About space and time...?

Question

No joke here, really!

I have this theory thats theres worm holes at all the adges of the universe so that the universe SEEMS neverending, but it isn't really, you just always turn up back at thebeggining!

Though this dosn't fit in with anything, even the big bang now that you think about it but oh well! The real question is, what do you think of this and do you have any conspiracies of your own?

Answer 1

but dont they say the universe is growing all the time in which case there must be an end to it but its just moving all the time

It is an interesting theory you have going there though

Answer 2

*Time is perhaps the most fascinating concept imaginable. I believe time is possibly non-existent in another dimension. If the big bang theory is true, it was the start of time for our universe, but time still existed. It was the time of the unimaginably dense mass that exploded into (the big bang) the stars, planets, and galaxies as we know them today. But what surrounded that dense ball of matter? It is not possible to create something from an empty void. So where did the dense matter come from? Was there a bang to create it? Ahhh, the second bang theory....Time has a beginning and an end. Time has always existed, therefore time cannot exist at all. Like the phrase "timeless".
Take your theory with the wormholes and scale it down to the size of a shoe box. Imagine everything inside the box is the universe, and the actual box represents your wormholes. As you travel to the edge of the box and run into the wormholes you feel as though you are still going forward, but actually you have just been warped to another area inside the box. Now imagine that box (our scaled version of the universe) sitting inside a large room, everything in the room is beyond the wormholes. When I try to scale down the universe to the size of a pinhead, it's still surrounded by something. Well there you go, that’s my theory of the day. ~DW

Answer 3

Sounds similar to an offshoot of superstring theory, that says the reason some galaxies look so far away is that light has to travel along the plane of our 3-dimensional universe, but if we could get to the higher dimensions (I think string theory requires 11 dimensions in all), our universe is like a folded piece of paper and the faraway galaxies are right next to us if we could go through the paper.
I know, sounds weird, but Astronomy magazine has carried a couple of good articles in the last few issues on this, and they explain it pretty well (for us amateurs to understand).

Answer 4

I like the way you think! I've been thinking about this kind of thing a lot myself, after doing some astrophysics in uni.
I just find it annoying that these people studying this type of thing can pretend to even know a little bit about what's out there, and how it works.
I mean, what they're looking at happened theoretically millions of years ago, if indeed the laws of spacetime are the same so far away!
Your idea's great though, I've often thought "I wonder if you look so far into space, you'll see the Earth..."
It's freaky, and I don't think we can ever hope to know!

Answer 5

I don't believe this turning up where you started idea.

My view is that the universe is currently the size of the speed of light multiplied by time for which the universe has existed after the big bang. And that the edge of it is expanding out at the speed of light.
It can't be any bigger than this because everything in it came from the big bang and nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
We cannot see any further out than this "edge" because to see out would require something out there to provide light and reflect light. Which cannot happen.

Answer 6

As humans unfortunately we do not have the brain power to cope with or think past what our own level of understanding and IQ alows. However if there are worm holes on the edge of the universe why have we never seen any alien life or indeed why have we never seen anything from any other universe. I like your thinking though.

Answer 7

well it would be interesting to see a worm hole. However the only wormhole which is observable is the ones in the garden.
If the Univerves is full of worm hole like swiss cheese it would have some reason for their existance.
About space= it is a physical entity which has volume.
Time is a quantity which relates how space hold masses into structure.,Or any processes or framework.
I dont believe that you need conspiracy to explain something as simple as space and time.Somethings are just obvious. It is not necessary to make a megilah about it.

Answer 8

For the universe to have an edge would be to suggest it is finite

It is infinite and goes on forever in my opinion but our heads cant really handle that thought being creatures of the finite realm

Your theory is an established scientific thought on the subject but no one knows. Even if it was curved that would suggest a shape to the universe and a shape can only exist in a space to occupy it. Meaning there would have to be space outside the universe to contain the shape. The universe incorporates everything so that is not a practical concept

Answer 9

I believe that the whole of human progress and life on earth will be wiped away by something like a super volcano or magma vent breaking up one of the continental techtonic plates for a few hundred million years. The subsequent lava flows and gas clouds will wipe out all trace of life. The planet will either continue as a dead rock in space or the same circumstances which produced life 3.9 billion years ago will create life again. I also believe that when life is wiped out on earth thats all the life in the universe gone. Having a degree in Geology with a thesis on Plate Techtonics has helped me to come up with this theory. Sorry to be such a gloom merchant.

Answer 10

I suppose that is alright, but have you considdered the idea that if you start off with nothing, or an explosion in nothing, then it isn't too hard to understand about the big bang thing. Nothing is every where where you can see black in the night sky. So anyway, the mortal mind has to have edges on everything, a mind that can cope with thought beyond that can say, space is what you can't see, what you can see in the night sky is not space it's planets.

Answer 11

Space and Time are the same thing, and the conspiracy, according to Al Fayed, is that the Princess Diana was murdered, maybe by the same group that assasinated President Kennedy. I have to go lie down in a dark room! I feel a headache coming on!