if the universe starts with me....where does it end and how long will it take me to get there?
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The universe is so large that light from some places which has been traveling towards us since the moment after the Big Bang still hasn't had time to reach us.  The universe is 13.7 billion years old.  That makes the observable universe 13.7 billion light years across.  Since a light year is nearly 6 trillion miles, the observable universe is larger than you can probably imagine.\n\nAlso, the universe is expanding at such a rate that light from its farthest reaches will never be able to get here.  Since you can never travel faster than light, there is no way anyone from Earth will ever be able to see if the universe ends.
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yes but to get to other universes u must travel out of our universe and then travel to another one but that would take 1,000 years to complete at the speed of light but if you dont belive me look it up on google...or watch the science channel
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Hard one to understand. but it's something like this:\nIt is said that if you go to the end of the know universe.\nAs you keep going you create space.\nThat nothing before you got there existed.\nSo as the universe expanse it creates it's self, space.
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the universe is constantly expanding although the rate is slowing and never reaches zero.\nexperts believe that the universe is finite yet has no edge, just like the surface area of a sphere. this could imply that if u reached one 'end' of the universe, u would end up on the opposite side or something like that
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I am the great "I AM."  I am the Alpha and the Omega.  I am the beginning and the end.  God is infinite / eternal.  God has no beginning and has no end.  God always was and always will be.\n\nLike you, my logical mind said, "TILT" because I had never seen anything without beginnings or boundaries.  One night I was looking for the Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra and inadvertantly peered into deep space - all black.  \n\nWhat was I looking at?  I was looking a distance without end.. without an ending or a beginning.  I cannot comprehend infinity but I do acknowledge that it exists because I can see it.  By the same token, the infinite God of Abraham is without beginning or without end.\n\nAbraham's belief was counted to him as righteousness.\n\nYours is too.\n\nJohnny
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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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No, you won't get stuck when you reach the speed of light because according to you, time is still moving forward normally. It is people on Earth (who are not moving very fast compared to you) who sees you moving slower and slower until time stops for you when you reach the speed of light.\n\nYour theory about the nature Blackholes is quite plausible, but no one really knows at this point what will happen when the Universe come into an end, and if the Universe will begin again with a Big Bang from the blackhole explosion.
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If the universe is everything, then what is it expanding into?\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.  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\nIf the universe is everything, then what is it expanding into?  It seems that our universe is all matter, space, and energy that we can perceive in this closed system.  However, that does not mean that there is not additional matter, space, and energy outside our universe.  In other words, there are probably other universes.  Therefore, the zone that we call our universe (or braneworld) may be moving through or expanding into other universes (or braneworlds).  In sum, all universes may be moving through a multiverse.\n \nSteve\n:-D
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The universe may be infinite in size, or it may be of only finite size. Doesn't the universe have to be infinite? It doesn't make any sense that it would be finite, then there would be some end or edge, and what would be beyond that?\n\nStrange as it may seem, the universe could be finite, a finite universe would not have to have any edges or an end, it could 'wraparound'. The universe could be curved. Huh? How could you curve the universe?\n\nAn analogy should help, consider the surface of the Earth. It looks flat and many children and ancient people might assume that it is flat and that it is either infinite or must have an end or edge somewhere.\n\nBut the Earth's surface is curved, it wraps around and closes in on itself. There is only a finite amount of area yet there is no ends or edges. The two-dimensional flat surface of the Earth is wrapped around into a sphere when viewed in three dimensions. If you set out flying westward in a plane, you will wraparound and eventually return to where you started, approaching from the east.\n\nThe universe may be a curved three-dimensional space that wraps around and closes on itself. If you set out in a spacecraft heading one direction, you could eventually return to the same spot from the opposite direction.\n\n \n\nA nice demonstration of the scale of the universe is to start with a view showing our galaxy and then zoom by a factor of ten once per second. Such a demonstration is done at http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ \n\nClick on this link and view the demo. Use your browser's Back button to return to this page after watching the demo.\n\n\nThe entire universe, or just the visible portion of the universe if its infinite, is roughly 27 billion light-years across. That's 159,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. Our solar system, from the Sun to Pluto, is .00063 light-years across or 3,720,000,000 miles. That makes our solar system 42,700,000,000,000 times smaller than the whole universe.\n\nCan we put that into a more meaningful perspective? If the entire Earth's surface represents the whole universe, the solar system on that scale would be one-millionth of a meter wide, about 1/25,000 of an inch, the size of a single, small bacteria.
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Just supose that the universe end in some point, that has a boundary. What would be outside? Nothing? And... what is between Mars and the Earth? Also nothing. The universe is... "the nothing", and never ends. Anyway, and suposing that you forget the relativity theory and you want to know where is the star/planet/thing that is farest from the "centre", you can say that the radius of the universe is less or equal to the speed of light times the age of the univers.
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The above answers are interesting but, modern physicists speak extensively about 'multiverses'.  So, does one universe end at the edge of another? or, do they 'co-exist' in space and time? OR??????
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dont worry about "time". remember that big circle curving back into itself? aka,, infinity.
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I am going to put a slightly spin on this question. I DO believe that there are parallel universes. There are at least as many universes as there are people and possibly as many universes as there are living things. We each experience a different universe, but they all exist at the same time. Our "Universe" is what we experience (see, hear, smell, taste, feel, and any other undocumented sense). THAT is where parallel universes come into their own, and THAT is where relativity comes into play. My universe starts with me where I am and ends "out there somewhere". I will never get to experience the end, because wherever I am will always be the start of my universe.
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I kind of am...I mean, if the universe goes on forever and ever...well, it's a hard concept to grasp, isn't it? You could just keep going on forever and ever, and forever is a pretty long time.
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Some scientists think you'll just wind up on the other side of the same universe. Especially if Universe is curved inwards or outwards. Like walking around a beach ball, you'll wind up where you started. Or if universe is"flat", you'll just wind up on the other side of the universe. Kind of like a video game screen, there is no such thing as the edge.\n\nAlso universe may be much bigger than 13.7 billion light years away. It may be so big that light from the "edge" will never reach us as universe is expanding and in fact accelerating. The edege of the universe may be expanding faster than the speed of light because of the accelerating expantion.I know you are thinking nothing can travel faster than speed of light, but exception to this rule may be that universal expantion can travel faster than speed of light. \n\nIt's weird, but that's what they say.
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Just one doubt about your  theory,how do you know that only one big bang has taken place as you say that a second one is coming up???And tell me how you would accelerate something to the speed of light as the mass would become infinite.\nAnd according to your theory the total energy in the universe will go on increasing.You are stuck in a viscious circle!!!
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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.