Dumb brainlet here. Is the universe infinite in every direction? If matter is finite and you were to go far enough in space would you eventually find yourself in an infinite dark void of nothingness? If so why did all the matter cluster in a specific region of space?

The midsection of The Brief History of Time gives an overview of the theories attempting to answer these sort of questions for a lay person.

>>16717666 (OP)
>Is the universe infinite in every direction?
We haven't found an end to it yet in any direction.
>If matter is finite and you were to go far enough in space would you eventually find yourself in an infinite dark void of nothingness?
No, the universe appears to be isotropic. Meaning you will always come across some mass and there are no continuous empty patches. The density may fluctuate locally.

>>16717666 (OP)
>matter is finite

Is the sea finite? Technically yes but functionally no

Waves on the surface are material reality/"""matter"", there's endless potential for endless waveforms unfolding from the underlying sea beneath

That's literally it. The waves and the potential are both One. This is the yin and yang of the entire cosmos. It's as simple as it's divine

>>16718169
>Technically yes but functionally no
what lmao
>That's literally it. The waves and the potential are both One. This is the yin and yang of the entire cosmos. It's as simple as it's divine
Oh you're just stupid

Is an explosion infinite in every direction

>>16718175
The explosion I made in your moms pussy was

nobody knows. anyone claiming they do is lying.

>>16718222
Kek

>>16718175
Too bad its just a logical explosion and the directions are all just virtual thought experiments.

>>16718247
this is what I believe
>infinite
>finite
both answers lead to a mega mindfuck

>>16718391
this is going to sound schizo but i'm gonna go for it.

i think by thinking of the universe as infinite, you end up with a scenario that permits scaling out your viewpoint of the universe, and ending up with a notion of the universe describing a region so dense it ends up being a singularity again. is there a theory for something like this where a zoomed out frame of reference cosmologically looks like the big bang again? or is scaling the viewpoint of the universe just equivalent to gibberish due to the nature of trying to infer things farther out than the observable universe?

>>16718401
Isn't that just basically what a supercluster is?

>>16717666 (OP)
>Is the universe infinite in every direction?
As far as we can tell, yes
> If matter is finite and you were to go far enough in space would you eventually find yourself in an infinite dark void of nothingness? If so why did all the matter cluster in a specific region of space?
Assuming the big bang model is correct, the speed of inflation exceeded the speed of light (it can do that, I will bot explain how right here), so there exists matter outside the range you can reach by traveling at the speed of light, and the universe is still expanding so you will never outrun that matter
Now there are unclear points on the exact mechanics of inflation, but if you kept travelling outward at almost light speed (if you're travelling AT lightspeed, time doesn't pass) you will keep meeting matter, but it will be increasingly sparse

>>16717666 (OP)
If the universe is infinite (we don't know), and matter is finite, then yeah. Go far enough and you're floating through endless, silent, lightless nothing forever. No stars. No particles. Just quantum vacuum and cold death. You should seriously look into modern models like bubble universe theory (eternal inflation).