where does the universe end? are our brains powerful enough to understand?

Question

Funny how we have such small things on earth - like a grain of sand seems nothing to us. What if or universe is just a grain of salt to some other relm?
As we use only part of our brain maybe in time of developing our brains we will be able to understand the universe. I think now its is just too much for our tiny brains to handle. What is beyond earth or even within earth is just too much for the humen brain-I wish we were smarter to understand it all, why we are truely here, what made earth-was it really a big bang? what made the solar system, how do we have moons, and how did they come about to have control over our sea tides?

Sorry stop waffling now!

Answer 1

Sounds like you are asking the same question Astonomers and Astrophysists ask themselves everyday.

There is a pretty good amount of data that support the Big Bang theory. And there are even some theories that suggest how the Big Bang happened (such as M-Theory, which I still need to wrap my feeble mind around).

The creation of the solar system is certainly one in which there is also growing evidence supported by some of our large orbiting space telescopes. When a star explodes (in a supernova) it releases a lot of elements. Those elements eventually come together and form other suns and planets and moons. The trick has been trying to see some of these proto-systems, because they aren't very bright, and therefore they are very hard to find and see what's occuring.

The tides are simply controlled by the gravitional pull of a moon. Jupiters gravitational pull is so strong that it actually causes one of it's moons (Io) to have volcano's erupt. And might also be responsible for helping create subsurface oceans on another of it's moons, Europa.

Many people have wondered what extent our brain can handle the strangeness of our universe. Which is why some of the great minds throughout history are easy to recall. People like Einstein have had the ability to think in very different terms about our reality, but then go through the trouble of proving it mathmatically. And that's what makes it amazing.

Answer 2

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where does the universe end? are our brains powerful enough to understand?
Funny how we have such small things on earth - like a grain of sand seems nothing to us. What if or universe is just a grain of salt to some other relm?
As we use only part of our brain maybe in time of developing our brains we will be able to understand the universe. I think now its is just too...

Answer 3

the universe has no edge and no center. it is four-dimensional, but if you can imagine a two-dimensional version then it seems to be something like the surface of a sphere, and this surface is expanding. nothing, not even space-time, exists "outside" the universe. to quote a dead writer, "there's no there, there". space-time seems to have originated in the big bang. the big bang was the entire universe, and everywhere in the universe was once the big bang. the big bang happened about 13 700 000 000 years ago, and the earth formed about 4 600 000 000 years ago so the earth did not originate in the big bang. for the first 380 000 years after the big bang the universe was not even transparent. it was much like being in a very thick fog. when the universe was about 380 000 years old, electrons combined with atomic nuclei and the universe became transparent. at that time, the universe was about 76 percent hydrogen and about 24 percent helium so the elements that compose the earth (i.e. oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, silicon, iron, and nickel) did not even exist. the sun and solar system formed like most stars form; it formed in a cloud of gas and dust with hundreds of other stars. the stars that formed first were the most massive because they form the fastest. they also last the least amount of time, and the supernova of a nearby massive star may have triggered the collapse of a small, cold cloud which later became the sun and solar system. the elements more massive than helium come mostly from stellar evolution. stars begin by fusing hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei. some stars are not massive enough the fuse anything other than hydrogen, but the most massive can form nuclei up to and including iron. the formation of nuclei less massive than iron release energy; iron requires energy to fuse. that energy comes from the neutrinos emitted during a supernova.

look here:
http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147
http://universeadventure.org/

if you will permit a personal note then i would ask why are you trying to convince yourself that the universe is incompressible? forgive me for quoting einstein, but einstein actually didn't understand why the universe was comprehensible.

"the most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." -- Albert Einstein

Answer 4

there is no limit to the universe it expands forever, however we can only observe it to a certain degree. There are ten billion galaxies in the observable universe with an average of about 300 billion stars each. so that means there are 3-10x21 stars in the observable universe. In just our galaxy which has 300 billion stars it takes light 100.000 years to cross, since you can never travel at the speed of light you would never be able to get very far, not very far at all. What lies farther would be quite inconsiquental because of its vast distance. I think that if you traveled through the entire physical universe you would eventually come back to where you started just like it would happen on the earth. would be the same way
you must realize that our existance and the subatomic realm is somewhat comparable to the cosmic realm and our existance. To a neutrino a grain of sand is massivly gigantic.

Answer 5

Lots of questions and not so many good answers. But we're working on it.

I have a sign in my office that says:

"We have not succeeded in answering all of your questions. The answers we have found serve only to raise a whole host of new questions. In some ways, we feel as if we are as confused as ever. But we believe that we are confused on a higher level and about more important things"

That kinda sums it up


Doug

Answer 6

Sure there. Even if you if you believe there is no such thing as free will you are freely choosing to believe that. So, therefore, willing to believe in no free will is an example of free will. But that s my opinion.

Answer 7

I bet in a trillion trillion trillion years or more we still will not know.

Answer 8

i think u should read SURAH REHMAN .it is in HOLY QURAN. u will find it impressive.