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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
How could something be infinite, and not be everywhere as well as be 'outside' space?
How could something be omnipresent and not exist in all-time as well as 'out side' time?
Any thoughts/answers folks? [img]smile.gif[/img]
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one way i can think of is to make it relativistic. that is, that "infinite" and "omnipresent" are a matter of perspective. so, that which we call infinite and omnipresent is just so relative to our realm of experience, but perhaps on another scale or from another perspective, it seems finite and limited.
like that pop culture scientist talking about "infinite regression" in escape from the planet of the apes:
a painter paints a landscape with everything in it, except he's missing something: himself painting the landscape. so he paints himself into it, but it's still incomplete because the picture lacks him painting himself painting the landscape. so he adds another layer of himself, etc.
if you could talk to someone in any layer of those worlds, each would say the painter that painted their picture is infinite and omnipresent. but on a higher level (ie from another perspective) that painter is infinitesimal, irrelevant.
if you take that to infinity, there's always another painter. ad infinitum [img]tongue.gif[/img]