if the universe never ends... what is outside of it?

Question

so if the big bang sent matter and time out in al directions, then whats outside the end of the universe?

i think that outside of the end of our universe is power pushing into another universe going to creat another big crunch (for the other universe)

Answer 1

I believe that you are misinterpreting the big-bang hypothesis. The universe has finite size. It is getting bigger. At present, most physicists don't believe there is a mechanism to halt the growth of the universe and cause it to contract. It is reasonable to ask what is "outside" the universe, but no-one knows since we can't even see to the end of the "inside" of the universe.

Answer 2

I think I saw your theory or something similar somewhere. Anyway, I understand it like this:
The universe does end. Not at a border, but it's kind of complex. Look, imagine a tennis ball with an ant walking around it. The ant walks on the surface of the tennis ball, therefore moves in two dimensions: length (forward, backward) and width (left, right). We could, in a way, say that the ant is living in two dimensions. Now, suppose the surface of the tennis ball is a universe. A two-dimensional universe. The ant cannot get to the border of the surface universe, because it will just keep going round and round. If it goes in a straight line, it will come back to the place where it was.The borders would be clear if the ant could look up and down, where, it would be apparent, it would only have to go up to escape the universe and it would enter a three-dimensional universe: our own.
Now, imagine our universe as the three-dimensional surface of a four-dimensional universe. We cannot see this fourth spacial dimension because we are three-dimensional beings. But, if we go in a straight line, we won't come to a border, we will just go around the four-dimensional sphere and get back to the place where we were.
I'm still kind of confused myself as to how the big bang fits into all of this, but I think I'm starting to get it. See, what I think happened is that the big bang was the explosion of the four-dimensional sphere, so when it exploded, the three-dimensional surface we live in also started expanding.
That was the best way I could come up with of explaining it. If you're confused, there's nothing I can do about it.

Answer 3

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

--Albert Einstein

So if Einstein is not sure.. I don't think Yahoo answers will do much better... but...

The mass of the entire universe may bend the "edge" of space/time back upon itself enough that a voyage to the edge of the universe may have you turning around back to the interior without you "turning" on your own.

Also... If you define the universe as the space in which everything exists, then anywhere you go is within the universe.

Maybe LindaJune knows... time will tell...

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The universe does have an end, the trick is that it is constantly changing. Beyond this expansion is empty space, or dark void.

Answer 6

The universe's 'size' is only defined by the things in it, so although we say it is expanding, this really means that the distance across it is getting bigger.

Answer 7

Your this question is very interesting, just like the ones on inherent twin theory. I always wonder where the first twins come from...??

Answer 8

Your speculation is as good as any and like others isn't supported by any facts at all. No one knows.

Answer 9

Supposedly nothing

Answer 10

The void.