2007-05-29 12:03:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Nothing, to be honest with you, nobody knows for sure.
The universe is finite and unbound. to be continued.
No. That's the simple answer. And I recommend you stop there and be satisfied, because as soon as you dig deeper, you'll be as confused as the average cosmologist.
One wild cosmological idea imagines the universe as a soccer ball with segments and seams. Think of each segment as a magical sheet of paper. If you traveled to any side, you'd reappear where you started. Toss in a little pixie dust and a few elves, and this one starts to make sense!
You're still reading. Okay, here goes: Imagine ants crawling on a balloon. They can crawl forever and never reach an edge; at best, they might return to where they started. Of course now you're thinking, "Hey, if I'm inside the balloon and I head outward, I will hit it and that'll sure seem like an edge." Thing is, the balloon is expanding so rapidly that you'll never get there. And even if you did, those same wacky cosmologists that dreamed up the ants-on-a-balloon explanation say they have no clue whether there is more of our universe (or more universes) beyond the limits of the observable one.
Source(s):
space.com
Does the universe have an edge?
Sept. 2,2006,
Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience.com
2007-05-29 12:09:14 · answer #1 · answered by chanljkk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beyond the outer edge lies the furthest point in the opposite direction. Thus if you leave this edge you find that you've returned back again on the other side of the universe! Talk about a short cut! This also means you can never actually leave this universe. Hell of a conservation law here!
2007-05-29 12:51:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't know but we hope to someday. The Hubble Telescope can see only so far into space. It has been said that to see the outer edge of the universe would be in essence, to see the beginning of time.
2007-05-29 14:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by Albatross 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Universe in order to behave as it does (that is all celestial bodies including light radiation are in motion)must have a containment restrains.
Therefore space is a lot bigger than we have limited to be. it would be this extra band of space whose substance might serves as the restrain to maintain a containment. This would be the edge of the Universe .
What is beyound this containment is not observable by telescopes or other human means.
However there exist an Heaven beyond which is God"s Domain.
2007-05-29 12:17:33 · answer #4 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no one can ever know unlong as someone discovers how to travel faster than the speed of light and survive or some way to get to the edge of the universe. even if you travel at the speed of light it would take you billions of years to reach the edge of the universe.
2007-05-29 14:40:17 · answer #5 · answered by allthebest1s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a Fact for you to know that the answer to your question has really no known scientific evidence to support any claims being made.
So your guess is pretty good as mine, only time will tell... so go on and keep on imagining....
2007-05-29 13:21:57 · answer #6 · answered by oki doki 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The negative force that surrounds the universe does not allow for light to exist.
No light, no mass.
2007-05-29 12:10:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
a brick wall
2007-05-29 12:41:04 · answer #8 · answered by Whale Man 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
unknown
2007-06-02 08:59:07 · answer #9 · answered by louis g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋