2006-06-07 13:04:43 · 7 answers · asked by The Count of Monte Cristo 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Imagine a situation where you would come back to your starting place no matter which direction you go as long as you kept going far enough. This is true, for example, on the surface of a sphere. But it turns out that there are analogs of this for going any direction in three dimensions. In this case, the universe would be finite (like the surface of a sphere), but would have no boundary (again like the surface itself). This is actually a simplified version of the models used by physicists for describing a finite universe. In reality, the evidence suggests that the universe is infinite.
2006-06-07 14:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by mathematician 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are four dimensions. Basically: length, width, depth, and time. nothing in the present or future is finite because its fourth dimension of time cannot be expressed. Example: your life is infinite until you die. Afterwards, your life was finite- consisting of specific times and boundaries. Just like an expanding coil, the universe will grow infinitely larger unless acted upon by an outside force. When this happens, the universe as we knew it will have become finite.
2006-06-07 23:09:28 · answer #2 · answered by CHAD P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 10 dimensions and they are measurements, NOT the ABSTRACT.
1. Length
2. Height
3. Width
4. Area
5. Volume
6. Weight
7. Mass
8. Velocity
9. Time
10 Infinity
There are only 9 numbers. The Zero was invented as a repeater or place holder, the same logic is employed with the 9 dimensions. Infinity or Zero (O) is the repeater.
Your understanding of infinity needs to be tweeked. Take any dimension and repeat into infinity and when your done you will know what surounds it. The Theory of Everything presents the equation Pi = infinity. It is as E=RI or E=mc2
2006-06-07 20:25:30 · answer #3 · answered by einstein 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Draw a circle on a piece of paper. Trace the line with your finger. Where does it end? It does not, so it is infinite. Your circle has "circleness", and outside of it is "non-circleness" that is also infinite.
This is the way of the Tom Ka Gai.
2006-06-07 20:43:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a rhetorical question. If somebody knew the answer to that one then it would be common knowledge.
2006-06-07 20:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by spackler 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i knew the answer to this one in 1970 on as LSD trip, funny how after you come down you forget all you discovered
2006-06-07 20:09:23 · answer #6 · answered by itsybitsykity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's surrounds itself, space time is warped.
2006-06-07 20:06:54 · answer #7 · answered by yars232c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋