On 02-26-98 Richard Meic wrote to Mark Bloss... 
 RM>  RM>> Perhaps you are correct.  So, we agree that a finite universe is 
 RM>  RM>> illogical.  Wow!  A theist and an atheist agree on something!  I 
 RM>  RM>> am impressed. 
I dunno Richard.  The part of the universe that I can actually see 
isn't well enough rendered so that I can tell that it is, in fact, 
infinite.  I look up at night, and I see what folks call 'stars'. 
It makes sense to consider them at vast distances, and that the 
vastness beyond them may be infinite, but I cannot prove it. It 
may only be so vast that I cannot tell the difference between it 
being infinite or not. 
 
The number line extends so far that I cannot not tell either. For 
all practical purposes, I use the idea of 'infinite' but wonder if 
the word 'indefinite' might not be more appropriate from the view 
of philosophy rather than math. 
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