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> Oops, my bad, I don't come in this forum often ;)
Sorry, it wasn't a dig at you. I just meant that it had been discussed at length a few months ago, and that I wasn't going to repeat it all as there was far too much information.
> Have you got a name for the title post?
It's not the "Conspiract Theory" post that cipro mentions. This was about two months ago, and no longer seems to be in the list. It was started by Your Honour, and discussed a different subject - inter-stellar travel I thin it was - and turned into a debate about whether we ever actually landed on the moon.
Anyway, whay I was basically saying was that the universe has a finite volume, but has no bounds. Go in one direction far enough and you'll get back to the start. Though admittedly, the size is huge beyond our comprehension..
It's just that the word 'infinite' best describes what my own interpretation of the Universe would be, i.e. boundless and immeasurable.
Boundless means 'Illimitable' which is surely the same thing only one infers a pysical action and the other a mental one. Can we agree that the point that I was trying to make was that we, as humans cannot comprehend the vastness of the universe and that might be the reason why we cannot seem to define it with our language.
The surface area of a ball is unbounded, but not infinite.
If some area is infinite, then it is also unbounded. If it is unbounded though, it doesn't necessarily follow that it's infinite.
The Universe is unbounded, not infinite!
We live in what is thought to be an infinite universe.
By definition, the word 'infinite' suggests that we cannot even begin to comprehend just how big our Universe really is,
and thus is it more inconcievable to believe that there ISN'T some sort of inteligent life out there than it is to believe that there IS.
Just a thought.
An intelligent life form?