If the Earth holds people and Space holds Earth, what holds space?

Question

It is like a snow globe! The snow man is in the globe, we hold the globe, Earth holds us, Space holds Earth, what holds space. Do you think that there is something else out there. Something has to hold space.

Answer 1

You have asked a "very" interesting question which can be viewed at various levels. My own personal view about what holds space is very hypothetical and speculative but here it is: Firstly, I believe our Universe is in the shape of a sphere (about 30 million light years in diameter) and is "rotating" on its axis. All of space is contained within it. It has a definite boundary and was not created by the so-called "Big Bang". Instead, the "Steady State Theory" explains how our Universe has always existed and always will. Secondly, if you ask me what exists "outside" this boundary of our Universe I have no idea, as it is beyond my level of comprehension and understanding. But you have asked an excellent question which I hope I have helped to answer to a limited degree !

Answer 2

A snow globe has an external force applied to it, gravity. A snow globe in orbit would not settle. The snow would simply swirl and drift with the currents in the globe.

People in the northern hemisphere might expect all the dust in space to slowly settle "down" toward the south end of space, but the folks in the southern hemisphere might have another opinion. Both would be wrong. Dust that is not being pulled by a gravity field or colliding with other dust will move inertially, in whatever direction, at whatever speed it is already at.

Answer 3

If you look at Earth from space, and imagine you could see the people standing on it, you'd see that the force from each person is directed towards the ground. If you slice the earth in half and draw arrows straight down from people standing on the Earth, you'd see they all point towards the center of the Earth.

Space has gravitational fields within it but is not in a gravitational field itself, nor does space have an "ether" or mass. Gravitational fields can and do warp space and time though.

In short, space isn't of a nature that needs holding up in the sense that we do.

Answer 4

there's no up or down in area. returned interior the Sixties you heard that each and all the time yet now days it seems to have been forgotten. it is not ultimate suited to assert under or above, because of the fact under is the path that products fall whilst permit bypass. The Earth is held in orbit around the solar with tips from the gravity of the solar. The solar is held in orbit around the galaxy bu the gravity of the galaxy. The galaxies are all purely drifting around in numerous instructions in area, yet on a extensive scale the full universe is increasing. no longer something is fastened or sturdy such as you're used to on the floor. each and every thing relatively is falling and drifting each and all the time. you purely do no longer word it because of the fact the unbelievably super distances make even a hundred,000 MPH appear as if a snail's p.c...

Answer 5

Space holds its self. The gravitational forces of celestial bodies with in what you call space are holding space together. However as the universe expands the gravitational forces that celestial bodies impose each other weaken.

Answer 6

the M-Theory vision, although not yet complete, is of the whole observable universe being one of many super expanded 4 dimensional branes of an 11 dimensional existence. While branes of alternative universes exist "near us" their formulation of physical laws may differ from our own, as their number of dimensions. It is currently believed that a collision of "universe branes" somehow compacted enough energy to form what established physicists called the Big Bang

Answer 7

Gravitation Force between planets hold planets in solar system. Gravitation Force between star hold stars within galaxy.
Gravitation Force between galaxies hold galaxies within universe.
All mass can generate gravitation force within each others.
Space occupied by mass is hold by gravitation force exerted by mass.
Gravitation Energy is created during BIG BANG but very difficult to be detected now due to large distance between mass.
Gravitation Force = Gm1m2/R^2

Answer 8

If there's anything out there that can be classified as BEYOND our Universe, it's a "multiverse" of different Universes each in its own dimension relative to our own....in a different "space" and "time".
Highly theoretical, though.

Answer 9

why does something actually have to hold space? it can be like a spilled glass of water just simply spreading without form

Answer 10

space holds space. space is the universe. it is infinite. all those space probes we sent to fly out of our solar system will go on for ever unless they crash into an asteroid or fall into a black hole