What was holding the universe whilst it was being created? the universe is everything so it must have been holding itself, wich is also impossible, because it was not created yet?
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==\nWhat all you study about universe is based on theories evolved out of observations.\n\nAs a general observation Universe is expanding.\n\nThe expansion of universe Begin with the big bang.\n\nThe rate of expansion is not exactly known.\n\nIt is observed that as much the universe is expanding, the distances among the bodies is increasing.\n\nBecause of increasing distances gravitational pull is decreasing and so the bodies are accelerating due to the force of big bang still preserved as a potential energy.\n\nIt is believed that at speed of light the objects become invisible so as muc the bodies get the speed of light they become invisible. This means that a rough limit of the visible univers exist.\n\nWhat was holding the universe?\n\nWhen there was no universe, naturally there was nothing to be hold by anything.\nThe creation itself is existence.
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If all matter is over 90% empty space, then there should theoretically be small vacuums throughout the entire universe.  However, such a vacuum would be impossible to detect, contain, or sustain.\n\nPerhaps beyond the edge of the universe, a perfect vacuum exists.  All the matter/energy ever can only take up so much space.  However, there is no way to observe or reach that vacuum either.\n\nMmmm... uncertainty!
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Remember the fact that what they say( that outside our universe is the void, which is absolutely nothing, NO SPACE OR AREA) is only a strongly held VIEW, or CONCEPTION. As far is science is concerned, there is no evidence that there is " no matter beyond the area within which the universe is existing ".\n             Suppose you have balloon. Imagine it to be the universe, then, people living inside the balloon, cannot acually guess about the fact there is no matter beyond the balloon, unless and until they are being confronted with the FATE of the ballon. Remember that the universe is like a balloon, continously expanding, so, there is a high possiblity that it might all actually begin to compress after some billion years or something. \n            What I meant to say is that, there is no solid method to find out about the matter beyong the universe, as the FATE of universe alone will answer these questions. OR, there is a lot of matter beyond the universe, just as air beyond the balloon, may be the expansion of the UNIVERSE would NOT allow us to determine whether or not, ther is matter beyond the universe, as for now, we cannot say anything.\n          Hence, what I have said above is also a conception, a theory, a prediction, which MAY be TRUE.\n\nDa Vinci.
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I hate to be the philosopher but that is why the question still reamins. No one can accuratly tell what lies beyond the boundries of the universe. Is there another? Is it just white noise? I believe that space is infinite and our "universe" could well be a part of a cluster of "multiverses". i was once told that the universe is expanding in the same way that a balloon is blown up. So what lies beyond our universe? I say space, space, and more space! \n\nIf our universe began with the "big bang" then that would mean that at some point the universe had collapsed upon itself, leaving empty space.
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The physics behind the beginning of the universe  was probably different than it is today.  For instance the period of inflation was not something that is happening now  Unless the current expansion of the universe is the same thing just slowed down.  But I would say the chances are that even a TOE won't help us understand where the universe came from.
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hows does knowing where the universe come from help you at all? the whole question is unrelevant... its exists, thats all you need to know... the probably with humanity is that we are so focused on where we came from, not where we're going...
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If the universe is infinite, it doesn't mean that everywhere is the center, it means that it has no center. Or, if you mean relative to the existing matter...well, that isn't infinite, and has a defined center.
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Darn you.  You sucked me in with your question, then I get here and I see 42 is already taken.  Now we really have to go on a trip and I'm without a towel.  Well ok, let me see what I can come up with, shooting from the hip as it were.  My best guess is that the meaning of life, the universe and everything is "MORE".  The quest for more seems to be at the center of all living creatures.  All organizations be they organic or manmade seem to be trying to get "more".  The universe itself is expanding, so I am told.  As for "everything" anything that should happen to get created instantly becomes part of everything, so even everything seems to crave more.  Yes I think I'll stick with the answer "MORE".  What?  Wait, just a minute, my wife is yelling something from the kitchen...... (long pause).....Hello I'm back again.  My wife says the answer is "LESS"  She says life is always moving toward death which by it's very nature is less life.  The universe is made up of a limited quantity of everything and it is being used up also, so you have less now than in the past, and as for "everything"  Well since everything gets used, you must have less of everything now than there was in the beginning.  So my wife and I will agree to disagree and say that the answer is:\nMore or Less, or possibly More and Less.  I guess that's pretty much the same as 42 because 4 is more and 2 is less.  I'm getting a pain just behind my left eye from all of this thinking.  What!?  Just a minute, my wife is yelling again!........ I'm back.  She said I'd better get off this Yahoo Answers thing and come to the table if I want any dinner.  I told her that I'll never have to come back to Yahoo Answers again because I just pretty much summed up life, the universe and everything.  I'd better hurry if I want more to eat and less yelling.  So long and thanks for all the fishes.
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I agree that the Universe was created by a higher being. I don't agree that said being created man at all. However, I do think that by becoming aware of ourselves and simply believing in said being's existence that said being is now aware of us. I don't believe that God/Diety/whatever you want to call it really gives a damn what we do. Anyway...I think that all beings, sentient or otherwise, that exist in the Universe are a result of the divine and since the divine makes no mistakes we are as we were meant to be. Flawed but still here. Still trying to find the meaning of it all.
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Einstein-"Time is an Illusion, although persistent still just an illusion." \n\nwhat he is talking about is that physical unverse exists in a single infinitesible moment just as much as it does over the span of a million years. Time presents our senses with the concepts of mass and form. Time only exists so that we may perceive the universe and of course if we could not perceive the universe it would not really exist would it? Do you beleive in God now?
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The most simple and logical explanation, based on all currently available evidence, is that the universe has always existed in some form.\n\nAnd, it is only logical to conclude there are other universes, as well.\n\nThere is no logical reason whatsoever to invoke magic or invent a non-existent "creation" when there is no evidence or reason to support such an idea.
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They believe that matter and energy were created during the Big Bang, however, that raises for a lot more questions, the most obvious one being:\n\nHow can matter and energy be created?
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Which is the end of expanding universe? If any end exists, what will be behind this end?\n\nBefore we can address that question, we must first define universe.  \n\nThe word universe denotes all space and everything (matter, energy) contained within it.  The prefix uni means one.  The root verse means word, carnate message, meaningful substance, matter.  Questions regarding our universe persist today.  Does it have a beginning and end, or does it go on forever and ever?  Is it linear or curved?  If it has limits of length or curvature, then what lies beyond the Universe?  If something lies beyond the Universe, then can’t we accurately call that the Universe?\n\nSome lay people and some scientists conceive of the universe as infinite space.  Others define the universe as finite, or limited (perhaps curved), space.  Still others incorporate the elements of matter and/or energy into their definition of the universe, as opposed to the space beyond matter and energy.\n\nGiven these concepts of our universe, some scientists conclude that the “totality of space could be infinite. Shrink an infinite space by an arbitrary amount, and it is still infinite. (Scientific American March 2005).”  \n\nAs to the notion that we live in an ever expanding universe, moving away from every other universe on the fabric of space-time, some scientists are careful to point out that “\n\nAndromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor, is actually moving toward us, not away. Such exceptions arise because Hubble's law describes only the average behavior of galaxies (Scientific American March 2005).”\n\nIn accordance with your supposition that our universe is in another universe, “it has been hypothesized by some scientists that the universe may be part of a system of many other universes, known as the multiverse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe).” Modern astrophysicists talk about multiple "pocket" universes that branch off from one another.  Stephen Hawking points out that parallel pocket universes can have no effect on a real observer inside a single pocket, so, according to Hawking, they are theoretical baggage that should be eliminated from cosmology, the study of the origins of the universe.\n\nSome string theories define the universe as a three-dimensional space in an invisible space having more dimensions. This is, in essence, a universe within a universe.  Our zone, a “braneworld” could periodically bounce into another parallel braneworld.  \n\nThis may create what would appear as a Big Bang from one perspective or a Big Bounce of alternating expanding and contracting universe from another perspective.  Such a cataclysmic event is thought to occur 300 billion years from now, resulting in the rearranging and creation of a new universe.\n\nWhich is the end of expanding universe? That may be determined in 300 billion years, when it stops expanding (like a balloon).  If any end exists, what will be behind this end?  A multiverse void containing other expanding and contracting balloons, referred to as universes, may exist beyond our own.\n\nSteve\n:-D
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What is beyond the borders of the universe?\nIs it truly possible for the universe to go on forever? If there is an end, what’s on the other side?\n \nBefore we can address these questions, we must first define universe.  The word universe denotes all space and everything (matter, energy) contained within it.  The prefix uni means one.  The root verse means word, turn, or whole.  Thus our universe has traditionally been thought to be the one whole of all substance or matter.  Questions regarding our universe persist today.  Does it have a beginning and end, or does it go on forever and ever?  Is it linear or curved?  If it has limits of length or curvature, then what lies beyond the Universe?  If something lies beyond the Universe, then can’t we accurately call that the Universe?\n\nSome lay people and some scientists conceive of the universe as infinite space.  Others define the universe as finite, or limited (perhaps curved), space.  Still others incorporate the elements of matter and/or energy into their definition of the universe, as opposed to the space beyond matter and energy.\n\nGiven these concepts of our universe, some scientists conclude that the “totality of space could be infinite. Shrink an infinite space by an arbitrary amount, and it is still infinite. (Scientific American March 2005).”  \n\nAs to the notion that we live in an ever expanding universe, moving away from every other universe on the fabric of space-time, some scientists are careful to point out that “Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor, is actually moving toward us, not away. Such exceptions arise because Hubble's law describes only the average behavior of galaxies (Scientific American March 2005).”\n\nIn accordance with your supposition that our universe is in another universe, “it has been hypothesized by some scientists that the universe may be part of a system of many other universes, known as the multiverse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe).” Modern astrophysicists talk about multiple "pocket" universes that branch off from one another.  Stephen Hawking points out that parallel pocket universes can have no effect on a real observer inside a single pocket, so, according to Hawking, they are theoretical baggage that should be eliminated from cosmology, the study of the origins of the universe.\n\nSome string theories define the universe as a three-dimensional space in an invisible space having more dimensions. This is, in essence, a universe within a universe.  Our zone, a “braneworld” could periodically bounce into another parallel braneworld.  This may create what would appear as a Big Bang from one perspective or a Big Bounce of alternating expanding and contracting universe from another perspective.  Such a cataclysmic event is thought to occur 300 billion years from now, resulting in the rearranging and creation of a new universe.\n\nBeyond the borders of the universe, there are other universes moving through a multiverse.  While scientists do not commonly believe that our universe goes on for an unlimited distance, despite its present expansion, they allow for the possibility that the multiverse may go on forever.  If there is an end to our universe, what’s on the other side is called the multiverse.  If there is an end to the multiverse, another term may need to be coined to describe what lay people commonly refer to as infinite space.\n\nSteve\n:-D
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He came from someones imagination. It is impossible to has existed for eternity. Everything has to have a point at which it was created or began.
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Stop acting crazy, that's #1.  Second, before G-d created the universe, there obviously wasn't time.  And there weren't any beings to know what time was.  so, as hard as it may seem to be, G-d existed forever...reeeeeally weird to think about it, but like i said, there was no time, so it's quite possible.
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well, spacetime does not seem to end, and nothing is "holding up" spacetime.\n\nthe universe is not infinite. the universe is finite yet has no edge and no center. it may be something like the two dimensional surface of a sphere. nothing inside or outside the sphere exists for the two dimensional surface.\n\nalso, i have something for you to think about. the radius of observable universe is about 46 billion lightyears, yet the universe is 13.7 billion years old.