2006-09-04 01:28:17 · 36 answers · asked by mikeybeesg 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Read the last chapter in 'The Gunslinger' by Stephen king. It's seriously amazing and I know it's fiction, but it does sort of answer that question.
2006-09-04 01:31:14 · answer #1 · answered by mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe is larger than the observable universe.
We can see as far as 14 billion light years away, but no further. Because light travels at a finite speed, and the Universe has existed for a certain time, and becuase in the beginning space was opaque, we can't see beyond that distance.
But space does not end there. Where does it end? That's an unanswerable question, because there is no way to observe. Perhaps it does not end at all; perhaps it loops around somehow.
It is fundamentally meaningless to ask this question, for several reasons. One, we can never observe it so we can not see anything directly. Two, we cannot travel there because space is expanding faster than the speed of light, so we will always get further behind.
2006-09-04 01:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a certain level of space known as the 'observable universe'. The observable universe is the space around us bounded by the event horizon - the distance to which light can have traveled since the universe originated. This space is huge but finite with a radius of 10 (to the 28th power)cm.
If this is what you mean by the universe as we know it, then we can only guess that it is more of the same.
The best we can try to get around such massive amounts of bigness is to try to 'chunk' it - to break it into understandable bits.
The 'Total Universe' is generally accepted to be everything of everything - so there is no more of it... whether it is, in the end, finite or infinite 'Total Universe' means all that there is and all that there is ever gonna be (hell of a thing, to mis-quote Clint Eastwood)
2006-09-04 13:02:43 · answer #3 · answered by Colin A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing beyond out universe, not even a vacuum - Space and Time and everything in the Universe was created at the instant of the Big Bang. You could not be standing around to watch the big bang, because there was nowhere to watch it from. As the universe expands it creates space-time.
2006-09-04 02:25:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe is 4 dimensional so in 3 dimensions it is known by cosmologists as being "unbound"! Like being on the surface of a giant basketball when you travel in one direction you arrive back at where you started eventually (only at a different time!) same place different time.
So the real question you should have asked is this:
Where would I arrive if I dared travelled to the 4d boundary of the universe since travelling to the 3d boundary only brings me back to where I started?
The answer to this question is so freaky that you don't even want to know the real answer !
The answer is that you would either be at the beginning of all space and time or the end of all space and time. It is anybody's guess what this place might look like!!
So in that I am not a bigger expert than the next guy who doesn't know! I am only able to guess just like you!
2006-09-04 22:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by zamir 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we were to travel beyond our universe, we would find another universe, maybe not exactly like ours but still resembling it. When we arrive at the end of that universe, we would see another one and this continues till we reach infinity. One thing to be noted is that in those other universe, there may be other forms of life, meaning we are not the only livings. If there can be life in this universe, then there is a high probability that there are other living things on other planets in another universe.
2006-09-04 03:36:36 · answer #6 · answered by Y L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 1976 Ford fiesta 23 billion light years across and denser that a billion suns. Beyond this is non-space, reality simply doesant exist. Space time is currently the shape of a giant pair of trousers. We are estimated to be in the right leg.
2006-09-04 01:39:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the we (our scientists) know it there is "nothingness" beyond the universe. "Space" is part of the universe where any object and radiations like light can travel. But nothing can travel in "nothingness".
The universe is created by a bigbang baloon which expanded into this "nothingness".
So there is "nothingness" beyond universe and nothing beyond it is required. If you want to believe that there is a layer of brick around, then you will ask whats beyond......ad infinitum.
2006-09-04 03:55:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of life's sweet mysteries. If we knew everything, we would have nothing left to ponder on. You never know, we might find out in our after life... If not, there is always the possibility that a space person may come and tell us somehow!
I would like to think that there were other worlds out there with other humans or life forms... We can't be the only ones in this great big space!
2006-09-04 02:49:10 · answer #9 · answered by fairylightfantastic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the question is theoretically meaningless. Because all we have is the universe beyond which there is 'nothing'.
If there is 'something' then it will be the part of our universe.Space is also one part of the universe hence we can't say that, 'there is space beyond universe'.
2006-09-04 02:57:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space and time are human concepts. It is possible that they are merely illusions, in a greater reality. At least, that is what people undergoing Near Death Experiences report. Perhaps the answer to your question will only be understandable 'beyond the veil'.
2006-09-04 02:25:40 · answer #11 · answered by Sarah H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋