what exactly is the universe

[fiddyonefiddy]

i have always wondered where it came from
they say there was nothing then all of the sudden the big bang. from nothing? this always scares me because to this day no one can explain this. we know it is expanding but expanding to where?
is there an end to the expansion is it gonna hit the edge and bounce back.

fiddyonefiddy Reviewed by fiddyonefiddy on 04-08-2008. what exactly is the universe i have always wondered where it came from they say there was nothing then all of the sudden the big bang. from nothing? this always scares me because to this day no one can explain this. we know it is expanding but expanding to where? is there an end to the expansion is it gonna hit the edge and bounce back. Rating: 5

[jessem98]

i just had a convo about this with my buddy after a nice blunt (we were high as FUCK).

What i wonder is this: if a galaxy is a subdivision of the universe, the planets are a subdivision of the galaxy - whats the universe a subdivision of? and is that part of some other bigger thing? does it end? if so, how, why, what is at this ending. Also if sound is how humans communicate [standard to us] - what is the standard form of communication for ALL of this? I could go on, but i feel the more i go on, the more i start to sound retarded, haha.

[Mr. Clandestine]

they say there was nothing then all of the sudden the big bang. from nothing?

Actually, I think the theory implies that in the center of the nothingness sat an infinitely dense blob of matter, which expanded and contracted violently and with endless amounts of energy until one day it finally exploded and created the universe. The space that it once occupied isn't given much thought, though. A vast non-universe, perhaps? However much sense that makes...

It's all theory, and nothing conclusive has ever been presented that authenticated the ideas. There's speculation out the wazoo regarding string theories, expansion, dark matter, and the like. But it's far from infallible. There are simply some things that our primitive minds can't explain properly, and probably never will. In order to grasp what happened in the beginning of time itself, you'd first need to understand what happened before time existed. It's an informal fallacy, though many so-called "scientists" will never admit to the inconclusiveness of the argument.

[Readytoride08]

I like to smoke then wacth videos like Enigma "Morphing Tru Time"on youtube.It shows alot of cool stars,space exploration,and a big twinkling star traveling around,that would most likley be God I would think .There is a part of space that there is NOTHING.No stars,no planets,no gases,just a black spot.I wonder why it is incoplete there?

[fiddyonefiddy]

mr clandestine
ive been watching "the universe" on the discovery channel
and what they are saying is the "blob" as you call it was the size of an atom when it exploded then expedentialy it grew into what we know today.
my main question is where did the blob come from and where did the "universe" come from.we know it was'nt "gods creation" cause god has only been around for 6 k years,a relative new comer in the span of time of the cosmos, that we now know is billions of years old.
to be honest i dont think we will ever know this.

[Mr. Clandestine]

to be honest i dont think we will ever know this.

That's where I'd put my money. As I mentioned earlier, in order for us to know exactly what happened at the time of the expansion, we'd need to have our facts straight about where this atom-sized blob originated, what started it spinning, what was present before our concept of "time" existed, and the like. We can, in a sense, look into the past by observing our own galaxy, GRBs in ours and other galaxies, and other cosmic phenomena that's visible to our eyes and telescopes, but I don't ever see us placing our finger on anything beyond speculation and cosmic theory. We're just not advanced enough to know for sure.

[Esoteric416]

Imagine this for a moment: A black hole is a microscopic mass so dense that everything coming within a certin proximity to it (the event horizon) is sucked in and mashed into that tiny point likely being destroyed, reduced to its most basic elements by the violent and extreme force of the black holes gravity. Imagine that at one point after perhaps billions of years that point reaches some as yet not understood threshold and bursts out in a wild expansion of all that stored up energy, but the expansion is so violent that it somehow crosses a border that we can't yet detect into an alternate dimension of reality. There you have the big bang of an alternate universe.
This is a simplistic (and admittedly uninformed) summary of a theory that some physicists have put foreward. Very theoretical but nonetheless interesting.

[Mr. Clandestine]

Very theoretical but nonetheless interesting.

I find most of the theories very interesting to both learn about and to discuss. I don't, however, lend any credence to the infallibility of the theories merely because a theory is perceived to be logical. Who am I to determine what's logical? I don't have any advanced degrees in astrophysics and stellar phenomena. I just enjoy reading about it and having the opportunity to ponder the possibilities.

[OneIn1]

Also if sound is how humans communicate [standard to us] - what is the standard form of communication for ALL of this? .

Humans communicate mostly with body language, i think about 55%. which isnt hard to conceive if you think about how u cant have a conversation with another species, or humans who dont speak ur language for that matter, so through evoluton we relied on the body for our tool of communication.

There is also no air in outer space so sound cannot travel unlesss.....u assume it is still there but is not receivable or conceivable by our minds and devices.

I think information is the language of the universe.

[colour]

well....holy crap i don't even like think about it. everytime i look up my mind punches the back of my eyes telling me to look at the ground.