if the universe is expanding...what is it expanding into? more nothingness?

Answer 1

if I could answer this correctly, I'd be the next person to win a nobel peace prize.

I assume nothingness. maybe its just time or maybe there is no time.

perhaps there is not even nothingness out there. perhaps just a complete lack of existence even for "nothing"

maybe there is no end.

Answer 2

Dood - that is completely unnacceptable that your class should laugh.

I always tell my audience that there are things that theoretical physics and math can show, but which nobody, not even Einstein or Hawkins, could visualise.

A good example is that we use electricity all the time, but nobody can visualise an electron. In fact, nobody has ever isolated a single electron. We imagine them whizzing around in atoms, but that is just a model that tries to account for the theory. But nobody can conceive of electrons whizzing around the atomic nucleus so fast that they are everywhere at once, but then being able to link with another atom full of electrons whizzing around, to chemically form a compound. We know it works, since we can make compounds in the lab (or even the kitchen), but we can only guess at what is really going on at the subatomic level. And this is all close to home (although electricity works the same throughout the universe).

So, you don’t need to beat yourself up about the expansion of the universe. Nobody can visualise the state of the universe before the big bang, and nobody can visualise what the universe is expanding into.

Answer 3

The Universe according to Einstein's theory of General Relativity is a finite entity within a finite containment volume.
What ever motion the galaxies undergo is not going to go beyond the constainment of the Universe restrains. The word Nothingness in the Bible can only refer to the abscence of mass structures. What we call Space in the Universe containment is not devoid of any substance structure, as it has been discovered that that substance is now called Dark Matter. Therefore; Space has a structure ,and it is because of the restrains within that structure that causes of all motion and Gravitational phenomena.

Hence, there is no nothingness,because as what appears as emptiness is really the existance of something which we cannot see visibly. And because we cannot see it does not mean it doesnt exist.

Answer 4

There may be more to existence than the 3 dimensions that we are familiar with. If so then the 3 dimensions of our universe may be expanding into the other dimensions. Rather like the 2 dimensional surface of a soccer ball expanding into the third dimension as it's pumped up.

Answer 5

Yes more nothingness. We are three dimensional beings living in a three dimensional existence. Our senses tell us that if you can travel through something like space then it has certain limits a point of origin and a destination. Pure space or nothingness need not have dimensions just because our senses say it must. It's my contention that nothingness cannot be measured and does not have boundaries.
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Answer 6

what you, and as well as everyone else, is trying to explain, is something that is really in the most part unexplainable by our very limited minds. we as humans try to explain what is happening to any and all things, and are pretty good at it, but there are things that cannot be totally understood with the limited knowledge and technology that we have at present.
by using infra red telescopes we can tell that objects are either moving away from us or closing in just by the colors they leave, but those color trails that we see were left there millions of years ago, long before the earth was formed.
i feel that the universe as a whole is still transforming much like this little ball that we live on called earth. there is nothingness on earth and surely not in space.
enjoy the ride..........

Answer 7

There's no kind of requirement that our universe be expanding into any 'thing' else. Also there's no way to even investigate such a possibility. It is pretty hard to imagine an absolute and infinite void though, one totally without space, energy, mass, or anything else.

Your question and its companion question (..What was there before our universe existed..?) may never find any kind of definite, provable answer.

Answer 8

The current accepted theory is that the universe is not expanding into anything. The universe is creating space itself as it expands.
That is hard for us to grasp, because in every day life there is always something beyond everything.
But the cosmos doesn't necessarily follow our expectations or logic.

Answer 9

I asked that in my Science class once, and every1 laguhed at me. ANd my teacher tried to act liek she didnt understand teh question. But it is unknown

Answer 10

that my friend is a question that will saty unanswered. believe me i've been conjecturing about it for quite some time.

if u have faith in God then live it 2 him

if u dont.. then think about it