I can't tell if that's sarcasm, or you're being serious. If sarcasm, good on ya... you're good at it.

Love, it is fiction, from a book of fction written by a fiction writer. One can take it as gosppel or as satire. In both cases, you are right.

Things exist because of a prior cause. The reason is why they exist. Not why they should disappear.

@dare2dream Have you read any of Douglas Adams' books?

@Benthoven No. Sorry.

@dare2dream Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... that's where the quote comes from.

I'm guessing you haven't read the book series and aren't aware of Douglas Adams.

@Benthoven They need help....

So you're a conspiracy theorist.

@Benthoven I suppose so - many scientists base their theories only on what they can observe - The Universe can never be completely observed, so it must be understood with Logic.

@gater And logic comes through observation. Without observation there can be no logic. Logic is built upon observation.

@Benthoven With that logic we can never understand what we don't see - its naïve to think that the Universe doesn't continue past what we can see.

@gater It's even MORE naive (not to mention arrogant) to think that somehow you have information that our scientists don't. Nobody questions that there's more to the universe than we can see. What we do is admit that we don't know what it is until we can know it. That's why we do science... to understand. That's why science is incompatible with conspiracy theory, because science admits it doesn't know.

@gater We know the universe is finite because we're watching it expand. As to what it's expanding into, we don't know... and that's what we do... we say, "I don't know" when something can't be known. Maybe some day we'll have the technology, or maybe we won't... It doesn't matter as earth will be gone in about seven-billion years anyway.

@Benthoven What is infinite can not expand. Matter moving apart gives the illusion of expansion.