What is the universe expanding into?

Question

How can the universe expand into something that doesn't exist? Could it be that nothing is actually something? A true paradox?

Answer 1

The universe is expanding into space--space is the dark in the night sky--and it does exist, and space hold many galaxies. Our Galaxy is The Milky Way.

Answer 2

No. Nothing is not actually something. Paradox is that the universe is expanding and there is no sign of enough mass accounting for the expansion.

Answer 3

See we have 3 different arrows of time.
one is the cosmological arrow of time one is the thermodynamic arrow of time and the third is the psycholgical arrow of time!
now the cosmological arrow of time is the direction in which the universe is expanding.
According to the thermodyanics second law: entropy(order) of the universe continuosly increases. that means that the universe must be increasing its entrpy all the time. this was proved by hubble through dopplers effet that the universe is expanding and the galxies are moving away from each other!
so we see the cosmological and the thermodynamic law point towards the same direction! hence the universe expands in the direction the time expands and the direction in which the entropy of the universe ever increases!
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the psychological direction of time also points in the same direction! As on earth we dont see broken cups becoming 1 alltogether by themselves. the entropy on the earth also increses

Answer 4

The paradoxical nature of space being part and apart of itself is self explanetary, the difficulty surrounding synchronous transfer is a transient illusion of understanding with regards to a delayed transpondency of comprehension.

In other words... An absolute sense of passage through what is defined as space is commensurate with ones own perception of what, in your own facets of learning, is comprehensively understood.

In a nutshell... We are each partakers of an indelible journey through our own minds from the moment of our conception.

Building upon the predecessorial advancement of our creation is inherent within our nature.

Nothing was always something...

Let not the words of concealment blind you to the sense of yourself for at the end of the day your sense of yourself is all that you will become.

Ask yourself the question I did: How is it possible that when I was but a 2/3yr old babe in the pram I can recall thinking "what's that?", when a ball landed in it next to me.

And understand that that was before I'd even been taught the words...

You can get a rough approximation of Myriadity of the word space by utilising its meaning in relation to factualities.

Is it true the word truth is true to itself.

Is conceptual imagination paradoxical?

I think not.

Defining that word space is horrendously difficult, you can quite easily imagine a singular ball of energy sitting in the void of space, shining its merry little head into the darkness of its own light or conceive a similarity of a ball devoid of that brightness but still radiating energy at the same intensity outwards into the light of its own darkness.

Or you could contend that the space of the blinding ball is all white and that of the dark ball is all black.

Light/emf/energy/fuel, the white ball blew up, a convection vector created zillions of little lights each casting a shadow which became the void and the dark ball blew up creating the same and time slowed to a crawl.

I point to you now and ask you to tell me the colour of your own eyes without resorting to a reflection.

And please don't sit there crossing your own eyes trying to look, it'll only give you a headache lol ;-P

the interesting principle of superposition states that the total response at a given place and time caused by two or more signals propagating in the same space is the sum of the separate responses which would have been produced by the individual signals.

A signal is defined as a detectable physical quantity or impulse (as a voltage, current, or magnetic field strength by which messages or information can be transmitted.)

An object used to transmit or convey information beyond the range of human voice, or the sound or image conveyed in telegraphy, telephony, radio, radar, or television.

Or a quality of an object so designed to illuminate a sense of such.

A very interesting principle indeed when you take into account your expanding universe paradox.

Answer 5

I've thought about this alot myself. I don't know what the real scientific answer to this is, but I think that it isn't really expanding. it just LOOKS like it is because stuff is moving farther apart. Just like it's not spinning, there's nothing to compare it against so it can't be expanding, spinning or moving in any way because all motion is relative to other objects and there are no other objects outside the universe to view it's motion against.

Answer 6

Some scientist theorize that our universe is contained in a multi-dimensional super-space realm... and in that realm, several planes of varying dimensions are inside... our universe is one of them. The also theorize that the big bang was a collision of one realm withthe other which created our space-time universe... which is still expanding.

What's even more mind boggling, they believe that our universe may have as many as 11 dimensions ... 7 of which we cant even percieve!!

Check out a web search on string theory!!

Answer 7

The answer is simple. It is not expanding into anything, however, the distance between matter is increasing, hence, having the same outcome as if it was expanding.

Answer 8

One answer to the question is that space (or rather space time) is infinite; and therefore there is nothing that is not space and so nothing outside of space.

An alternative is that it curves back on itself to become infinite ( afriend of mine attempted to explain this to me). I think of it like the pacman analogy, you disappear off the right hand of the screen and reappear on the left.

Unless we observe the edge of the universe, it is unlikely we will ever find out the answer.

Answer 9

It expands into a vacuum, which is literally nothing, but philosophically something.

Answer 10

A giant baby.