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Where is the end of the universe?

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when i think about it, my mind explodes. i know that no one has the answer. i just want to know ur guesses.

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  1. At the restaurant--milliways I think.


  2. I think the black holes! Though space may never end!

  3. if i knew wear it ends, id be rich rite now

  4. There really is no measurable "end". All scientific data shows us that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. So, when you think about it, it there is no edge or end. If you measure the end at one point in space- time, it will change if you measured it a second later!  

  5. What makes you think no one has the answer?

    The universe has no edge. General Relativity forbids it. Actually, all metric theories forbid it, and if gravitational mass and inertial mass are equal (and experimentally they are, to the highest possible precision we have been able to achieve) then the correct theory of gravity must be metric.

    The universe is either infinite in size, or finite in size but folded back on itself so that if you fly far enough, you eventually get back to where you started from (aside from the annoyance that it is expanding too quickly to ever actually do that). Either way, no edge.

  6. I think the universe is infinite.

  7. 1st Heaven- the atmosphere

    2nd Heaven- the cosmos, and outside of that is what we call the 3rd Heaven.

    2 Corinthians 12:2-5  

  8. Anna,dear Anna, all of us, at least all of us who think have asked similar questions. The problem is our brain isn't big enough to comprehend the answer. The simplest response is why does it have to end; why can't it be infinite? I can almost hear you saying, but it has to end. No it doesn't. We form our concept of reality by what we observe or know from experience, and everything we know has an end. Well, I can give you a simple example of something that doesn't: numbers. Think of the biggest number you can; I can think of one bigger by just adding one. It goes on for ever. Now to really blow your mind, which is a bigger infinity? the number of positive numbers or the number of negative numbers.The answer is, of course, they are equal. For every positive number, you can write its twin by putting a negative sign in front of it. So they're equal. But, Anna, it turns out that there are infinities that, when compared with the number of numbers, are larger. How is that possible you ask? Beats me, but it can be proven in the same way that you can prove that the infinity of positive numbers is equal to the infinity of negative numbers: you pair them up. Yeah, but it turns out there are infinities where, if you pair them with the infinity of numbers, you run out of numbers and still have additional points for which you don't have pairs.

    I know, I know, you don't understand. No-one does. We aren't smart enough, but the logic is irrefutable. A guy named Cantor studied infinities by pairing them up and found there were three classes of infinities, each larger that the the preceeding one. There may be even more, but no-one has been able to concieve a forth. So I ask you again, Anna, why does it have to end?

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