Does the Unvierse have an end? If so what's at the end?

Question

Or does anybody know?

Answer 1

According to Douglas Adams (and he should know because he's dead), there's a restaurant at the end of the universe. It's called Millie's. Reservations required.

Answer 2

Scientist have been able to calculate the probable size of the Universe, implying there is an end to it. Whether there is no matter, no energy or a restaurant at that distance has not yet been determined. The below quotes provide some insight in to why the universe may seem infinite, but its structure is not.

Quotes from Space.com article-
The universe is at least 156 billion light-years wide.

The focus of the new work, which was published last week in the journal Physical Review Letters, was a search of CMB data for paired circles that would have indicated the universe is like a hall of mirrors, in which multiple images of the same object could show up in different locations in space-time. A hall of mirrors could mean the universe is finite but tricks us into thinking it is infinite.

Answer 3

One scenario is the Big Crunch -- that's when the size of the universe contracts back to the Big Bang. The other isn't really an end at all, when the universe just goes on expanding indefinitely, until it becomes so stretched that molecules can't bind together. I prefer the Big Crunch. At least if the unvierse contracts back, it might expand again.

Answer 4

The best way to imagine what the universe is like, according to contemporary astronomy theories, is to imagine the universe as a balloon... galaxies, and stars, and everything are located on the exterior surface of this balloon. Depending on whether the universe is closed, open, or flat, this balloon will do one of three things.

If it is closed, then the balloon will inflate for a while, but then eventually start collapsing in again, shrinking until it collapses into a single point (keep in mind everything on the surface of the balloon stays, it's just all crammed onto this single point now.

if it is open, the balloon will expand indefinitely, and in which case it might as well pop because we won't be around to experience it.

If it is flat, the balloon will expand until it reaches a certain point, and stay that size forever...

So yes.. the universe is round... crazy huh??

Answer 5

G-d never happened, there is no proof of it....

The universe has always been and always will be...We can measure the light from objects billions of light years away, with those measurements they have determend that the expansion is slowing and that in time will stop or fall back in on its self.

Put for things to be getting farther away from us, anyone with a brain would summerize that SOMETHING pushed them apart.

The universe is infinite and hard to wrap you head around, do not use layman ways to simplify an answer "G-d did it and thats way" is not an answer but a poor excuse. Pick up an astronomy book instead of the bible, you will actually learn something.

Answer 6

The universe does not have an end. Imagine that you took someone from a 2D Earth and brought them to our earth, the person would try to find the edge of the earth, but they would end up at the same place. The universe is the same way, we'll just end up where we started.

Answer 7

The universe is infinite; always expanding,every time you have a thought your thought makes an impression on the Universe and the Universe reacts in kind. Whatever you think, you manifest, the universe is as endless and bountiful as the lofty heavens.

Answer 8

Kinda what isis-sama said.

The end of the universe depends on the curvature of space. there are three possibilities, open, closed, or flat.

Flat makes the big crunch, cause eventually the gravitational pull of the universe itself will stop it from expanding anymore. One theory says that after that the big bang will happen again.

Flat and open though...I dunno. Eventually, in like billions of billions of years the whole universe will reach the same temperature, and then it will be impossible for anything to do work.

Answer 9

I'd always understood that the universe was infinite. If this was so, then it is not possible to be an end to the universe. Otherwise Douglas Adams is right. . .

Answer 10

Frist off, no one knows. The univ. might be infinite or it might be finite. We don't know. If it is finite, it still might not have an end, but be warped so that if you go off in one direction for long enough, you end up coming back to the same spot - this is called finite but bounded. Then again, NO ONE KNOWS!