Is the universe expanding?

Question

because thats what my religion teaches:
"And it is We Who have constructed th universe with might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it. (Qur'an, 51:47)"

Answer 1

That is what the present data has confirmed. That is interesting that these words can be found in the Quran. Did you know that a Buddhist monk who lived thousands of years before the time that people said Christ lived. This Buddhist monk theorized that all things made of matter consist of smaller things that are the same in all things. We know this now to be atoms, but I just find it amazing that someone that lived so long ago with out the science tools that we have now was able to figure something like that out.

Answer 2

I'm not of your faith,
but yes,
the universe follows the same pattern
as all it's parts. (including mankind)

1. It begins from a center point with a
genetic explosion.

2. It forms. As it forms, time and space
develope.

3. It expands.

4. While expanding, it fills in.

5. Eventually, it collapsing back
to a center. (restore point)

6. It explodes - etc etc etc

As people, we're a constant. It's the
time and space that comes and goes.

Answer 3

Current science says the universe is expanding. The most recent findings is that it is accelerating and not slowing down, which was what some scientist were predicting.

In the metaphysical sense, each day that we learn something new, our universe has gotten bigger.

Answer 4

Yes not only is the universe expanding but the latest evidence indicates that theexpansion is accellerating due presumably to the presence of ""dark matter".

Answer 5

All our current research supports the theory that the universe is expanding.

Answer 6

They say that by examining the expansion of the universe, they come to the conclusion that, if the whole universe is expanding then it must have all been compacted into one tiny ball. small enough to fit into the palm of your hand. now how they come to say it was that size is beyond me. nonetheless, some believe that this ball contained all the matter of the universe, others say it was a liquid of electrons. this is more likely. and the universe surrounding this ball was, and still is, an immeasurable expanse. and this is the way it was "forever". another word we as humans cannot grasp the concept of. then suddenly for no known reason, this ball exploded. in the explosion was a mixture of both matter and anti-matter. each one canceling out the other. but for some reason there was 1 extra matter in every billion or so parts. thus sending the electrons across the expanse of the universe. this is the moment in time we call "the big bang". the first parts of the explosion are measured in nano seconds, in the first nanosecond the ball was the size of our sun, the second the size of our galaxy. of course this is a rough estimate, using sizes we can comprehend.

keep in mind a nano-second is merely a thousandth of a second. stop and think of what you just read and imagine from the palm of your hand, to the size of the milky way in 2/1000th of a single second. and this expansion was started some estimated 33billion years ago, or more. So lets calculate that out. The size of our galaxy x 500(same as 2/1000 in a second)x60(in a minute)x60(in an hr)x24(in a day) so far we are at 43 million 200 thousand times the size of our galaxy in a single dayx365(days in a year)x33billion years. that is roughly (are you ready for this) 520,344,000,000,000,000,000 times the size of our galaxy as of now.

this number does not have a name. and remember that this is only the size across the universe. like measuring across a basket ball. the size of the universe expands in all directions.

for the first few thousands of years the electrons that were scattered were too hot to form any matter, the first of witch were hydrogen and such lighter gases. then as molecules slowed and bonded heavier elements bonded together up to iron. but then it stopped for a time. these elements bonded together for thousands of years unable to create the heavier elements such as gold, for this they needed help.

all of a sudden, if you could have looked out over all of space, it would have been like watching fireworks going off. as stars which were then made of almost all hydrogen ignited and burned out right away. in this ignition the elements of carbon and iron and such along with other still loose electrons were fused together, creating the first heavy elements. then it was these elements that began to draw in others and form the first suns, which are the stars, and around them the planets and the moons. billions upon billions everywhere you look in space there is a star, some of witch are suns and complete solar systems others are if fact entire galaxies far off in the distance, full of trillions of stars of their own. and in between is not completely empty. there are vast black clouds through out all of the universe. some refer to these clouds as star dust, or dark matter. the elements of a million worlds as yet not joined together, and some never will.

among all of the immeasurable amounts of stars and planets, in all the universe, there on one tiny spec of matter, lies us. human beings formed as a result of as yet proven circumstances. we live on this tiny little ball as the most delicate things in the universe, life. too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry or too long of time, and we die. when comparing the existence of matter to the time of the universe it is the same as the time of life compared to the time of matter. merely a spark in all of existence.

there are 2 theories for what is yet to come. first is the universe will stop expanding and remain at a set size for billions of years until the gravity of everything in the universe slowly pulls everything back in on itself, collapsing elements back into their basic atoms and eventually it will be the original ball once again. I myself don’t believe in this theory. because the minusculesize of each of the smallest of the elements will not have sufficient gravity to pull itself or other objects across all of space. there is a limit to gravity.

the second theory is that, by examining the rate of expansion, it appears that it is actually speeding up, theorizing that there is no end to the universe, this expansion will eventually lead to the slow separation of all molecules, until there is no more matter in existence any more.

if the second is true then there is still no point of reference for the beginning of the universe, because there was always the ball, but there would be a definite end to all matter, which would then be the end of the universe.

but keep in mind this, there will always be all of space. there greatest emptiness ever to contain existence, a void without end.

please do not spend too much time trying to envision the size of the universe, for as fast as you can comprehend, the universe is expanding a billion fold.

"through out all existence there was nothing, but for an instance there was everything"

Answer 7

yes,ever since the big bang the universe is still moving. all the galixies are moving away from eachother