I cannot visualise the structure of the universe?

Question

I can't picture the nothingness into which the universe is expanding; everything in our known world has a finite physical boundary. Can someone give me their view of where it all ends?

Answer 1

If anyone ever could it would be a definite Nobel prize. People can speak of it from a mathematical sense but nothing you could visualize.

Answer 2

Now you know how Columbus must have felt trying to explain how the world is round without any proof. It all starts with imagination. The only way we're going to fully perceive the shape of the universe is to get out there and explore it for ourselves, like he did.

Picture a doughnut. On one side is a super black hole where all matter eventually gets sucked in. On the other side is a super white hole aka the big bang. Matter flows out and around and in, enters hyperspace, disintegrates, and spits out again on the other side of the universe making a constant explosion and implosion.

The 4th dimension is one of those things you can't see, but you can feel its effects. Gravity that is. Its existence is still only theoretically explained. There is clearly a lot more to this universe other than height, width, and length.

Answer 3

It's entirely possible that our universe is simultaneously "boundless and closed"(!!!)
What that means is that space could well be curved into a 4th dimensional shape called a "hypersphere"...which is like taking a 3D sphere and extending the idea into a 4th dimension....much like extending the idea of the 2D circle into a 3rd dimension (which is a sphere).
You would theoretically be ab le to venture away from earth in an apparent straight line in any direction and wind up "full circle" back where you started...like if you could actually walk the earth's surface from a given point, you'd eventually come back to the starting point.

Answer 4

Until we relate to every depth and dimension that we do know nothing will become clear.

Awareness and experience are responsibility and accountability. Reflected accordingly, by how, what we endeavour, effects and influences all we affect. Shared awareness requires co-incidental existence. Without communal legitimacy, perspective is not mutual, balance is not achieved and ultimately access to understanding and participation is denied.

We are all connected yet few of us are connecting favourably.

Answer 5

You are not alone. There are a lot of people including astrophysists who are struggling with the structure of the universe.

Wikipedia has a pretty good discussion of this topic; click on the link below to read it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe

Answer 6

Think of a matrix of 373,248 dimensions floating on the surface of a billion dimensional manifold twisted in a hyperbloic knot with infinit ends centered on a transdimensional pretzel.

Pretty simple really.

Answer 7

Thinking of things like that drives me crazy, because my human brain can not formulate a clear answer. I cannot stand thinking about the concept of infinity in any aspect, ie: time, space, life after death. How can such a simple word be such a complicated concept?

Answer 8

Next time you think of something try to see it in your mind. Explore all you see in that thought, it to can go on for infinity and that's just a thought. The universe don't look so big to me any more.

Answer 9

The universe is probably in a test tube in God's chemistry lab. :)

Answer 10

you can expand nothing into nothing so it the mass that fills the nothingness thats expanding.