where is the universe located?

Answer 1

in steve perry

Answer 2

The universe seems to extend equally in all directions.

It is reasonable therefore, to say that the universe is located at it's center point, which is the same as saying that the universe is 'located' here and now.

If the question you are asking by inference is really "what's beyond the boundary?" or "Where are we in time and space in some absolute reference frame, and not just relative to everything else?" Then the answer is that there is insufficient data to provide any meaningful answer.

We do know that the universe appears to be expanding at an *accelerating* rate - and in all directions at once.

We can assume this because the red shift of the spectral absorption lines in the light from all the stars and galaxies indicates that everything is moving away from us.

More significantly, Measurements of a special type of stellar explosions called Type1A Supernovae which has a very predictable and reliable sequence of death throws when it blows up suggest that the universe was once expanding more slowly and is now expanding at an increasingly faster pace.

This observation suggests that there is some force which is "pushing" the universe to expand - which is weird because as yet no one can manage to detect any force that could be producing the effect.

Perhaps the problem is that we do not really understand time. Perhaps time has discrete quanta which is changing in value. Perhaps time is not passing at fixed rate - to us the effect would be invisible if this were true, because we cannot observe the flow of time relative to any other frame of reference (i.e. relative to a hypothetical time which exists outside of our local time frame).

Again we do not know - but we can hazard an educated guess. It is possible that time quanta used to be have a larger value. Furthermore that they are smaller or have a finer granularity now than the time when those supernovas occurred.

If time quanta were one larger and are becoming smaller then the space-time continuum is also changing. It may be that space-time actually began 15-17 billion years ago - an that would mean that it's edge or boundary is most of 15-17 billion light years away in every direction. This would imply that beyond the boundary is beyond the edge of both space -and- time. So what is beyond the edge would literally be "tomorrow" - or nothing, because the universe doesn't exist yet beyond that boundary.

It is possible to think of the current moment as being the same moment in which time and the universe began. Beyond this moment time does not exist yet - because the universe has not yet expanded into that nothingness beyond time and space because space needs time to exist in order for a rate of change to manifest.

What can you conclude?You may say that the universe is located in the center of what was previously uncreated timeless nothingness, which is the only identity matrix of the absolutely objective frame of reference. In short the universe is literally located in the middle of 'nowhere' (and 'nowhen')...

Answer 3

My, My, you really do ask intelligent questions. How do you come up with them so quickly?

The universe is located about 2 parsecs past the 12th of Never. Turn right, then go about 250 yards. It will be on your left. OK?

Glad to have been of help.

Answer 4

A better question would be where isn't the universe located...and that simple answer would be "over there"

Answer 5

On the ring finger of a large giant.

Answer 6

Suburb of Albuquerque

Answer 7

i think the universe is everything. the earth, all of the planets, the sun and the moon and all of space.

Answer 8

Up there, second star to the left, straight on until morning

Answer 9

Awesome, and meaningless quesiton...

Here's another...What flavor is the universe???

Answer 10

Right at the corner of 3rd and 5th.