What is the nature of the whole universe?

Question

What is the nature of the whole universe?

Answer 1

We can only describe what we can measure. The universe appears to be a black hole making, expanding wonder. It seems to have been designed to make black holes. It is expanding so fast that scientists in the far future will only have our word for it that there are other galaxies besides our own.  

Answer 2

read douglas adams "the hitch hickers guide to the universe".  it took the most powerful computer ever built 10 million years to caculate.  i think the answer was 3.

Answer 3

P.129 - §11 The Grand Universe is the present organized and inhabited creation. It consists of the seven superuniverses, with an aggregate evolutionary potential of around seven trillion inhabited planets, not to mention the eternal spheres of the central creation. But this tentative estimate takes no account of architectural administrative spheres, neither does it include the outlying groups of unorganized universes. The present ragged edge of the grand universe, its uneven and unfinished periphery, together with the tremendously unsettled condition of the whole astronomical plot, suggests to our star students that even the seven superuniverses are, as yet, uncompleted. As we move from within, from the divine center outward in any one direction, we do, eventually, come to the outer limits of the organized and inhabited creation; we come to the outer limits of the grand universe. And it is near this outer border, in a far-off corner of such a magnificent creation, that your local universe has its eventful existence

Answer 4

Like a goldfish trying to ponder the nature of it's little fish bowl and the room outside it, when it has never seen anything else.

You cannot ponder the nature of something we have not seen.  

Answer 5

the haphazard necessary alternative to the impossibility of nothing existing whatsoever.

Answer 6

?esrevinu elohw eht fo erutan eht si tahw

Answer 7

Expansion and chaos.

Answer 8

I hope you don't mind a cut and paste, as as you can see, I wasn't going to type all this. Existence is considered "naturalistic," which is what America's Founders believed.

"Naturalism, challenging the cogency of the cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments, holds that the universe requires no supernatural cause and government, but is self-existent, self-explanatory, self-operating, and self-directing, that the world-process is not teleological and anthropocentric, but purposeless, deterministic (except for possible tychistic events), and only incidentally productive of man; that human life, physical, mental, moral and spiritual, is an ordinary natural event attributable in all respects to the ordinary operations of nature; and that man's ethical values, compulsions, activities, and restraints can be justified on natural grounds, without recourse to supernatural sanctions, and his highest good pursued and attained under natural conditions, without expectation of a supernatural destiny."

http://www.ditext.com/runes/n.html

Now, the Founders believed every word of that--except the parts about the world not needing a supernatural operative. Put God into the picture instead of taking him out, and they would have no quarrel with this definition.

But this is the secular version of a secular idea, which is the separation of the church and state. The nature of the whole universe, if it is a self-sufficient primary, means that there was never a state of "nothingness." People who think there was "nothingness" before there was "existence" contradict the definition of "existence." "Nothingness" cannot ever exist--by definition.

My own site deals with naturalism, with links to Purdue University, and with several "naturalistic" websites.

My site: Thank you very much for looking at it. http://freeassemblage.blogspot.com/

Answer 9

chaotic. but for the most part, empty.