Is space infinite eg goes on forever or is it contained within our own minds?

Question

I always go cross eyed when i think of space as infinite, but if it isnt and it is contained, what is it contained by and what exists outside the container?

Answer 1

I don`t think space goes on forever. Space exist as long as atomic particles are in it. As you go through space and there are no longer any sub-atomic or atomic particles space then become void.
There is nothing in void not even space. Because an amount of space is measured between two objects, entities, beings, atoms...etc..etc
In my opinion when scientist say the universe is expanding based on the fact that matter in space is moving apart I think whats happening is space is expanding in the void. Void becomes space when atomic particles co-exist within it. Void contains space.
Q.what is void
A.Void is nothing.
* if a spaceship was to travel into void the vessel wouldnt travel to the end of space into the void rather the spaceship would travel to the end of space and get eating up by the void. The only way that void can be filled is by the expansion of space.

Answer 2

The answer is that no one really knows, yet. The edge of the OBSERVABLE universe is 12 billion light-years away. That is the distance light travels in one year (about 6 trillion miles) times 12 billion. That is 72,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away. We can't see any farther into space than this because the light from any objects (stars, galaxies) that may be farther away than this has not had the time to reach us yet.

The question of whether space is infinite or not is that if it isn't, it might as well be (at least on the human scale). The distances of the observable universe are so far as to be incomprehensible by the human mind.

Whether it is contained in our minds is a philosophical question, and one that is indeed worthy of further speculation.

For someone with an inquisitive mind like yours, I highly recommend taking an astronomy course. I have always loved astronomy and took a couple astronomy courses in college, even though it was outside my major. I found it fascinating!

Check out the link....some great pictures in there.

Answer 3

My personally held idea, and one that certainly was held by most scientists [although honestly it is a while since I have looked into astro-physics so the ideas might have changed by now] is that the universe is a hypersphere. This is a four dimensional sphere, and means that if you were to fire a rocket into space and it followed a straight line, it would eventually get back to where it started. Sounds nutty doesn't it? But here is a good analogy that might help you understand the concept:

Imagine you are two dimensional stick man walking on the surface of a balloon. All you know is the 2-D surface you exist on, but if you walk in a straight line you'll end up where you started. This fact also means that the centre doesn't exist, at least not for the stickman. The centre is inside the balloon, but for the stickman to understand this or even get there, he must fold himself through the third dimension, which is impossible for him. Imagine he has a house and walks to college, there is a certain distance between these places. Then someone blows into the balloon, the distance between these places has increased, but the places themselves haven't changed, or even moved in relation to the surface, the very space between them has expanded. This is one of the hardest things to understand, that even space is something.

If you can follow this analogy into our universe, the universe is essentially a three dimensional 'surface' wrapped over a four dimension object. Essentially the amount of matter you could fit in it is finite, however it is of infinite length since there are no actual boundaries. The edge of the universe does not exist.

Here is a good video about understanding higher dimensions and explains why some scientists think there has to be at least 10 [some think 11, although recently these theories have fallen slightly out of favour, the world of astrophysics and quantum mechanics changes extremely quickly].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u4CFTZtcXE

Answer 4

Great question. I think many of us have thought about this our entire life. The answer I believe is in the movies A Bug's Life and in Men In Black. The idea is that we are all universes in other universes, kind of like a bubble in a bubble in a bubble etc. If the universe comes to an end, what does that mean? That there is no matter at that point? Well isn't that space, and isn't space something and not nothing? Space distances are something we can't truly understand with our perceptions, we can only understand them mathmatecially. For example two galaxies colliding are 278 Million light years across. Light year being a distance that light travels in one year. OK let's see, light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Gee there's a lot of seconds in a year. By the way what is one million (years). I'm not sure I have a good idea I can picture a million of anything... OK so we're all bugs,... and I'm a dog. Bark! Any questions?

Answer 5

Oddly enough, science is not able to explain everything in space. My astronomy teacher used to say that many things in space fall into the metaphysical realm, meaning they simply can't follow physic's "laws". If infinite is contained by anything, then is not infinite is it? That's why its called infinite.

Answer 6

Some scientist thinks that what we can see is not everything there is in the universe. There might be a higher order of reality that our intelligence cannot comprehend and so will never be known or understood by us. (Just like how a dog cannot comprehend mathematics, to them the mathematics principle all doesn't exist).

So, we're merely trapped in this region of reality that can be comprehended by our level of intelligence and so, the universe and the laws that governs it (and even everything that we could possibly imagine) are just limited to our level or reality.

The universe we know may only be as large as our mind could comprehend.

Answer 7

no actually there is a theory of parallel spaces i.e. there are few spaces arranged in the manner the books are arranged in library..infinite books..infinite shelves..infinite libraries.and we r d content of one of the page in those infinite books.more i'll send after some time

Answer 8

God has forgiven each and every sin. He has died on the pass redeeming each and every person and each thing interior the international. whilst some will go through Hell. it fairly is barely eternal for the soul it is in it. it fairly is timelessness. it is not eternal for God. he's the commencing up and ending of all introduction. (Is 40 4:6) Hell is purely yet another area of introduction. (it is not God consequently it would desire to be introduction.) it is not created by applying God who's stable being waiting to create basically stable. it fairly is created by applying the Hellish soul that has been arising not something yet evil. he's forged into it by applying God. Hell is the comprehensive absence of God's love and presence. interior the comprehensive absence of God, the soul turns into his very own god commencing up and ending in himself. He perpetually (timelessly) perishes in insufferable discomfort imploding into himself. In God's time, which we don't understand, the soul ends up in Him as does all introduction. This soul has burned off all of his works ending interior the situation that God created him. it is the punishment and purification for the unrepentant soul. This punishment is mercy given by applying God who's love itself. The soul ending in God sees the righteousness and stable of the punishment. he's grateful to God for the return of his unblemished soul. he's delirious with exhilaration at being in God's presence returned.