I belive the biggest two questions in life are to know: Where everything came form? and Where does the universe end?

A rock was created from molten lava, which in tern was created when gass and space debry comebind into a planet pulled together by gravity. But where did that matter; that everything on Earth is created of, came from? And I am not asking that some big sun or planer exploded and made this debry, I am talking about the very very first formation of a matter partical. We all know that the Universe is empty, then how did that "empty" created "matter". 1+0=1 0+0=0 Get it? Are we missing something in how things can be created?

Now, the Universe is told to go on forever, it never ends, there is no boundary to it. I cannot simply imagine that the universe has no end, but I also cannot imagine that it does have an end. The only reasonable explonation for the size of the Universe and the end of the Universe is that; the Universe is infact a name for a space or a demention where time exists. Or, it's boundary is marked by time applied to infinity, so the further you go away from the center the slower is the time. Or, the boundary is marked by a demention wall that once you go through you will appear on the opposite side of the universe.

Well, Big Bang was the start and it took a form of explosion.
It will run out of energy eventually, give in and shrink.
Universe will then shrink back into the size of that dot,
then it will blow up again, starting a new big bang...
But hey, I haven't even taken physics yet, so who am I to say stuff?

I read somewhere that it's possible that yes, let's say the universe is shaped like a ball. Everything else outside that ball may be equal to other universes. O_o Kinda makes you wonder... *shudders*
Maybe the universe wasn't always empty...Maybe it was never even empty to begin with. Who knows?

hws21c

Well, Big Bang was the start and it took a form of explosion.
It will run out of energy eventually, give in and shrink.
Universe will then shrink back into the size of that dot,
then it will blow up again, starting a new big bang...
But hey, I haven't even taken physics yet, so who am I to say stuff?

You mist the point, I am asking where the material for that big bang came from. It is impossible that there was a big bang out of nothin. Now I belive that yes thats how the galaxys were created, but this does not apply to my questions.

PaladinDragoon

I read somewhere that it's possible that yes, let's say the universe is shaped like a ball. Everything else outside that ball may be equal to other universes. O_o Kinda makes you wonder... *shudders*
Maybe the universe wasn't always empty...Maybe it was never even empty to begin with. Who knows?

I belive that the universe wasn't empty, and isn't empty. What the universe in my opinion is full of is infact Time, I think of time as a material and the only possible building block for matter at this point.

Dunno...
maybe from the last universe that shrinked;;;
then where did they come from?
How does all these atoms exist?
Come on, you sound like a smart guy, you always talk big!
Enlighten me!

hws21c

Dunno...
maybe from the last universe that shrinked;;;
then where did they come from?
How does all these atoms exist?
Come on, you sound like a smart guy, you always talk big!
Enlighten me!

Well, I think that there are two things that exist that don't have a start and don't have an end. This two things are space (universe) and time. Both exist inside each other. Time exists inside space, example be you sitting right now and reading this, and space exists inside time, because if it wasn't then everything be at a stop. Now, so there they are space and time both moving in a straight line in every direction. Nothin can happen at this stage, then something must have happaned that caused time to form energy or something closed to it. My gess is that after awhile time began to colapse on it self as if its own "mass" created gravity that puled it inside while still moving in a straight line (like an orbit) it colided with it self and that would be the first big bang (the first big bang that let to the creation of our universe that aloud for creation of earth and me and you, as the last "earth" had different me and you), which created an impossible ammount of energy, because the process took a huge ammount of light years. Then that energy did not go away, because it can't be destroyed. Then the time colapsed again, how many times I don't know, once it did it reacted with the energy forming something close to what electrons and protons are made off, after more time colapses eventualy matter formed and puled it self into a star and exploded creating galaxys. How many times this process has gone is impossible to know even if we had 99% of the knowledge of the universe. This Universe that we live in right now will only exist until the next time colapse, is basicly what my theory says. This does sound like something out of imagination and it is just like every other theory, but realy I just broke everything down to the simplest, and tried to stay with in something that would make scence. My theory is not the worst and is not the best, because there is not a mathematical proff of anything close to this, and anyone who says there is, is a joker, because he is not God, and math is not ever going to be developed enough to do a calculation of something of this matter.

ow, the Universe is told to go on forever, it never ends, there is no boundary to it.

Not exactly--astronomers, through complex calculations, have discovered that the Universe is indeed finite, and it is growing.

I want to know what the edge of the Univers is made of, and what's beyond the Universe.

Our universe is a science project for some large alien specie in another dimension. Like how we grow bacteria in our petrie dishes? We're just a science project that will soon be wiped out when disinfectant spray is used on the dish we're growing in.

There's you're beginning and end for ya. XD

Oh and the large alien's universe? It's a small white room erected when time itself decided to collapse on itself. ^^;

Well, this is what I learned in my Physical Science class. Here's this handout my Science teacher gave me, i'm too lazy to type it up.

In the future, since our universe has a lot of energy, it wil continue to expand. If our universe had a lot more mass, then it would collide, or you could call it "Big Crunch." If it was like that, would time be going backwards? Would next year be 2005?
It would be difficult to know/see what's beyond the universe. The universe is space and everything in it. I know there are other solar systems out there besides our own. That means there are other planets orbiting other stars.

The universe is indeed finite in size! which also suggests a finite amount of energy and therefore a limit to the size obtainable. einstein said to travel faster then the speed of light would require infinite amounts of energy, and since there is not infinite energy the speed of light could not be exceeded.

im not entirely sure how time would collapse into itself, cause time is "aledgedly" a dimension. the most common anology used to describe time as a set of railroad tracks and the universe as the train, moving ever forward. in general relativity, space and time are dependant and were created together. other theories suggest otherwise.

cyclic universe could explain cosmological constant

think about this, what if time didnt really exist? in truth causality (cause and effect) and entropy would be all thats required to create a chain reaction of events. it is this chain reaction of events, a sequence of changes that we perceive as time. the earth moves around the sun, the moon around the earth, the seasons and even the celebrated atomic clock all require a measurement of some change. if change (motion and interaction) can be independent of time, then is time neccesary for a functioning universe?

one definent fallacy and misconception of time is that it has a direction. in math time is type of measurement (distance and velocity), sorta like plotting a course. in real life, time is thought to have a direction because the sequence of changes is continuous and because we dont perceive those changes in reverse. in cause and effect (causality) changes occured one after another giving the illusion of a forward moving time.

think about this, whats the differences and similarities between infinite space (without matter) and nothing?

Er... I didn't read all those comprehension passages but... here's something I wish to point out... But I may not be good enough to phrase it properly so if anyone understood it maybe you can help me XD

Anyway, there's no such thing as "time". Confused? This thing termed as "time" is nothing more than a "tool" to help you to manage your day. The Earth revolves and it changes from light to dark and vice versa. The Earth just keeps on spinning and spinning. There's really no such thing as "time"...

I hope you guys can understand. Cause I suck at phrasing my thoughts.

The Universe can exist and expand without time, but the galaxys inside the univerese cannot expand without time, or what ever it is that we hang on to.

I think this will lead to a Creationalism vs Evolutionism argument down the road...

I personally beleieve in creation. Though we do know not everything just magically appeared, that somethings developed overtime, but that doesnt mean that something wasnt created that helped to make that process happen.

gat

I belive the biggest two questions in life are to know: Where everything came form? and Where does the universe end?

Seeing where your question is coming from, you're grounding yourself by sticking to the traditional concept of time, that is, the belief of a past which extends endlessly backwards, a present that is constantly changing, and a future that has no bounds. This though on its own is flawed (or a poor excuse in describing time) as the questions "where did it all exist?" and "where does it all end?" will always pop up every so often. To say that time is represented better by means of the mobius strip is even worse. To say that time is cyclic will entail just the same questions as above, except that you do have a nifty picture of a figure eight.

Now, I know I lack in formal education when it comes to quantum mechanics. Dare I say, my brain can barely handle calculus. But the most intriguing explanation I've come across would be from philosophy. I know, I know, this is a scientific discussion, but hear me out. Dasein or "there being" explains how we, as free thinking creatures come to exist as temporal beings. Although this does not explain how matter came to exist (which again is a problematic in time if we assume that matter must exist first before the evolution of life) I come about with my own theory (now, this is the funny part). It's a possibility that thought, pure thought was what "first" existed (as explained by Marcel) or rather what is constantly existing. Only when that same thought crossed time (by firstly believeing to having existed) does man come into the question. In so existing, the thought made physical and temporal is given medium before, during, and after that thought ever came to be. Again, don't think causality, think of it as ONE big thing happening ALL the time. Ok, my brains just about overdone now.

In the beginning as we know it, something gave birth to a superior alien species that was entrusted the duty to create planets and inhabitate it with species and evolutionary processes. fast forwading the official explanation, moving to the end of the universe, there is a restaurant, and Aunty Margaret servers buttered toast and coffee there for the lonesome travellers of the universe.


hahha... as most have said, according to the big bang, the universe at its current state has stopped expanding and is currently shrinking.
Whether or not if it was a hyperbole, a sphere like form has no proven records, however, science can prove that at the end, the compression will form a bole like form to squeeze inwards. Like all expanding explosions, it expands in all directions, if the directions are at a constant, or semi-constant, it is safe to say the universe is expanded and changes into a ball like form at the end, whether or not the universe changes shape after it stopped expanding and is shrinking we will not know.

We also do not know if there are other dimensions, however, at present that knowledge does not concern us.
At the end of the universe, there is prolly a few stars, or very few remaining galaxies, that are prolly constantly in flux due to the shrinking (if this is correct), since that is bound to happen, changes in other positions of stars etc. I am not too sure if anything even exists to document it.

However, it could be something else. I always wondered if at the end of the Universe is a superior species, like the Borg, who are itching their hands waiting to assimilate the stronger species or the Q continuum, where a community of superior and godly beings with powers to change the surface of the solar system by snapping their fngers exists, in a peaceful monitoring of the galaxy's and universe harmonization.