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Javelin ArgumentThe javelin argument is an ancient and elementary argument of cosmology. To support the idea that the universe or space is infinite: - go to what you suppose to be the limit of space and throw a javelin in a geometrically straight line. If it hits nothing, space continues. If it hits something, (occupied) space continues. Hence the universe is not finite in any direction. (Lucretius, book I, lines 958-83).
This argument was made to support the Epicurean thesis about the universe.
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