Space never ends right? but how why. Its just crazy everything has to end some where. If it does then whats on the other side?
2006-08-13 04:13:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
no one has actually reach the end or no end of space. most astronomers are just making theories.before, they say space is endless since the universe is expanding.
however, some scientists say that the universe will expand to a definite space.
the other side, as some say, are the parallel dimensions of our world.
2006-08-13 04:18:08 · answer #1 · answered by genetic_addict 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly find it hard to imagine a space that does end. It doesnt matter what sort of boundaries (physical/or imaginary) may exist as they can always be permeated. Personally I dont think there is an "other side" of anything. Its all the same space in my mind, seeing as that everything is connected on a qauntum level.
2006-08-13 11:26:30 · answer #2 · answered by Lee F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space can be finite and yet have no boundary. As the surface of a sphere is a 2-dimensional finite but (to anything confined to the surface) unbounded space, so there is a (somewhat difficult to visualize) 3-dimensional analogue, which might be imagined to sit in 4-d space, but since this is inaccessible anyway, can be thought of intrinsically the way a "spherelander" would think of its space. Truthfully, the shape of space as it actually is is an open question, but finite unbounded models exist.
2006-08-13 11:27:09 · answer #3 · answered by Benjamin N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space is not infinite, however, it never ends. Imagine the surface of the Earth, it is finite, but if you walk in one direction, you never come to a place where the Earth just ends. That's because the surface of the Earth is wrapped around itself. Same with the universe, it is a 3D surface of a 4D sphere. Therefore, no matter which direction you fly in, you will never come to the edge. Unless you could fly in the 4th dimension, that is, then you would be leaving our universe.
2006-08-13 12:18:51 · answer #4 · answered by Science_Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it ends. The infinite is not quite so infinite after all. As to what lies beyond . . . we don't know, will not know, and cannot know. Perhaps it is curved upon itself and brings you back in a different dimension. Perhaps it is just one of many universes. As it is so far away, we only know what happened billions of years ago. We don't have it's status now as even light takes too long to get here for proper observation.
I don't think CNN will be getting a reporter out there anytime soon.
2006-08-13 11:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by szydkids 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best explaination I have ever read about the essence of the Universe is in A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Try reading the book, I doubt you will get a better explaination on here.
2006-08-13 11:24:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evidently, current scientific understanding is that the Universe is infinite.
If true, yeah, how do you get your head around that? We don't have anything in our experience to compare that notion to.
But, personally I think the Universe is finite but huge. Now what lies outside the bounds of such a Universe?
I don't think I will understand that til I go back to the Other Side (die).
2006-08-13 11:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space is the entity between objects such as planets and stars. Without objects, there is nothing. As the universe expands, it creates the space. Space is not anything, it is nothing but the distances between objects - an infinate amount of nothing is still nothing.
2006-08-13 11:28:40 · answer #8 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you think everything has to end somewhere, ask a Christian when god will end.
2006-08-13 11:18:24 · answer #9 · answered by ratboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoever said that everything has to end somewhere?
2006-08-13 11:16:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋