Does space ever end?

Question

I want to know if space ever ends because i have always wondered?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Sort of in theory but we'd never really know. See if you left Earth and carried on for a really long time conventional thinking says you should get to the edge of space. You won't, you end up back at Earth coz space bends. Its a bit messy. Buy Bill Brysons book 'A short history of nearly everything', that should explain better than I ever could.

Answer 3

It depends on which space you are referring to. Common people refer to space as the void in which everything else is contained. This space is infinite.

Scientists commonly think of space as a fabric acting like a balloon which is being blown into and expanding. At a given moment, this three-dimensional space of our universe is finite (having an end), although two-dimensional travel through space fabric is thought to be curved (and therefore endless). This balloon that scientists refer to as our universe containing what they call space is defined as being one of many universes moving in a larger multiverse. This multiverse is very similar to what most people would call space and may well be endless.

In sum, lay space never ends, but scientific space does.

Answer 4

It has an ending but because it is ever expanding it keeps getting further away. Like all material things space has an end. It has to have an ending for it to expand.

Answer 5

Yes - at least in theory, according to modern science.

We know that space is expanding, and so logically it must be expanding into something. The boundry betwean that - whatever it is that space is expanding into, and space itself would be the border, or where space ends.

Answer 6

No, it will continue to expand indefietly, which in turns puts extream pressure on it's contents, cousing them to shrink and increasing the distance even further. Space travel requiers us to move faster then space. And intersteller travel is made by traveling so fast, that you fight gravity and grow, shrinking the distance, and getting ther quicker. Once you reach the final destination, you shrink back to the correct size.

Answer 7

If we are encapsulated within this Universe and reached a point at which we could no longer travel physically, this would not be the end of space, but, the end of our abilities to proceed out further into infinity. :)

Answer 8

Ok, the universe has limits where matter end, however space doesn't it goes on forever, empty space will continue even with out any matter.

Answer 9

depends on your mode of thinking... in terms of distance space is without end, however if you take into the account possibilities of multiple dimensions, space time fabric then space is a constant never ending barrier that can be broken and passed, and thus in multi-dimensional terms is not endless

Answer 10

It seems infinite in 3d spatiel sense, but it seems finite in a nother sense.
It may have a boundery, but not like we understand.

If there an edge is possible, the only thing on the other side must either be absolute horrid chaos, or absolute perfect order.
I suppose.

Answer 11

Probably not. It has been speculated that space is finite but without a boundary (like the surface of a sphere), but the current evidence suggests that it is infinite.