Does the universe have an end point and if so whats beyond it ?

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Thanks for all the excellent answers.

I'm still confused by the theory that like the earth the universe comes back on itself. That might be true but like the earth it to would have matter above it --so the question of where it ends still applies.

Will capt. Kirk please get real--we all know that I = **/45+f but the universe must surely have an end point!!

Thanks kekeke.

Thats saved me alot of bollocks. I'm off for a beer now and thinkin up a new teaser.

Answer 1

no.

Answer 2

I think if you go far enough in space you come back to where you started, just like the earth is round. If the universe had an end point, that would be the end, and there could be nothing beyond it because that's the end. A brick wall? Then what would be on the other side of that wall? The end is the end! Coming back to where you started is the only thing that would work and be logical. Nothing makes sense about it, does it? We have more questions than we have answers for, and I have gave this a lot of thought. I have an IQ that is off the scale, and have been able to come up with answers to almost anything, but I am troubled about questions that have no answers. Life "as we know it" is so far from how life really is, that it makes one realize just how dumb we really are. I may be smart in our terms, but I'm just a dumb a-s when it comes to what I see created around us. Good Luck!

Answer 3

Your question is self-contradictory as nothing is beyond an end point. Logically the universe is either infinite or circularly contained - you'll never come up against a wall with a sign saying "the universe ends here, sorry for the inconvenience". However - and it is a big however - what is known is that the universe is not infinitely old - it began with the big bang. From any given point in the universe it is impossible to see further than the distance that light can have travelled since the big bang - about 13.5 billion light years - meaning that even if the universe is infinite, as would seem logical, the OBSERVABLE universe is finite - so the answer will never be determined by observation, we would have to come up with some theoretically-based inference - and is unlikely that we will ever come up with one that will conclusively satisfy everyone.

Answer 4

There is disagreement over whether the universe is indeed finite or infinite in spatial extent.

However, the observable universe, consisting of all locations that could have affected us since the Big Bang given the finite speed of light, is certainly finite. The edge of the cosmic light horizon is 15.8 billion light years distant.The present distance (comoving distance) to the edge of the observable universe is larger, due to the ever increasing rate at which the universe has been expanding; it is estimated to be about 78 billion light years (7.8 × 1010 light years, or 7.4 × 1026 m). This would make the volume, of the known universe, equal to 1.9 × 1033 cubic light years (assuming this region is perfectly spherical). As of 2006, the observable universe is thought to contain about 7 × 1022 stars, organized in about 100 billion (1011) galaxies, which themselves form clusters and superclusters. The number of galaxies may be even larger, based on the Hubble Deep Field observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope discovered galaxies such as Abell 1835 IR1916, which are over 13 billion light years from Earth.

Both popular and professional research articles in cosmology often use the term "universe" when they really mean "observable universe". This is because unobservable physical phenomena are scientifically irrelevant; that is, they cannot affect any events that we can perceive.

Answer 5

Nobody can tell you exactly whether there's an end to the universe, what it looks like, and what's beyond it, and I'll tell you why:

We only know about what we can see. There's just no other way of telling what's out there other than light... nothing else reaches us that we can sense. And light doesn't travel infinitely fast, it travels (logically enough) at the speed of light.

So if we give a particular photon an amount of time equal to the entire history of the universe (which is currently thought to be about 14 billion years), that means we only know about what's happening within 14 billion light-years of us in any direction. Which you might expect to be more than enough space.

But it's not.

The universe is bigger than 28 billion light-years across. Some theories hold that it's more than 150 billion light-years in diameter. So we can really only see a small section of what's out there.

Now, I can guess what you're thinking... how can the universe be bigger than the distance light can travel if nothing can travel faster than light? Go ahead. It's a normal question. There's a simple answer to this: it's NOTHING that can travel faster than light. Which is to say that when space itself is expanding, it can make things seem to be moving much faster or slower than they really are.

This is why EVERYTHING that's far away is red-shifted when we look it - space is stretching. And it's carrying things like photons with it, so it's like a fish swimming upstream.

To make matters worse, there may be a fourth-dimentional curvature to the universe. Current experiments suggest flatness or close to it... but if it's not flat then it possible that (like on a circle or a sphere) if you travel far enough in one direction then you end up back where you started. Or in other words that no 'edges' even exist in the universe. But nobody can say whether this is so and current indications seem to suggest that it's not...

So nobody really knows what the edge looks like. Just that stuff seems to be in all directions when we look, so we don't seem to be closer than 14 billion light years to an edge (if there is one). That's about all anyone can say for sure!

Answer 6

Beyond the endpoint of the Universe, is nothing. But yes there is an end-point. It is believed that as in the big bang, some have theorized that there will be a big crunch and the universe will collapse at an incredible rate. I like this theory however unsure of it's probability.

I believe there was a movie called Event Horizon that satires a voyage to the end of the universe. Maybe you should rent that movie to give you something to think about and then maybe make your own conclusion.

Answer 7

If we knew that, we would have also found proof of life in universe, other then us humans.

There are only theories, a few different ones for that matter. Humans have always been intrigued by space and forever will.
We keep discovering new black holes that nobody know what is beyond them. I am guessing more universe, but what if my guess is wrong?

Some scientist who are not atheists and believe in heaven and hell, believe that space is composed of dimensions, and that heaven might be one of them. Then, where would hell be? Well, another dimension, I suppose. Maybe black holes are gateways to other dimensions....

I love theories and I wish that in my lifetime, they at least figure some things out. It's just fascinating.

Answer 8

There is the planets hanging freely in the empty universe within our own solar system. There are other planets recently spotted which are existing outside our own solar system & yet hanging freely in an empty universe. Infinity is the best word to describe the nature of the universes of God. The reason is that God is an Ifinit Being. There is always one more step to take to discover the end point of the universes of God. There is also one more step to take for one to see God. And you can never see IT. That is nature of God.

Answer 9

According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the very geometry of the Universe is like the Earth. ie. - if you travel in a "straight line" long enough, you'll arrive back at your starting point.

Answer 10

Good question, and when you really think about the size of the earth, in relation to the universe, it is mind blowing. There is no end to the universe as such, but i heard there is a Starbucks opening there soon

Answer 11

The current theory I've always read is the universe is finite but unbounded, meaning that, if you started flying in a spaceship in one direction you would eventually end up back at the same place you started.