Do you think space is really forever?

Question

Science tells us that everything in existance is held within the universe, that which came into being one cold night in 11,254,647,011 B.C. (lol... I made that part up).

Do you think space goes on forever? That's a hell of a long ways ya know. Or... eventually does it just curve backaround on itself? If so, if it is just a big round ball, what is it contained within?

Of how about the old cosmology approach by good old Steven (Hawkins). That our universe could simply be an atom in some other, much larger existences universe... Or that an atom under our fingernail could be a universe for some civilization that evolved quickly? We wash our hands and whoooosh... God just initiated the biggest flood imaginable...

Don't these questions just hurt your mind?

amansmc... That's funny. Maybe developing my cardiovascular health will help me to be smarter like you. ;) lol

Jonbon... You have a point. I suppose that if everything did, by one theory, come into existance at the same time then that includes the emptiness as well. But if everything did come into existance at once then how is the emptiness more expansive than the light? That would mean that darkness was moving substantially faster. Hmmm... And if everything did explode into existance at the same time where did it come from? I mean... You can't just create energy from emptiness. It had to be in some form... somewhere.... If it was somewhere then it had to occupy space... And if it occupied space then everything could not have come into existance at the same moment. Or am I dumb?

Ha. A guy on another thread of mine said that it reminds him of the movie Men in Black where, at the end of the movie, the whole universe was inside of a marble in a bag of marbles.

What's at the edge of the darkness? The inside of a giant marble. Problem solved.

Answer 1

no, very few stubborn scientists believe that the universe goes on forever, it poses several simply logical problems and even more scientific ones.

id say in this question the shape of the universe doesnt matter (ie, if it curves around onto itself or not). either way it would have an end (not to us because we are confined to space). but space itself if the area that matter and energy exists in, without space there would be a kind of nothing that the human mind cant understand, its impossible to picture.

outside of the universe, where there would be no space, the closest the mind can come to a picture is complete darkness. but there wouldnt even be that. there couldnt be anything beyond it because there is no space. its a frustrating thing to think of much less try to explain someone on a computer. (like ive said before, the human brain doesnt have the capacity to truely understand it).

if u would like a clearer explanation just email me, id be happy to try to explain it better. it just might take time to thoroughly think of how to explain it.

Answer 2

The universe appears to have been expanding over human history!

Once upon a time, the universe would have been the valley we lived in and the upturned bowl of the sky. Then it was found that the Earth was round and the planets were millions of miles away surounded by the shell with the stars on it. Then it was discovered that the stars were at various distances and went to the edge of the galaxy. Then other galaxies were discovered. Then clusters of galaxies. Currently the size of the universe is measured in billions of light years.

It is safe to suppose therefore, that as larger and more sensitive instrumentation is developed, our perception of the size of the universe will continue to expand.

A particular problem is the very definition of the word "universe". Do we at some point decide that the universe encompasses only so much and no more, eg all the galaxies, and then what lies beyond is described by some other word? Or do we just keep chucking all the stuff we keep discovering into the one thing that we call "universe"? If we choose the latter option then by definition there is nothing beyond the universe!

Answer 3

Personally, I'm for Hawkins' approach to that answer. Since what we know of the Universe (it's size, shape, contents, etc) comes from what little of it we can actually see, there really is no definitive answer to your question. It is rather interesting to note the similarities of our solar system with the functions of atoms. As well, it is understood that galaxies even orbit each other and that the massive collection of galaxies that we see are, in fact, strung throughout the universe in the appearance of cobwebs, or even the appearance of muscle tissue under a microscope.

It's highly unlikely that universe is infinite. Einstein's theory of general relativity kind of put and end to that concept (much to his own displeasure). Perhaps the universe looks a lot like a massive galaxy (with typical galaxies appearing as stars or nebulae). In that thought, maybe there are multiple such universes, existing in an even larger "gaseous cloud," perpetuating outward toward some unknown end.

Kind of makes one feel rather insignificant in the long haul, huh?

Answer 4

I LOVE THESE KINDS OF QUESTIONS!!!

Yes I do think the universe is infinite. I think that each galaxy probably has its own unique characteristics and that the galaxys that are far beyond what we can see or even imagine, there may be some stark differences that may seem to us to be something totally different and therefore this "one" has ended but just as our bodies have billions of different cells and each one different with a different function, the universe can have the same quality. Even after the universe, leaves its "body" there is even more...to infinity.

The reason I believe in infinity is because of numbers...there is never a number so large you can't add one more to it! Numbers can continue to infinity. As a human I can't imagine something never ending but I realize that things are possible even if I can't understand it.

The other thing I love to ponder is that things are also infinitely small...no matter how small a number, you can always take another fraction of it away...molecular structure is equally fascinating! It blows my mind but its so enjoyable.

Answer 5

If you were to believe the big bang theory, then the universe was created 15 billion years ago, expanded (and still is expanding) at the speed of light and is is now about 30 billion light years big. And as for the Steven Hawkins theory, it cant be proven or disproven.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

No. Nothing ever observed in nature is infinite. Why would this one be?

See, with the mind it is like with leg muscles. Some can barely walk five miles without aching all over because they don't have the right leg muscles. Other's can run a hundred miles.

So where your mind is hurting, mine is just enjoying the scenery.

:-)

Answer 8

Ok so my answer to this question is no.
There is a limit in space and you are true we are held in a ball and outside that ball are parallel universes.

(Dont Listen To The Other Physcho's)

Answer 9

The Universe is only a tiny speck in our Creator's Heavens.
Will there be a change of our present Universe? Perhaps in accordance to our Creator's plans.If He made it ;He can also change it.

Very vely simple

Answer 10

i have a headache after reading that ,but yep it could be were just an atom