Eternity

[Le Chat]

Sometimes I muse on this....
If we sent a rocket into space with an everlasting power supply and tracking, presumably it would just go on forever and ever as there is no end.
I just can't imaging 'no end' to anything....but if there was an end, what would there be? A wall? What would be after that?
Can anyone make sense of this?

[MarkRae]

It wouldn't even need a never-ending power supply! Once it got out of earth's gravity and into space, it would obey Newton's first law of motion...

[Prudie]

The human brain can't visualise the concept of infinity, Maybe you'd end up where you started.

[erin-x]

This is the kind of thing that freaks me out. I image it just to be white... The blackness just fades out into white nothingness. Is that even a word?! Haha!

[douglas9401]

I've long thought of our reality as a minute part of a much larger entity as atomic particle in our makeup are to us.
Possibly wrong but no more far fetched thanwhat some others believe. :)

[Graham-W]

Prudie seems to have the answer. Because space/time is curved the rocket that you set off would return to its launch site eventually.
That doesn't solve the mind bogglyness of it but that is one of the current theories.

[rockyracoon]

I get a headache if I think about infinity for too long, my brain just won't except that there's no end.

[erin-x]

Maybe this explains it....

[dr b]

It's interesting that two of the mathematicians who are most responsible for what we know about infinity (in a mathematical sense) - Cantor and Godel - had serious mental problems. Does studying infinity drive you insane, or do you have to be insane to study infinity?

[erin-x]

Oh no!!

[Graham-W]

LOL at Erin-X's contribution. "An error occurred. Please try again later."
That's how hard infinity is to understand.

[erin-x]

Someone search for Homer Simpson Universe on youtube :-) please lol!

[Prudie]

This one erin? there's a few

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VivF5R4IFQ4

[DaisyNonna]

Never came to terms with infinity, never mind eternity.

[erin-x]

That's the one! Thanks! I think we should all just believe that... it makes it easier haha!

[Mick-Talbot]

Infinity ........ the time needed after 90 minutes for Man U to get an equaliser

[Prudie]

i thought refs always ensured Man U score between the 88th and 92nd minute.

[Le Chat]

Alas...I am none the wiser, yet definitely amused!

[MASS1961]

I often look up at orion in awe.
The brightest star in the bottom right corner "Rigel" is something like 700 - 900 light years away, A light year is roughly 5,878,000,000,000 miles.
It is beyond comprehension!!
The light from that one star was emitted so so long ago and has finally arrived at earth.
There is a fair chance also that Rigel may not even exist anymore.
Sometimes I look up and think how tiny and almost insignificant we are.

[tenrec]

Agree totally Mass

[Clanad]

Probably not much of a help, but you can eliminate "infinity" in relation to the universe, since it's known to have had a beginning.... nothing infinite can have a beginning (or ending)...