Yes,Tormod your explanation was indeed helpful.Thank you very much for your reply.
I have a provocative comment/suggestion of what it is that may lie beyond our universe that was inspired by an article regarding the latest perspective on the state of our universe that appeared recently at the BBC Science Site and in the Journal,Nature that states how 'Our Universe is so unlikely that we must be missing something'.
Link to the complete article.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020812/020812-2.html
I've posted the several paragraphs from the beginning of the article that contains the basis for my provocative supposition regarding what it may be that lies beyond our universe.
Story:
Our Universe is so unlikely that we must be missing something.
13 August 2002
PHILIP BALL
In an argument that would have gratified the ancient Greeks, physicists have claimed that the prevailing theoretical view of the Universe is logically flawed. Arranging the cosmos as we think it is arranged, say the team, would have required a miracle.
An ever-more-rapidly expanding Universe is destined to repeat itself, say Leonard Susskind of Stanford University, California, and his colleagues. But the chances that such re-runs would produce worlds like ours are infinitesimal.
So either space is not accelerating for the reasons we think it is, or we have yet to discover some principle of physics, the researchers conclude. Like a guardian angel, this principle would pick out those few initial states that lead to a Universe like ours, and then guide cosmic evolution so that it really does unfold this way.
The incomprehensibility of our situation even drives Susskind's team to ponder whether an "unknown agent intervened in the evolution [of the Universe] for reasons of its own". But creationists should not rejoice: even a god such as this can't explain how things got so strange.
The problem stems from the observation in 1998 that the Universe's expansion seems to be speeding up. The most popular explanation for this is that there is a cosmological constant - a repulsive force that opposes gravity.
As things stand, other galaxies will eventually disappear as they zoom away from us faster than the speed of light. Then nothing that happens in those parts of the cosmos can affect us. Our world - and everywhere else - will be isolated behind a boundary called a de Sitter horizon.
This view holds that the Universe will fragment into a foam of bubbles separated by de Sitter horizons: a de Sitter space. Each bubble would eventually settle into a bland, lifeless uniformity. And that would be the end of history.
MY QUESTION IS:Could it be at all possible that our accelerating universe is but one universe among an infinite number of other universes and that what lays beyond our own universe is a so-called 'de Sitter horizon' separating us from the rest of the Giga-Universe, which in turn is itself accelerating into the vast expansive infinite abyss further beyond-the-beyond,forever for all space/time?
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020812/020812-2.html
