2006-07-12 08:25:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There is no 'outside of the universe'. The universe is infinite.
2006-07-12 08:27:38 · answer #1 · answered by BeC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no currently known method for estimating the size of the universe. In addition, even if we could know the size of the universe, without some way of peering outside the universe, there would be no way of knowing if there was an outside. If the universe is finite, there could be an outside. If as some say, it is infinite, then there is no outside as it is all sides.
Next, maybe you would like to try and define space as the question without a good definition of space is a little ambiguous.
2006-07-12 17:43:28 · answer #2 · answered by tantamount_to_anarchy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we assume the Big Bang model is correct (there's quite a bit of evidence for it, but that's a different question) then the way you can think of this is that the universe began as a point in space. At that time, the entire "universe" was contained within that point. As that point expanded, the distance from one side of the universe to another continued to grow. All space is contained within the universe; there is no "space outside."
It is possible that our universe is one of many (perhaps infinite) universes, and perhaps these are like bubbles floating around in a higher order of complexity. But at this point we don't know what that would be like (we don't have any experiments that could test for this, so it is pure speculation) and based on what we know, you couldn't reach them in the traditional sense (i.e., you couldn't travel some distance "outside" the bounds of our universe to get there).
2006-07-12 08:54:37 · answer #3 · answered by Jon R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the universe is constantly growing. It is ever present. There are solar systems and stars in space. There is no empty space. Although, some scientists believe that there might be some alternate dimensions.
2006-07-12 08:28:32 · answer #4 · answered by sasperilla23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No space. I have actually come up with a theory behind how this is possible, and an explination of some other things. I could be wrong, but maybe not. However, I can not share it here. It's far too long. I have a working theory about that's at the edge, and how things act at the edge........... I'll stop there.
2006-07-12 09:11:31 · answer #5 · answered by M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space is what the universe is mostly made of,and nothing is outside the universe-at least not that we know of.
2006-07-12 08:54:09 · answer #6 · answered by Alion 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow that's heavy...
Isn't the universe boundless though?[there is no end to the universe]
People want to put limits on the universe so as to make them feel that they can define it in terms that they fully understand. However I believe that we as a species will never comprehend the idea if infinity...
2006-07-12 08:30:46 · answer #7 · answered by bkemt6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am quite sure the scientist who like to have a definitive answer to this as well. As of yet there are many opinions, but nothing that can be termed as definitive.
2006-07-12 08:29:29 · answer #8 · answered by celtic-tides04@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could listen to BEC blah blah blah but who likes beck anyways?. but if there were an outside of the universe (wherever black holes lead) i would guess yes it would be filled with antimatter, or the opposite of what the universe is filled with
2006-07-12 08:29:30 · answer #9 · answered by darpdarp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dimension of nothingness. Can't even call it a dimension. That would be something, not nothing. That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is!
2006-07-12 17:06:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋