B How is the Big Bang compatible with an infinite universe?

[PAllen]

An event, referred to as the Big Bang, that happened in our past was not the beginning, but a local beginning; after requires a before. It's a theory, not a fact; it's an elegant, incomplete notion to help us mentally wrestle with things of which we are not yet capable of insightful and complete penetration. So at one point in one point one thing happened and we gave it a name, but it is just one of an infinite number of events, some of which may be quite the same; for in an infinite universe or an infinite multiverse, all things exist.
Space - the rest of everything - has to be infinite, because an inside requires an outside, and an outside would define not-an-end and require a further container.

Consider the argument that for any position, there must be left an right, therefore unless 'chopped' any surface is infinite. Then consider the surface of a ball (2-sphere). Your argument is assuming Newtonian time & space in a scenario where all evidence suggest they are wholly inaccurate.

 

[jerromyjon]

Then consider the surface of a ball (2-sphere)

Then consider the torus it swipes out of space, then twist it for 1/2 a loop and you are almost there.

 

[phinds]

So at one point in one point one thing happened and we gave it a name, but it is just one of an infinite number of events, some of which may be quite the same

I found your whole post incoherent, but this sentence in particular is just weird.

; for in an infinite universe or an infinite multiverse, all things exist.

No, all things do NOT exist. There are lots of things that are physically impossible and none of them exist

Space - the rest of everything - has to be infinite, because an inside requires an outside, and an outside would define not-an-end and require a further container.

Again, you are not making sense. I realize that you think this makes sense but it does not follow. The universe does not have to be infinite.

Perhaps if you could address your points one at a time rather than in a jumble, we could address them.

 

[PeterDonis]

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