Yes but it’s worth noting that most people don’t believe in the cyclical universe. And yes there are galaxies that move away from us due to expansion, and then there are some closer ones that move towards us regardless of expansion

The further away something is, the more the expansion has an effect. That’s why we have an “observable universe”. Beyond that point the space between us and objects there expands faster than light so we could never interact

I'm still not understanding how expansion of the universe can be at all possible when its infinite.

So what does that say about the state of the universe before the big bang?

Sure so for one we don’t know if it’s infinite. But if it were, the way it would expand is by the space between points expanding.

What could have caused the big bang if it's not possible that things retracted to that state

contracted*

We don’t really deal with that in physics. A philosophers opinion on what happened “before” the Big Bang is just as valid as a physicists

To me it doesn't sound very plausible that time existed infinitely before that

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Yeah the argument goes “how could infinite time have passed for us to be here” but we pass through infinities every day if we assume space is continuous

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You mean like how matter or time is infinitely divisible?

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Not matter but space and time

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Because if it is you walked from point a to b and covered an infinite amount of points in space. So that same argument can be applied to the time thing.

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So matter isn't infinitely divisible like time and space is?

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No matter isnt

No, are you?

So what's the smallest unit in matter?

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Subatomic particles

Wouldnt it be whatever makes up quarks

Depends on the thing you’re talking about. Idk particle physics really at all but it’s quarks and I think electrons are fundamental particles too. Idk that field at all though

Yeah and then other theories have other ideas about what it could be like the string people

but all you know is there is a fundamental unit there that cannot itself be divided

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what is going on here

Time can be divided to no end and matter cannot, there is a point where you cant split it, like there cant be half of a quark

what is this arguemney

Is what im asuming he is saying

Right

Yeah they think. But things like GR say nothing about matter, it says something about space

And time

well no the atom is the smallest unit of matter because a unit ascribes measurable qualities

you cannot measure the subatomic