You cannot burn infinity. In 1600, Rome tried anyway, in the body of a man named Giordano Bruno.

He was a Dominican friar who could not stop looking up. He taught that the universe has no edge and no center, that every star is a sun, that other worlds turn around those suns, and that some of those worlds hold life. The Inquisition held him for years and wanted him to take it back. Most of the charges were about doctrine, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ. But one of the things they ordered him to abandon was the countless worlds. He would not.