exactly im just talking about the other side of the universe?\n\ni.e. just what's going on outside the universe?
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You have never been.........Mannnnnn it's a huge party.... Didn't you get the invite?\n\nNAHHH....really no one knows cause we cannot see that far and no one will in any of our life times.  So we can only speculate and have fun :)))
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as far as we can tell, the universe is bigger than anything else ever.  the old school of thinking is what named the universe (from Latin, uni = one, verse = turn, ...) and the thought was that it went forever and contained everything.  some dictionaries may have something different to say.\n\nif the universe is finite, then what is at the edge of the universe?  what may lie beyond the universe?  are there other universes?\n\nask God when you get to heaven i suppose.
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Is our universe in another universe?\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 “\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.  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\nIs our universe inside another universe?  Well, apparently the Men in Black had it right.  Our universe seems to be inside of something else, another universe, called the multiverse.\n\nSteve\n:-D
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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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Whatever you can imagine!  We don't even exactly know what's in the space.  There is no way to test.  May be aliens.  Another space.  Fill in the blank with anything.
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The current theories have predicted how large spacetime is, and many Astrophysicists are now working on finding who is beyond our universe. \n\nSo no, space is not infinite in the sense that most people think of. Outside of our universe is still a mystery, but keep in mind that there is not three demensional space outside of our universe, and no time, either.
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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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Outer space must go out forever, else there would be an end to it.  If there were an end to it, what would be on the other side of the end?\n\nI can live forever, and I'm not interested in the "outer limits."  Plenty of interesting things all around.
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Yes there is.  We are such a tiny part of this universe.  Only God knows the whole picture.
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There's most likely not an 'other side'.  A black hole is a bunch of matter that's been compressed down into a singularity, or an extremely dense spot.  More stuff falling into the hole isn't going anywhere; it's just contributing to the density of the black hole itself.
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The last response made a good point.  Science only seeks to answer certain questions.  What exists "outside" the universe? What existed before the Big Bang?  These are questions that scientists currently are not seeking.  That question is left up to the philosophers for now.  \n\nThe questions really point to a better understand of the universe and whether that question is important, relevant or even consistent with our present knowledge of the universe.  \n\nAstronomers and physicists find the surface of an expanding balloon a good analogy for the nature of our universe.  The surface, just surface mind you, of that balloon has no center or edge to it.  Just like how we understand the universe.  The surface material of the balloon would be what we call space-time.  \n\nWhat is outside the surface of the balloon?  Well there is no balloon material outside so it is not space as we know it but one perspective says it is a future balloon surface.  Just like inside the balloon was once a past balloon surface.  \n\nThe universe could have a similar analogy.
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Unfortunately, most laymen have an erroneous view of our universe stemming from the whole "big bang" concept.  They think of the big bang as an explosion of matter & energy into space from some central point, but this is incorrect.  The big bang was actually an explosion OF space, _not_ of stuff INTO space.\n\nAs such, there is no "beyond the edge of the universe" because there is no edge to the universe.  ANY point in the universe "looks" like it could be the center, because at every point space is expanding, pushing matter farther & farther apart.  The initial singularity that was the start of our universe, expanded to become all of space.  To answer your question about what's "beyond" space, the term really doesn't have any meaning.  It's like asking what's north of the north pole:  nothing.\n\nThe universe, if you could travel (much) faster than light, likely loops around itself.  Like travelling on the surface of a globe, no matter what direction you set out in you'd eventually come back to where you started.  However, because we CAN'T travel FTL (sorry, sci-fi fans), and because the universe is expanding at the rate it is, the reality is if you set out in one direction, you'd just keep travelling through more space.  As the universe continued to expand over the eons you'd notice the galaxies you pass becoming fewer and fewer, until eventually, many trillions of years into the future, you'd just be travelling through dark, empty space.\n\nHope this helps.  The first link below is an interesting future timetable of our universe.  The second is a very good and readable book that could probably explain better than I could about the big bang & origins of our universe.
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There is a possibility of other living matter existing other than the humans.There are billions of stars and there may be many more earth's around them.When the conditions of existance of life prevails ,like for earth -water,atmosphere,essential gases and many more exist.Ofcouse there may be different conditions in other galaxies but there is a possibility that life exists.Them being friendly or visious depends upon the way we try to communicate with them.If the way we communicate is wrong they may prove to be more visious than friendly.
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yeah, i guess it could wrack almost anyone's brain.  spacetime is not infinite.  it is finite yet has no edge.  it may be something like the two dimensional surface of a sphere.  nothing inside or outside the sphere exists for the surface.  nothing exists outside the universe or before the universe.  i have something else for you to think about.  the universe is 13.7 billion years old, yet we can observe parts of the universe that are about 46 billion lightyears away.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang\nhttp://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147
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The Universe itself doesn't necessarily need something to hold it together, it just is.  \n\nAs far as what's outside the Universe, science cannot answer that question, so it is left to speculation.\n\nMy opinion: the Universe exists within the realm of God, so the spiritual world is outside of it, but that is just an opinion, not fact!
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this is actually a common misconception about the big bang.  the universe may be something like the two dimensional surface of a sphere.  it is finite yet has no boundary and no center.  nothing exists "outside" the universe.  to quote a dead writer, "there is no there, there".\n\nread this:\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147
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Hi Itsverystrange\n\nIt is actually true that distant galaxies can (and are) travelling away from us at apparently greater than the speed of light.  Any galaxies outside our Hubble volume (r = c/H) are apparently receding from us at greater than c - this is why they're outside our past light cone.  \n\nThere's no conflict with special relativity here because SRT is a strictly local theory.  The coordinate system itself is doing the expanding, the galaxies aren't moving with respect to their local coordinates.\n\nHope this helps!\nThe Chicken