If the Universe is constantly expanding, what is it expanding into?
2007-03-28 00:58:15 · 31 answers · asked by Beast 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
What is outside the universe? Congressional ethics.
2007-03-28 01:00:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
By definition there is nothing outside the Universe. Universe means 'the One', there is nothing else. People sometimes talk of 'parallel universes'. This is not correct. If these exist, they are multiple dimensions of this universe. If you travelled far enough you might leave the vast clump of expanding galaxies that we live in right now, but you would not have left the universe. If you reached a place where time and space do not exist you would have reached the edge of the universe. Still you could not go outside it, since you need space and time to exist.
2007-03-28 01:06:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The truth is that the universe is not "in" anything. The universe is defined to be everything, including space and time itself. Since the universe includes all space, ther can be nothing "outside" the universe.
The human mind is not capable of understanding what it means for the universe to be everything, with nothing outside of it - not even empty space. There are no analogies between this and things we experience in everyday life.
You may have heard talk in places about other universes. Mathematically, it is possible to have other places where space and time are different and unconnected to what we think of as space and time. But this is pure speculation. Even if other universes did exist, there would be no connection with our own.
I'm sure this hasn't answered your question fully, but, again, I believe that the concepts involved are beyond any human's true understanding.
2007-03-28 01:09:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The universe is actually some atoms in a persons arm and expands as they grow older. That person asked. what is outside the universe. The answer was. some atoms in a persons arm
2007-03-28 01:40:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
space would have to exist before a universe could expand into it, however by definition the universe expands into itself as any space it ocupies belongs to the universe.
I prefer to think of the universe not as being blown in the big bang but being sucked into the void like the wind
2007-03-28 04:37:46 · answer #5 · answered by byrdland5d@btopenworld.com 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hang on, I'll open the back door and check! Ok, I'm back! There is nothing out there but a dirty great big Back Yard, which just keeps expanding and expanding, mostly into someone Else's back yard!
2007-03-28 01:04:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There isn't anything outside the universe. It is a infinite directional dimension. It takes myriad of Lightyears to know. No one will ever know whats beyond the infinite extent of the universe.
2007-03-28 01:14:06 · answer #7 · answered by Kyle J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably another universe expanding into another and so on.I don't think our little brains will ever be able to cope with the information- so I'm going to have a cup of tea.
2007-03-28 01:05:39 · answer #8 · answered by Spiny Norman 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the universe is everything that exists, so if there is an outside of the universe, there is nothing there, no space or time. don't think about it too much otherwise your brain will breakdown.
2007-03-28 01:04:39 · answer #9 · answered by Richard J 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are about a ga-zillion ideas about what might lie beyond our own universe, but there's not one single shred of scientific evidence to support any of them. Personally I try just to think of beyond our universe as being an infinite and absolute void...no mass, no spacetime, no energy...absolutely nothing.
2007-03-28 01:07:24 · answer #10 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋