What is at the end of space?

Answer 1

Milliways?

Anyhoo...

Excuse the geek humor. It depends on what you mean by the end of space. If you mean the destruction of the universe, there's a lot of theories out there. If you mean the physical edges of the universe, there is nothing, no vacuum. The universe is all that exists, there is nothing outside it. It's a difficult concept to visualize sometimes.

Some end-of-the-universe theories include the big crunch where the outward movement of the universe reverses itself and returns to a common origin; the opposite of the big bang. Opposite of the big crunch is the quiet freeze, where the universe keeps expanding, planets drift so far away from each other, entropy takes control, all energy is slowly expended and the universe drifts into a quiet soft end. Those two theories depend on the cosmological constant.

There's also a theory where many of our cosmological constants which define the laws of physics and allow for the universe to exist could change and matter simply crumbles at its most basic level (even quarks, which are base atom components, would fall apart). Another somewhat worrying theory is that physicist working in supercolliders could set off a quantum vacuum collapses, this off course assumes that the quantum vacuum is not at is lowest stable state which is unlikely.

One of my favorite theories is the result of M-theory, otherwise known as Brane theory. Brane theory suggests that the laws our universe is governed by a "membrane" created from supersmall (Planck length, 10^-35 meters) one-dimensional strings. It's easiest to think of the piano, music is created but is not tangible, it is created from vibration of strings. The way this membrane is folded creates the laws and constants that govern our universe. There could be, literally millions of membranes and millions of universes. The theory goes onto suggest that our universe was created from the collision of two membranes; and so too could it end that way.

There's a lot of different theories, if you're interested in end-of-the-world/end-of-the-universe theories I'd recommend you visit Exit Mundi, linked below.

Answer 2

What is at the end of space?

Some lay people and some scientists conceive of the universe as infinite space. Others define the universe as finite, or limited (perhaps curved), space. Still others incorporate the elements of matter and/or energy into their definition of the universe, as opposed to the space beyond matter and energy.

Given these concepts of our universe and space, some scientists conclude that the “totality of space could be infinite. Shrink an infinite space by an arbitrary amount, and it is still infinite. (Scientific American March 2005).”

A popular notion among scientists is that we live in an ever expanding universe, moving away from every other universe on the fabric of space-time (Scientific American March 2005).

It “has been hypothesized by some scientists that the universe may be part of a system of many other universes, known as the multiverse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe).” Universes can be thought of as balloons full of empty space. The multiverse can be thought of as the space that contains this balloons or pockets of smaller space.

Modern astrophysicists talk about multiple "pocket" universes that branch off from one another. Stephen Hawking points out that parallel pocket universes can have no effect on a real observer inside a single pocket, so, according to Hawking, they are theoretical baggage that should be eliminated from cosmology, the study of the origins of the universe.

Some string theories define the universe as a three-dimensional space in an invisible space having more dimensions. This is, in essence, a universe within a universe. Our zone, a “braneworld” could periodically bounce into another parallel braneworld. This may create what would appear as a Big Bang from one perspective or a Big Bounce of alternating expanding and contracting universe from another perspective. Such a cataclysmic event is thought to occur 300 billion years from now, resulting in the rearranging and creation of a new universe with new expanding spatial boundaries.

What is at the end of space? To the non-scientist, the answer is simple. Space has no end. If it did, there would be space beyond its end. Science basically supports this idea, but in a more technical way. The boundaries of the containers of space, be they called universes, the multiverse, branes, pockets or whatever, have more space beyond them to the best of what we know. Some, however, may point out that the largest container of space (the multiverse) may actually have a limit with nothing beyond it.

Steve
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Answer 3

What is at the end of your brain. U can't take it from something and predicit it. Prediction was back in days man. Its old school now. U the most right facts. Man look at us we arein 21st century and we dun have exact treatment for HIV, Cancer, even HERPES we dun have the right cure treatment for it. We can't even find a planet with exact qualities that shows it had life before. We jus predict we need to stop prediciting and get with the facts.

Well people say that the UNIVERSE is infinite buh how do we knw we haven't even landed on Mars yet. Yeah we have sent lil machines and probes buh c'mon i believe that human brain is better than machines. u can't predict it they say univerese is spreading and growing i believe its all bullsh!t. Even if we go on speed of light it'll be a long way for us to complete going through over own galaxy it'll be ages . We probably would'nt even exit by then. So yeah we cant say anything about where does it ends

Answer 4

some physicists believe that the universe is finite, yet has no edge, like the surface area of a ball. so if u went to the edge of the universe, u would end up on the opposite direction. cool huh?

Answer 5

space we do not know, however many scientist believe those is antimatter, and radiation the original occurred during the big bang, and is still spreading out, that is y our universe never stops growing, cuz trillions of light years away it's still being born

Answer 6

New Jersey

Answer 7

Sorry buddy, There is no end. And if you think about it too long your brain will start to smoke.

Answer 8

a parallel universe where the world cup is exciting, and the cubs keep winning the world series.

Answer 9

uidk. i've tried thinking that... there is no answer that is about the only way to answer... sorry!

Answer 10

gas and irregular galaxies