Does the UNIVERSE have a boundary or OUTER LIMIT?

ahaahaha...I was wonderin if you were gonna do that k
FANTASTIC

I even posted it to our mothersite.

Wonderful littlek. It brings me back to my pat answer for a question like this -

Everyone is always concerned aboout the outer boundry, I'm concerned about the origin. Where is the origin of the Universe?

It was always my understanding that at the end of the universe, had to be the supreme being...If you don't believe in a supreme being,... what could be at the end of space?...What folows a vacuum?.....What comes after nothing?....

BillW - thankee. The origin is at the begining!

Booman- - exactly.

littlek, the outer limit is at the end - but where is it. I can show you exactly on a map or in person where Boston is, now I want to see the beginning of the universe.

I equate this to math in that the outer limit is infinity and the beginning is 0. Zero is interesting, in that, using a normal graph - anything to the left/top is negative/positive, to the right/bottom is positive/negative and to the left/bottom is negative/negative. The universe exists only in the right/top or positive/positive.

I digress and I am confused. There I go getting totally esoteric again (and I am not invited-ha).

how about if the big bang is the begining, then the outer edge is the end? I understand you want to place it on the map, I'm thinking that that thinking may be the wrong way to think (ouch).

Wrong way thinking - what a concept! Now you are looking at my inner being! Littlek, your getting much too close and we are going to just have to end this relationship.

:wink:

oh dear. Maybe "wrong" was the wrong word.

ooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

The Universe may or may not have boundaries. Presently, we do not have the means to detect the boundries should they exist. Over roughly the past half millenia , every generation or so, our ability to see more of the universe has expanded ... from Gallileo's crude lenses to today's space-dwelling multi-spectral observatories we've learned quite a bit and altered our perception of The Universe many times. I suspect this will go on for a while. There are yet surprises in store.



timber

I agree about future findings Timber, there will always be more to learn about the universe, after all, it's infinite.

K: I thought there was a bit of a stink with that URL you posted, and then I realised it was only a PONG!

ONLY a Pong?!?!?!
Migawd, bib ... that's akin to calling Guttenberg's Bible "Only a book"!



timber

True, so true.

Baby gallaxies

So, these new Hubble images are supposed to be showing some gallaxies that are 13 billion light years away - or less than 2 billion years old. At the end of the article the author says that the ultimate goal is to find galaxies less than 1 billion years old. That's still a far way off from the start of the universe or the edge of the universe.

Around a century ago, the existence of galaxies other than our own was not an assumption. The more we learn, the more we learn there is to learn. Perhaps that in itself is infinity.



timber

If it does end, what's after it?

nothing

else




timber