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There is no end to space. There is also no end to the Earth. The surface of the Earth has a limited area, so many square miles, but there is no edge or end. Similarly, in a higher dimension, the universe can have a limited volume but no end either.

2006-12-27 08:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1 0

How should the mortal minds of mankind, earth-bound (And moon-bound, if you put it that way.) creatures derived from ancient cells, evolved into the bustling, oh-so-busy animals that use their brain-power to overcome obstacles, answer the question of Infinity itself?
How does that even make sense?

What would happen if you reached the end of space, the very edge of infinity itself?

If I built off of the modern day, and the most well-known hypothesis the average (pending) scientists can manage to come up with, I'd have to answer that question with:
Nothing happens, because everything would happen at the moment time begins since the eternity in which infinity is built upon ended and began at the same time- Resulting in a collapsion of the Universe itself and then I'd have to debate on and on about the 'Mysteries of the Universe'. Let's not go there, shall we?

Now, If I take the basic idea from a more spiritual, and somewhat superstitious perspective, it'd be similar to the accountings of the Sandman (DC Comics) series, with the morbid characters Death, Despair, Destiny, Dream, Delirium, Desire, and Destruction. However, let's not go there either, since I'd be simply wasting more time on your hands.

Moving on, my own personal theory, derived from all the different thoughts and opinions and facts and the-things-that-just-don't-make-sense, I'd have to completely agree and disagree that:

If you had somehow reached the end of space and/or Infinity, you'd be at the beginning, which would be at the middle of Time and Space itself. Of course, time has no particular meaning- Because there is no such thing as the end OR beginning of space and/or infinity, eternity, and so on and so forth. That is simply a phrase imagined and wondered by the miniscule human mind, and it has no answers unless you wish to ask God himself (No, I'm not insulting God, just to let you know- Please don't say that I am.) So, explaining something as forever-expanding as the Universe, Time, Space, Infinity, or Eternity would be fairly nigh impossible to either explain or comprehend.
It's impossible, because impossible is nothing yet everything for ever.

If you don't like my answer, please understand, I'm only 13 years old.

2006-12-27 19:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous Alias 1 · 0 0

There is no "end" to space. However, space may or may not be infinite, depending on the mass density of the Universe. According to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, matter distorts or “curves” Space - Time (i.e. the 'fabric' of the Universe). This curvature manifests itself as gravitational attraction between masses. The more mass within a spatial volume, the more that space is curved. If the entire Universe possesses enough mass, the whole of space is "closed" or curved into a sphere. In spherical geometry, "straight lines" correspond to "Great Circles", i.e. circles that girdle spheres and that share their diameters with these spheres (ex. the equator). Therefore, traveling in a straight path in this closed Universe leads one back to the point of departure. Imagine a space journey beginning at Cape Kennedy that leads future astronauts out of our galaxy, through Andromeda…. and back to the launch pad!

If the mass density isn't great enough to close it, the Universe is either flat like a plane or curved and bowed into a horn-like shape called a hyperbolic paraboloid. In either case, space is trully infinite and future astronauts traveling in straight lines will journey ever outwards, never to return to the Earth.

2006-12-27 17:18:10 · answer #3 · answered by Ian 1 · 0 0

Space curves back in on itself so that if you could go fast enough and far enough in a straight line you would end up back where you started. (The only problem with that is that it would take all the mass in the Universe to do that so there wouldn't be anything to see and nowhere to go back to.)

2006-12-27 16:33:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Infinity means that there is no end. It's like the Energizer Bunny...it keeps going and going and going.

2006-12-27 16:35:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Most likely devoid of anything,no planets,suns or debris,Just nothing-ness.Whom really knows, as we don't see much past the end of our hand.So,any assumption can be correct.Only time, technology and the driving force to make humans want to know the answers to a particular quandary.

2006-12-27 18:32:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You cant reach the end of infinity ..it is infinite.

2006-12-27 17:04:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

when you reach the end of space.
if you look around you will find that you are
really back at the beginning of space.

you have gone in a big circle.
infinity have no beginning , or end .
your always somewhere in between.

2006-12-27 17:34:48 · answer #8 · answered by 987654321abc 5 · 0 0

i think this is a great question. space doesn't end. not to be an annoying atheist, but how could god create something never ending?

2006-12-27 16:33:14 · answer #9 · answered by !{¤©¤}! 4 · 0 0

There's no end. It is constantly expanding.

2006-12-27 16:30:47 · answer #10 · answered by Carp 5 · 0 0

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