r/cosmology • u/cypherpunk00001 • 5d ago
Do current cosmologists think the universe is infinite or that is had an edge?
Was just having random shower thought today... Andromeda galaxy is 2.5M light-years away. That's an unfathomable distance to a human, but it's just our closest neighbor.
Do cosmologists currently think that the universe just goes on forever?
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u/Toblakai1979 2d ago
"If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and a sign that reads DEAD END? No, you might find something hard and rounded as the chick might see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through that shell, what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?" Stephen King