Assertion: universe | /r/HasProperty | finite
Facets:
value: spatially
type: DEGREE
value: with respect to the past
type: OTHER
value: in principle
type: OTHER
value: like the surface of the earth
type: LOCATION
value: in three dimensions
type: LOCATION
value: in size
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The universe also appears to have neither net momentum nor angular momentum, which follows accepted physical laws if the universe is finite.
text: being that neither you nor any one else hath ever proved, whether the World be finite and figurate, or else infinite and interminate; yet nevertheless granting you, for the present, that it is finite, and of a terminate Spherical Figure, and that thereupon it hath its centre...
text: If the universe is finite but unbounded, it is also possible that the universe is smaller than the observable universe.
text: In 2003, Cornish et al. found this lower bound for the diameter of the whole universe (not just the observable part), postulating that the universe is finite in size due to it having a nontrivial topology, with this lower bound based on the estimated current distance between points that we can see on opposite sides of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR).
text: it had neither a beginning and will have no end–but is spatially finite.
text: In principle, the universe could be finite and without a boundary—just like the surface of the Earth, but in three dimensions.
text: In fact, when Einstein formulated his cosmological vision, based on his theory of gravitation, he postulated that the universe was finite.
text: The absence of net charge and momentum is expected if the universe is finite.
text: How this all happened in the first \(10^{-35}\) seconds and subsequently is a matter of serious speculation and debate; what advocates of premise 2 maintain is that since the universe and all its material elements originate in the Big Bang, the universe is temporally finite and thus had a beginning.
text: The best one can say is that the universe is finite with respect to the past, not that it was an event with a beginning.