Why so many questions whether the universe has an end?

Question

How could there be an end to something? How do they mean it? I don't get it! If there WAS an end, what would be behind it?

I mean, there must be something behind this end!!!??? The end can't exist!

I don't belive in existence of "nothing". There must be something!

If universe was expanding, there would have to be something behind its "borders"!???

Answer 1

Space contains voids of nothing, nothingness is that space between your eyes and this monitor(okay there are atoms but we cant see them). Its only when we see a physical object that we presume there is another one behind it etc. This includes the universe. There does not have to be an end as the end is made up of nothing and so would appear as a void until the next object could be seen.

Answer 2

I know what you mean about how there can't be nothing.... its a contradiction in meanings.... in order for nothing to exist, there has to be something, it has to exist in order to not exist, so it does exist! Humm yeah well, ok, so I KNOW what I mean even if I can't put it into words so anyone else can understand what I mean!

To me, nothing is merely the existence of a space. So the nothing is something... its a space. Does that make any more sense?

I am not sure what you mean with the question of why so many questions whether the universe has an end? What questions are you referring to? Who has said the universe has an end? Or is going to end? I am not clear about who "they" are either? You said; "How do they mean it?" Who are they?

Usually when something ends, it just comes to a natural finish, a stop. Like you use something up then it comes to the end and its finished with. There isn't anything behind it, because it has been used and finished. E.G the toilet roll!

I tend not to get too hett up about the universe and some apocryphal "end." Simply because if it ends...then it ends and no one will be around to worry or fret about it! If it is going to end its pointless worrying because that won't alter the outcome. And just how likely it is on a scale of 1 - 10? I think it would be a pretty safe bet to say that you will probably grow old and die an octogenarian well before the universe ends.

Answer 3

The questions come from ignorance and fear.
They mean that the perpetrators of these "end of the world" cults are either witless fools or cunning "Elmer Gantry's" of the new agers.
There will be an end to our world as we know it but we don't know when it will happen. This is not an evil thing as the one behind it would be GOD.
The end of the world as we know would be the slate wiped clean and evil itself will be eradicated. Think of it.
Yale lock factories would go out of business because the thieves would be non existant. Women could walk the night without fear because rapists wouldn't exist. Munition factories would go under because who the heck would be in a war? The courts of the land would empty in and alarming rate and we would be turning all the penetentiary buildings into trade schools or warehouses. Crime would literally disapear. Prices would drop more than 50% because shoplifting would be a thing of the past. Poverty would go out the window because those who have would give willingly. You could park your car anywhere unlocked and know it isn't going to be stolen. House doors would only have latches to keep the doors from blowing open in the wind. You could knock on any door in any neighbourhood for help if you got stuck with a broken truck or car, or slipped and fell; knowing full well there would be help there.
That would be the end of the world as we know it!! Not the end of the world.
When the world ends it will be by natural causes billions of years from now. The natural order of the universe would be behind that.

Answer 4

Every thing that has a beginnign has an End. But nobody know for sure whether the Universe has a beginning or an end. But in theory According to Big Bang The universe started with something of an infnite density and now they are telling us that the universe is expanding bla bla bla...who the hell knows its a theory...based on physical laws that goven the finite world but the sad thing is it cant be proven in lab.

Answer 5

There is something beyond its borders (according to Einstein) there are an infinity of other universes all expanding into the same space as ours is. There are an infinite number of seperate universes that all exist in the same space that ours is expanding into. If our universe ends all matter in it ceases to exist but there isn't nothing behind it there are a plethera of other universes which either parallel ours or are different in minor or significant ways. So in laymens terms there are an infinie amount of infinte universes expanding into the infinity that is nothingness.

Answer 6

Nothing will be behind it!

In all probability, the universe will end in heat death. But we might have a 'big bounce' and start all over. It is one of the big questions of cosmology, and frankly I can't see how anyone can fail to find it fascinating.

Answer 7

THE UNIVERSE IS CONSTANTLY EXPANDING AS FAR AS WE KNOW SO LIKE A BALLON OVERSTRETCH WITH AIR THEY THINK IT WILL RIP AND BE DESTROYED.NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT THAT WOULD TAKE BILLIONS OF YEARS.REST YOUR MIND...
AND MAY BE THE CYCLE WILL START AGAIN

Answer 8

People see things with reference to time thats why they're seeking end...if there is no time there will be no end....

Answer 9

When you think this way you think in no ordinary sense, and with a mind not looking at ordinary things. The ordinary mind likes to count things up despite knowing that there is not end to any count; ordinary mind attempts to measure things up despite knowing that all measures are only arbitrarily, fashioned for estimates. On the other hand when you ask how precisely anything could be viewed, weighed, or measured, then the question is no ordinary question. It is not like asking how does something look like, and how much does it weigh on the scale. How small something could be is as immense a question as asking - how big something could be. It is same as asking when it all will end, or where did it all start as asking why things are the way they are.

The ordinary mind is like a creature of a deep ocean that builds round it a shell of knowledge outlined by questions, and often there are more questions about each thing then there are things in knowledge. Our ordinary mind makes this world fit for understand as it finds answers to most urgent questions in order to fulfil temporary needs of our being. But when that ordinary mind is inspired, or when that creature o f the deep catches a ray of sunshine glimmering through from above, it starts to radiate into thinking, into transcendental thinking. It wonders and asks questions despite knowing that the answers to which are not to be found.

A transcendental sense of the world therefore attempts to see things not as one, two, or three but in their entirety, as a whole, not as this thing and then that thing, but as certain unison of everything. For instance, I see things start and then they end, after fulfilling their promise then come to their logical conclusions: tree grow, fruit and then die, flowers blossom, bloom and then whiter, metals melt, shine, and then rust, and rocks form, rise and then decay, but where one thing ends another starts: where people pass away new people are born, new trees grow and new flowers come to bloom, new lands are formed, and oceans wave into existence new life to enrich their depths.

A high mind sees all this and still thinks of questions that are not suppose to bring answers but subtle realisations of transcendental and intuitive knowledge beyond restraints of the logics of time and space. It does not see things from a distance but considers itself a part of all this; that there is something unifying that runs through the purpose of all things like a golden thread. And elevated mind will always ask question with out being subdued by its desire to know, or being taken in by the illusions of this temporary word with its temporary divisions of space into things varied and various in nature.

If you see with the light borrowed from a candle, for instance, you see things only half in shade, shades where there are questions; but if you see from where the fame of a candle is you would see all things fully illuminate, without any shadow. Universe is expanding this is true, but this expansion is like the expansion of the sphere of light round a candle. For a candle, its world of illumination is always complete, however, it might never be complete for an outside observer. But we are not outside observers of our world; we are but integral part of it. So when one thinks like a mind such as the light of a candle he or she would see that his or her world is always in a state of completion, and as it expands in a certain sense, expands into it own capacity to expand, never beyond itself, for there is nothing beyond. The universe creates the space to expand into.

Answer 10

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