If you believe the something can't go on forever than that means that to you, the universe hast have an ending.... and if it has an ending it has to be inside something.....and that thing has to be inside something cuz nothing can go on forever right? but it does because each thing will have to come to an ending meaning it will have to be inside something meaning that it has to actually go on forver... so how do you explain this?
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The universe contains all the matter and energy that was ever in it.\n\nSo, going from the Big Bang Hypotheisi, it is reasonable to assume that there was a flash of light (energy, which must remain within the universe) at the time of the explosion.\n\nGiven that light travels at a constant speed, and the universe is about 15 billion years old, the universe is an every expanding sphere of space, 30 billion light-years across.\n\nWhilst it may not go on forever, you'll never reach the outer  boundary!
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Think of the universe as a giant bubble. Outside the bubble is nothing. nothing exists. no space. no time. Even though there is an edge to the universe, you cant reach it. If you started at the earth and went in a straight line. you would eventually come back to the earth. Also, we are not the only universe. there are other bubles. too. they are in the same nothing as ours. But you could not travel to other universes.
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Depends how you define everlasting. Nothing can be everlasting because eventually the unviserse will collapse destroying all information that ever was.\n\nIf you mean everlasting in terms of something that exists from the time after the last human until the time the universe is detroyed, then yeah I'm sure they'll come up with something. A statue of me would be nice.
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The universe is driven by entropy. Its energy on the whole stays the same, but that energy started off in a small number of very hot things and over time is being redistributed to a much larger number of cooler things. \n\nOne possible fate of the universe is that this will continue indefinitely until every particle in the universe has about the same energy. Nothing else would then ever happen in the universe. The temperature of such a universe would be everywhere very, very cold (below 4K).
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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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Oh good grief.  Physics 101.  Time is a function of the physical universe.  One of the four dimensions we easily observe.  It has no existance outside the boundaries of creation.  God did not exist "before" creation.  He exists beyond it.  The Creator is not bounded by his creation.  There was no "before" creation, as time itself is a function of that creation.  Nor will there be an "after" for the same reason.  The fact that we cannot comprehend an existance outside of time doesn't limit God.  It limits us.
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you are mistaken.\nsome things are both true & eternal.\nIf it is not true, it is not eternal.\nScripture is true.
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You get into Quantum Theory with your intrigue and there is no evidence to support that the universe is not infinate.\n\nHOWEVER, according to the Big Bang theory there was nothing and then there was something in a centralized location millions (billions) of years ago. At the speed that the universe is spreading outwards there has to be an end to it and scientists are trying to get telescopes powerful enough to see to the beginning of time.\n\nWhat lays on the other side? Nobody knows.
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By never-ending it implies that there is no bottom, so you would simply continue to fall for all eternity.  No bottom, no splat, therefore no place to end up.
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it depends on ones perception of time,the universe may have ended already,but we exist in a dimension that does not recognize it.perhaps the universe as humanity knows it will never end...
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Time only makes sense within the context of the universe. The universe provides us with our very meanings of space and time. When you measure time you are really measuring change between two states of the universe. \n\nTherefore it is a tautology to say the Universe always existed. Time is part of the universe so the statement the universe existed for ALL time is of course true. We define time as what we measure by clocks WITHIN the universe.\n\nThis does not imply that the universe has existed for an infinite amount of time. We don't know whether it has or not. But by definition it HAS existed for ALL time.\n\nThe idea that time is something apart from the universe went out with Einstein. Christians need to make better arguments.
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Infinity is more of a concept than a number.  I have never seen it used as a number in the problem.\n\nIf you see it as part of a domain, like (5,infinity) it simply means that x can be arbitrarily large, as large as we want it to be (but larger than 5).\n\nInfinity means that there is no limit, no finite value that ends the sequence.  How many numbers are there?  An arbitrary amount, there is no limit.  Hence the "infinite" numbers.
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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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You are assuming that something undying is dying...that something eternal and without time has come to the end of his time...that something incorruptable has a disease...\nThis is not only illogical, but the assumpitions go against the very nature of the being against which you suppose.  Thus, the assumptions must be false.\n\nIf I were to ask you this:  Would you drive a car that had no wheels, no doors, no engine or motor, and no frame?  Your only response should be "the question is illogical, for that is no longer a car."  Thus is my response...in your question, that is no longer God.
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In accordance with the physical laws of this universe, it is impossible for the matter in the big bang theory to have come out of nothing or to have just always existed.  It is impossible for something to come out of nothing... I'm sure you agree with this.  Also, the universe is expanding, which indicates that it had a beginning point in time.  So you're question appears to be, "If it is impossible for the earth to have always been in existance, how is it logical to believe that God has always been in existance?"\n\nThe thing is, we know that the earth had a beginning and that it is impossible for it to have just come about on its own by the physical laws of this world.  But if God created everything (which I believe He did), then He is not bound by the laws He created.  He made up the laws of physics.  How could He be limited to those laws?  \n\nWe cannot think of God in terms of our physical world.  God made up the rules, therefore God is not under the rules.  He is eternal.  The world which He created is not. \n\nHere's another thought I'm just going to throw out here, even though it does not go right along with your original question.  If you believe that you have a soul or a spirit, or if you believe in any type of spirit beings, how could these have come about by purely by physical means?  Can spiritual things come from physical things?  If this world only came about by matter and not by God, how could matter produce spiritual things?  \n\n\n"For by Him [Jesus] all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisble, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him.  He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."  Colossians 1:16-17 ([Jesus] was added by me for clarification of the pronoun Him.)
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Something has to be eternal, perhaps! Some say it is God, some say it is the energy-matter stuff or nature. I know that I don't know the answer. I would like to leave it that way. \n\nSome people believe in God or a supernatural power. Such people are in the modern educated populations of Christian, Islam and other religions as well as many tribal populations. There are also atheists in different pockets of the world. But in today's context, it would be perhaps ignorant, and even dangerous, to think whatever  'I'  believe is the only truth and hence everyone should believe the same (sorry to stray, but have seen this tendency in many questions/answers here). \n\nMany of us believe in exploring the truth in our own limited way, some of us don't care how it all started and many find answer in God-concept. So be it. We should try to understand each other's thinking and hence it is a valid question. But I don't think there should be any conflict.\n\n---\nWhen I started writing, Emmiboo didn't post .. I should perhaps learn to type faster..!
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The thing is ... a parrallel universe may exist. We cannot prove it one way or another ......YET! :) How do we know that another universe and our universe and many other universes .... do not exist in a metaverse? And if so .... maybe something like distance etc. exists in that metaverse ... which imparts some of it's qualities to our own universe and indeed to any other universe within that metaverse. Hence ..... we may not even have a void outside our universe at all.