what lies on the other side of the outer perimeters of space?

Question

Just fishing for theories

Ok I see alot of infinite space possiblities so if thats the case what happened to the big bang theory that science can trace back to a few seconds before it happened? Did that explosion burn itself out I don't think that's possible if the universe is still expanding. something has to be on the other side of space and time what could it be?

Answer 1

were pretty sure that space is expanding, and with that idea, it is logical to conclude that there must be something that space is expanding into.

Answer 2

Pshh.
I could take a guess.
By the theory of the Big Bang, absolutley nothing. Because the big bang theory supposes space and time exploded. Of course there could just be more stuff, I'm sure you could make a universe model where things cant get out but bend around yet there is still things outside here on earth, and just suppose a large model of that. But then there is another theory which says there are space waves and they collide and form in waves and out waves (hard to picture, go to http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Cosmology-Big-Bang-Theory.htm ). Anyways in that theory just more "stuff" would be there (also that theory includes infinite space and no time).

I didn't go with the typical answer, there is plenty of that, maybe the other theory can be added to the collection of possibilities.

The funny thing is one species will ever beable to do studies and learn these things. When I was 5 years old or so I used to have the thought of More Intelligence = More Possibilities, and intelligence constantly increased. Now I'm older, and I know there is an end to this trend. It may be untestable and in that case everyone has equal share in theory (no matter how absurd), if there is evidence of it then I think the Big Bang theory would be of no use. Otherwise everything is in the ballpark.

Answer 3

First of all the universe has no edges. It is infinte. Soppose there really was an end to the uinverse(eg a wall) then the wall would be of infinte thichness. The wall would be definitely a part of the universe. Therefore even if the space in the universe would be finite, the wall(part of the universe) would make the universe infinte. Suppose the wall was of a finite thickness then the other side of the universe would be a part of the same universe. Get it! Hence the part on the outer perimeters of space is a part of the same universe.

Answer 4

Well, beyond the scope, of what we know, resides the envelope. you have first our solar system. Then, once you break free from this system, you enter the milky way galaxy. Within this body, exists millions of stars, and in the center, one large black hole....what holds it in place, and against absorbing all the present stars, is a classical question. my theory, is that it's absorbed too much mass, and has affected a geyser thought....simply, the vent is clogged....and can no longer take any more in. Or, it was clogged with a large enough object, and can't accept more material.
Once you break free from the galaxy, you run into an area called open space. A chance encounter with a meteor, or other space debris exists, but odds are good, you will find very little, once leaving the galaxy, as material usually will congregate near the stars, and their systems.
Now, as for the perimeter, I think the Galaxies, to their own, are to be considered simply larger floating bodies....in various locations, depths, fields, each one, in a different quadrent. Once you get past leaving ours, and if tacheyon speed is possible in our lifetime, you'd be able to discover more galaxies, further out....beyond out line of sight, or of what hubble can bring us.
lastly, you will probably start to discover, places of gravity, curved space, and fields, where simple laws of physics will no longer work....as such, we are discovering these anomlys in our own system, on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter.
Hope you have fun reading this.....I've enjoyed astronomy since i was 4 years old....and can't wait to take a trip to the moon.

Answer 5

Space is finite and boundless. Go far enough in one direction... and you get back where you started.

This is the "prevailing wisdom" among the physics community today, which is to say that it is thier best guess.

It's based on the data we have about the recession of other galaxies away from us. Unless we assume that we are the center of the universe, we have to conclude that space is expanding at all points. This implies that the universe is finite in extend and boundless, like the surface of a sphere (only this surface is two dimensional, while our universe ahs three discernable space dimensions)

Answer 6

I read something that Hawking wrote that there is no end to space. He said that if you go in a straight line, you will, eventually end at the same spot where you started.

He said it was something that people find it really hard to understand. Something to do with your mind being uncapable of understand the dimension. Like how if you put two ants on a ball and they walk in opposite directions and meet on the other end, they won't know how it happened. Because they aren't capable of understanding a third dimension.

Of course I have no idea if any of this is true. That's just what Steven Hawking said.

Answer 7

since the universe is expanding the outer edges of space are actualy from the distant past. it takes light so long to reach us from the outer reaches of space to when we look as far out as possible, to the very edge of the universe, we see the begining of time. that is why we are able to "see" the cosmic raidological backround, which is just the way the universe looked shortly after the big bang only very heavily red shifted.

Answer 8

my theory is baisclly every one elses here never ending....but what if it were like some of the tvs and movies best ideas (i.e Men In Black's the universe is inside a marble, Futurama the end of the universe is all white with a railing to stop you from falling off the universe...and about 5 parking spots or my personal fav The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxys resturant)

Answer 9

Stephen Hawking is saying that space is a 4th dimension, where 3 dimensional characters like ourselves are walking around a ball that's in the 4th dimension. So eventually we'll end up in the same spot, but it'll look like it was a straight line because we don't have the vision or ability to see this 4th plane of existance

Answer 10

how can there be an outer perimeter, if it ends isnt it just a void? i dont think the universe really has an end but then we could be in a huge dyson sphere, and a universe of giants could be out there and we could be like ants to them, wow, our universe as an ant farm for giants, now thats a good idea.

Answer 11

I do not believe I have ever heard a theory on what lies
beyond the edge of the Universe...