walk up to the end?????

[InfiniteNow]

I keep remembering reading something about "no matter where you are in the universe, you are always at the center."

Does that ring any bells? I can't find it in the ways I am searching, so am guessing it may have been some philisophical conversation with a friend and we were speaking of ego-centered explanations or something.

If it is a real issue, it most likely had something to do with the concept that all galaxies are moving away from each other... Hubble's Law or something.

[sergey500]

Sounds like something dougles adams would say. I am not sure though.

[woog]

Hi everybody.

Originally Posted by sergey500

Yes we can. That where it started it. Thats the the center.

Sergey, if you assume the universe is on the surface of a higher dimensional sphere, and it is expanding "outwards" in one of those higher dimensions then the center of expansion (big bang) would not exist in our universe. If that is what you meant then forgive me.

Also, I think Tormod said that we are at the center of our observable region of the universe. Different from center of the universe.

[sergey500]

Oh is that what he meant? Well then he is right, but I wrote that when i was so tired I am now surprised I had the ability to type. I should win a prize for that.

[tarak]

There are no edges to the universe and there is no end or beginning.Only thing that pervades all over is the balancing forces like gravity.Blackholes which are extremes are gravity can be some of the ends or starts.

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by tarak

There are no edges to the universe and there is no end or beginning.Only thing that pervades all over is the balancing forces like gravity.Blackholes which are extremes are gravity can be some of the ends or starts.

Any support for this? If it's opinion only, that's fine, but I ask that you acknowledge that. If not opinion, I ask again... please provide support.



Warmest regards,

[sergey500]

I fail to understand you're last sentence tarak, please do not assume things to be definate unless you have some conclusive proof. Because I can easily say we evolved from pigs who once walked on hindlegs, you can't say I am wrong without providing any evidance, so without furthur evidance i can say anything insane and i would still be correct. My point is please provide some eviance for you're response. If you truly think universe is infinite give a reason.

[tarak]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Any support for this? If it's opinion only, that's fine, but I ask that you acknowledge that. If not opinion, I ask again... please provide support.
Warmest regards,

My amateur understanding of edges ofcourse is my opinion,but what I meant was that an edge is the energy a humanbeing can exert to reach a point of space and time and there should always be something beyond that particular point.

Its an opinion stemming from the links given below
http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/...liosphere.html

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by tarak

My amateur understanding of edges ofcourse is my opinion,but what I meant was that an edge is the energy a humanbeing can exert to reach a point of space and time and there should always be something beyond that particular point.

Its an opinion stemming from the links given below
http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/...liosphere.html

Thanks Tarak, for clarifying (and, Happy Birthday!!! ).


Please note that the first link you provided refers to the edge of a Black Hole.
The second, the edge of the Heliosphere, which is itself only within our own solar system.

The edges referenced in the thread relate to the universe. Are there edges, and what happens (if there are) when we approach or interact with them...


Cheers!

[tarak]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Thanks Tarak, for clarifying (and, Happy Birthday!!! ).


Please note that the first link you provided refers to the edge of a Black Hole.
The second, the edge of the Heliosphere, which is itself only within our own solar system.

The edges referenced in the thread relate to the universe. Are there edges, and what happens (if there are) when we approach or interact with them...


Cheers!

My amteur opnion started from those links...See how far one can go???It depends on time and energy.Let us assume that in the coming decades researchers have idnetified genes like "ageless " and the human being can sustain for a longer life time.Even if an individual with an longer lifetime manages a vehicle which can travel at considerable lightyears per second to reach farther galaxies,where would be end up in this boundary less space????Ofcourse somewhere!!!But still he will have another infinity staring at him...
With regards to edges I felt that these exist only like speedbreakers and as abrupt change in equilibria like vacoules in a living cell or cell mebrane systems and give a beginning and and an end to an otherwise amorphous vacuum.With this view I felt that blackholes represent some of the extreme edges in an otherwise infinity...