Does Space Ever End?

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It's something I can't wrap my head around....by "space" i'm referring to the darkness in which the planets, galaxies, etc occupy....I don't think we'll ever know just how far that goes....because it begs the question of what "space" is the darkness occupying...

Now as for the Universe expanding...it's been doing that for approximately 14 billion years (according to modern math) since the big bang ...but that refers to "matter" created after the "bang" not the blackness. But the blackness had to exist prior to the big bang...so the question is...where did that come from, how long has it been there, who put it there...and what "space" does that occupy?

It's something I think we're not even suppose to understand or is beyond human comprehension. I read the Grand Design by Stephan Hawking...and his premise basically boils down to the idea that it has always been there.
This the best answer in the whole thread...according to modern science, everything has a beginning, even the universe...so that "space" that the universe is expanding to, when was it created? And if that's answered, the follow up question will be whoever or whatever created that "*space", who created it or him? :ehh: is it easier to just say god? Even though I think the idea of god and deities period are bullshyt fairytales? :yeshrug:
 

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In theory, I want to say there is an edge of the universe as the universe is still expanding since the “Big Bang”. That’s why, back in the 70s I believe, NASA sent those two unmanned “voyager” probe crafts to essentially do; go all the way to the edge of our galaxy and transmit data. I remember just a few months ago they got data back from one of those crafts as it was at the edge of our galaxy at this point and it was passing outside our solar system

I always found that fact interesting. I wonder what the universe will be like when it stops expanding and contracts again. In theory, that’s what’s happening or will happen over the course of “billions” (some large amount of time, dunno exactly how much) of years
 

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Thats what Ive been trying to figure out. How could 'nothing' have existed before the supposed Big Bang of the universe? Since EVERYTHING has a start time, how the fukk could nothingness have always existed?

WTF?! :mindblown:
It's weird..and I think this is one of the flaws of the human mind....we are automatically geared to believe that there is a beginning and end to everything....

That being said....by our logic someone or something would have had to create the "nothingness"...and someone or something would have had to create the thing that created the nothingness...and it goes on forever


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You could think of the solar system itself as a giant vessel. Except that we can't control where it goes. And it will still take forever to get anywhere.
Unless all life comes from the sun and it's moving it's byproduct towards another destination within the solar system like another planet.
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It's something I can't wrap my head around....by "space" i'm referring to the darkness in which the planets, galaxies, etc occupy....I don't think we'll ever know just how far that goes....because it begs the question of what "space" is the darkness occupying...

Now as for the Universe expanding...it's been doing that for approximately 14 billion years (according to modern math) since the big bang ...but that refers to "matter" created after the "bang" not the blackness. But the blackness had to exist prior to the big bang...so the question is...where did that come from, how long has it been there, who put it there...and what "space" does that occupy?

It's something I think we're not even suppose to understand or is beyond human comprehension. I read the Grand Design by Stephan Hawking...and his premise basically boils down to the idea that it has always been there.
Good post.

Just to add... the earth isn’t sitting stationary in space, that’s common knowledge, right? We all know that the earth revolves around the sun. Well, the sun isn’t stationary either, it (along with the rest of the solar system ) revolves around the center of the Milky Way and is speeding along at approximately 140 miles PER SECOND.

Even at this speed it still takes the Sun approximately 200 MILLION YEARS to make one complete revolution around the Milky Way. That’s how fukkin big the Milky Way is, brehs.

Also, stop looking at the solar system like this model:
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it’s useful as far as the planets relation to each other (and the sun) as far as distance is concerned, but I really like this model:

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Which shows a nonstationary sun and planets moving thru space while simultaneously making their various revolutions around the sun


EDIT: I forgot to add that while the sun and solar system is moving thru the Milky Way, the Milky Way also moving thru space
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Unless all life comes from the sun and it's moving it's byproduct towards another destination within the solar system like another planet.
:ohhh:
And this is why Elon Musk is one of the great pioneers of this generation. He understands that in order for us to survive we need to get a few more planets pregnant :ehh:
 
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