does the material world have a beginning or an end?
141147
Sure.  The beginning is spelled out in Genesis 1 and 2 and in John 1 and the end is described in Revelation.
509186
Sure.\nBut the main thing to remember is that whether the world comes to an end in our lifetime or whether we just die of natural causes, then either way to us, there is no more world.\nThe end.
24021
All the techno babble apart - space has no end.\n\nThere is a distinction between space and universe. When talking about space in common man's language we talk about what is outside earth's atmosphere. That space has NO END. It is infinite in all directions and contains the moon, the planets, the sun, the starts, the galaxies, our universe formed after the big bang and beyond (probably several more universes formed of separate big bangs that are dying or forming like stars do).\n\nNow about a sphere's surface having no end but an area, well this has nothing to do with end of either universe or space or a sphere.. when viewed from the center of a sphere, a line drawn in any direction will intersect the surface of the sphere and therefore the entire surface of the sphere is an end. Space on the other hand has no end, it extends out to infinity.\n\nA simple way of understanding this is imagine you are in a room in a building. The room ends with the walls, but beyond the walls there is something - maybe more rooms. The rooms end with he building's walls but even beyond that wall there are more buildings. There is no end, if you imagine an end and if you could stand at the end there would still be something beyond that end more empty space maybe. No matter how large a number you imagine there is always something bigger. Numbers just like space go till infinity.
1055543
when the world comes to an end?
795245
LIFE HAS NO END !!!\n\nWHEN YOU LEAVE THIS WORLD YOU JUST GO ON TO THE NEXT ONE !!!
843987
NO.\nCould be end of times for humans but not for Earth.
413034
p.s.  (i think its the end) not the beginning
936639
The end of the 13th b'ak'tun is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not necessarily mark the end of the world according to their beliefs, but a new beginning or time of re-birth. According to the Popol Vuh, a book compiling details of creation accounts known to the Quiché Maya of the colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind.\n\nThe last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigesimal places. There were an infinite number of larger units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), the end of the last creation is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s in all larger places. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0, and the larger places are nowhere near the 13s that would match the end of the last creation. (Schele and Friedel 1990: 430)\n\nThis is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on October 13, 4772 (a Friday). The Classic Period Maya likely did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. According to the Maya, there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 13th 400 year period, but not the end of the world.\n\nclick here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar
36937
The predictions of the Mayan Calendar have been accurate, and the changes predicted are already happening if you know what you look for. The end of the Mayan Calendar is not the end of the world but the end up an age and a birth into a new one. It's the crumbling of old forms and institutions, replaced by more egalitarian ones..the weakening of the dominance of the West and the left brain/masculine, and the strengthening of the East, the right brain and the "feminine"... it's also the birth of a more spiritually attuned age. The signs of this shift are everywhere, but certain people are focused more on what is going wrong.
63181
everything has an end
883123
everything that has a beginning will have a ending. i think Rome and the U.S. have many similarities.
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I don't know what time the world is supposed to end on Dec. 21, 2012, according to the Mayan calendar.  However, there appears to be some controversy about this signaling the end of the world:\n\n"The end of the 13th baktun is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not mark the end of the world. According to the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Maya, we are living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind."\n\nThe last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigesimal places. There were an infinitely larger number of units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), the end of the last creation is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s in all larger places. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0, and the larger places are nowhere near the 13s that would match the end of the last creation. (Schele and Friedel 1990: 430)\n\nThis is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on 13 October, 4772. The Classic Period Maya obviously did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. According to the Maya, there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 13th 400 year period, but not the end of the world.
1168257
Yes, you're right. We're getting there, its just currently a slow go. But its picking up momentum. All of those prophecies from the many and various world religions that seem to point to the end of the world? Those are all true. But they don't mean what some folks think. They're about the end of one age, and the beginning of another. A New Age. The old age is in its death throws now. Its already passed, but parts still linger. When the corpse of that old age stops twitching the end of that world will be complete. After that ... New Age. Call it the Age of Aquarius or the reign of Christ on earth or whatever you like. The name doesn't matter. The fact of it does. Hang in there. Things are changing. And you get to be a part of that change. ;-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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The Earth has probably already peaked as a haven for plants and animals and begun its long descent into oblivion, according to scientists at the University of Washington who have plotted out the future of our planet.\n\nThese are not prophets of doom who have mounted the podium to warn us that we are killing ourselves through bad stewardship. They are scientists who say all good things must come to an end sometime, and at best we've got no more than half a billion years left.\n\nAfter that, the planet will return to its ancient past, inhabited only by bacteria and single-celled organisms, just as it was in its earliest years. But in time even those will vanish as the Earth is reduced to a lifeless chunk of rock, or swallowed entirely by an expanding Sun. \n\n...
1108335
To ultimate destruction of this world. Everything has a beginning and an ending. Eventually the world will end. God showed us this in the book of Revelations. God will come back, and if you believe in Him as your Lord and Savior you can spend eternity in heaven with Him.
296236
I think no. Indefinitely has an end, just not sure when, and forever keeps going, with no end.
9432
It is without boundaries, but it is not infinite.  THink of the surface of the earth--it has no edge, but neither is it infinite.  The surface of the earth is a 2-D part of a 3-D globe, while the universe is a 4-D region in some higher dimensional space.