How can distance exist when all is infinate? time does not evolve around our universe. surely its been there?

Question

infinitely, therefore neither can exist.......?

Answer 1

Well next time you're late for work because you had to drive 20 miles in heavy traffic, try telling yourself that.  It's easy to think things like that when you're stoned, but then you come down and realize that things like time and distance are pretty much just as they appear.

Answer 2

The only reason there is distance is because of the existence of mass.  Infinity has nothing to do with it.  Without mass, there would be no such thing as distance.  I know this sounds like hokey metaphysics, but it is one of the conclusions of the General Theory of Relativity that spacetime exists because of mass.

Answer 3

The universe is finite.

According to the Olbers' paradox, if the universe was infinite and eternally static, then the night sky would be as bright as the surface of a star. As all light would accumulate everywhere.

Because it does not, and the night sky is relatively black, means that the universe has not had enough time to allow all the stars and galaxies to shine their light on earth.  

Answer 4

To add to your confusion Cantor has shown that some infinities are larger than others, and Poincare has demonstrated a universe that is infinite yet bounded.

Answer 5

Time and space are part of the same thing "space-time"

Infinity is a little beyond our ability to understand. Most scientists believe that time was created when the universe began. Infinite time doesn't make any sense. If it did, we would never have reached this point in time, as an infinity of time would have to have passed in order for us to get to this point in time.  

Answer 6

Nothing real is infinite.  It is a concept, like perfect.

Answer 7

  Silly as it may sound,distance could not exist in an infinite universe and time could not exist without distance [space].

  Well we are here so it looks as though we may exist in a finite universe as Einstein called it a quantum universe.

Answer 8

you are correct that universe is infinite, hence the distance of the universe is infinite and time too, as we know, is infinite. But what you are confusing is that distance is measured between specific points, a specific point and infinity (-infinity or +infinity) or -infinity to +infinity... the distance of our universe belongs to the category of -infinity to plus infinity. while most of the other distances we measure lie in the category of specific points. even in the case of time, though it is taken to be infinite, researches are being performed to travel in time so that we can have 2 specific positions in the fourth dimension- TIME.

I hope u got what you wanted.

Answer 9

Luuk a Sea... U can measure a one lt of water