they say the universe is expanding so what is it expanding over and what is beyond that?

Answer 1

first do not think of the universe as the book on your table or even earth on space....we r so used to seeing things 'kept' somewhere that we cant comprehend the concept of something that has an existance without something outside it....for a change stop being too logical!!!....altho highly flawed,ill giv u an analogy....imagine a rubber sheet,on which a '2D' man lives...he walks and talks and eats there...i,a 3D human streach the sheet equally in all directions...wont the 2D man strech along too?...wont his cofee mugs and tv sets(all of which r 2 D) strech too?....the sad part is that the poor 2D man is oblivious to all this streching business...same is the case with the 3D objects in the universe....the universe is 'stretching'

Answer 2

The universe is expanding into the nothingness it came from and there is nothingness beyond that. The center of the universe and the end of the universe IS THE UNIVERSE. Space is defined by the matter that is in it. If there is no mass, there is 'nothing'. I put 'nothing' in quotes because it's not really nothing. It is less than nothing. Nothing denotes the lack of something. Before the Big Bang, there was a formless void of nothingness that cannot be described - because there was no math yet or words yet. It was bigger than big and smaller than small. It was rounder than round and sharper than sharp. It was the propensity of everything. At the exact time of the Big Bang, at time = 0, there was matter and anti-matter. We call any anti-matter by adding an 's' to the word. So there was matter and smatter (anti-matter). It is believed there are 11 dimensions that make up our universe so far - Almost all of the smatter went into another dimension. Almost all of the gravity went into another dimension.
Anyway, the matter and smatter expanded and condensed into particles and anti-particles - sparticles. They were electrons and selectrons, quarks and squarks, neutrinos and sneutrinos, etc. If we add all the positive forces in the universe to the negative ones, the sum is zero. As the universe expanded and cooled, the stars and planets and everything else condensed out of it. To give an example the magnitudes here, at time = billionths of a second, the universe and everything in it was the size of a grain of sand and had cooled millions of degrees. At millionths of a second it had expanded to the size of earth and had cooled billions of degrees. At 1 second old, it was bigger than our solar system. Eventually the universe will expand to what we think of as infinity, it will cool to zero degrees and then there will be what we call as the Big Freeze. The end of the universe.

Answer 3

Doug is wrong. The universe is not infinite. It is bound by gravity just like a black hole is bound by it's event horizon. All of the matter in the universe is moving away from the center do to the big bang. It will either continue, stop or fall back into the center some day

Answer 4

It is expanding as a result of inertia. It began with an explosion, so it tends que keep expanding since there´s no outer force contrary to it (seriously). An beyond that there´s a leprechaun farm filled with gold pots. (not so serious) I believe nobody knows that one.

Answer 5

it is expanding because it is a growing organism. Our universe is merely tiny germ on the finger of a huge living entity. And beyond that is......well....I guess more germs and organisms or something I could be wrong, but it's just gotta be somethin' like that. I am getting warmer I know it.

Answer 6

Dont know, but i bet there's a McDonald's and a Microsoft Re-seller out there waiting for it !!!
You can't reach 'em by phone yet though, as the Indian Call Centre isn't up and running until next month.

Answer 7

It isn't expanding 'over' anything. There is no 'boundry' seperating 'Universe' from 'not Universe'. The Universe is infinite and without bound.

HTH ☺


Doug

Answer 8

its not expanding thats just an anomally from the things they have measured in it that they think are moving apart the only thing that is expanding is our knowladge of it.

Answer 9

well the universe goes on forever , thats just plane ovious, but i think that it could have to do with the galixsys, and i think there gettting smaller so the universe is gettin bigger :)

hope that helps.