My Theory 1:
The universe has a finite space (like a baloon in a box) to expand into. It started with all the matter available and isn't making anything new - just changing what it has. At some point it's going to reach it's expansion limit but the entropy will continue to increase. If this continues the universe will become an increasingly violent place until the point where it breaches it's "skin" and violently destroys the continuum (box) that contains it.
Theory 2:
The universe expands infinately the energy of the initial expansion dissipates in the vast cold spaces between stars and the stars eventually consume their fuel. the universe becomes a cold dead expanding space devoid of all energy. If all energy is dissipated, gravitational forces are too weak to cause movement in any direction (out or in to/from the centre) the expansion stops. The universe dies.
Theory 3:
The expansion hits a limit and rebounds, time reverses. No I don't mean everything starts to run backwards, decreasing entropy become the universal constant until a singularity containing all matter is formed. A critical mass in no volume is formed and universal rebirth occurs - a infinately rebounding universe that every atom of our being is part of and always will be.
But no matter what happens to the universe time has does and always will exist - even if there's no one around to measure it, time doesn't need to be measured to be it just is.
2007-08-20 09:01:38
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answer #1
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answered by iangllwy 2
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Wouldn't it be cool if somebody just knew the answer to that question... and they just happened to be skimming through Yahoo! answers right now...
I bet if that person did answer, we wouldnt even realize that he/she was right.
What your asking is not only one of the basic questions of science, but it's THE question of science.
Everything we've ever learned about our universe has all been an attempt to answer this..
Every religion that has ever been written was an attempt to answer this...
Where did everything come from? How did everything start?
All I can tell you is this. Every theory, idea, or concept, that any human being has ever come up with in all of history that attempted to answer this question, has eventually been proven wrong.
Despite this we have made progress because we gain a small amount of understanding about what works and what doesn't work from each wrong idea, with the exception of religion...
Religions, in my opinion, are the most ignorant attempt yet at finding an answer because they are set up in a way that they CANNOT be disproven, therefore no progress can be made...
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I think you'll really enjoy this link, if you go to the bottom of the clips you'll see one called interview with Michio Kaku, click on the box that says pick a clip, and then scroll down and watch the very last one, called Human Civilization.
He gets into the possibility of extra terrestrial civilization and what leading edge scientists think they might really be like.
http://dsc.discovery.com/beyond/index.html?playerId=203711706&categoryId=433318910&lineupId=433347090
Enjoy!!
2007-08-18 02:52:44
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answered by Anonymous
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I encourage people to read B. Spinoza, just as A. Einstein did, which is why Einstein was both a great scientist and theologian. The eternal nature of extention is fully explained. Leibniz,who founded the German Acadomy of Science, also had a great theory of a "monist monadum" ( a single cosmic Being,God, composed of monads). Science would benefit from theological understandings....Maimonides, over a 1,000 years ago, wrote much on the nature of these issues. Due to anti-semitism and anti-intellectual movements, religion has fallen under the control of backward idiots...who reject any attempt at the unity of science and theology ,on any level, but the poor adaption of their ideas to dogma rather than to discovered truth. All ideas must adapt to the light of natural reason concerning the infinite nature of Substance. I might also add that K. Marx was also a follower of Spinoza...and even if he did say "religion is the opiate of the masses" he still believed in the God set forth in Spinoza's "Ethics" and "The Emmendation of the Mind". Further, it is the bougeiosie imperial-critical concepts of "void" and the non-sense of "time"and "space" in a quantun mechanical worldview ( a view that Einstein correctly opposed) that causes much confusion, together with the atheistic attacks on the working class by demonic forces : of belief having "cash-values", beliefs in our purposelessness, and the belief in the non-existence of the truth of God.
2007-08-18 05:15:11
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answered by Rek M 1
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why has something or someone had to have put space in its place?? It's science, space has always been around, there was a big 'bang' one day and a rock formed just exactly the right distance away from the sun to form life. There is no such thing as God (that's just a made up story). Listen up in your science lessons!!
2007-08-18 01:51:43
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answered by Minniex 3
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Yea I agree with Minniex. I'm afraid that if I say I'm not much of a christian I will get flamed >.<
Chances of another identical race to ours is extremely slim. Most likely they are more intellegent then us.
2007-08-18 02:47:03
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answered by Andrew 4
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The universe goes on and on, it's reality. The hard part is God's body just like yours and the invisible part is spirit, you have a spirit and God has a spirit. Science is a tool for humans to use, but many people forgot it is just a tool.
2007-08-18 02:21:16
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answered by spir_i_tual 6
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Science doesn't always have an answer for everything. Look at the Bermuda Triangle .Scientist THINK that there is another dimension, but some people think it's creatures. No PROVEN theories.
2007-08-18 04:16:31
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answered by Nimali F 5
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The Universe is a masterpiece. It came into existance in a geometrical location in the Heavens that Our Creator chose.
2007-08-18 03:54:31
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answered by goring 6
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I think you better ask a question that scientists can answer.
not that one.
they havn't a clue.
Its a bit like asking a goldfish what its swimming in.
2007-08-19 17:43:19
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answered by Anonymous
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components were there big bang made THE UNIVERSE.
2007-08-19 01:34:19
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answered by JMdipto 3
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