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I know that the universe is stretching but what is it stretching in? If we got to the end (which is impossible, but anyway) we would see what the big bang was doing but whats beyond that? A brick wall with those fake windows painted in?

2006-07-19 13:37:12 · 28 answers · asked by brian7mcdee 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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Believe it or not, many Cosmologists believe that space is inside itself !   It's to do with dimensions. A universe expanding back into itself from a 'central' point. Basically, a doughnut vortex theory of expansion, or a smoke ring effect, with no further 'true' expansion.

Outside of this, nothing may exist - not even empty space nor time.

Our human brains of course, can only take this concept so far - it's like asking you/me to think of a new or imaginary Primary Colour. Try as hard as we can, we would never achieve it. Your/my brain has no concept or structure to work on to form a new/imaginary primary colour. A seemingly impossible task.

Such a barrier may exist when confronting dimensional theories, and we then may need to turn to mathematical equations to confirm or deny new dimensional calculations.

Modern science quite often deals in the theoretical and purely mathematical theory, yet seems very accurate in it's predictions so far.

Infinite expansive scale? What about the infinite regressive scale (no such thing as a smallest particle, empty space or energy level) ?

Any given quantity or measurement divided by two?

Alice! . . . are you still in that wonderland!?


tttt  - 's + (1 + 1)


According to 'The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy',   the answer is 42    :)


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2006-07-19 16:01:30 · answer #1 · answered by Bunty Hoven 1 · 4 1

Space isn't inside of anything. As I explained in similar questions as this asked earlier on in the piece, what we see is nothing more than a 4D surface of an (at least) 11 dimensional object. To go "outside" the universe would require you to break into the other, higher dimensions. The best analogy to this is the old balloon trick, where you are represented by a spot on the surface of the balloon. Esentially the balloons surface if finite in size, but is unbounded. That is, it has no edge. With respect to M-Brane Theory, which some have touched on here, what we have is a multidemensional, sheet-like structure which contains all the Universe that we can see (and not see) in the surface of the brane. It's believed that a collision of two branes in multidimensional space (superspace, if you like), causes a localised input of energy at the site of the collision, thereby generating a "Big Bang" at that point. Gravity waves and other such radiation leak out of the branes at that point and travel both through superspace and the newly formed Universe.

Actually, an explanation as to why gravity itself is such a weak force (10^39 times less than the electroweak force), is that most of the power of gravity is leaked off through higher dimensional space, thereby dissipating it.

2006-07-19 20:58:58 · answer #2 · answered by ozzie35au 3 · 0 0

You can obtain a rough approximation of what the sense of space is like by doing the following experiments.

1: Purchase a Crystal Ball and bring it close to your eye and peer at the point of the inside curvature of the farside, ie: look through it to the inside shell and not try to look all the way through. You will obtain the sense of that spatial awareness usually termed as invertive dimensions and it may help you understand the forms of which you usually associate with space but can't quite grasp.

2: Close you eyes (lids if you wish to be pedantic), keeping them closed look directly forward and press, with a moderate pressure that slightly hurts you (ie: more than just rubbing them), the most comfortable part of the backs of your hands to your eyeballs.

You will find your own tolerance of how just how hard to press by trial and error, don't be afraid, the eye can take more force than you usually associate with it and you'll know your limit after a few tries anyway.

Next, hold that pressure fixed for about 30 seconds or so and you will start to perceive geometric shapes, triangles, stars, hexagonal structures etc, the colours you usually perceive are green and purple.

After a short time of acclimatisation you will start to notice a very unusual pattern in the furthest reaches of your perception, one cannot really say sight as you aren not by usual accounts of the terminology of meaning, actually looking.

That pattern is what the Illuminati call the Infinitisimus of Inception.

Its just one aspect of the force of light of which forms partake.

Some know it as EMF, some EMV, others just know it as it is.

When you remove your hands you will see a flash of the imprint of something else which is indelibly... You.

There are a multitude of ways to sense the wonders of space in all its forms and glories, look around and look within the without for there are even more astounding things to see.

2006-07-19 22:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by Paul Dalby 2 · 0 0

the question has no logical basis as the entire universe IS all of creation, there is no outside, it's like asking where does a circle start, the expansion of the universe is not an expansion within space which is then bounded by something else, it is and expansion of space. if you could draw a straight line away from the earth it would eventually come back to earth without ever deviating from straight. this also answers where is the centre of the big bang-there isn't one as there is no point in the universe which can be regarded as central if all straight lines return to thier origin

2006-07-19 21:50:14 · answer #4 · answered by zebbedee 4 · 0 0

Very good question. This is why we have big telescopes. We'd like to know.

It is impossible to speculate and arrive at the correct answer. The only way to verify would be to send a probe outside of our cosmos (which is what I think you mean by space). By the cosmos I mean everything created by the big bang.

Anything could be possible. For example, their could be a neighboring cosmos with different physical laws that made it impssible to penetrate. By different physical laws I mean no gravity and you could travel through time in any direction, or 15 dimensions of space instead of 3.

But like I said, it's pretty much just silly to speculate about it, unless you want to make a career out of it and submit yourself to a lot of painful education.

Note:
"Space" is a term similar to distance, so an answer to a strict interpretation of your question is nothing, because the question doesn't makes sense. It's like saying how tall am I if I stand outside of distance. But I think I know what you mean and I've tried to answer that above.

2006-07-19 21:00:11 · answer #5 · answered by rainphys 2 · 0 0

What about the universe within? Understanding this will give you an idea of what I'm going to explain.
Lets start at the head of a pin, about 1/16'' in diameter. Broken down to the next unit; the atom,about 1,000,000,000 of these are in the head of the pin. Broken down again into protrons,neutrons and electrons about 30 times smaller than the atom itself. The head of the pin is now 30,000,000,000
times larger than the current unit. Finally, each particle is broken down into 3 quarks of which there are 6 types. (These cannot be directly classified as they are smaller than a photon and have no color in the normal sense)At the smallest known unit of mass
(excluding neutrinos and positrons), the original head of the pin is mind-bogglingly huge; nearly 100,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) quarks would fit inside it-with room to spare!

Now, take that number and multiply by 275,000,000
(proceed with caution!)and you should get................
27,500,000,000,000,000,000,000! That is a rough estimate of the number of quarks in the human body!
Now, if you multiply THAT number by..............


Get the point? We came to such a number and we were just outside of the human body. (Doesn't that make you feel a little fat?)

2006-07-19 22:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by Ammy 6 · 0 0

OK, this is actually a common misconception about the universe. space-time seems to have originated in the big bang. (someone really needs to change that name.) the big bang was the whole universe, and everywhere in the universe was once the big bang. the universe seems to be something like the two-dimensional surface of a sphere. it is finite in extent yet has no boundary. also, nothing, even space or time, exist "outside" the universe. to quote a dead writer, "there's no there, there".

read this:
http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147

2006-07-19 21:04:44 · answer #7 · answered by warm soapy water 5 · 0 0

More milky ways with different planets with many stars. To look further, it take many light years to see it. I bet space made up of light years towards to the top of the space, it's only empty space and our solar system are milky way, part of the universe that has no ending However the universe has others and stars.

2006-07-20 05:08:36 · answer #8 · answered by Eve W 3 · 0 0

The brick wall is the carbon sphere around the universe.Through those fake windows you would see other carbon spheres and "Nothing".I suppose that now is the time to sign up for the NASA mission that drills a hole through the carbon to see what is on the other side!

2006-07-21 15:02:29 · answer #9 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0 0

It's not so much that the universe is stretching so much as it's said to be expanding. What that means isn't that space itself is
getting bigger but rather that all of the galaxies are drifting away
from each other. There's nothing outside outer space,which is what makes it outer space.

2006-07-19 22:24:20 · answer #10 · answered by Alion 7 · 0 0

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