What do you think is beyond the universe?

Question

Planets are in solar systems, solar systems are in galaxies, and galaxies are in the universe, so what is the universe in? How can something just be here? A theory of mine is mabey the universe is God. Perhaps it is a living thing. Since nothing on earth will ever know the true answers all I can do is speculate. I personally don't think the answers will be found by math, which was created by humans.

"The universe is nothing more than an atom of a larger thing. An atom in your fingernail could hold an entire universe in itself."


You got that from animal hour didn't you? When i first heard that I thought, "cool" but then I thought about it just a little harder and realized that obviously isn't possible and if it was, what would happen when the life form our universe is an atom of dies or whatever it is part of is destroyed?

Answer 1

The universe means, literally, everything that exists. Asking what exists beyond the universe is like asking what continents exist outside the Earth. If we can use reason to divine it's existence, then it is part of the universe.

People of course speculate. Anything not of this universe is termed "supernatural". And because the supernatural can not be falsified (proven wrong), then it is not a truly scientific question. So your calling the universe 'God' (a philosophical thought that has existed for decades. Google "pantheism") is purely arbitrary, faith based, unfalsifiable, and thus, not proper scientifically.

As far as knowledge, the acquisition of knowledge and search for the truth has always been sketchy, but it is hypothesized that when we unlock the secrets of consciousness, we will finally have an objective standard for the truth, and that will change our society in profound ways. Possibly, we are on the verge of understanding consciousness, as neuroscientists delve further and further into the brain, unlocking mystery after mystery, we may eventually have a full understanding of how our brain creates ideas, and we can gauge which ideas have a proper base, and which do not.

And your comment about math is conceptually wrong on so many levels it's hard to count. Man didn't 'invent' mathematics anymore than he 'invented' electricity (Electrons have always existed, Man simply discovered them and their uses).
Einstein once wrote that "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe". Of course Einstein was being metaphorical about God, but the point is that 2 + 2 = 4, no matter how many people are counting.
Even Descartes, who coined the term "I think, therefore I am" and who couldn't be convinced that anything in the universe except his own conscious mind existed, believed that conceptual mathematics were the only universal constant, the only thing man could truly trust as existing.

Answer 2

There are at least three ways of thinking about what may lie outside of our universe.

If you consider the universe to be a typical kind of space which is getting bigger, then presumably there is stuff OUTSIDE the universe into which it gets bigger. The problem is that we can't even see all of our own universe (that's another subject), much less outside it, and even if there were an 'outside' then presumably none of our physical laws would apply there (most of the physical laws seem to be artifacts of the way the universe formed, and there are some physicists who study how they might have turned out differently). So what is the 'outside'?

Maybe it's nothing. Not even empty space. Of course, non-space is a difficult idea to wrap your mind around. There is no reason not to believe that there are not other universes out there either, so perhaps as ours expands theirs is forced to contract. That would be a bummer for them.

String theorists may have some other ideas. Some theories predict a number of extra dimensions which don't seem to be around where we are too much, and some scientists have proposed a solution to that problem: We're not in the 'real' universe. If this is true, then what we think of as our universe is really just a pocket of an even bigger universe. The bigger universe would have all the extra dimensions and other things we seem to be missing. And our little pocket would be expanding to take up more and more room of this universe. Of course this begs the question of what's outside of the 'real' universe... but that ends up just turning back to the above guesswork.

Then there's a completely different way of looking at the space in the universe. One could, if one wanted, correlate all the things in our universe with a mathematical model of constant volume. We know things seem to be moving away from us... but there's another way to describe the same thing: maybe they're not moving away, it's just that everything is shrinking. Logically enough, if EVERYTHING expands or contracts in an exactly relative way, there would be no way to tell. If, on the other hand, everything in the universe shrank while the space the universe was in was constant, it would look like things were moving away from each other.

So take your pick. Maybe we're crushing other helpless universes. Maybe we're taking over the real universe. Or maybe we're just getting smaller. Nobody knows for sure... yet.

Answer 3

Only the notation of math was created by man, the underlying principles belong to the universe.

The universe is at least a four dimensional manifold membrane. Think of an inner tube in a tire. The tire is the cosmic all of existance, the inner tube is the universe and the air particles that inflate it are the galaxies.

This is crude example at best but it gives you a rough idea of relationship of the galaxies to the universe and the universe to the cosmic all.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Whatever it is is probably beyond out understanding. Everything we can relate to is bounded by the universe. Everything we can understand is within the 4 dimensions, 3 of space and time. These only have meaning within the universe. So, whatever is 'beyond' the universe is not controlled by those dimensions. We cannot even begin to envision what there is, if there is anything.

Answer 6

The universe is nothing more than an atom of a larger thing. An atom in your fingernail could hold an entire universe in itself.

The atom isn't really an atom, the atom is just an example of a small universe.

Answer 7

Let's speculate then....

First of all, Math was discovered by humans; which is pretty much what we do here, discover....

Now, there are three concepts which prove to be very elusive time after time, they are: Infinite, unlimited, eternal....

Truth is one of those elusive concepts too....

Things are not just here, in fact, there's no such thing as here and now here... "Things are here because we are here"....

IF you were not "here", this would not exist for you....It only exists for those who are "here".....Like some people say: The worse blind is not the one who can't see, it's the one that won't see.....

Ok, I'm done speculating.....For now....LOL

Answer 8

It's not really "your" theory. It's shared by many people's throughout the world.

What's outside the universe though? That should be clear. It's the map's edge.

Answer 9

I believe that there might be even more universes, a sort of superuniverse made out of many different universes

Answer 10

God did not create man, Man created god to give himself a meaningful existence.
Math is a language, just like the one your reading now. There is quantitative proof that math can help prove, solve, create, etc...
But let me ask you this, if you "created" the greatest thing the world has ever seen, the world would marvel at your amazing creation. Would you then disappear leave no sign of your existence allow crazy dumb people to speak on your behalf of your creation? ....I don't think so, Math and science can be our greatest hope, religion IS out greatest set back in modern society!