Space; The Final Frontier

Can something that is finite ever become infinite? If finite mass was dropped into pre-existing infinite space could it potentially increase in area to occupy all of the infinite space? Might time originating at one moment become infinite and occupy all of time without travelling into the past before its own creation?

Reading 'The Infinite Book' can set one's cosmological ideas increasing over time-it's conceptual tools allow one to place what one has read of popular scientific cosmology into refreshed theoretical parameters. If an expanding universe is just a local bubble within a contracting metaverse or not we might be aware that empirical observations will likely tend to return local (the observable universe) results generating a basis for speculation about the infinity beyond.

The finite or the infinite frontier-Is there a finite or infinite number of? If the Universe expanded entirely from an initial small point and expanded into the visible universe 13.7 billion years ago then scientists can calculate calculate the amount of material that is in it, and it is probably a finite amount otherwise it ought to collapse under the influence of gravity.

Ideas about various topics of popular cosmology today; beyond that infinite amount of matter what exists-an infinity of nothingness(?)
are interesting to pursue.

A universe of infinite space with just a small, finite amount of mass in it that will spend its energy and fly off into an infinity of awaiting empty space. Bubbles of universes in infinite quantity filling infinite space lead one to wonder why any space should ever be empty, if the finite could ever increase to become the infinite, if time could ever be finite in one direction and infinite in another. Ideas exist that provide models for configurations of matter as finite or infinite and space as finite or infinite and of space as something besides plain nothing with each being in finite or infinite quantity can be generated in infinite numbers not unlike the transfinite sets of infinities of Georg Cantor.

What if this is a bubble universe with finite mass amidst an infinite quantity of other bubble universes with finite mass going on infinitely? Why is mass finite in all or even some of those bubble universes?

In on overall empty space one might guess that there should be some sort of formula describing the maximum quantity of infinite mass that can exist in proportion to infinite space without making all that distributed infinite mass collapse under gravity or some other force into an infinitely small singularity. In fact it is difficult to imagine some such perfect distribution of mass that could be temporally stable in an infinite configuration.

It is also natural to have a bias that the infinitely small concentration of mass would have a better logical situation than a finite quantity of mass distributed through space at an infinite distance apart. What forces could make for the perfect and equal spacing of all individual particle waves of matter at an infinite distance from other particle waves? Maybe the obvious answer is that infinite time and spacing of wave-particles would average everything out.

It seems that an infinite space with finite lived stars and mass aggregations would forever be depleting its aggregations of mass and ending up with virtually nothing over time. If mass is infinite one might think that it should occupy all space with infinite weight and density at all locations of the infinite space volume extending infinitely. With mass having a different, implicit quantum field dynamic of instability and temporality that would make it draw together or apart as an infinite spatially distributed fact coexistent with the infinity of space it is more challenging to imagine mass as a kind of emerald ocean that does not change and exists like a stable crystal lattice occupying all points of space without change eternally such that conjecture about mass occupying all of infinite space might be satisfied without the problems of bonding forces, string theory and so forth.

An infinite space filled with an infinite amount of matter might not need to have the infinite quantity of matter occupy the infinite space if the matter can change it's density distribution infinitely from the very small to infinitely apportioned. Yet even if mass by be inflated with an infinite velocity to occupy infinite space it is difficult to imagine that infinite mass once compacted to the infinitely small could ever again occupy all of infinite space even if accelerating with infinite speed. It is a little like thinking about Zeno's Eleatic paradoxes of the tortoise and the rabbit running at infinite speeds over infinite distances in increasing quantitative strides rather than the usual parameters of decrease.