I mean... It can drive you crazy!  When our universe is over... is it just a never ending fall? Another universe?  What about just floating?  But if that's true then what's after that and what is it?  It's like were in a round world running round and round never finding an end!!!!  This question may be impossible to answer.
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Actually, I think the expectation is that it will reach a finite point and start shrinking again.
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Yes this is a hard topic to understand the only way I can explain it is to imagine that space "curves" onto itself. Thus is finite.\n\nThe reality is an actual infinity can not exist, its something conceptual, impossible lack understanding of what an actual infinity is, it can exist mathematically as an Ideal, but not in reality as that is physically impossible.\n\nLook at the attributes of infinity:\n\n(1) You can not add to infinity\n(2) Any part of infinity is the same as the entire "set"\n\nWhen we trace our Universe back to the big bang we end up with a singularity, this is where "Science and physics break down" it can not be really explained and we have to go to a higher source of knowledge i.e. theology.\n\nWhat I will end on is saying that one of the Attributes of the Creator is that he is infinite.\n\nI hope that helps\n\nAnhar Hussain Miah
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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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well let us take a "logical" look....the big bang says that there was nothing, then something, and now everything is expanding away.  So how did things get farther away than time has permitted?  Hmmm...kind of a hole in the theory.
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'Outside the universe' seem to me to belong to the universe!\nYou think the universe is that small???\nI do not know the answer on your question.\nLet me ask you: can the space time be curved without mass or only thanks to mass?
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Universe theories talk about a finite and unlimited Universe. The Universe is unlimited because it has no boundaries. There is no edge, no end where a spaceship would have to stop. See it as a tiny bug walking on the surface of a big balloon. The ballon has a finite dimension, but the bug will never find the end, so it is unlimited from the bug's point of view.\nSo, the Universe can be expanding or contracting or staying the same size. This is a very important question to answer in modern astronomy. Latest studies say that it is expanding, but it has not been totally proved.\nAnd where it is expanding? The Universe is creating more space and time where there is nothing.
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the question is, what is there to block the universe from expanding?  The theory of going out one end and coming out on the other would break any and all laws of physics and space that we hold today, which, is a possibility, but not a likely one.  Also, the concept of infinity doesnt need to follow regular laws of mathematics, because infinity is not a number as some poeple have been treating it here.  Infinity is a concept, where infinity means increasing by an infinite amount, as in, ongoing and never ending...it is a concept, not a number.  So, how can the universe go on forever? it may not be able to, but with our current laws of physics, unless there is soemthing with an equal or greater power to stop the space matter and such that is expanding in light years, then the universe will never stop expanding.  Before the "big bang THEORY", (again, theory, not law as someone was using it to make their point) thee must have been some type of area occupying what our current universe is eating up, since again, by our current laws, you cannot make something out of nothing, so, my thought would be that the universe will expand as far as the previous area which it is expanding into, because it cannot expand to make something our of nothing at all, or so our current laws say...
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Wow...i contemplate this question ALL the time.  I'm scared to think that after we die...that is the end.  So I guess for sanity's sake I try to convince myself there is more.  I don't know...this question always gets to me.
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From a cosmological point of view - there used to be 3 standard theories about the fate of the universe, all dependant on the total mass of the universe:\n\na) High total mass - eventually the gravitational mass of the universe will halt and reverse the expansion of the universe.  This would naturally end in the universe collapsing in on itself - this is known as the Big Crunch.\n\nb) "Just-right" total mass - the mass of the universe is just enough to halt the expansion of the universe, but not enough to draw it back in.  This requires a very specific total mass of the universe as as such is unlikely to happen.\n\nThe 2 above theories have been more-or-less completely ruled out in recent year as not only is the expansion of the universe not slowing down, but is in fact accelerating.  Which leads us to:\n\nc) low total mass / unexplained acceleration of matter - The universe will continue to expanded, its constituent parts getting further and further away from each other.  \n\nEventually, there are not enough concentrations of hydrogen around , and no new nebulas are formed.  This means no more stars, and no more heat sources. This is usually referred to  as the "Big Freeze" scenario.\n\nCheck the below page for other possibilities.
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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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I'm with you. I don't believe there was a Big Bang either, so try this...........\n\nWe are all individuals, so our experience of "the" universe is each of our universes. I experience the universe through my senses (sound, light, feeling - including heat, smell, and taste, as well as any "undiscovered" senses, but we won't go there!). You experience the universe through your senses. So, I have a universe and you have a universe, which is different to mine because we have both had different experiences in our life.\n\nStay with me here......\n\nMy universe has only one end (let's call it the "start"). That end is where my senses tell me I am now. There is no "other end" to the universe, since as soon as I get there, I am at the new "start "of my universe. A bit like chasing a rainbow's end. The same is true for you, however our "start"'s will never be the same, since I can never occupy the same "space" as you at the same "time" as you. So, we are living in "parallel" universes.\n\nTime and space are very poor descriptions that humankind gives to concepts that we cannot comprehend (yet). Newton (and Einstein for that matter - no pun intended!) was confined to the earth, where linearity is the best approximation in life. Really, Newtons First Law would be better expressed as "Everything continues in Simple Harmonic Motion unless acted upon by an external force.". Imagine a flat air table that extended in all directions for millions of miles or kilometers. If you place a puck on it and give it a push, it will eventually return to the place it started as the earth's gravitational pull will bring it back to the closest point it can get to the earth. Think about it, all motion is really simple harmonic, it's just that we are often looking at a very small part of the path of an object.\n\nAnyway, I believe that in the decades and centuries to come, humankind will realise this oversight and the universe will suddenly take on a whole new "meaning".\n\nAgain, I agree with you....there was no Big Bang.
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Actually we don't even know enough about the shape of the Universe to affirm that the Universe is infinite or not.\n\nSuppose we put an ant on a infinite sheet of paper. The ant is short-sighted and sees only that close to him his universe look pretty flat. If he starts walking he will never meet a boundary and never come back to the same place again. The two-dimensional plane is infinite and without bounds.\n\nNext put the ant on a large sphere. Again our ant can not see far enough to observe any curvature. If he starts walking in one direction he will never come to a boundary, but this time he can make a roundtrip. The spherical universe is unbounded but finite.\n\nWe are in the same position as the ant, but in three dimensions. Locally our Universe seems flat and unbounded, but we don't know if we are in the 3 dimensional equivalent of the plane or the sphere. In the first case the Universe would be infinite, in the second place it would be finite.\n\nNow the fun and speculation starts....\nEven weirder shapes are possible. In two dimensions our ant has a third possibility, a universe shaped as a torus or a donut. We can make a torus by taking a sheet of paper, roll it up in a cylinder and then glue the two open ends together.\nThe torus also has a three dimensional equivalent. Take a cube and imagine the following rule: everytime we leave the cube-universe through a side, we immediately enter it again to the side opposite. It is as if the opposing sides are glued together.\n\nStrange? Yes, but not excluded...\n\nMy current favourite shape for the Universe is the following. Think of *two* three dimensional spheres. We live inside one of the spheres. A spaceship that flies to the boundary of one sphere immediately reappears on the corresponding point on the boundary of the other sphere and continues its voyage there. It is as if the boundaries of the two spheres are somehow glued together.\n\nNeat, isn't it?
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Would anyone be able to stop the end from coming?\n\nNO\n\nso don't worry be happy
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I totally know what you mean. I used to think about that all the time, but I would just exhaust myself. I think the only sure thing we know is that we know nothing. I am a bit of an agnostic, but certainly don't think that everything just happened by chance. Was there ever nothing? If so how did we ever get something? If scientist say there is an end to the universe, what is it like a wall? Plexi Glass that you just bounce of of? Or is it like Pacman where you just pop out on the other side? There is so much that is just unexplainable in t his world. I am just glad to be a part of it. I have pretty much given up on trying to figure it all out. While I am in no hurry to die, I am somewhat excited at the possibilty of everything being answered once I go. Good luck in your search for answers. We need the Teacher's Edition of the bible, one with all the answers in the margins( I wonder how much that would go for on eBay?)
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the same thing thats on this side. new matter is not being formed it is just expanding from the force of the big bang all those millions of years ago. Some scientists say the expansion will eventually stop and the universe will collapse onto itself, and then maybe explode again. All theories so in effect we dont know.
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Recently, scientists are creating theories that saying there are more universes beyond our own. Until we learn to harnass the power of warpholes, black holes, etc. or send things traveling at the speed of light without damaging it, we may never know where space ends.
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Are you high?\nIf not try reading Hawkins or books on the theory of chaos where you could find even more exciting things about the universe.\nGood luck and have fun!