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My "personal idea" would be that the edge or boundary of the universe, like the center, is everywhere. That is every place in the universe is the center and also the edge or boundary. At every place the universe is expanding. We can see this expansion when we look out at distant galaxies that seem to move away from us. The distant galaxies would see us as moving away from them. It is just that the amount of space is getting bigger or expanding. This expansion of space may be happening at the quantum level of space. So quantum physics may be the place to look for the boundary of the universe. It does not seem to be out there to see in our telescopes.
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Re: Boundary of the Universe
Mon, April 13, 2009 - 7:36 PMYes, I've been thinking about something like this too. Only I was trying to add our brains, throughout evolutionary development having been accustomed to three-dimensional thinking and perception only.
If we were to think in those categories, then yes, it seems that our Universe is indeed boundaryless. However, as we try to move higher in our perception, ability to visualize, we do not know what being in four dimensions would be like, feel like, if you want, and such.
It's like, we can visualize from a two-dimensional drawing, what something would look like in three-d, or, Windows NT being able to work with Windows 95 files, but Windows 95 wouldn't be able to work with Windows NT. Same here, we simply cannot/don't know what would this be/feel/imagine like to think in four-d.
Well, it so happened that up 'till "4 minutes ago", in terms of the timescale of evolution and life on Earth, we had only had to deal with stone throwing, arrow shooting, need to get in three dimensions, (in space), from point A to point B, after a battle as quick as we could, with the purpose of loot and marauding, -before- our neighbours get there first; from day one we had realized ourselves consciously, as individuals.
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We are simply not there yet. When we are ready, (those that are left), it'll be unblocked, and many things will become much clearer than they are now.
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Re: Boundary of the Universe
Thu, April 30, 2009 - 12:02 AMOh we are way past ready, but tech lags, I blame myself, I should be smarter, eat better,
learn a science skill, invent ftl or get rich and fund some smart kids.
Actually we don't know what pace we are setting toward leaving the nest.
It seems, if legends have even the slightest bit of reliability, that catastrophic
meltdowns may be more a norm that is annually pushing back from reaching liftoffs.
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