How would you describe the area outside of our finite universe? What is it like?

Question

If matter, energy, space, and time were created with the universe, what is like outside the universe where those don't exist.

I tried to ask the physists this, but they weren't able to give any decent answers so I decide to ask the philosphers if they could try to describe what it would be like.

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Answer 1

Physists are kinds of philosophers. No one can even tell you if the universe is infinite, so it could be. My answer to this question "what's outside the universe" is I don't know, and no one has a better answer.

Answer 2

I´m going to try to explain to you why you can´t actually expect us to answer such a question and be right in our answers...
We live in our universe...and every thought of ours is thus branded by it. We think in time, energy, space and matter, just like we rethink the thoughts of our ancestors. It´s like a river which at some point turns into 2 rivers, then those into other rivers and so on... somewhere , it is the turn of our thoughts as well, each river is a thought. But the original thought is that of our universe, so how can we see beyond that? We are not capable of it and even if we would be, we would not be able to actually live what we see.
Personally, I would describe the area outside of our universe as static and dark, full of lights representing other universes like ours, but who knows, maybe the area outside of our finite univers is actually another universe...and so on. Do you wish to know if we reach the infinite? Does it really matter as long as we existed once?

Answer 3

When we divide one or any number into zero, we get infinity. Mathematically this "infinity" exists but could not be exemplified in our physical world.

However the members of the division, One could be shown as an apple, and Zero could be shown as hunger. Where there is no hunger, apple serves no purpose as far as being food. Apple is an infinity in that respect and can satisfy as many mouths as possible.

"What's beyond the finite world?" As the origin explodes outward, it curls up like a trajectory and returns to its center. Infinity, hence, is the origin, or could be any number of rotations through the origin. The area outside of finite universe is on the path to origin.

Answer 4

A universe is that which, when we go out to count them, it is never possible to count more than one - that's why it's called the uni-verse. And we can never count more than one because we can never be, nor even meaningfully conceive of being, outside of it. The question what's outside of it has no possible meaning for us other than saying that there is quite literally nothing outside of it - not empty space, not hard vacuum, not any thing - no thing. No matter how you define 'thing', if you can find a 'thing' then you are still inside the universe.

Answer 5

If a person were to describe something to you they would have to use sense based descriptions like "it looks like this" or "it smells like that," but if it is outside of the finite then it can not be described in such a way since the senses are how we take in the FINITE, so who knows. God is the only thing outside of creation according to biblical creationists and he is described as a breath, wind, or spirit at times, and as light at other times. Surely these are nothing more than shadows of the real presence of God but they give some ideas on what he may be like.

Answer 6

My vote is for 'pure vacuum', will we ever know?