyond it to determine the space, or distance, between it and the previous edge. (we recognize distance in meters, god knows why, we just do. (heh, god in a philosophical rant) so lets say someone recognizes 2 feet, as 2 feet long, and 4 feet, as 2 2foot lengths, and a truck, as 3 4ft lengths, and a building as a few truck lengths, and mountain as a hellovalotta building lengths, etc.) so lets say, that while standing at the edge, you threw a rock. It would expand the universe. So lets explain that shall we? Ok, if you were standing on the edge of the universe, and you saw a standard sized building, and it was considerably smaller than it would be if you were right in front of it, you would conclude that it is farther away from you. You would not know for sure because there is nothing between you and it, or behind it, to compare its size to to determine the distance, to fill in the space. So you have just turned empty space or nothing, into distance. You have just created a new part of the universe, expanded the borders. In a way, you have just created something from nothing. You didn’t create matter, because you cant pick up the distance between you and the building and throw it somewhere, you made something else… Iv no idea what.
So if space is nothing, nothing but a lack of particles emcompassing, or rather, expanding over what would be ASSUMED to be an INFINITELY large area, then it doesn’t exit. Space doesn’t exist. Our universe doesn’t exist. The particle universe is thing only thing out there. What your doing by making another “non particle” universe, is making the unknown a known, and there are no known unknowns, only unknown unknowns, things that we don’t know that we don’t know we don’t know. Erego, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. So if there is nothing outside our particle universe, then theres nothing. We shouldn’t just go and start naming the absence of particles and confusing people when things like this article/essay/rambling tell them that its not real. But also, just because there is nothing (or what appears to be) doesn’t mean that there is nothing beyond it. Or that possibly the property of nothing is actually an object to such a large paticle/object, that we have labeled it as lack there of. Nothing could be a default property to what everything must abide by, if something has any other property, it replaces the nothing property. If it is lacking in all proerties, then it is givin the property of nothing by default, to meet the code/rules of the “universe”. If ther was anything, ANYTHING without any properties, and it didn’t hold the property of nothing, then a hole would be created in the “universe” and possibly all properties would spill out and chaos would insue??

Ok, the last bit is rambling I know, its crazy. But what did you think? The following are little touch ups on things I mensioned in there…

*if it has a shape, it has boundaries of which define the shape itself, therefore, not infinite…

**we would not be able to find the center of the universe because local gravity would pull and push, well actually just pull, other space rock toward eachother, sling shotting etc eachother faster and changing their direction. So what should have been a perfect, or close to it, sphere of particles surrounding the point of which they all exploded from. But with the pulls of particles, the sphere will have dips and swells that would offset the outcome of a modern day calculation to find the center (if we knew the shape of the particle universe).

***a material object, is anything that consists of matter and contains properties.(this is excluding the property of nothing I came up with near the end) an abstract idea is anything that exists, but has no direct correspondence with things of material. Ie: time, space. Time can only be measured in the difference in distance and the speed at which material things travel at. You cannot take a lump of time and throw it! Nor can you do the same with space.

****it cant, not directly anyway. A car cannot be driving, then swerve to avoid hitting a rougue gap of nothingness of which is space.

*****I think this got explained a few times in there…. But just in case… if you don’t know whats there, then you cant just group it together and call it space. That would be making an unknown a known without knowing what it is. You just gotta face it, you don’t know what it is, and there are things that you don’t know that you don’t know you don’t know. (it does make sense, just re read it a few times…)

so really, I guess what I said though this whole thing is…
the universe isn’t real, it’s a lack of reality, the universe is a lump of nothingness that has been marketed and sold to us in an empty box. The thing is, we know its empty and we still buy it. Wtf. Why do we so easily believe that theres a great void of nothingness out there? There isn’t. there isn’t even a void. There is no nothing. And why are we wasting time with made up ideas like that? What are we going to do that will help us in anyway, by knowing that there is a great void out there… of which there is isn’t. there is only a lack of particles. Picture it this way…
all the particles in the “universe” are touching, (think of a map) but they all have borders. Like our countries do. Now, take some scissors and cut up counties separate, what just happened? Did you just create space between the countries? No. you simply expanded the border itself. “space” isn’t anything other than the transition from one set of particles to another set. You are in between locations, you are in the action of going somewhere, and the only reason your in that action is because you are there. If you weren’t there, and neither was anything else. Then that action would not exist. Now im rambling again, and in don’t know what point im striving at. Im gonna end it, but it pains me to do so. More of this will come maybe??? Who knows…