Open Verses Closed Universe

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A Open Universe has no beginning and has no end that it stretches out in all directions into infinity.

In a open universe their are no edges and beginning points. It has always been and shall for ever be.

 

A Closed Universe has a beginning and an a end. There is a starting point for time and the universe itself. There is an edge to the universe which is expanding into a void. The Closed Universe is model after the Big Bang Theory.