What u know about universe? Share it with me........?
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The short answers are:\n\nNobody really knows,\n\nand,\n\nYes, it's possible the universe is collapsing.\n\nIn fact, it's amazing how little we really "know" about the universe.\n\nOf course that just encourages people to propose more theories. After all, to get a Phd you only have to write a thesis, you don't have to prove it! Yes, you have to "defend" it, but that's not the same as proof.\n\n"The Big-Bang", "String Theory" (proposed to prevent the Big-Bang from collapsing) and "Steady-state Universe" are all conjectures based on imagination. So far, there is only contradictory evidence to support any of these theories. We'll have to await the next Einstein to sort it all out!\n\nBy the way, what has Hawking contributed to cosmology? I've read his stuff, and all he does is elaborate on other's thinking. Just like Carl Sagan. I think both are overrated and unoriginal.
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Einstein's theories (never mind that they have checked out in reality) are incredible: space is curved; the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line; the universe is finite but unbounded; \n\nparallel lines eventually meet;
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there is no dimension to the universe, its infinite. the horizon never ends either it keeps moving with you. its around 25 miles away depending on where you are. Its as far as you can see because of the curvature of the earth.
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Maybe it was god. maybe it was the big bang, maybe god created the universe through the big bang...I dont know...but I just want to 'think - out - loud' in this forum....maybe the Universe alwasy existed? No beginning? no end? Because we experience life and death in every cycle on Earth doesnt mean the Universe is also controlled in the same manner. *sigh* I wish I knew it all :)
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What in the universe are you talking about?
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This universe is an event that occurs once and does not occur again.\n  Its existence or nonexistence has no relevance to anything but itself.\n   The big bang will not occur again!
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Cheerleader101,\n    Let us go on a bit on the scientific track.  Have you heard about the famous 'Big Bang Theory'?  It says that the Universe was in the beginning a condensed mass which shrank and shrank inwards.  When it could now shrink any more becoming a condensed mass of great pressure, it burst and thus ever expanding Universe was created. This explosion of immeasurable magnitude is called by the scietists who formulated this theory as Big Bang.  \n    Let us now go on the track of Ancient Vedic Wisdom propagated by the Rishis(Indian Saints) of india.  About 4000BC, in the Upanishads, Rishis wrote:  "Asade Vedamagra. Thad Aseeth. Thadandam Niravarthathaya. Thad Visphotayatha. Rajatham cha Suvarnam Abhavath." This is Sanskrit which means :In the Beginning there was mothing.  From nothing existence was born.  And it became a round mass and it began to shrink.  Then when it could not shrink anymore, it exploded" .  This is the simple and plain meaning.  Great amount of explanations and details lie behind these utterances of Rishis.\n    I will write about this in detail later!\n         Mukundan Pallipravan
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It is a theory that the universe started from a "big bang."  This is considered by scientists as the earliest recorded history of the universe.  It is believed that the entire universe was so dense it was possible that it could have been the size of a planet or smaller.  All that density was too much and it exploded.  Everything back then was hydrogen.  The hydrogen formed into stars.  The stars created other elements because of the neclear reactions breaking up the hydrogen and connecting it together.  This led to planets.  Unfortionatly I would say there is too much info to share everything.  Try reading :\n"A Short History of the Universe"\nI did before I went into seminary.
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I read in Time a few years back that in an article, scientists explained a theory that universes connect as a chain, and our Universe- is among many. The idea was quite something to read and of course the diagrams and images they used to portray this thing out was all very fascinating to say the least. It was a rational idea even to me and considering what we found with a pin tip portion of the night sky magnified 1,300 times....hundreds of thousands of Galaxy's all clustered in an array that almost seemed like you are looking at it all through a cylinder. \nSo there is no real way to know for certain, but there could be millions of them...and a chain of universes makes rational sense.
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Same god. different perspective. we haven't seen even our solar system from all sides yet. The god I believe created universe can not be understood completly ever.
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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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I agree that the Universe was created by a higher being. I don't agree that said being created man at all. However, I do think that by becoming aware of ourselves and simply believing in said being's existence that said being is now aware of us. I don't believe that God/Diety/whatever you want to call it really gives a damn what we do. Anyway...I think that all beings, sentient or otherwise, that exist in the Universe are a result of the divine and since the divine makes no mistakes we are as we were meant to be. Flawed but still here. Still trying to find the meaning of it all.
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Understand that the Universe is not what you think it is.  Humans do not have the ability to understand the Universe.  Anything that you have been told about the Universe by another human is not Real.  You can believe whatever you wish to believe, but that does not make it Real.  Others may ridicule your beliefs but they do so out of their own ignorance.  If Divinity loves you, what does any of this matter?  Enjoy the mystery of life.  Let others wallow in their ignorance, you can not understand or change them.
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Big Bang is a theory that tries to explain the formation of the universe, its galaxies, its stars and planets etc.\n\nIt says that the Universe was created by an explosion of a Primeval Atom thus causing it to expand and move away from each other. This was actually based on the Hubble Law which says that Galaxies around us are expanding at speeds directly proportional to their distance from Earth, based on the observation of Edwin Hubble, 1929.\n\nIts a huge topic with lots of technical arguments and counter arguments. Here is the link that will satisfy your quest on Big Bang, atleast for starters...\n\n.:Fishie:.
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It does not end and its growing, before you try tackling such a question, answer the micro-level questions of the same kind.  The universe encompasses all that exists, and by default then, it is largely unknown.  We don't know where the universe ends, and all evidence points to it being endless and growing, therefore we make a conclusion based on a portion of the information actually needed.
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Universe in general is the area of everything including earth, solar systems, nebulas, black holes, galaxies etc are contained within. Everything that is observable to us(human) are so far within this universe. So maybe there are more but to human.. there is only 1.
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yes i do.  it begs the question...so where is the edge of the universe...and what does it look like?  is it moving further outward or just hanging out like a big wall?  very deep.