where does the universe end ?

Question

I once ask a nun at catholic school where does
heaven end ? I was scolded !

Answer 1

It doesn't it just goes around and around. Think of it as being on the inside surface of a ball you can end up walking all the way around it to back where you started.

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Answer 2

The Universe ends at a restraunt called Milliways that serves a tremendous great roasted Vinjunk with Cargraffley sauce. I recommend drinking a couple of Mint Gargleblasters made with Aucturian Vodka first to kill the taste.

Heaven on the other hand ends at the brick wall that divides the Christian Heaven from the rest of the afterlife. Imagine the mess if the Christians got to the afterlife and found out it did't make any difference what they did during their lifetime and that everyone visited the afterlife just long enough to get reassigned to a different planet. Heaven is where they wipe the memories of Earth out of the Christians souls so they don't go to the next planet and muck everything up.

Answer 3

In response to denmarks, and to answer the question, it is not that there are two theories (and really they cannot even be called a theory). The statements that the universe is infinite and that it is spherical are one in the same. It is the same as a circle and sphere have no beginning or end, same with the univers. There are an infinite number of points on a sphere, and with no beginning or end there is no way to define the space.

With that in mind, no one really knows how big the universe is. We cannot even get past our galaxy, much less count the others, much less fathom how big the universe is. All ideas on its structure and size are really no more than an educated guess, which is why they cannot be called a theory (a theory has to be based on firm evidence, studies, and have the support of the greater scientific community). To sum it all up... no one knows but God.

Answer 4

I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened to me if I asked the same question when I was attending Catholic school. You shouldn't have been scolded; it was an innocent question, and she punished you solely on the basis of ignorance; you just wanted to know an answer. Here's what I think that is:

The universe is considered "flat," but not in the sense that it's two dimensional, as would be considered relative to human beings on our planet. Modern drawings of the entire universe have it seem more to be a spherical shape, meaning that it doesn't truly have an "end." If one were to travel to the farthest point from his initial point within the universe, he'd only find himself back at his original position. This is due to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity which states that gravity curves both space and time, that both the universe and our concept of it, our knowledge, our entire sense of space and time is warped--including ourselves--such that we have no understanding of this warping without observation of the extreme or seemingly exaggerated (such with the planets and their revolutions about the sun, or black holes to be even more exaggerated).

Bascially, what I'm trying to state is that gravity, because of it being a manifestation of the warping of both time and space, curves time and space to where any linear path taken within the contours of that time and space (i.e., the universe) is essentially curved. There is no edge; there could never be an edge because one cannot take a linear path to seek it. Hypothetically this could be done if somehow the force of gravity were eliminated from existence, but because gravity is a function of mass, and there takes someone OF mass to seek, observe, and travel, there could never be an absence of gravity in the first place.

Heaven, on the other hand, is everywhere in the eyes of someone physically gone, spiratually enlightened and lifted, and morally just in his seek for God and paradise.

Answer 5

I think every person has his or her own idea of that. I think it's plausible to believe that the universe is like a huge circle. Looking at other aspects of nature we can see that they are cyclical -- there is birth, growth, death, rebirth and regrowth. What happens when there is a huge forest fire? Sure there is destruction of its life, but afterwards the earth is replenished and new plants and animals will grow. So why should the universe be any different? Why does it have to have an end?

Answer 6

Out the backdoor of the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe!!

Answer 7

The universe ends on the furthest x-intercept from the sun on the parabola. From there, it all starts over in the form of another dimension, and people all bark. It's a trip man, it's a trip.

Answer 8

Just past the edge of the earth.

(no joke.... the surface of the earth is a two dimensional plane curved in a third dimension, the universe is a three dimensional volume curved in a fourth...both are finite, but edgeless.)

Answer 9

If you had a powerful enough telescope you could look straight away and see the back of your head and there it is the end of the universe.

Answer 10

There are 2 theories. One is that it never ends and the other is that space is curved and you will return to where where you started.