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No; it is unbounded. At first glance, if you were to travel 13.6 billion light years, you would reach the point at which the Big Bang occurred (you could go in any direction -- makes no difference). But it would take 13.6 billion years to do so, and by that time, the point is no longer there. Hence, we are in a cosmic Roach Motel: we have checked in, but we can't check out.

2006-07-04 21:00:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Questions involving the age, origin, and/or fundamental components of the "universe" (such as outer perimeter) are unaswerable, except by the ultimate implementation of blind faith. So pick the two cosmogenies you like the best, and flip a coin.

Personally, I favor the Biblical cosmology, but a supportive elaboration would be far too lengthy for this post.

2006-07-04 21:04:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You should look into reading "The Elegant Universe" It answers a ot of these sorts of questions in a very visual, easily understood way and it is a great piece. Sorry that's not much of an answer, I'm not very eloquent with these things.

2006-07-04 20:59:32 · answer #3 · answered by ballerina_dancer017 4 · 0 0

your second question answers the first - space is inifite by definition

if you want a carzu theory, I think out space is on a 4-dimensional sphere, so if you keep going straight, you will just come back to where you started.

2006-07-04 20:56:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

no it doesn't.
there's a possibility that space is looped, like the surface of a sphere, but in 3-dimentions... however modern astronomical data seems to favor it being infinitely long instead...

2006-07-04 21:00:05 · answer #5 · answered by BenTippett 2 · 0 0

beyond that there is something that has no space and no time, some call that GOD

2006-07-04 21:28:42 · answer #6 · answered by Laura Palmer 5 · 0 0

It probably curves back on itself so although it does not end it is limited

2006-07-04 20:56:55 · answer #7 · answered by Vermin 5 · 0 0

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