CRA-Z!!!!!just to tell u this quetsion is off the topic but i'll ask anyway......where does the universe end?.

Question

ok u know the phrase"i was looking up at the stars last night and i thought,where the heck is the cieling?"well where is the cieling....i mean the end of the universe.....whats out there......where does it end .......is there an end????is it just stars stars stars and stars on forever......everything has an end so this must too...right???

Answer 1

One of Einstein's biggest contributions to science, the one that made him famous, is a theory of his that says space is warped. (This is his General Theory of Relativity.) It bends. That means 3-dimensional space can be bent into the surface of some 4-dimensional object. Much like one might bend a flat wallmap of the world onto the surface of a globe - a 2-dimensional surface on a 3-dimensional globe.

What this means is, the universe has no end. However, that does not mean it is infinite. What would happen if you started traveling east, and just kept going? Eventually you would circle the Earth, and end up back where you started. You could go on infinitely like that, but that doesn't mean the surface of the earth is infinite (and it is not). Well, same thing happens with the universe. You can move through it in one direction forever, though the universe itself is not infinite.

Answer 2

it seems some people misinterpret the idea of the universe being infinite, otherwise known as it goes on forever. However as of late scientists have come up with evidence that the universe is constantly growing, if that's the case that means at one point in time the universe started out small perhaps as nothing, and eventually through some galactic explosions and collision the universe is born and continues to grow. So there is subsequently no real end, if there is any.

This here is a website where you can learn a little but more

http://www.pnas.org/misc/classics2.shtml

But that's the essential idea, that the universe is continuously expanding and that our galaxy, the milky way, is actually constantly moving from one area in space to another.

In short, the universe doesn't really have an end until it stops growing, and in today's case, we don't know when that will happen if it does at all

Answer 3

Space is so big it's a joke that we even pretend to comprehend it's immensity. 1 light year is 6 TRILLION miles. The NEAREST star is 4 1/3 light years away. We can't see too deeply into space with the unaided eye but large telescopes can see so far they're looking 13 to 14 BILLION YEARS into the past! And they haven't seen the "end" of the universe yet.

Answer 4

Those in the know say it goes on forever.

But then what do I know.

Living in the city you just can't see the stars very well.

The last time I really saw the night sky with all of the stars was years ago when I went down from under the trees to a lake with my young daughter, it was just amazing how Crystal clear & just how many stars there were.

I remembered the sky from my youth & how I gave stars to girls I liked.

Answer 5

some says there is no end for the universe, some say the universe is growing all da time so there is an end but we cant probably find it coz it is too far away. Maybe u duno this guy but wesley thinks dat the end of da universe is just like a mirror it duplicate da same universe. Well maybe my grammar is too weak but that is all i can tell ya... n i think universe must have an end...well actually there isn't any accurate answer for this

Answer 6

Instead of flooding you with a ton of scientific theory and data, just look at your question this way -- in order for the universe to have an 'end' it would have to have a border, edge, boundary, right? Now, for that to be the case there would have to be some 'thing' larger than the universe in which it could be contained. There's not a single shred of scientific evidence that there is any 'thing' bigger than our own universe.