2007-04-06 16:20:12 · 8 answers · asked by Rensie C 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There is a border but it is gradually expanding in a direction and is impossible to see because it gives off no light. But we could detect it if we existed long enough to fire a beam of light at it and it would reflect off back at us but if the universe is expanding at the speed of light then it could never catch up. And it would be impossible to see out that far anyway because its billions of light years away from us. And if you get a telescope ( a very powerful one ) you could theoretically see the big bang because your seeing the light that has traveled from however far away something is. Lets say a galaxy is 2 million light years away then when you saw it through a telescope at this moment thats what it looked like 2 million years ago. So its interesting even though you can see the boundary when you look in space you are looking back in time. Hope I answered you question I got a little off topic.
The above people probably explained it better ^^^
2007-04-06 17:01:51 · answer #1 · answered by Joseph W 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither - It gets hard to explain - like if someone asks if there is a center to our universe. The center of the universe IS the center of the universe. The center 'point' can only be seen in the 4th dimension. Just like the ant on the balloon. He's so small he only has a 2 dimensional world - he can walk all over the balloon, but cannot see the center of the balloon, because he would need 3 dimensions to relate to.
Imagine you could throw a baseball so hard, that instead of following the curvature of the earth, it just kept going straight out into outer space. Eventually, the baseball will hit you in the back of the head.
2007-04-06 16:35:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is infinite. It has no borders, edges, corners, center, beginning, end, up, down, power, energy, gravity, color, quadrants, north, south, left, or right. Nothing is bigger than the universe. It is made of nothing, but it contains everything known and lots of unknowns. Nothing 'created' it, nothing can or will destroy it. There is no human numbers or words that can describe it's size. Infinity squared to infinity is hard to comprehend and the universe is still bigger than that.
2007-04-06 21:41:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe is a finite entity.
When it came into existence it expanded into nothing,not a boundary but an interface.
It has probably started to go out of existence and all the galaxies at extreme distances do not exist anymore.
2007-04-07 03:05:10 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. The universe is of finite size, but has no boundaries. The usual analogy is to a bug on a balloon; the bug can explore the balloon, which is obviously of finite size, but never encounter an edge. Now suppose that the balloon is gradually inflating, and you have a fairly reasonable model of the universe.
2007-04-06 16:25:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no one knows the perfect answer for your question
If someone is telling you the perfect answer believe me he or she is bluffing!
there many theories regarding this,some say the universe is constantly expanding.While others say it is contracting.Some people have even gone further to say that it is contracting and expanding in periods!!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-06 22:00:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's growing
2007-04-06 16:54:12 · answer #7 · answered by foxyninamama 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Impossible to know.
2007-04-06 17:36:37 · answer #8 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋