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Beyond Space

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:15 am
by lingolas
beyond earth is Mars, beyond Mars is Pluto, beyond Pluto is another solar system, beyond the solar system is another galaxy, beyond everything is space, so the question is: what's beyond space?

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:16 am
by Kiasyn
beyond pluto is xena

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:02 am
by ShanaArkai
the unknown, nothingness, any other name you can think of for nothing :P

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:11 am
by Celeborn
you sound bored! :P

cookies.

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:30 pm
by Kamseki Estel
What kind of cookies Cele? :P

Are they Cele-Cookies or Don't feed the Cele Cookies? :P

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:56 am
by Gilgolad
Space as we know it is infinate. As such, it is beyond human comprehension. As it is beyond human comprehension, we cannot even speculate without not knowing what the heck we think it is we're talking about.

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:29 am
by Quintos
Gilgolad wrote:Space as we know it is infinate. As such, it is beyond human comprehension. As it is beyond human comprehension, we cannot even speculate without not knowing what the heck we think it is we're talking about.
Can you prove that space is indeed infinite or only that you are unable to see an end to it?

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:38 am
by Dourht
It is hard to comprend space beyond space. I was "taught" there is no beginning and there is no end to space or time.

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:46 pm
by Gilgolad
There is a theory which states that if anyone ever figures out what the universe is for, and why it is here, it will instantly dissappear and be replaced by something even more bizzare and inexplicable.

There is another which states that this has already happened.

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:24 pm
by Quintos
Dourht wrote:It is hard to comprend space beyond space. I was "taught" there is no beginning and there is no end to space or time.
And for many years, the then-modern world believed that the sun orbitted the earth and that the earth was flat. What we are taught means nothing.

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:23 pm
by Dourht
Thats why i have Taught in ". Things change over time. if we where to disocver that beyond space is a giant pool of Jell-o then that would be taught.

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:42 am
by Gilgolad
That would be the coolest thing ever. Jell-O.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:47 am
by ShanaArkai
i do see what lingo is trying to get at though, in the big bang theory, it says the space is expanding, scientic data shows evidence that this is true, so if space is expanding, what is it expanding into? there must be somthing out there, cause... well.... what is nothing more than? outer space is nothingness, so what could nothing expand into?

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:13 am
by voska
we r nothing but a foot locker in some other race's train station :P

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:07 pm
by lingolas
Suppose that there is a fixed volume of x. If the universe is expanding in this x volume then something else must be contracting. What could this be? Interesting to ponder

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:03 am
by Celeborn
lingolas wrote:Suppose that there is a fixed volume of x. If the universe is expanding in this x volume then something else must be contracting. What could this be? Interesting to ponder
Suppose that the moon is made from cookies. :P

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:58 pm
by Chilliwack
omg, celeborn, you like, totally opened my mind to cookie-moon!!!omg1zoraz

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:48 pm
by lingolas
celeborn wrote:

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Suppose that the moon is made from cookies.
It's not?! :shock:

Will we ever know the answer to this one?

Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:20 pm
by Arureal
What is beyond the fringe of expanding space? That is an excellent question, and one which is debated amoung physicists today. I would suggest that anyone interested in this topic read "The Universe in a Nutshell" wrote by one of the worlds top physicists, you know, the guy in the wheelchair who holds Newton"s posistion at Chambridge. He does a great job of explaining the different theories in use today, in a way that the average person can grasp it.
Some of these theories are very strange, like we are all just holograms of another reality, but they all explain the facts as we currently understand them. But in truth, this question cannot be answered until we know more.

Re: Will we ever know the answer to this one?

Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:48 pm
by Thremp
Arureal wrote:wrote by one of the worlds top physicists, you know, the guy in the wheelchair who holds Newton"s posistion at Chambridge.
Steven Hawking?

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:02 pm
by Arureal
That's the guy :!: Had a brain fart and could not remember his name at the time. :oops: Thanks for clearing that up.

Arureal
High Lord of Lowbies