But the universe could be finite in an infinite number of ways and signs of finiteness would be easy to miss for statistical reasons, she notes, so it's nearly impossible to rule out every option.
The Marshall Plan was also devised to be finite in cost and duration.
The universes, he proposed, look finite in size from the outside but look infinite to those living inside them.
Infinite according to its essence, the will is finite in its action.
(A good two-dimensional analogy is Earth's surface. It is finite in area but has no edge).
My business plan, mostly guesswork, included these two sentences, reprinted now not as bravado but foreshadowing: "Eateries are finite in the Hamptons and therefore always in demand.
They included such questions as: whether the world is eternal or not or both; whether the world is finite (in space) or infinite or both or neither.
Perhaps the most intriguing of these is the way infinity is harnessed to deal with the finite, in everything from fractals to calculus.
At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.
Poe understood why this in fact was not the case: the universe is finite in time and space (and light from some stars has not yet reached the Milky Way).
Hence Aristotle's cosmology, in which "the universe was contained in a nutshell, ensconced comfortably within the sphere of fixed stars" and "the cosmos was finite in extent, and entirely filled with matter".
