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Its been along time since I have thought along these lines, so I might be making a fundamental mistake in this argument.

Anyway, Anyone who is familiar with planks constant, should know that theoretically anything smaller then a planks length would be so small that is would wink out of the universe as we know it. This raises the question If there is a finite lower limit to size in our universe, is there a finite lower limit to time a angles as well?

If so then the in the case of a multiverse, there will be a finite number of multiverses. The equation then boils down to strings x time x degrees of freedom.

I think there's a lower limit to a time interval, denoted planck time,

5.39 · 10^-44 s.

I forgot about that. Thanks. To me this leads credence to the idea that there might be a lower limit to the degrees of freedom between strings. If this turns of to be true then universe as we know it, at any given point is not so infinite.

BTW I screwed up on the equations,

The equation then boils down to strings^time^degrees of freedom. I also might be missing an variable that would be distance, but even this would be finite because the universe itself is finite, though it’s expanding.

What is it expanding into?

LordFerret wrote:What is it expanding into?

That is a good question, and one that may be answered in the future. The only thing we know is that it is expanding. I guess one question that could be asked is, is the volume of space increase relative to the number of strings.

As hard as it is to believe ,at the quantum level the volume of the universe might still be the same as it was when the big bang happened. From our point of view the universe the size of a pinhead has the same internal volume as the universe 150billion light years in diameter.

LordFerret wrote:What is it expanding into?

I love questions like this!

When I think of such things as this, those are the kind of questions that pop into mind. What also pops into mind is the discussion about the universe ever expanding - eventually into nothingness. Thinking in terms of every action having an equal and opposite reaction... this void we're expanding into, could it not have an (or be the) opposite reaction to our expansion?

Did I word that right??? Call me Braindead #2.