What is the Universe? Will we ever know for sure how it was created and why?

Question

I believe we come from the universe and when we die we go back to the universe, that everything is related through atoms, dna, molecules etc etc. We only know so much about space and whats beyond our own solar system and we only know even less about how other solar systems etc are formed. The key thing is why, is it all just a matter of fact or is there a purpose? Does anyone have any theories on this subject I would love to hear them!!

All these answers are fantastic!! And I love this discussion. I find it most fascinating, personally I do tend to look at it from both a spiritual and scientific perspective, However I am not religious and always look at things from a logical point of view. So the majority of answers were excellent and so enlightening to read. I am having a hard time deciding on the best one!!

I would just like to say, thankyou to the person who choses to answer 'you are totally dumb!!' I take it you assumed I was asking these questions because I didn't already know the answers?? Obviously you hadn't realized I just wanted other peoples perspectives on a subject I find wonderful. Because there is no true answer, it allows us humans to use our imagination beyond our wildest dreams and thoughts equal existance Thankyou again everyone x

Answer 1

Big big question.

What is the universe.... theres too many different answers. It has been claimed that we don't even know 90% of it anyway, though that could just be because of a mistake on mathematics.

The universe encompasses mass, energy, and time in a number of unknown dimensions three of which can be perceived. The fact that we are a part of the universe makes analysis very difficult. If one could see the universe from the outside, it might look very different.

How it was created, based on evidence, supports the big bang theory. I am going to guess that the universe is in of itself, a natural phenomenon so there's probably no "why".

I will also make a bold assertion, and say that life defines the universe. Without life, there could well be no universe in the first place. What the universe is, is defined and changed by humans regularly. Especially since the concept of time is filled with uncertainty.

Answer 2

I love this question. Actually I was going to ask this very same question, when i saw that you had already done it, so here is my personal theory.

The term Universe, is most commonly defined as, all matter and energy, including the earth, the galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole. But if the Universe is so vast and unexplained, is it so crazy to believe that there is more to it than what we know or see? I believe that the universe that we know is just one of the un countless amounts of universes that are out there. These "Universes" could be otherwise defined as dimensions.

Hundreds of years ago, it was believed that the sun revolved around the Earth, and that the earth was the center of the Universe, today it is now known that this is clearly not true. Also hundreds of years ago they "KNEW" that the world was flat, it was common knowledge. The fact that we know nothing opens ideas for people to figure out the truth about our world that we live in. That is why I believe that the Universe is so large and unimaginably large that not even the human mind can understand the true intensity of the real Universe as a whole. Sort of hard to understand, especially when we are limited to the 8% of brain space that we use. But with some imagination I think you can see where I am coming from.

Answer 3

The universe is an entity that came into existence,will run it's course and eventually go out of existence.
The creation part of it could be a problem.
We know it is here because we are here.
The answer to your question will probably always be speculative but we can always try to give some sense.
The universe started from nothing but the nothing had to have a potential and the potential had to be finite or it could not have resulted in a universe.
Some time after time zero a single space-time pulse was initiated,a pulse of minimum size and duration.
This pulse evolved into the universe that we experience to-day.
Why, may always be a problem for the philosophers.
The why must the result of a set of circumstances and nothing more.
We are the result of an evolving universe,the conscious part of it...
Without us and others like us the universe would be a raging
unknowing beast that couldn't even ask "Why"
The universe will,one day go out of existence,the state will be an eternal nothing with no potential.
An incident that came into existence,ran it's course and would never happen again.

Answer 4

no one will ever know for sure what created..god, the big bang, etc. but it sure makes you wonder why man from the very beginning still seeks to know, to me what causes man to search for 'something more' is the bigger question. is there an inbred 'spiritual' in every human being to know why or what we came from ? ppl have been seeking answers to this question for eons and no matter what you believe the fact that you do believe in something is the most important thing. personally i don't think anyone should try to sell their beliefs to others if ppl want to believe god created the heavens and earth then let them believe it, if they want to believe, like you that we come from the universe and go back to the universe thats great too. the thing is not so much where we came from or where we're going its how we live our lives here, now. what kind of examples are we to others, are we leaving the world and the ppl we meet in a better place or are we damaging it by our actions. i truly believe that what we do here or how we treat others will have lasting effects whether good or bad on ppl and the earth. call it karma, call it pay back, call is 'what comes around goes around' whatever.

Answer 5

once you initiate analyzing the Bible, in the handbook of Genesis, first financial ruin and oftentimes happening verse, you will see that "interior the beginning, jointly as God created the heavens and the earth," the production of the Universe is widespread interior the direction of the oftentimes happening predicate, "the heavens." First, God created the heavens; the whole element in the Cosmos, that's the Universe. Then, He stated the earth for the main factors. yet your question is approximately "how." properly, how approximately jointly as He reported, "permit there be gentle?" It might desire to have been that at that different 2d the "vast Bang" took place. And there was once gentle interior the direction of the Nothingness. And God observed that it was once ok. (Gen. a million:4) this is an elaboration on the allegory of introduction.

Answer 6

Well one thing I think everyone agrees on ( a rarity) is that our whole planet is only one tiny tiny piece of the universe. It would be hard to imagine that someday we could claim to understand completely something so vast and mysterious as our universe. The more we learn about the true fundamental nature of the universe (light, energy, gravity, matter, quantum particles, etc.), the harder it gets to 'peek behind the curtain' and see what's going on. No one has made sense of it all, and many people see a divine hand at work. I doubt that humans will ever truly understand the universe and all its workings, but its fun to try!

Answer 7

There are no scientific theories for how and why the universe was created. These are philosophical or religious questions and are not answerable by any testable means. You either believe everything has a purpose or you don't, its up to you.

We can only see what happened since the Big Bang.

Answer 8

The universe is everything around us and physicists are working on mathematical theories that may give an idea of how the universe began. We will never know for sure how it began because we can't see it happen. Why is an irrelevant question. It implies there was a purpose to it when it began.

Answer 9

That's a very, very big question - and there are an almost infinite number of answers.

Lots of scientists think that our universe is just one of billions of others - collectively called the multiverse. Others think that there's only one (this one) and it continually expands and contracts, and will do forever.

I have no idea what I actually believe, if anything. Personally, I don't believe in God, but have to admit that with almost every possible theory we will still always arrive at "who?".

All very interesting, but probably unknowable by us humans.

Answer 10

I guess this is a question mankind has been asking since the beginning of time. Why? How? When? Who? What?

The answer is still unknown and just as we think we are getting somewhere in finding the answer something else pops up to completely send our understanding in a different direction.