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<div>Ha, so you succumb to my torture that space never ends.
 
You use shapes to discuss a finite space. Space can not have a shape. Considering space in any shape means there is an outer space, space.
 
It can't end. I consider the end of space to be impossible. You can travel one direction and come back to the starting location, which puts you on a sphere ... a sphere is a shape, space cannot have a shape. :blink:
 

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No, I just don't wish to speak as an expert in a field that I am anything but an expert in.

 

Quote:I think Deacon's Stephen King argument is a much more "well-rounded" approach to this question. The farthest that Humans have ever traveled is the Moon. And even our deep space probes like Voyager 1 have only recently, just left the Solar System. And keep in mind that, that thing is travelling at a top speed of 38,610 MPH. And it's still not anywhere near as fast as some celestial objects out there. Heck, our entire Solar System is said to travel at a speed of almost 515,000 MPH.  And it still would take us millions, if not billions of years to travel across our own Galaxy. 

 

And to think that our Galaxy is one of only an "infinite" amount of Galaxies out there. We're still not entirely sure how big our Universe really is. That's why Astronomers only call our part of the Universe the "Observable Universe". I.E. only the parts of the Universe that we can see from Earth. We're not entirely certain if our Universe is the only Universe out there.

 

 

Basically the point is, is that the Universe is so big, that "Big" really isn't the best word to describe it. The Human mind simply cannot comprehend it.

 

Ah, but it's still fun to try! At one point, the human mind was considered incapable of comprehending anything beyond this planet. If we had given up for such a reason in the past we'd be relegated to only looking to explain what is on Earth.

 

A futile attempt at pushing the boundary of our knowledge is better than no attempt at all.

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