@futurebird Back before the evidence of cosmic acceleration, in the period when everyone assumed zero cosmological constant and called cosmology "the search for two numbers", I remember a lot of astronomers hoping against hope for a closed universe that was a finite hypersphere that would collapse someday, because they found the finiteness of it somehow tidy or cozy and had this horror of the absurdity of an infinite space that would just fade into a dark heat death.
I always wondered about that because I couldn't quite get that emotional reaction--as a kid, finiteness upset me more (though I knew that the infinite future in the infinite case was pretty bleak, not really limitless from our perspective).
But large finite things can be as disturbing as infinite ones maybe.
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