Finite

The Einsteinian Hyperspherical Universe is finite for the speed of light itself is finite, and equal to the square root of the total energy /mass of the universe.

Many very good scientists looking at the formula E = mc² fail to note the obvious cosmological significance of this proportion. Since the speed of light is finite, neither the total mass nor the total energy of the universe can be infinite numbers! In fact since the proportion in which matter can be exchanged for energy is known by experiment, and the speed of light is a carefully measured quantity, we can actually derive the approximate mass of the universe from this formula: 10⁵³ Kg. ( I have seen estimates on this as high as 1.6 x 10 ⁶⁰ Kg and as low as 10 ⁵² Kg. Calculations on this site using a Schwarzschild two/ sphere geometry imply a universal mass of approximately 10⁶⁰Kg, and a universal radius of 10 ⁴⁰Cm ).

It almost seems laughable that I have offered figures so divergent! Not so. We must, in the search for a universal mass tender figures we obtain from all approaches. Comparing these figures can give clues as to a possible solid figure, which we know exists because of the structural demands of reality. Such things as scaling factors can affect calculations dramatically. It is significant, the author believes, that careful work in the field has produced the figure of 1.6 X 10 ⁶⁰ Kg, and a comparison of the Schwarzschild two /sphere model with a singular Planck realm also implies that figure.

Scientists who view the universe as existing in 4D and prefer a "crunch" are inclined to reach for higher mass figures and a smaller cosmic radius than those who prefer the 4D "open" scenario. The observed fact that the universe rides the edge between open and crunch, in a delicate balance between the two, is POWERFUL evidence for a 7D and up universe.

In 7D, organization, balance (in a stable sense) and momentum, far more than absolute mass, or even radius are important in modeling, yet the universe we observe- in 4D or 7D could only have originated from mass parameters within a very narrow range. I personally am impressed with the observed "flatness" of space. This flatness indicates a not excessive mass and a certain vastness...reflected in my figures, however 10 years will give us a much clearer idea of the exact mass and radius of the universe.

Careful studies have shown that the mass of the universe is critical to the whole of reality, and I don't have to tell that to any professional Astronomer, mathematician or physicist! Skeptics can check Dr. Ned Wrights web site to see HOW critical this mass is in the creation of the universe. We are finite beings, and live in a finite, though eternally existing, universe. If the universe was infinite in its mass, we could not exist as we do.

A Cosmology has been proposed in which there are an infinite number of universes, a few of which have living things like ourselves, maybe even similar versions of ourselves, living different lives. I personally believe this is true science fiction- and not without reason. Even a casual look at the close tolerances in the specifications of this universe indicates that the slightest change in universal mass would result in changes in mathematical parameters which would prevent life from ever existing. Yet our universe is a world of possibility, filled with possible events which never came to be, which never have been or will become reality in an Einsteinian Cosmology.

A billion pollen grains or a million sperm however, prove that our frame of reference in the Einsteinian universe is real. In fact, and this is important to remember:

ULTIMATE REALITY IN A GENERAL RELATIVITY UNIVERSE IS FOUND AT EACH FRAME OF REFERENCE!

Pollen grains and sperm are not placed here to confuse us, but to reassure us that at our coordinates, time, space, matter, energy, chance, choice and decision are real quantities. Where we live in the universe, we are constrained- and restrained by the arrow of time. What we see, smell, touch, taste and hear is the reality we have to contend with. To succeed in our lives we need to reflect, evaluate- and act. When threatened, we would be ignorant and very foolish to assume that "whatever will be, will be". We are obliged, and equipped by the universe we inhabit to think and respond to our environment- or leave our place in space/ time and take our part in the electromagnetic spectrum, and whatever lies beyond!

As "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", reality in a Special Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanical universe is perceived and "collapsed" (we must find a better word than that!) in the eye of a trained observer. All scientists know the importance of observation in the scientific method.

Without observation, there would be no scientific method, and if SR, GR and QM are correct, there wouldn't be any universe either!

Some times the hardest concepts to believe are the simplest! I have had stormy conversations with philosophical colleagues about this issue, which is at the heart of SR, GR, QM, and the cosmology I am describing. Existence is a matter of definition, and definition requires observation and intelligence. Whether an electron is a particle or wave, or becomes infinitely massive depends on the frame of reference from which it is observed. The same particle is a completely different thing when observed in different ways. The reality of what an Electron is, is collapsed in the eye of the observer, who sees by means of light. An Elephant is different things to blind people holding its tail, trunk or leg. The gift of sight, and a better dimensional perspective clarifies the enigma of what an Elephant exactly is.

The point of course, is that right now anyway, our frame of reference with respect to electrons lacks perspective and is pretty limited...in a way, we are blind.Yet our existence here and now is such a critical part of an Einsteinian Hyperspherical Universe, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are at least a small part of the explanation for how the universe got here in the first place! Each frame of reference is a separate, equally "real" reality, but for any reality to exist, it must be observed!

An analogy, useful as an introduction to the Einsteinian Hyperspherical Universe is dessert. Any reader who has dined in a fine restaurant has had an ice cream crepe on occasion. First the chef takes a very thin pancake (round-circular) and puts a dip of ice cream in the middle (spherical). Then he pours raspberry sauce along the diameter of the circular pancake, right over the ice cream. Finally the chef folds the pancake and serves it. We enjoy it from one end to the other- usually! However, if we grasp the two ends of the folded crepe, draw them together, and add a few dimensions, we have a cosmological configuration, a universe if you will.

I admit this is more a parable than an analogy, however the pancake represents two spherical surfaces of the hypersphericial universe. The ice cream is space, the raspberry sauce is singularity, eating it one way is the arrow of time, and drawing the two ends together is the connection between the end and the beginning to form an eternal process.