Menzenski
Formerly Mambeu
If space were truely infinite, there would indeed be infinite stars that we wouldn't be able to see, but there would also be infinite visible stars, which means that the night sky should be bright.Scrappy said:i think that is incorrect. Stars have life times. Because of the light years of difference, stars could have been born and died before the ones we see. Most the stars we see now are near death or are dead. When you look into space, you literaly are looking at the past.
Not saying that space is infinate, but by that reasoning... you prove nothing.
Think of it this way: you're standing in a forest of finite size. You look around and see lots of trees, but there are also gaps between trees. There are lines of sight that do not intersect any trees. But if that forest were infinite, no matter which direction you looked, you would see a tree. There would be trees too far away to see (an infinite number, in fact), but there would still be infinite visible trees (remember, infinity minus infinity is still infinity :gag: ), and so you wouldn't be able to look and not see a tree.
I need to stop now; I'm confusing myself.