How far does this universe go? And when did time start?

Question

I'm always puzzled when i think to myself, where does the universe end? Because there's one thing in space, and you can always go a little beyond that, and a little more beyond that, and you never stop. Same with time. When did it start? There's always an event that happened before the one before, and you never know. Then how are we here in 2007 today? Or is there another reality somewhere in another dimension?

Answer 1

time is not noticable with the normal senses, it is not really objectable not even with a watch that makes time quantitative where it isnt because only becoming, being end not-being are. It is true that it belongs to nature but only as a not-being experience.
The time of the watch is a mathematical abstraction this doesnt make the time a being. The hand of the watch that ticks the seconds approximates the nature of time the most accurate as it doesnt give a point in time.
Because time has no real abjective it is only subjective.Everyone has its own time that is , is in ratio to the 'becoming'. The quicker a man walks the more he has the feeling that the futur is connected to the past and that his own futur is limited. But the futur is without limits, just like the present has no limits because they eliminate each other, (negate) they eliminate the limit until the boundery : the point in time.

Answer 2

you've asked questions that many people have asked. (and will probably continue to ask no matter what)

reworded, 1) what's outside the universe and 2) what happened before the creation of the universe.

the answers to these questions aren't satisfying because aren't the concrete kind of answers that we want.

1) with creation of the universe or the big bang, the laws of the universe also were created. We're still finding out a lot of things about how the universe operates, and so we keep on finding out new laws and we continue to fine tune the ones we know. One thing that came into play when the universe was created is TIME. For human beings, time is basically how small segments of reality are perceived by us in a sequential mode. there is a before, there is a now, and there is an after.
But before the creation of the universe, there is NO TIME. So the question "what happened before the big bang?" is baseless. Reworded it means "what happened before time was created?" answer: there is no before and after before time was created.

2) what lies outside the universe? again, spatial coordinates exist only in our space-time continuum but we all have this mind-set that there is another place other than where we are. We are here therefore anyplace not here is THERE. So we keep thinking that the universe has an outside; that the universe is a bubble with an outside surface surface that can be breached and another reality outside that exists. That may be the case or not. As far as we know right now, we are creatures that can work only within the laws of this universe. We do not have the tools to find out if the second question has an answer. At least not yet.

Answer 3

Yes, I do feel that there must be another reality in a different dimension sans space and time.... no other assumption seems to gel with whatever we know or can ever imagine. Since that dimension is beyond our own reality, it is perhaps concurrent and coexistent and yet we can not perceive it or understand it. I can't really see any other solution to this enigma of a start and an end or a beginning and a finish. The reason why this is the only logical assumption is that all we know is dynamic and changing and all this must be anchored for an existence... the anchor ought to then be independent of all this to effectively carry this dynamic existence in the realms of our awareness. Nevertheless it is just an assumption after all and we have no power to experience it on any plane, physical, mental or spiritual!!

Your question is one of the deepest we can ever raise and perhaps never find an answer to!!

Answer 4

This universe goes a definite but imperscrutable far, and it ends exactly out there, above and beyond all the imaginable and even unimaginable horizons and multiverses of our souls,

and time exactly started at that precise moment given to it and to be its own that we all know about, even if we are not able to express it in definitely convincing words of any whatsoever language.

For us there are conventional realities, conventional dimensions, and thus we conventionally say that we are in 2007 a.C.

But there is as well a parallel reality, even parallel realities, a parallel dimension, or dimensions, of which we cannot agree between ourselves. Not yet, maybe never ever in our present level of evolution, maybe later, after some more or less unconscious metamorphoses that will lead on to apotheoses of more glowing realities and credibilities.

Answer 5

The Universe is quite large, I mean it in even larger than my back yard, it may even go pass the corner store, but anyway, Relativity is a simplistic impossible thing to explain, for even now, they are finding out that Einstein may have been close but not even as close as we all thought he was, so, having said this, imagine you throw a rock at the nearest can, and your rock has to travel half the distance before it hits the target, and then half that, and so forth, will you ever hit the can? yes but then where do you go from there? all logic gets lost, for I thought that you have to travel so far before you get there, and if you only go half way, and then another half of that, and another, then we will never get there, therefore I think I am just go and get a Popsicle out of my fridge and stop wondering about all this semi-useless stuff.

Answer 6

There actually is a map of the universe. Surprisingly, it shows the universe is not round, that it expands at different rates in different areas. Time is a perception of the mind. It begins as soon as the mind perceives it and understand the concept that it is how all the "moments of perception" are connected by the consciousness.

Answer 7

Well, today I believe scientists explain that time happens on a macro scale because of the unavoidable increase in entropy.

If this explanation is taken as a de facto truth then time started at the point of the Big Bang at least for this universe.

^^^^^^^
Yes (another reality)

Answer 8

Simple the universe is as large as the mind lol. Time began when we gained memories. Time is a mere illusion. we are simply 3 dimensional beings looking at 4th dimensional cross sections. Time = change + memory of the change.
go on youtube and find the movie What The Bleep Do We Know? it's a good movie. at times things are wrong but they do have good ideas.

Answer 9

The Universe goes all the way to the end ☺
But time (we currently believe) actually started about 14 billion years ago with the 'Big Bang'.

Doug

Answer 10

Time started the day you were born and the universe goes only as far as u explore