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Although observations leave the finite-versus-infinite issue undecided, I’ve found that when pressed, physicists and cosmologists tend to favor the proposition that the universe is infinite. Partly, I think this view is rooted in the historical happenstance that for many decades researchers paid little heed to the finite video-game shape, mostly because it is more mathematically complex to analyze. Perhaps the view also reflects a common misconception that the difference between an infinite and a huge-but-finite universe is a cosmological distinction that’s only of academic interest. After
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I wonder if this is the reason or of it is because they are afraid of the larger implications of truly finite space. Specifically, finite space would require a cause and any cause must be sufficient to explain all of the universe (i.e. God). Ironically, this question bears very heavily on the practical moral and spiritual implications of daily life. In that sense, it is far more applicable than to real people than most of what I'm reading here.
