What is the Universe expanding in to ?

Answer 1

Nothingness,,,,

Answer 2

Here is what one of the most prominent physicists of our time Stephen Hawking guesses; Steven thinks that at the start of the universe there was what is called a “singularity”, this is when all of the cosmos is an infinitesimally small point where neither time, energy or matter exist. So that means that before the start nothing existed, no energy to move or heat things, no matter to be acted upon and no time passed. Essentially there was nothingness.

So now what the universe is expanding into does not exist, only the universe exists, beyond the edge there is no matter, no energy, and no time, there is just nothingness.

Answer 3

I wish I had an answer on this one for you, but they've got me so bumfuzzled, I don't dare.....
I'm trying to work it out in my mind, too... here's where I am so far...
there was a singularity... everything that is, all condensed into something smaller than a basketball, maybe....anyways, something set it off and it went kablooey, bursting out and spreading itself out in a big bubble.. sorta... time then started at that instant and progressed and here we are....
now, either the universe is expanding (yes), will expand forever until it's totally cold , or it will reach a point where it will start to gather back to that same sort of singularity where it began, and then start over again....
space is forever expanding or it's in a 'curve', in that if you could start here and gogogogo, you'd end up behind yourself.....now if that's true, I gotta go with the repeating Universe idea.... just since I like the way nothing is ever 'lost' in this system of things..... can't buy that it would expand and go cold and dissipate into nothingness.....

so, as I am seeing it, this curve idea would mean that the Universe is expanding into itself.... kind of a Torus/Mobius.... and will, until it all ends up in one big black hole and another singularity.....(as for the Torus/Mobius, I keep seeing a universal smoke ring, blown by the big bang!.. *smile*)

now this is just my thinking... there's much better stuff out there... but since there's no 'fer sure', mine's as good as theirs or yours will be..... that's what's so nice about it all.... no one has to be 'right', cuz we'll prob never know for sure!!!... *smile*.................

Answer 4

The Universe may be infinite. Our little expanding part is only about 10^20 lightyears in diameter. The rest of it is unknown. There may be regions that are contracting.

In any case, the official answer is that we are inside a curved spacetime manifold, and the manifold is evolving dynamically with respect to the material inside it. There may or may not be anything "outside" the manifold. The interior of the manifold (our space) can get bigger or smaller, but it's not contained in anything. On very large scales, and in General Relativity, there is no reason to retain our common-sense notions of geometry.

Answer 5

The universe isn't expanding into anything, it is just expanding.

Although, I read, recently that there may be another universe encrouching into ours as there is a "dark" area of the universe that should be populated by galaxies, but isn't... strange, or what?

Answer 6

At the moment, nothingness. That's what is thought to be on the other side, the same nothingness as what was here before the supposed big bang. However we used to think the world was flat. Who really knows? Will anyone ever really know for sure?

Answer 7

Itself

Answer 8

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Answer 9

the universe isn't expanding, we're getting smaller.
Earth and all ov humanity will collapse into a singularity, and then blink out of existence.

Answer 10

Wow, 2 thumbs down.

I just thought I'd erase my answer all together, because I guess objective thinking gets you no where.

I mean a question with no definate answer will probably produce just that, right?

Answer 11

Nothing. It's creating space as it goes.