What is outside the universe?

Question

What is outside the universe?

Answer 1

I don't think there's anything outside the universe. I think the universe never ends.

Nobody can give a perfect answer, only their opinion, although Mallard's answer was pretty good.

Answer 2

There is no outside the universe.

Answer 3

The universe contains everything in existence there is nothing outside.

Answer 4

probably another universe..

scientist are not even able to reach the boundaries of our universe and i don't that we have any powerful telescope to see what's outside the universe...

Answer 5

When you were first typing in this question you probably noticed at least a ga-zillion related questions and their answers pop up on your screen. If you had taken a few moments to check a couple of these answer you'd have found that there is no answer to your question.

There are any number of concepts, but none of them can be scientifically verified, although some who post answers to this type of question present the concepts as though they're etched-in-stone facts.

When talking about either 'what' came before the Big Bang that created our universe, or 'what' lies beyond our universe there's no way that any of the myriad concepts can be invoked without either infinity, an absolute void, or some kind of metaphysical First Cause necessarily entering the picture.

One idea is that our universe has dimensions other than those we're familiar with. How many other dimensions? Six? Eleven? A billion? Assume that there are a hundred additional dimensions. That would leave us right back where we started -- what's beyond those hundred dimensions? The only answer is there must be an infinite number of dimensions.

Another notion is that our universe started when it collided with another universe. Okay, again the original question isn't answered because we're left still hung up on the original question -- what's beyond our universe and the one we collided with?

Then there's the idea that there's some 'mother' universe that spawns other universes. Back to the same question -- what's beyond this 'mother' universe? If there's nothing then it must be infinite.

By calling up Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle concepts have been developed stipulating that every time a decision is made, like you turn left instead of right at some crossroads, or an atom "decides" to decay, another universe branches off in which the opposite decision is made. Here again the question is 'where' or 'when' did such critical decisions begin? After the Big Bang? That puts us right back at square one -- what was before that?

Answer 6

"What is outside the universe?"

...Anything you want!

Remember... There are an infinite number of universes in your mind... as in your physical brain. There is an infinite number of universes in every cell and electron in your body.

One day we might travel to the boundaries of our universe and discover that we are only an atom (this universe) in a larger organism of sorts...

I say... Infinity! - Outwards and Inwards!

Answer 7

Good luck with this one... it's a real mindf*ck.  This question is a lot more frustrating than toiling with "existence of god" questions. There's just no answer, this is simply well outside of our realm of conceptualization at this point in our evolution.

Check out string theory though... see how deep the rabbit hole goes, alice...

Answer 8

It's the permanent home of the little guy who turns off the light when you close the refrigerator door.

Answer 9

Probably other universes. If so, then some of them may be like ours, while others may be very different. Keep in mind that these other universes might not be 'outside' our universe in the spatial sense you're thinking of. So far scientists haven't found any way to probe outside our universe with scientific instruments, but there's a good chance that they will succeed in doing so in the future.

Answer 10

multiple universes and then it circles around to each one