sandy_mcd wrote:Mastriani wrote: Still no definition on the limits of the universe, where is it expanding too? What is this void that the universe expands into? Planar? Dimensional? It seems the only limitations in this universe were placed on my ability to lucidly discern and deduce.<sigh>
Yeah, I know what you mean. People are used to dealing with conditions on earth and not questions like these. That is why human intuition (or common sense) can be so bad and awfully wrong when dealing with such unfamiliar conditions.
What I have read is that space is a property of the universe and thus does not exist outside of the universe (there is no outside of the universe). So the universe is not expanding into any kind of void, it is creating space as it expands. I imagine you have the same basic thought as I, the universe is like some ball growing in size and expanding into some empty space, but that is not what (astro)physicists say. Likewise time is supposed to be a property of the universe and (unless you do multi universes) there was no "before" the universe since time did not exist until the universe did. As in matters biological, I accept what the experts say since I certainly don't have a clue.
You can type "what does the universe expand into" into Google and gets lots of interesting websites, as I just did.
And you're hardly a pain; anyone interested in asking questions and discussing issues (meaning not just saying "I'm right and you're wrong") is an asset to this forum. And if everybody agreed on everything here, no one would learn anything.
I have read that also sandy, space being a property of the universe: WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN? I have real issues with the whole of the cosmological discipline and you reiterated a number of them in this fine post.
If the universe is now, and has been, and it is agreed that it came from some point in time, how could there not be a "before"?
If time is also a property of the universe, it must have existed before the universe? Or is this another philosophical conundrum of the watcher being absent, so it couldn't have existed?
If there is a definable origin to the universe, there had to be an impetus for a universe to come into existence?
We have no proof of elements spontaneously forming in the universe now, so how could they just, "pop" into existence?
If space is expanding, it has to expand into something/somewhere, as is in line with known physical properties of the observed universe? What is this undefined region?
I have read that matter has an equal counterpart, antimatter, part of the balance and harmony ideology; but if both existed at the inseption of the first universal event, and we know that antimatter completely destroys matter, and it is accepted that they must have been present in equal quantities, how is it that any matter exists whatsoever now?
I know nothing. Cosmology seems to me a twisted dichotomy of mutually exclusive ideologies/theories.