2006-06-20 10:42:30 · 12 answers · asked by BabyBear 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The universe may very well be expanding into nothing. You see, we are used to thinking of expansion in terms of objects expanding into space (3D space) but the universe is space.
There is really no other way to explain it and it's something you might just have to accept though it's hard to envision.
Another explaination is that the universe may actually exist in a higher dimension (for example, 2D exists within 3D). According to membrane theory, the universe may have resulted from the collision of two "membranes" in a higher dimention and mass is the overlapping of those membranes.
But that is just one of the many possabilities.
2006-06-20 12:09:02 · answer #1 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to imagine nothingness, but that's what our "home" was, until the photons exploded, expanded, and cooled to form our universe. Today, astronomers are still trying to find the answer to your question, but the best prediction is that the universe is expanding, from the power of the initial explosion, into the nothingness.
2006-06-20 10:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by Brainwave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe expands into nothingness which is also the universe. look at the answer to the question of what is outside the universe.
2006-06-20 20:56:39 · answer #3 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A prevailing idea is that the universe will expand to a certain point, loose "momentum", and retract back in on itself, resulting in a "Big Crunch" (the opposite of the Big Bang). (This is called a "closed universe").
Another idea is that it will just keep on going and going and going (this is called an "open universe").
2006-06-20 10:50:44 · answer #4 · answered by Alex D. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people think the Universe is folding in on itself... it's just goes to show what theory you buy into.
2006-06-20 10:46:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the information is outside our available knowledge...we don't know.
2006-06-20 10:46:33 · answer #6 · answered by optionseeker1989 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
into several college in diffrent science or may be into diffrent college in one city
2006-06-20 10:49:16 · answer #7 · answered by decentboy911 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A moomoo.
2006-06-20 10:49:42 · answer #8 · answered by M&T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where no man has gone before....the final frontier.
2006-06-20 10:48:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
more matter of less density, unlike my waistline.
2006-06-20 10:52:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋