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Newton's views on the infinite universe
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In an effort to debunk widespread claims of his time that the world would be ending soon, Newton wrote a private manuscript estimating that the world would not end prior to the year A.D. 2060.<ref>http://www.isaac-newton.org/newton_2060.htm</ref>
 
In an effort to debunk widespread claims of his time that the world would be ending soon, Newton wrote a private manuscript estimating that the world would not end prior to the year A.D. 2060.<ref>http://www.isaac-newton.org/newton_2060.htm</ref>
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== Infinite Universe ==
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Newton believed that the universe is infinite in space, but that matter is finite:
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{{cquote|Isaac Newton formulated his ideas on space and the universe ... in response to René Descartes's 1644 publication Principles of Philosophy. Sometime between 1666 and 1668 ... Newton wrote that an “infinite and eternal” divine power coexists with space, which “extends infinitely in all directions” and “is eternal in duration.” Descartes claimed that where there is no matter there can be no space; on the contrary, argued Newton, space, by virtue of omnipresent spirit, exists where there is no matter. Descartes claimed that matter extends indefinitely; on the contrary, argued Newton, God has created in infinite space a material system of finite extent.<ref>[https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/39/2/24/404182/Newton-and-the-Infinite-UniverseNewton-said-that?redirectedFrom=PDF Edward Harrison, "Newton and the Infinite Universe," ''Physics Today'' 39 (2), 24–32 (1986)]</ref>}}
    
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