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Universe location
Category: Science > Astronomy Asked by: silvanu-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
29 Oct 2002 15:41 PST
Expires: 28 Nov 2002 15:41 PST Question ID: 92533 |
Where's the universe frontier or the universe is within...? |
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Re: Universe location
From: archangel-ga on 31 Oct 2002 22:00 PST |
Depends on who you ask becuase there are many diffrent theroys. But most likely there is no "edge" and even if there was there would be no way to get to it because it would be moveing away faster then you could ever go. With universal expensoion any edge would be moveing away from you at the speed of light and would be similer to the effect of someone who had fallen into a black hole's event horizen. Your other part is the universe within? Is kinda vague but I'll answer it as I know it. The universe could be within something, but it would be something that would be indescriable within our know laws of phyiscs. What is beyond the universe is similar to the question what happened "before" the big bang, again the answer is nothing that we can describe becuase everything that we know of is within the universe. |
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Re: Universe location
From: kutsavi-ga on 06 Nov 2002 13:53 PST |
The short answer to your question is that there isn't considered to be any "edge" of the Universe in the formal sense, and that the Universe isn't "within" anything, but rather contains "every thing." The best information we have here is that if you could "look" toward where the end of the universe might be, you would only see further and further back in time. This is because light travels at a defined rate, and so can only give us something to see if we can see it. This means that conceivably, you could see back to the beginning of the Universe if you could see that far, but as yet, we are unable to accomplish this. The movie "Space Odyssey 2001" addressed issues along these same lines. This all has to do with Einstien's theory of a curved space-time continuum and is very difficult to articulate. You might take a look at this website: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/961202c.html And also perform a search on Google with terms like these: "universe edge end time" And see if you can find more interesting information. A book that you might want to look at is modern Cosmologist Steven Hawking's classic "A Brief History of Time, " or his more accessible "The Universe in a Nutshell." |
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Re: Universe location
From: raxis-ga on 26 Sep 2004 08:25 PDT |
there are three main theories that I can think of. 1. the universe is limited and within "SOMETHING" 2. the universe is limited but as you travel in one direction continuously you eventually end up where you started, but there is no defined beginning, end, centre or edge. 3. the universe is endless and unlimited. This is hard for the human mind to comprehend as we prefer to think of everything as having a begining, an end and an existence to be something. Perhaps we must ask why the universe must have an end before we ask where it is and in what way it exists. If there is an end, does that mean the the idea of "nothing" cannot exist? Is every bit of what we know and understand filled with some form of energy? Perhaps that is the end of the universe. Where energy in any form does not exist and will never exist, and beyond is something else. Maybe we can say that the edge of the universe is the furthest that the smallest possible, portion of energy can possibly travel from all other energy. |
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