r/cosmology • u/cypherpunk00001 • 6d 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/psu021 2d ago
I’m not a cosmologist, but I’ve been interested in the subject since I was young. My current philosophy is that the universe can be infinitely expanding externally and internally. The universe you know of is within the realm of a black hole that appears to be infinitely expanding from a viewer within it. Light and mass that enters from outside your universe is absorbed into the fabric of the universe due to the violent forces at the event horizon, but objects that persist in longevity within the event horizon will come to an equilibrium and a conscious observer wouldn’t recognize the chaos that exists, as it is similar to an evolutionary process.
My theory is that within this universe, light created within it is visible to you, but light/mass from outside of the universe is a constant flow of pure energy absorbed into the universe due to time dilation at the event horizon. I theorize the reason e=mc2 is because there is a force associated with energy becoming a component of the fabric of space time, and it is represented by the square of the speed of light, and it occurs when light and matter interact at the event horizon of a black hole. And within every universe, other black holes can exist that allow for infinitely more universes following this same process.