2006-06-13 13:19:36 · 8 answers · asked by miss priss 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
We don't know. Cool though, eh?
2006-06-13 13:22:45 · answer #1 · answered by MillwoodsGal 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Define what you mean by end. If you mean time, then we have know way of answering that. We speculate on the age of the universe, given its current expansion and size, thus the Big Bang theory of the beginning of the Universe, yet not of time. So quantifying future time is not within our grasp.
Now as to the spatial question, there is a limit to what we can see of the Universe, any light not within our Doppler shifted reference frame will not be observed by us. But we can speculate on the size of the current Universe, based on the pieces and how they are moving. What would constitute the end of the Universe though? It could just wrap around to the other side, but we haven't seen that.
How can it go on forever is more of a philosophical question that physics. Infinity is easy to work with, hard to imagine. You could even come up with your own explanation and be justified. Others have.
2006-06-13 21:02:23 · answer #2 · answered by Karman V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no clue. It's not like we're going to hit a wall that says "End of the Universe here," because than it'd be like we were thinking like our ancestors who believed that the Earth was flat. I have no clue how vast the universe is, but I believe that it is so humongus that every person could have probably a lightyear all to themselves and we could still be a large distance away from each other.
2006-06-13 20:35:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Universe is finite but no boundary. That is what scientist say today. Einstein said that; If you travel in one direction in space, You will end up where you started.
2006-06-13 23:13:06 · answer #4 · answered by asimovll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, the universe could go on for "forever", but the only way would be explained by saying that after a few million light years, it would overlap itself, like a race track... at least that's my theory
2006-06-13 20:34:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. I think it does end somewhere because since the "big bang", the universe has supposedly been expanding. So I think it has to end somewhere since it is still expanding... But what's outside of the universe?!?!?!
2006-06-13 20:25:12 · answer #6 · answered by OctoKitty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a sphere never ends, a circle alos has no end. Who is to say the univers is not a ball of gallexies, thus makiing it forever...
ASk Captain Kurk....
2006-06-13 20:47:59 · answer #7 · answered by Dport 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sit on a rocket nd find it for urself
2006-06-13 23:25:05 · answer #8 · answered by questman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋