I just saw a new show called “How big is the universe?” and it was very interesting.
It explained how the universe really does go on forever. They plotted a triangle from the background radiation map and found the sums of the angles formed were 180 degrees (degrees measured to 3 decimals which is said to be adequate enough). This proves that space is flat and therefore the universe is infinite. If the sum of the angles formed were greater than 180 degrees then this would've shown space is curved and the universe would have a limit (similar to how Ptolemy calculated circumference of the earth).
When the big bang happened it didn't expand from a central point. Space itself was created from the big bang so it essentially happened everywhere (in infinity). Space expanded faster than the speed of light. There really is no relative center to the universe. Like a cell in a body, this universe does essentially have a beginning and an end time wise but there are an infinite number of other universes perpetuating the cycle.
Physicists even think there may be an infinite number of infinite universes. The Great Attractor, which is named from a big section of the universe moving towards it, may just prove the existence of another universe nearby (relatively).
On another note lately some physicists may think the universe is a big computer simulation. They say it's more than a 50-50 chance this is so from observations. It does seem hard to swallow being how big the universe is and the number of counter arguments that can be made. Maybe it's just some geeks with fogged up glasses thinking "god" himself is a geek. They say nothing's impossible, so maybe just a bunch of monkeys creating it by accident from an infinite amount of possibilities and universes on some typewriter program. That's really stretching the bell curve of possibilities though, even given an infinite amount of outcomes.
It explained how the universe really does go on forever. They plotted a triangle from the background radiation map and found the sums of the angles formed were 180 degrees (degrees measured to 3 decimals which is said to be adequate enough). This proves that space is flat and therefore the universe is infinite. If the sum of the angles formed were greater than 180 degrees then this would've shown space is curved and the universe would have a limit (similar to how Ptolemy calculated circumference of the earth).
When the big bang happened it didn't expand from a central point. Space itself was created from the big bang so it essentially happened everywhere (in infinity). Space expanded faster than the speed of light. There really is no relative center to the universe. Like a cell in a body, this universe does essentially have a beginning and an end time wise but there are an infinite number of other universes perpetuating the cycle.
Physicists even think there may be an infinite number of infinite universes. The Great Attractor, which is named from a big section of the universe moving towards it, may just prove the existence of another universe nearby (relatively).
On another note lately some physicists may think the universe is a big computer simulation. They say it's more than a 50-50 chance this is so from observations. It does seem hard to swallow being how big the universe is and the number of counter arguments that can be made. Maybe it's just some geeks with fogged up glasses thinking "god" himself is a geek. They say nothing's impossible, so maybe just a bunch of monkeys creating it by accident from an infinite amount of possibilities and universes on some typewriter program. That's really stretching the bell curve of possibilities though, even given an infinite amount of outcomes.
nor enlightened...
