Is there truly no end of the black space above which we call the skies? Can man ever fathom what is beyond or if there is a beyond?
2007-08-01 06:18:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Galaxies aren't endless, beyond that it is just speculation, there's the universe, which people say is endless, it is expanding. Then there is the omniverse if you believe that (I do.) It's hard to picture no end, yet harder to picture an end. Man will probably never know what is beyond.
2007-08-01 06:24:25 · answer #1 · answered by deanna j 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, galaxies aren't endless. However, many scientists and physicists believe the universe is. Many also think the universe is slowly expanding. However, only one can be true because you cannot expand infinity. This is indeed a strange paradox. Man cannot now what is beyond (or indeed if there is a beyond) for sure. Going by the big bang theory, the expanding theory seems more plausible as it would slowly continue to expand. I go with the universe is infinite theory though, because think of it this way, if there is a wall deep in space, what's on the other side of the wall. Even space called "dark matter", which doesn't have mass, still exists. Right? Same with sound, light, etc. There may be something that we've never seen before, but something has to exist out there.
2007-08-01 13:41:49 · answer #2 · answered by kreacher92 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The current theory is that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. Depending on how much matter is contained in universe it may expand forever, until thousands and thousands of years from now from Earth's frame of reference, it will appear as though there is nothing in the universe, no galaxies at all, that we are all alone. No one knows what lies beyond the universe and its 3(+1 temporal) dimensions and we may never know. One thing for sure, there is a lot more out there than we know. We are like fish living in a pond with no knowledge of the vast universe beyond the surface of the water.
2007-08-01 13:38:23 · answer #3 · answered by transformerzdealer 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the milky way and other galaxies are not never ending cause if they were then we would not be able to name other galaxies that there are. But as far as space I am sure there is an end to it somewhere but it is just so vast and the budget to study is not enough and we could probably never fathom the amount of money it would take to explore that would be unbelievable. Like I heard once even with nasa's budget they can only explore like 3 percent of what is known as the sky.
2007-08-01 14:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The galaxies are not endless. In an academic and mathematical sense, humans can fathom the emptiness beyond the galaxies. We cannot fathom what is beyond the limits of the universe. We cannot even conceive what the "edge of the universe" means. Really educated cosmologists can write equations about it, but no one can form a picture in their mind of what the edge of the universe or beyond the universe looks like, feels like or means.
2007-08-01 13:26:50 · answer #5 · answered by PoppaJ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If we start with the concept of the Big Bang theory, which happened about 14 billion years ago, then our known Universe has been expanding for 14 billion years.
Since it presumably could not have expanded faster than the speed of light, then we can measure it's distance in light years. The known Universe would be 28 billion light years in diameter. There are only hypotheses as to what lies beyond our known Universe. We need more information about the origin and make-up of our Universe to make any conclusions- right now there are only guesses.
2007-08-01 13:34:08 · answer #6 · answered by Troasa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The galaxy's aren't endless but some physicists think that space is. As for milky ways, I prefer Three Musketeers, Yum.
2007-08-01 13:24:26 · answer #7 · answered by wisemancumth 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it's the same thing as saying "is the universe endless ?"
we can see the end of the visible universe, that's a sphere of around 15 billion light years.
Beyond that we don't know, because the space was not transparent before.
See bigbang theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang
2007-08-01 13:51:41 · answer #8 · answered by scientific_boy3434 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything has limits. The galaxies have beginnings and ends. Until the end of the reality tv craze man will not learn anything else.
2007-08-01 13:24:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The universe may be endless, but galaxies are not.
2007-08-01 13:23:18 · answer #10 · answered by rushmore223 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋