Could the universe be an immense star approaching supernova, hence the expanding?

Question

Think bigger. The universe could be an ultra-massive star in an orbit of it's own. It could be expanding until it reaches the supernova stage, where after, new stars (universes) could be formed.
Maybe that is how our universe was started in the first place...

Just a thought

Think outside the box - what we percieve is not a definite truth...
Just becuase the stars we know are hot and gaseous doesn't mean all stars are...

Answer 1

Not a bad thought I think... Our universe may be part of something huge. Look at how atoms are represented as, protons, neutrons with orbiting electrons. Planets orbiting a star respresent this also, no matter what way they orbit. The Sun, a huge nuclear reactor turing helium to hydrogen,(I think). Atoms make up everything we see and are. Our universe may be one of millions of universes, (Multiverse). We may never know. Remember Men in Black, the end of it when our galaxy was in something like a marble. We can just imagine..

Answer 2

Actually, you've got a few things in reverse. A star goes super nova because its core is contracting (not expanding). It does that because the core can not longer release energy as it is essentially composed of iron (or atomic nucleus of similar weight or heavier) can cannot fuse into anything heavier excapt if they are provided wit henergy (while lighter nucleus give out energy when they fuse). The supernova burst when the outer lawers of the start collapse on the stellar core -- as they are no longer kept out by the radiation pressure from the now extinct core; compress it to neutron star level -- and bounce back.

If your analogy was to hold, the metallicity of the universe would have to be much higher than it is now.

If you were to say that the Big Bang was like an exploding supernova, then at least, you have something that matches the expansion. But the explosion came first.

Answer 3

the temperatures, pressures, and other forces in side a star approaching supernova are very different from the conditions of space, and that is an understatement.
however, the universe could be a giant Black hole, where the outside of that hole has more then 3 spatial dimensions, and therefore the universal black hole appears on the outside to be singular.

Answer 4

Star's go supernova when they run out of energy from their cores. General relativity tells us differently. The universe has no core, it appears the same from all directions. Every point is just as central as every other point.

Answer 5

That is an interesting way of looking at it, it is similar to a expanding supernova.

Here is a question I asked yesterday about the universe but on a very small scale compared to your large scale of the universe.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq9hg1DtuItJZGl5QuPw.Dvsy6IX?qid=20061028211544AASLLNi

Answer 6

We could be living on an electron orbiting it's nucleus(the sun) inside a collection of molecules ( the Universe)

Answer 7

But you have to think if we are orbiting another say star or galaxy couldnt we tell? Because if the sun and us are moving in a orbit cant we figure out that we are orbiting another body?

Just saying

Answer 8

Naw-The universe is just a drop in an ocean of universes which is in a water bottle of some giant race.

Answer 9

Our universe is 99.999etc empty space, with trilliions of stars with it. So it is not like a normal star that is 100% super heated gas/plasma.

Answer 10

No. Supernova are collapsing not expanding !