The scales they use too weigh it.
Not intellectual, I agree, but I got an headache thinking of the other way.
2006-10-10 06:50:40 · 15 answers · asked by GB123 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The person who carries the scales would be bigger.
2006-10-10 07:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by XhappytalkX 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes there is something far bigger than the universe have you heard of the string theory, it states that,
In order to understand this evidence, let's think about how a train sounds to a person standing on the platform. An arriving train makes a noise that starts low and gets higher pitched as the train approaches the listener, sounding like oooooohEEEEEEEE. A departing train makes a noise that gets lower pitched as the train goes away from the listener, sounding like EEEEEEEEoooooooh. This change in the sound of the pitch of the train noise depending on whether it is arriving or departing the listener is called the Doppler shift.
The Doppler shift happens with light as well as with sound. A source of light that is approaching the viewer will seem to the viewer to have a higher frequency than a source of light that is receding from that viewer. In 1929, observations of distant galaxies showed that the light from those galaxies behaved as if they were going away from us. If all the distant galaxies are all receding from us on the average, that means that the Universe as a whole could be expanding. It could be blowing up like a balloon.
If the Universe is expanding, then what did it expand from?
This is what tells us that the Universe probably does have a finite age, it probably is not eternal and ageless as Einstein wanted to believe.
But then, okay, how old is the Universe?
We know from studies of radioactivity of the Earth and Sun that our solar system probably formed about 4.5 billions years ago, which means that the Universe must be at least twice that old, because before our solar system formed, our Milky Way galaxy had to form, and that probably took several billions years by itself.
It would be reasonable to guess that the Universe is at least twice as old as our Sun and Earth. However, we can't do radioactive dating on distant stars and galaxies. The best we can do is balance a lot of different measurements of the brightness and distance of stars and the red shifting of their light to come up with some ballpark figure. The oldest star clusters whose age we can estimate are about 12 to 15 billions years old.
So it seems safe to estimate that the age of the Universe is at least 15 billion years old, but probably not more than 20 billion years old.
This matter is far from being settled by astrophysicists and cosmologists, so stay tuned. There could be radical new developments in the future.
I hope that this helps
best wishes
Matt1
2006-10-10 09:31:46 · answer #2 · answered by matt1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe is everything. Nothing can be bigger than that.
The Milky Way is a galaxy containing millions (billions?) of stars and millions (billion?) of such galaxies exist.
The Universe is expanding, but not into empty space. The 'empty space' is the universe. There is no 'outside the universe' that it is expanding into. The space is created as it expands.
2006-10-10 07:15:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about heaven and hell, if you believe in god. If not, What about the human imagination, or the concept of time. If you want a weight like physics- maybe there are more than one universe, one bigger than another. A black hole is said to be infinite, and in that case infinity itself. Have i confused you yet!
2006-10-10 06:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by good answers bad questions 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the universe is expanding it must either be expanding only away from itself into its preexisting self uuuhhh or it is expanding outwards into something, if the second surely that "stuff" must be bigger than the universe. as the light travels outwards it might not be able transmute void to space time so the universe could only be as big as it itself!
It makes no sense to me!!
2006-10-10 07:05:30 · answer #5 · answered by peteophile 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well how can there be something bigger then the univer this is the universe its adefined as everything in space
2006-10-10 07:28:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Multiverse theory is right, our universe is just another one in a infinite set of bigger universes that contains ours....
2006-10-10 07:00:07 · answer #7 · answered by CHESSLARUS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I beleive that space is infinite. But when you finally reach infiity you will find the real truth of all of lifes mysteries.
2006-10-10 07:03:59 · answer #8 · answered by Amador1_79 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whatever is beyond the edges of the universe must be bigger
2006-10-10 07:01:08 · answer #9 · answered by olivier1uk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is something bigger than the biggest? Then something bigger than that? and so on...?
2006-10-10 07:00:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋