This thought makes my mind explode...:) Just can't imagine how is it that it goes and goes and goes and never ends? Who said that it never ends? I guess, the one who also doesn't know it for sure:) There just must be something beyond it! It is easier to think like this... What is your opinion? What's there?
2007-03-09 22:18:22 · 9 answers · asked by sslloonniikk 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Thanks to all the people who have answered the question thoughtfully. I'd like to continue the discussion with you. (hope to find your answeres again). About choosing the best answer - it is quite difficult:) So I put the question in voting. Many thanks to Tony NY, Mandira_nk and Jenab6, your answeres I liked the most.
2007-03-13 22:40:45 · update #1
According to Douglas Adams, there is a restaurant at the end of the universe.
2007-03-09 23:23:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sslloonniikk ... Excellent question. Scientists have recently ventured to say that they've "seen" what MAY be the limits of the universe, according to a science report recently announced in the news. However, they don't honestly know for sure and therefore must still presume that the universe may be infinite in size.
Keeping in mind that all things are relative, I've often wondered something about the "universe." Before I explain, let me define what I mean by "relative." To our bodies, 98°F/37°C is normal. To fish, though, their normal is much cooler. When you think about the temperature of the sun and the temperature of liquid oxygen, you can begin to appreciate the difference between hot and cold. And with our lifespans, too. To us today, a normal lifespan is somewhere in the area of 75 years. Not that long ago, a "normal" lifespan was considerably shorter. And think of animals/insects that live for just a few days ... and other animals like sea turtles, which live up to 189 years! (See my 2nd link below).
And now you can begin to understand what I mean by "relative." With that thought in mind, imagine if the world as we can "see" it is really just a very, very tiny part of a larger world that we don't have the capacity to fathom. Who can say that our universe isn't a mere molecule in the filament of a light used in another "world" that would obviously be so huge as to be outside the realm of our comprehension?
No, I'm not saying it's actually so ... And saying that my "theory" (just a mere concept, actually) hasn't been disproved does not mean it must be accepted as possible, either.
But just the thought gives an entirely new perspective to things. On a grander scale ... god's scale, if there is one ... that makes each of us and our lives as insignificant as a speck of dust.
Sorry to go so long, Sslloonniikk, but you took the time to nicely word your question ... and I thought you deserved a decent reply.
2007-03-09 22:34:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mind boggling question. In one line it is imagination and fantasy.
Who can have the answer, no one except sages and philosophers? The answers of scientists and mathematicians would not take you beyond the n-dimensional space and time.
As a geologist trying to understand rocks and history of earth, I am lost in the maze of matter and energy, renewable and non-renewable resource. That is finite and infinite resource, what can be finite and what can be infinite?
Can matter become “zero”? To me nothing can be infinite, anything beyond one’s comprehension is infinite and with the same logic nothing is finite if it cannot be reduced to “zero”.
Cosmos and beyond is like an endless pulley, a roller-coaster ride along infinity, beyond one’s vision and perception. The perception is conditionality of mind and knowledge and at the higher level of learning it takes one towards philosophy and your good question takes the mind towards that horizon.
Counting number of drops of water that make an ocean may be not physically feasible but, in principle all water contained in an ocean is formed of drops and droplets, it is only that we may not be in a position to count all. The cosmos also could be a space of ocean beyond our comprehension but certainly finite, it becomes infinite when we try to divide it into drops of water. Our solar system can be assumed as a group of drops held together in a finite invisible container and we have container and containers around in space and together these containers constitute cosmos beyond our solar system.
Planet earth is like an individual standing in a crowd of millions and millions, its uniqueness could be within our Solar system only? who can say it is unique in the whole cosmos?
We do not know what constitute life? Where life goes after death?
Can we consider an atom to be having life, it is in its own right functional and is the basic building block of all biotic and abiotic mass on earth, and the atom has its own little cosmos.
nk agarwal
2007-03-09 22:57:51 · answer #3 · answered by mandira_nk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's beyond our scope of knowledge. If we could venture out and find an end, what would be on the other side? If there ever was an argument for a supreme being, this is it!
2007-03-09 22:39:48 · answer #4 · answered by goaltender 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boogie
2007-03-09 23:13:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An man with a big white beard.
And a bunny that lays colored eggs.
Oh yes, and Elvis.
2007-03-09 22:27:47 · answer #6 · answered by Biznachos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does your question mean?
If the cosmos is everything there is, then obviously nothing is beyond it.
So the answer is: nothing.
That's our ultimate essence. We/God are nothing.
2007-03-09 22:26:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A brick wall. There is a notice on the wall "So far and no further. If you go any further I'll call me Dad." No, hang on, that was on Annie's stocking tops. I dunno.
2007-03-09 22:28:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
...Isn't wonderful to imagine all that... someday you'll know, well hopefully you will....
2007-03-13 16:12:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋