In what direction does the universe moves.?

Question

one out of three.

Answer 1

the universe is not moving in any direction. the universe is four-dimensional, but if you can imagine a two-dimensional version then it seems to be much like the surface of a sphere. it is this surface that is expanding. nothing, not even space-time, exists "outside" the universe so there is no direction for the universe to go.

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Answer 2

Well, technically the universe and everything is always in constant motion. Planets rotate upon their axis, and revolve about their sun. The sun itself moves around the solar system. The solar system in turn, spins and turns within the galaxy. The galaxy... well, you get the idea.

It is assumed the universe also moves. To say in which "direction" the Universe is going is a lot harder to say.

If you follow the Big Bang theory, then the universe is spreading "outward" from the very center where the bang happened (assuming that the center is a fixed position and not moving).

It would be like the fire crackers in a Fireworks display... they explode with a big force and particles are flung out. Not always at the same time or to the same distance, but they are strewn in every direction.

Answer 3

Everything is moving away from each other. Most spiral galaxies move in a clock wise direction. I would think based on that, that the universe or the material in the universe, as a whole moves in an outward clock wise direction. Of course there is no telling how big the universe, (star stuff included) really is. We can only see back as far as 15 billions years.

Answer 4

the universe doesn't rigidly evolve in just one direction. We live in a world where time visibly moves both backwards and forwards. The world around us is an intricate and diverse free flow of time, moving in multiple directions simultaneously, yet like a river that obeys the contours of a landscape, time must obey the deep contours and intricate cycles of pattern space. So when a growing percentage of the arrow of time points backward toward the past, a portion of the universe equal to that percentage will flow backward into the past even though more of the overall universe continues to expand and move forward in time.

Answer 5

Forward.

As far as expansion - the universe doesn't move, but space expands betweens objects in every direction. Which is why the universe can do what nothing else can. It can expand in every direction at the same time.

Answer 6

The universe moves outward. Think of it like the surface of a balloon. As you pump air into the balloon the surface expands in every direction at once.

Answer 7

Any 'direction' is measured from a 'fixed point'. If the universe is moving, no point is fixed. Therefore, direction is not a valid term for movement of the universe.

Answer 8

Well, here on earth we have East, West, North, South, Up and Down -- but in space there is no real direction. (unless you use coordinates).

Scientists believe strongly that the universe is expanding (exploding really) away from the point where they think the really big explosion they call the "Big Bang" happened about 14 billion years ago

Answer 9

"We live in an expanding universe. All of the galaxies (vast collections of stars similar to, but outside of, our own Milky Way galaxy) that populate the universe – including our Milky Way – are moving away from each other. How quickly galaxies move away from one another depends on their relative distance. From our viewpoint, the farther away another galaxy is, the faster it moves away from us. This is called the Hubble Law (after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who discovered the cosmic expansion in the late 1920s from the 100-inch Hooker Telescope on Mount Wilson near Pasadena, CA).

Although we see galaxies moving away from us in all directions, this does not mean that our galaxy is in the center of some sort of explosion; observers in other galaxies would see the same thing. It only means that the space between all galaxies is growing larger."

Answer 10

Depends on what you include in the "universe", and on how you measure directions. The solar system is orbiting the center of the milky way galaxy at a radius of about 30,000 light years, and an orbital period of about 250,000,000 years. Or, like a previous responder, you can include everything, and just say that it is expanding.