What was it like before the universe and What is beyond the expanding universe?

Question

If the Universe began with nothing, then what is the universe expanding into?, because it seems the most impossible to answer question EVER!

Answer 1

Not possible to tell. The current thinking is it all started with the big bang, but as technology moves on other theories will come to light

Answer 2

BEFORE BIGBANG:
Before the big bang makes no sense since "time" is not defined before the big bang.Stephen Hawking has proved mathematically that time didn'y exist before big bang.



EDGE OF UNIVERSE:
What does the word "universe" mean?

The "observable universe," Sweitzer explained, "is the one astrophysicists generally talk about because it's the one open to empirical measurements. In fact it's the only one we can or ever will be able to talk with any certainty about."



He goes on to explain that "universe" (sans the word "observable") is a larger concept that scientists think "conforms to our laws of physics and all the assumptions that go with them." Comprehending this universe, Sweitzer said, "requires a leap of faith into unobservable realms."

Finally, there is "the Universe," which, by virtue of its capital "U," includes "absolutely everything, even possibilities of dimensions, modes and regions that obey laws of physics we don't know or maybe even can't know."


Too bad it's not a brick wall or something like that. Actually, there really is no "edge" of the universe so we can't go past it. There are two cases that could happen. One is that the universe will expand forever. This means that the universe is infinite in size so it doesn't have an end. It just goes on and on and on. The second case is that the universe will end in a Big Crunch. In this case the universe is finite in size because of gravity.

So if it's finite in size, why isn't there an edge we can go to? That's because of a weird little thing gravity does to space--it curves it!

Einstein first came up with the idea of gravity curving space. That's how the Earth orbits the sun. It wants to go straight but the Sun curves the space around it so the Earth can't go flying off.

There is so much matter in the universe that space is bent back on itself! It's sort of like how you can bend a wire until its ends touch, you come up with a circle. You can walk around a circle forever without coming to an edge.

So, the universe can be finite but have no edge. It's similar to the Earth. The Earth has a finite surface area but it doesn't have an edge that you can fall off (lucky for Columbus...)

Answer 3

The one theory that I believe is that the universe before it was created was just like a black hole in space, but I mean the biggest super-massive black hole in existence about the same size as a trillion galaxy's.

The creation of this black hole is I believe to have come from another universe ending its life in the form that we now of called The Big Crunch.

The difference between this black hole and all the ones that we know of today is that this black hole is the opposite of a normal black hole.

Instead of it pulling in all matter around it at near the speed of light, this black hole shoots out all of the matter that was sucked into it from the other universe which as a direct result of this creates another universe in the form of the so called Big Bang..

As for what lies beyond the expanding universe, I believe it will most likely be a halo of the type of matter that we cant see, Dark Matter.

This is my theory of what I think is the creation of all universes.

I hope that this answers your question?

Answer 4

the universe began with the big bang so technically there was a pont in the unverse that was incredibly dense and reactive. Beyond the current 'limits' of the universe is empty space that goes on forever and for which the current limits of the universe to expand into.

Answer 5

You could imaging a constantly expanding, contracting and re-exploding universe, but that still leaves you with what is around it. Both time and space can be imagined (if that it the word) to go on infinitely in both directions (for time the past and future, for space the most distant and the smallest 'possible'. Or you could make them circular, which ties things up nicely, if you preffer. The locked inness of it makes me depressed though.
Infinity itself is for me the mind giving up. Choosing God to cap it off is another sort of cop out.
These sorts of questions as well as the ideas in relativity and quantum physics exist at the boundaries of our minds abilities to grasp what is going on.
Although causality and the idea of time are very convincing, considerations of the above and the resulting frustration has caused many to question the realness of time and space. Possibly unfairly.
Certain non-ordinary experiences that people have had can leave a sense of timeless oneness, possibly backing up the whole 'lets be more spiritual about time and space movement'. Drugs may be involved, but even without them lots of time is spent sitting around not doing much with the time or space available. Not that I am critical of such worthy traditional ways of dealing with the ineffable. At least, that is what I always blame it on.
Jung said certain problems cannot be solved, they must be outgrown. So we can add time and space to acne.
Hope that helps, this little mental mousetrap still gets to me.

Answer 6

You create things by imagination.

Space is created by expansion. There does not need to be anything beyond it. What is beyond imagination does not exist. Neither does that beyond the expansion.

The creation of the universe is very much a matter of faith. Faith in religion or science. The whole point of faith is that it cannot be proven. Science does not claim to be able to save your soul, however.

Nightmare.

Did the universe begin with nothing? Who knows....
What is the Universe expanding into? Itself. Think about it. It's simple, elegant and beautifl. The scientists agree too. How novel.

Quad Erat Demonstrandum

Answer 7

Issac Asimov theorized that a sub atomic particle coined a "holon" existed which was extremely small. The size of a holon compared to an electron would be like comparing an electron to our sun. This holon contained the mass of the entire universe and exploded for some reason maybe 15,000,000,000 years ago.

Beyond the universe is probably vacuum.

Answer 8

Before your birth you were in the same 'place' as the Universe was before the Big Bang, and that is also what it is expanding into

Answer 9

I agree, but it seems NOTHING is the answer, hard to wrap your brain around.

even empty space is SOMETHING so that's not the way to think about it.

Try this: a deflated balloon has nothing inside of it, only after you put stuff inside (water, air, ketchup, etc) can you refer to something as being inside the balloon. The universe is the same before it became "the universe" there was no way to describe anything as being "the universe".

Hope I helped.

Answer 10

The Universe was a small extremely high pressured dense timeless ball of matter that exploded into the Universe. It exploded due to pressure.