In fact, it's actually infinitely big on the inside, despite being only a few meters across on the outside.
Bigger on the Inside: The Blue children's space-time bubble. Beam Spam: One of the tactics tried against the children's bubble. In Manifold: Origin, they escape their inevitable fate by reaching an even higher level of existence. 
However, this still isn't enough, as they face a pointless existence as ghosts in a cosmic void and decide to alter the unimaginably distant past.
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: What the Downstreamers did to survive the heat death of the universe. Arc Words: "Watch the Moon, Malenfant". Apocalypse How: Class X-4: The Blue children instigate a vacuum collapse incident, causing the fabric of space to collapse into a new energy state within a bubble expanding at lightspeed. The story is notable for likely making the other Manifold continuities possible by spawning a massive multiverse. Alternate Continuity: To the other books in the Manifold series. Absent Aliens: Despite coming to dominate the universe, humanity never found any other intelligent life. Keep in mind this book was written in 1999. 20 Minutes into the Future: The 2010 Earth, which contains things such as commonly available self-driving cars, foldable, clothlike computers (softscreens) and AI therapists. The first book of Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy, where it is followed by Manifold: Space and Manifold: Origin. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. 
As the world's governments turn inward, Reid Malenfant campaigns for the exploration and colonization of space. Strange, hyper-intelligent children are being born all over the globe. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. A faction decides this was not meant to be and reaches back to the distant past. They can theoretically survive indefinitely, but since there will never be new input, their thoughts are doomed to eventually begin repeating. Far into the future, matter having long since decayed away, the last descendants of humanity have survived by embedding themselves into a lossless computing substrate. Humanity spread throughout the universe, but never found other intelligent life.
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