Bibliophile the BibleGuru wrote:
Does the UNIVERSE have a boundary or OUTER LIMIT?
Do you think that our Universe has a boundary?
What would you expect to see if you were to reach this boundary?
the Universe is limited but in dimensions we dont recognise. Like two dimensional beings on the surface of an expanding balloon can understand their "universe" is getting bigger but dont see it as limited in three dimensions as we can. I suspect the view of the universe at its "boundary" will look like everywhere else, and looking back, Earth will appear right at the edge.
Can the subjective disallow the objective?
If a beam of light is passed through a prism the beam is separated into a spectrum of colors .... each with it's own boundaries, inclusive of the subjectively invisible .... such as infrared, which I assume would include it's own subjective spectrum complete with it's own objective boundaries.
So yes, this universe has boundaries, an infinite number of.
Gelisgesti wrote:
If a beam of light is passed through a prism the beam is separated into a spectrum of colors .... each with it's own boundaries
the boundaries are only limits of the human eye to perceive colour. There is a continuous spectrum of radiation from high to low frequency. We cant discern it thats all. There is no boundary for electromagnetic radiation at the "red"/"green" transition.
Frankly speaking nobody knows. We have no conclusive data, but we do have a scientific rationale for a 'big bang' followed by our expanding universe consisting of suns, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and other heavenly bodies. It is reasonable to think that we could finally reach an all that there is of that. In other words, it is reasonable that the total content of our universe is a measurable sum.
But is our universe the only universe or is it one of billions or gazillions or whatever?
And if bigger into infinity is imaginable, then how about contracting the scale so that each particle of the universe that we know is in itself a universe on a micro scale we cannot comprehend and each particle in that another smaller micro universe? To them, we would be of a scale of a magnitude that they cannot comprehend.
Since I believe in an after life, I am compiling a list of questions that I want to take with me. Such things as the origin and size of the universe is on it.
I'd just like to know where the tv remote went
