(March 8, 2014 at 7:15 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Is an equal problem to beginnings > what's at the edge of the universe? It can't be infinite. If it goes to nothing, is nothing an area to measure? If it's something, is that a solid default state? If it folds back onto itself and is also the opposite end of the universe, are we in a bubble like rupture?
Our main problem is that we think that we are at the center of the universe. People look out and say that the edge is 13.7 billion light years from us. So that puts us at an imaginary center. It should be obvious that from diameter edge to diameter edge the distance is really 27.4 billion light years. Now if someone on the edge looks in the opposite direction he might see another 27.4 billion light years, which would make him in the center, and so forth for infinity.
If Nothing creates strings which evolve into quantum foam and forth to hydrogen and stars and galaxies the size of the universe could be 1 trillion gazillion light years in size and still growing. Right now we are where people were before the 1920s. We think that what we can see is all there is. We just need better eyes.
