jus if you know: What is the cosmic plan?
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Well it makes sense that there would be visitors from other worlds.  The idea that Earth is the only planet in the whole universe that supports inteligent life is very arrogant, really.\n\nIt is a bit like the notion that the earth is round.  For hundreds of years, people were only aware of there immediate environments and could not embrace the idea that the earth is round.\n\nAlso, it was long assummed that the sun and planets rotated around the earth.  A famous scientists proposed that actually the planets, inluding earth, rotated around the sun.  He was punished for this, and it was many years before "Scientists" finally accepted it.\n\nToday, persons who come forward with evidence of extra terrestrial life are usually labelled insane (or locked away or killed by the powers that be).\n\nHow long will it be before "Scientists" accept this reality??
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Well astronomers think the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating, so what you are proposing probably will never come to pass.  Anyway for a civilization to survive a "big crunch" if it happened, would have to far far far more advanced then anything we could possibly imagine.
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I know for sure because my guardian angel told me…\n\nI’ll be sent to some dark and distant realm (aka another universe), to hunt down and destroy certain renegade demons who delight in disrupting harmony (time-space). He said: “These beings are evil beyond imagination, and even we angels could not deal with their ugliness, but some of you humans who are half-breeds will be able to use your evil side to see them, and slay them.” And then he went on about all these strange weapons and inter-universal transport systems. Well who am I to argue, and besides, someone has to do the dirty work, and I don’t see the Christians lining up, so I’m happy to comply.
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The universe is a big mysterious space where particles reside and combine into new things. It is the home of all living things.
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A great intergalactic convergance?  A great cosmological simultaneity?\n\nIve noticed that I sometimes track people for a while but then diverge later.  Must be common furrows in the twisted convolutions of our collective brains.  Like passing someone slowly on the freeway.
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Once you leave the Milky Way you are not outside the universe. The Milky Way Galaxy is one of many known galaxies in the universe. There are probably billions we don't know about. "Goodness knows where" is inter-galactic space.\n\nInfinity means "forever". It is not necessarily a measurable distance or time. We're not sure if the whole universe is infinite. We can't even see most of what is out there. The estimated size of the observable universe is 7.4x10^26m (that's really, really, really, really big). Beyond that we're not sure yet.
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Can I recommend you to explore http://www.seti.org/ - site for Center for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.\n\nHere you will get meaningful and scientific explanation to UFO/aliens.
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God has a plan for you, but what it is only He knows
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Hubble's law is the statement in physical cosmology that the redshift in light coming from distant galaxies is proportional to their distance. The law was first formulated by Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason in 1929 after nearly a decade of observations. It is considered the first observational basis for the expanding space paradigm and today serves as one of the most often cited pieces of evidence in support of the Big Bang.
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its a MATHIMATICAL prediction that warmholes (or "shortcuts" in spacetime... so you fly into black hole and boom you're in another part of the universe or another universe all together) exists\n\nUnfortunatly this prediction bares no physical merrit as neither the black hole is capable of "letting things fall through" nor is a "whitehole" capable of existing for more then one instance (aside the fact that it cannot form, period)\n\nThe mathematical model is beautiful though, if you know much math I suggest you check it out.!
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The universe is theorized to contain dark energy and dark matter. There have been some confirmation of it's existence but really just speculation at this point. The idea of dark matter had been identified by Einstein but it wasn't till the discovery that the universe is accelerating it's expansion and contains up to 70% more matter that the idea of dark matter and energy became serious areas of study. If you mean a vacuum to mean absence of air it is a vacuum but within that "vacuum" there definitely is matter.
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Our Science?  No.\n\nThe science that will develop after Armageddon, when we have 100% use of our brains, perhaps.  We may even develop a way to travel to the other planets without ships.
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An analogy may be in order. Model spacetime by a \nsphere with time being  represented by going down \na longitude line and space for a fixed time being\nrepresented by a latitude line. The Big Bang would \nbe represented by the north pole. In this model, \nspace expands until we get to the equator and then \nstarts to contract again until we get to the south \npole, which represents a 'Big Crunch'.\n\nNow ask what space is expanding into. By \nlooking at our model, we see the question is either \nmeaningless, or just has the answer 'into the future'.\n\nIn the real world, the spacial part is three dimensional, \nnot one dimensional like in our model (the circles of \nlatitude). Also, it is likely that the universe\nwill expand forever, so instead of a sphere, a \ntrumpet shape may be more appropriate. But the actual \nmodels used by scientists are generalizations and\nelaborations of models like this toy model.
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In the next few years there will be breakthroughs in quantum physics, communication and emotional control techniques, among many other things. this will create a mutually agreed, provable, unequivocal, undeniable belief structure that can be transmitted and conveyed to 90+% of the world's people, that takes a large chunk out of almost every religion and spiritual practice that exists today, and has every existed, and mashes it together so all languages and all cultures can understand and experience the truth of such wisdom. This is prophesised to happen about 2012, give or take a year, and will develop gradually to bring global peace by 2036, as prophesised. several galactic stars are coming into alignment which is boosting collective energies, so things like first contact with extra terrestrials and the ability to float unprotected in space will quickly follow. Travelling faster than the speed of light, and time travel, will also be developed by understanding the continuum and how to bend it. Peace is an easy stepping stone, being responsible with this knowledge, now thats gonna take a bit of dicipline.
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Science nor anyone else can answer your question! As far as science can determine, our universe (space) is not contained within any 'thing' else. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, they're just blowin' smoke.
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This "nothing" is what we perceive without the laws of physics. Our universe is limited by the knowledge we have about it. Recent theories (the "M" theory) suggest that endless universes exist, and sometimes they even collide one into other. Probably, out there, beyond the boundaries of 12 billions light years, others dimensions, other plan of existence exist.
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The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything is a concept taken from Douglas Adams' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In the story, the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is sought using the supercomputer Deep Thought. The answer given by Deep Thought leads the protagonists on a quest to discover the question which provides this answer.