What is your view of the Universe?

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• 2shy2007 Posts: 52,579

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  23/05/09 - 21:32 #2

  I just look up at the night sky and there it is.

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• swingaleg Posts: 103,111

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  23/05/09 - 21:33 #3

  It's OK............I suppose..........

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• wolfpaw Posts: 10,639

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  23/05/09 - 21:33 #4

  No-one's view is really worth listening to, except as a way to pass the time and keep ourselves entertained on this banal Saturday night. No-one knows why, when, if, how, what or where.

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• Burning Balls Posts: 4,493

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  23/05/09 - 21:33 #5

  We are all living inside a giant ball.

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• zx50 Posts: 91,269

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  23/05/09 - 21:34 #6

  I don't know why, but I just happen to think the Universe is endless. There's no way we'll find out in my lifetime though, even if we did happen to travel at light speed - maybe.

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• Burning Balls Posts: 4,493

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  23/05/09 - 21:36 #7

  zx50 wrote: »

  I don't know why, but I just happen to think the Universe is endless. There's no way we'll find out in my lifetime though, even if we did happen to travel at light speed - maybe.

  
  
  Science might be able to support you on that.
  
  
  From what I've read, the Universe is of finite size, but it is also boundaryless.
  
  
  So theoretically you could travel in a straight line for millions of years and end up where you started. (If I remember correctly).

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• System Posts: 2,096,970

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  23/05/09 - 21:36 #8

  Ask David Tennant.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 7,666

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  23/05/09 - 22:22 #9

  I want my money back.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,518

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  23/05/09 - 22:23 #10

  We are hardly anything that matters in relation to it...

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 4,946

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  23/05/09 - 22:23 #11

  I think it is big and dark.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 190

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  23/05/09 - 22:26 #12

  Burning Balls wrote: »

  Science might be able to support you on that.
  
  
  From what I've read, the Universe is of finite size, but it is also boundaryless.
  
  
  So theoretically you could travel in a straight line for millions of years and end up where you started. (If I remember correctly).

  
  
  yes, a hypersphere(3sphere)
  
  that's what I believe, or it's something like that.

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• zx50 Posts: 91,269

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  23/05/09 - 22:28 #13

  Burning Balls wrote: »

  Science might be able to support you on that.
  
  
  From what I've read, the Universe is of finite size, but it is also boundaryless.
  
  
  So theoretically you could travel in a straight line for millions of years and end up where you started. (If I remember correctly).

  
  If you're travelling in a straight line, then surely you're going away from where you started? I'd imagine that the only way you'd get back to where you started, would be if you were going in a circular motion.
  
  Edit: I've just looked up what a hypersphere is, and that's a circular motion.

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• Burning Balls Posts: 4,493

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  23/05/09 - 22:30 #14

  zx50 wrote: »

  If you're travelling in a straight line, then surely you're going away from where you started? I'd imagine that the only way you'd get back to where you started, would be if you were going in a circular motion.

  
  
  I don't fully understand it myself. (I'm not a scientist).
  
  Stephen Hawking used the analogy of the surface of the Earth.
  
  Space-time is curved like the surface of a globe. So he said that if you went for millions of years in a straight line, you could end up where you started.
  
  (At least, that's what I remember).

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 190

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  23/05/09 - 22:32 #15

  zx50 wrote: »

  
  Edit: I've just looked up what a hypersphere is, and that's a circular motion.

  
  
  but that's a circle in the forth dimension, so it would still be a straight line, for us.

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• Skeet Ulrich Posts: 1,039

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  23/05/09 - 22:33 #16

  distant

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• Neighbours_Fan Posts: 7,514

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  23/05/09 - 22:33 #17

  I was sure this thread was going to die after 1 post. Glad to see I sparked a bit of a debate

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• Burning Balls Posts: 4,493

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  23/05/09 - 22:34 #18

  Mudnox wrote: »

  but that's a circle in the forth dimension, so it would still be a straight line, for us.

  
  
  Also space-time is curved by gravity.
  
  
  It's quite complex and it's not really my field of study, so forgive me if I'm getting something wrong.

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• mathertron Posts: 30,083

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  23/05/09 - 22:34 #19

  It is vast and barren, and my left sock is lost within it.

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