The thought of what's beyond the universe

[missjaysays]

Well, it freaks me out. It's impossible to imagine.

I wonder about 'size' so as we see tiny things through microscopes, are we that tiny to some other giant beings?

Also 'time' so time goes at our pace, but to some other being does time go slower or faster to them?

I wonder where everything came from? Before the Big Bang. What is beyond it all? There must be a reason.

What is it all!? It makes my brain want to explode.

Would love to hear other people's opinions, or is it just me?

You will love this TED Talk OP :)

I can’t get my head around this either. The universe contains everything that exists, so how can something be outside it? And if there’s an inside and an outside then it must have a boundary, so what’ that?

It boggles my mind, too. I just can’t conceive of space going on and on and on, no end to it, ever. And if it did ever end, what would be behind that ‘door’?

Dh (very irritatingly!) says he has no problem with that concept at all, but I’m sure he’s fibbing just to prove some sort of scientific-mind superiority. (To be fair he does have much more of a science-oriented mind than I do.) Everything we know and are familiar with is finite - land, sea, lakes, forests, deserts, roads, life.

I think it goes on forever, space is expanding all the time so the 'gaps' between everything just get bigger. Totally does my head in and how infestiminely tiny we are in the scheme of it all.

But if space is expanding, what is it expanding into? There must already be some 'room' there for it to grow into.

My mind can't comprehend it all either.

It’s 96 billion light years big. There are more stars than grains of sand on the entire earth. This is why I honestly think we are not alone. We can’t be.

This is a good video on if the universe is finite.

There are plenty of things that are finite in extent but still don't have an edge, the prime example being the surface of a sphere. It's got a finite area but when you walk around on it you'll never fall over an edge.

Haha! I find time in the context of planets and the universe boggling, so think if this:
T-rex lived closer in Earth's timeline to Man than they did to the Stegosaurus. This just blows my mind, and really amazed me when I found it out. It really puts the concept of age into context for me.

The distances between galaxies are so vast, and we are infinitesimally small...

Sometimes, I stand at the window and look out but can see no-one. And I imagine panning out of the window, into the sky, watching myself grow smaller and smaller, and think of the other 7 billion individual humans on this planet. And then, further out, 1 tiny planet amongst billions of others...

Truly amazing.

Yes, it absolutely blows my mind!

Thanks for the links, going to sit and watch now.

What is behind it all? Imagine if we were just a little experiment for some superior beings where they slow time right down for us so generations and generations go by for us but to them it could just be a day or two!

I think we are small fish in a big pond. We aren’t advanced enough to interest other planet dwellers.

The thing is, if we are not alone - and I suspect we aren’t, doesn’t make any sense that we would be- those aliens could be anything. They might not be able to communicate with us because they’re a gas that can communicate perfectly well with another gas but not with us (for example). They might have the consistency of lava or glass or something else we have no concept of. They might be right here but we can’t see them. That actually seems more likely to me than that they’re basically like us and we will ever be able to have any meaningful interaction with them.

Fuck, Mumsnet is deep tonight.

It's where space ends that blows my mind

It makes my brain hurt ,how do we know space is infinite ,how do we know there are not other universe,s and I know about th but bang theory but what made it all happen?

Big bang theory*

Does it have to end?! Life on earth and everything we know indicates that everything has a size/a beginning and end. But maybe infinity exists.

I used to dwell on this/how insignificant we are but life is beautiful and I now accept that’s how it is.

Ha my ds is a physicist, when he completed his batchelor in astrophysics, he spend a whole evening and most of a night trying to explain 'infinity' to me . It's still incomprehensible to me, I can't get past the 'there must be something after the infinite space' . (I have my own imaginary picture of this).

But apparently space is saddle shaped .