The story starts in the late 19th century, when the scientific establishment believed in an eternal and unchanging universe.

He too believed in an eternal universe, yet he knew that gravity would have to cause its collapse after a finite time.

Isn't the universe eternal, has it had a beginning, will it ever end?

Well, then, do we have an eternal universe after all,' a kind of continuous creation in another sense?

Animals are also a part of this eternal universe.

A feeling of timelessness, of the eternal universe, prevails.

He was convinced of his own belief in a static infinite eternal flat universe.

When asked a question such as "Is the universe eternal?"

A similar temporal sequence would have occurred in an eternal universe.

No matter how long it takes, an eternal universe would still not be 'actually infinite' and must have begun to exist.