Sorry, it was some time ago and it was just some random article that I came 
across. I think the basic idea is that the universe is infinite but most of 
it is empty, so there is a limited amount of "stuff" in the universe. But 
that still implies that infinity is a finite quantity which doesn't make 
sense. Maybe I wasn't fully grasping the concept.

Mike


"Kevin Wampler" <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote in message 
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> Mike Hough wrote:
>> This reminds me of something I read regarding the idea that the universe 
>> is infinite. It was argued that although the universe is infinite, there 
>> can still be a finite number of the possibilities in the infinite 
>> universe. Had trouble wrapping my mind around that one.
>
> Huh, that is a bit of an odd concept.  I guess I would have to read it as 
> "infinite but repeats eventually", in which case how would you ever tell 
> if it's repeating or just finite and spherical (or some other closed 
> topology)?
>
> Do you have a link?  You got me all curious!

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