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[Lizzie_Zoom]

How insignificant are we in the universe?

Check this out:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34FNr_peUk[/media]

 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

[MikeDundee]

That's all fine, but where does space end, or does it end at all? :-/

[HolyCount]

That's all fine, but where does space end, or does it end at all? :-/

and if it does end -- what do you fall out into ? .... more space   :-?

[MikeDundee]

That's all fine, but where does space end, or does it end at all? :-/

and if it does end -- what do you fall out into ? .... more space   :-?

Infinity and beyond .......that question is always one that I sometimes ask myself and it seem endless

[Dishevelled Den]

That's all fine, but where does space end, or does it end at all? :-/

and if it does end -- what do you fall out into ? .... more space   :-?

Infinity and beyond .......that question is always one that I sometimes ask myself and it seem endless

....and of course how did it all start? - what was there before the 'Big Bang' :-/ :-/

[Brick Tamland]

That's all fine, but where does space end, or does it end at all? :-/

and if it does end -- what do you fall out into ? .... more space   :-?

I'll put that issue to bed once and for all

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1AlVyIczY[/media]

[Dishevelled Den]

That's all fine, but where does space end, or does it end at all? :-/

and if it does end -- what do you fall out into ? .... more space   :-?

I'll put that issue to bed once and for all

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1AlVyIczY[/media]

....great find, BT  8-) 8-)

[MikeDundee]

So what was there before the big bang, yet again probably space :-?

[Dishevelled Den]

So what was there before the big bang, yet again probably space :-?

...exactly Mike -who knows - and how did that space come into existence?

[MikeDundee]

Some interesting theories

Quote:
Not everything ends. Matter can always be divided into smaller portions. You can always make a more precise measurment. My girlfriend will never ever stop nagging me. Not everything has to end. Technically speaking it can't end can it?

Quote:
space is infinite, however we say that space has edges, these edges are the furthest bit of matter in a certain direction. beyond that is matterless space - a true vacum. so when a comet or something goes past the 'edge' of space, it creates a new edge.
(i dont know how matterless waves and particles e.g. EM radiation and photons/phonons fit into this though)

Quote:
This may sound stupid, but mathmatically speaking wouldn't it be an infinitely impossibility for there to be a finite amount of matter in a universe that goes on forever. There would eventually (in theory) have to be something else.

Those edges would just be our universes edges, right?

[Dishevelled Den]

Some interesting theories

Quote:
Not everything ends. Matter can always be divided into smaller portions. You can always make a more precise measurment. My girlfriend will never ever stop nagging me. Not everything has to end. Technically speaking it can't end can it?

Quote:
space is infinite, however we say that space has edges, these edges are the furthest bit of matter in a certain direction. beyond that is matterless space - a true vacum. so when a comet or something goes past the 'edge' of space, it creates a new edge.
(i dont know how matterless waves and particles e.g. EM radiation and photons/phonons fit into this though)

Quote:
This may sound stupid, but mathmatically speaking wouldn't it be an infinitely impossibility for there to be a finite amount of matter in a universe that goes on forever. There would eventually (in theory) have to be something else.

Those edges would just be our universes edges, right?

....this is where theoretical physics becomes so convoluted that is seems there can be no definite answer to such questions.

What does seem reasonable is that the term infinite means exactly that and only when such questions are posed, does it begin to have some form of tractable meaning.

Over time many great minds have considered this and when all is said and done, the result of their musings still rests on a theory that may never be satisfactorily proven.

[MikeDundee]

Some interesting theories

Quote:
Not everything ends. Matter can always be divided into smaller portions. You can always make a more precise measurment. My girlfriend will never ever stop nagging me. Not everything has to end. Technically speaking it can't end can it?

Quote:
space is infinite, however we say that space has edges, these edges are the furthest bit of matter in a certain direction. beyond that is matterless space - a true vacum. so when a comet or something goes past the 'edge' of space, it creates a new edge.
(i dont know how matterless waves and particles e.g. EM radiation and photons/phonons fit into this though)

Quote:
This may sound stupid, but mathmatically speaking wouldn't it be an infinitely impossibility for there to be a finite amount of matter in a universe that goes on forever. There would eventually (in theory) have to be something else.

Those edges would just be our universes edges, right?

....this is where theoretical physics becomes so convoluted that is seems there can be no definite answer to such questions.

What does seem reasonable is that the term infinite means exactly that and only when such questions are posed, does it begin to have some form of tractable meaning.

Over time many great minds have considered this and when all is said and done, the result of their musings still rests on a theory that may never be satisfactorily proven.

Exactly my point, unless some of those aliens do touch base and tell us otherwise

[Brick Tamland]

Some interesting theories

Quote:
Not everything ends. Matter can always be divided into smaller portions. You can always make a more precise measurment. My girlfriend will never ever stop nagging me. Not everything has to end. Technically speaking it can't end can it?

Quote:
space is infinite, however we say that space has edges, these edges are the furthest bit of matter in a certain direction. beyond that is matterless space - a true vacum. so when a comet or something goes past the 'edge' of space, it creates a new edge.
(i dont know how matterless waves and particles e.g. EM radiation and photons/phonons fit into this though)

Quote:
This may sound stupid, but mathmatically speaking wouldn't it be an infinitely impossibility for there to be a finite amount of matter in a universe that goes on forever. There would eventually (in theory) have to be something else.

Those edges would just be our universes edges, right?

....this is where theoretical physics becomes so convoluted that is seems there can be no definite answer to such questions.

What does seem reasonable is that the term infinite means exactly that and only when such questions are posed, does it begin to have some form of tractable meaning.

Over time many great minds have considered this and when all is said and done, the result of their musings still rests on a theory that may never be satisfactorily proven.

Exactly my point, unless some of those aliens do touch base and tell us otherwise

I'll volunteer myself to be put in suspended animation and shot to the edge of the universe

[Dishevelled Den]

Some interesting theories

Quote:
Not everything ends. Matter can always be divided into smaller portions. You can always make a more precise measurment. My girlfriend will never ever stop nagging me. Not everything has to end. Technically speaking it can't end can it?

Quote:
space is infinite, however we say that space has edges, these edges are the furthest bit of matter in a certain direction. beyond that is matterless space - a true vacum. so when a comet or something goes past the 'edge' of space, it creates a new edge.
(i dont know how matterless waves and particles e.g. EM radiation and photons/phonons fit into this though)

Quote:
This may sound stupid, but mathmatically speaking wouldn't it be an infinitely impossibility for there to be a finite amount of matter in a universe that goes on forever. There would eventually (in theory) have to be something else.

Those edges would just be our universes edges, right?

....this is where theoretical physics becomes so convoluted that is seems there can be no definite answer to such questions.

What does seem reasonable is that the term infinite means exactly that and only when such questions are posed, does it begin to have some form of tractable meaning.

Over time many great minds have considered this and when all is said and done, the result of their musings still rests on a theory that may never be satisfactorily proven.

Exactly my point, unless some of those aliens do touch base and tell us otherwise

Now that would provoke a very interesting thread

[Jimbob]

I think this sums it up beautifully 


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY[/media]