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Jul 7 2011 06:59am
Let's say ( hypothetically ofc ) that we somehow made a craft that could fly anywhere and the people aboard this ship never died. Once they got to the " edge " of the universe, what's after that? Would it be dark? Or since there isn't darkness there would it just be nothing? At some point would you hit an invisible wall or something? ( if you believe in the " matrix" theory). It just dosnt make sense that something goes on forever.

And if the big bang theory is correct, and the universe is constantly expanding then " deflating " you could call it, what would happen if I were to be on a park of the universe during the time that the universe was going back to the singularity? Would o just poof or would I be pulled with it?

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Jul 7 2011 07:04am
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Jul 7 2011 07:14am
If you somehow got past all of the matter in the universe, you wouldn't ever hit a wall. The universe is like an infinite room with a bunch of matter in a finite (though unfathomably large, by our standards) part of the room. At least, that's from what we can observe. There is always the possibility that there are other universes beyond our own that we haven't seen because the spacetime between our universes is expanding faster than the speed of light (spacetime's expansion is not limited by the speed of light; only objects moving within spacetime are), and if that's the case then we'll never be able to see them, let alone get to them.

And the Big Bang theory doesn't predict that the universe is constantly expanding then collapsing. Or rather, there are three possibilities presented by the Big Bang: that the universe is either Open, Closed, or Flat.

In an Open universe, everything will continue expanding forever, only slowed slightly by gravity.
In a Closed universe, gravity would eventually overtake the rate of expansion. It would, at some point, stop expanding and start contracting until eventually it all collapsed back into itself.
In a Flat universe, the rate of expansion would slowly approach a rate of zero as an asymptote. It would neither collapse nor infinitely expand. After an infinite amount of time, it would reach a finite volume.

Through the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation and mathematical modeling of what the CMBR should look like in an open, closed, or flat universe, we now know that the universe is Open; that it will expand infinitely.
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Jul 7 2011 07:58am
I was watching through the wormhole a few weeks ago. There is a theory that there is not just one universe, but a multi-verse. What happens when you leave this one? Your simply at the edge of another.

All the galaxys in our universe are rapidly moving away from each other, far faster than man can travel currently. Finding the edge would be nearly impossible.
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Jul 7 2011 10:24am
a membrane for another universe :p
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Jul 8 2011 01:56pm
hopefully there is jello :)
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Jul 28 2011 09:35am
what if universe expands faster then light travels?
then is the universe endless?
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Jul 28 2011 09:57am
lots and lots of honey badgers
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Jul 28 2011 12:21pm
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This post was edited by samah on Jul 28 2011 12:23pm
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Jul 28 2011 12:22pm
Quote (Wowzers @ Jul 7 2011 07:59am)
It just dosnt make sense that something goes on forever.


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