Hi Steve, thanks, yes i see your point and i can see how infinity creates its own set of problems. the thing i,m struggling to understand is - from the theory of the big bang all matter energy and spacetime sprang into existance from a singularity.Before this point is beyond our comprehension, we can only assume that spacetime matter and energy did not exist and from that moment on the universe spacetime and matter/ energy inflated into the form that we observe today.ok. but if for example that "space" inflates and expands 3 dimensionally with time then surely the space between the subatomic particles expands also i.e between electrons and the nuclei of an atom. If this were the case then the four known forces of nature balance out this inflation to keep matter in the form that we observe, therefore becoming the cosmological constant? i.e electromagnetism & nuclear for the atoms and gravity for everything else?
Its probally because i can only percieve things in the 4 dimensions i know? also i'm very under-educated in the mathematical theories invovled in the physics.
But i,m learning lots from this forum!!