Should'nt the universe be an empty, dark void,  since there is no satisfactory explanation for the origin?
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This is clearly a ridiculous question just meant to irritate and bait people, judging from your other questions. You should be ashamed of yourself. Why are you so angry at the world and your fellow human beings?\n\nThe universe exists, at least as far as we know, although there is a solipsistic point of view that it does not. It exists and it is not cold and dark, apparently. It just is, and appears to exist whether humans exist or not. As far as we know, it existed before humans did, and will exist after humans cease to exist. Its existence and character do not appear to have anything to do with human existence, your own personal bias to the contrary.  \n\nWhether we have an explanation for any particular phenomenon or not, it will exist. We did not know about quantum mechanics, but it still existed even though we did not have it as an explanation for what we were observing. \n\nEven though the Church was frantic to stop explanations for celestial motion such as the Copernican theory, no matter how hard they tried, the data still existed, and the explanation explained the data, and it emerged. It did not create the situation where the earth orbited the sun. If Copernicus was able to create this just by stating his theory, then he was a very powerful man indeed, no matter how much the Church opposed him. \n\nThe only thing close to this that actually is scientifically potentially viable is the role of the observer in quantum mechanics, which appears only to work in special cases and circumstances. If you actually want to learn something about the universe around you instead of standing on soap boxes to preach and annoy, you might look into that. \n\nI might add, that it is not really up to you if we have a satisfactory explanation for the origin of the universe or not, or the current theories which explain a lot of the observations are on the right track or not.
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Many  astronomers think that the Universe is infinite. See, this\nwebsite for the complete explanations.
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The problem here is that you are not visualizing this accurately (and humans might not be able to do so easily). All of our universe's space and time, until it expands, does not exist. \n\nThere might be other universes, or other dimensions, but we really only have theories about those, and we do not have good methods for testing these hypotheses yet, and we might never have them.
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You have to think back and ask the correct questions to answer this one. The theory of the "Big Bang" is incorrect. First Question: "Where did the matter come from for the "Big Bang"? Answer: "From somewhere else". Keep asking the question of "Where did something come from"? and you have to arrive at the fact that at some point, there was absolutely nothing.\n\nThis is a very hard concept to understand and think about because you always want to think in terms of a "void" if you try to think of nothing, but you have to realize that "a void" is "something" so you have to think of "nothing", "nada", "zip".\n\nThen you can arrive to the conclusion that...\n\n"It is the propensity for NOTHING to create SOMETHING".\n\nThe very first thing nothing would create is energy, something that would keep manifesting itself and propegate. That is what you would call "Life". Some refer it to "God" but it still all the same thing and exists everywhere in the universe.\n\nThis "Energy" would eventually become so extreme that it would create the "void", then the energy would transform into matter and gravity and begin to fill the void.\n\nThese three forces are the basis for all the laws of our current "Universe" and have dictated it's behavior ever since.\n\nThe universe if far older then the 13 billion years old we now can detect, it is constantly changing, expanding, and filling the ever greater void it creates as the energy, matter and gravity continues to be created.\n\nTo answer your question, you are sitting on it, it does not sit on anything.\n\nWhen your coporal body can no longer contain the energy that created you, as in all "living" things, your energy will again become part of this universe, no matter how trivial that energy may be, it is still a part of the entire energy that was and is still being created at this time.
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There is no answer to this question within the context of which it is asked.  The theory that the universe is finite but boundaryless is groundless at best having been built from many accepted, yet untried, pre-existing theories of the universe.  \n\nThis theory should be more approprately viewed as the culmination of everything we do not know about the universe, and is tied entirely to a singular perspective. Yet it is accepted as fact by many within the scientific community and elsewhere.\n\nBased on our current technological capabilities and observations of the universe we have no business asking science this type of question.  In turn it is irresponsible of science to supply any type of response with conviction and confidence.  \n\nTheories such as this one are no different than the assertions of any religion;  they require an enormous amount of faith to be accepted.\n\nBottom line:  your guess is just as good as anyone's.
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Stephen Hawking addressed this issue in his famous book " A Brief History of Time" .\n\nHe stated that if the universe continued to expand the density of matter will continue to decrease with a resulting drop in the average temperature of the universe.\n\nHe feels that eventually, ( as in billions of years ), the only things left in such a large and cold universe will be black holes which will "gobbled up" nearly every atom of matter and energy so that it will be a very dark place.\n\nin fact the real endpoint of the universe is unknown, and it may eventually contract as well if there is enough gravity to pull it back together !
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I hate to be the philosopher but that is why the question still reamins. No one can accuratly tell what lies beyond the boundries of the universe. Is there another? Is it just white noise? I believe that space is infinite and our "universe" could well be a part of a cluster of "multiverses". i was once told that the universe is expanding in the same way that a balloon is blown up. So what lies beyond our universe? I say space, space, and more space! \n\nIf our universe began with the "big bang" then that would mean that at some point the universe had collapsed upon itself, leaving empty space.
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Either answer would be wrong.  The universe came first.
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It does not end and its growing, before you try tackling such a question, answer the micro-level questions of the same kind.  The universe encompasses all that exists, and by default then, it is largely unknown.  We don't know where the universe ends, and all evidence points to it being endless and growing, therefore we make a conclusion based on a portion of the information actually needed.
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'Outside the universe' seem to me to belong to the universe!\nYou think the universe is that small???\nI do not know the answer on your question.\nLet me ask you: can the space time be curved without mass or only thanks to mass?
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We already now know that the birth of our Universe may very well be a random quantum fluctuation, and that these quantum events are based on probability, not "cause and effect".\n\nBut the human drive to discover the "Ultimate Truth" is not contigent upon there being a sensible answer, or even an answer. It is simply not enough to just exist, or accept what has been given to us (as someone has suggested). If God exists, then God has given us the desire to seek knowledge, wisdom, and truth. To know the Universe is to know God.
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The universe may very well be expanding into nothing. You see, we are used to thinking of expansion in terms of objects expanding into space (3D space) but the universe is space.\n\nThere is really no other way to explain it and it's something you might just have to accept though it's hard to envision.\n\nAnother explaination is that the universe may actually exist in a higher dimension (for example, 2D exists within 3D). According to membrane theory, the universe may have resulted from the collision of two "membranes" in a higher dimention and mass is the overlapping of those membranes.\n\nBut that is just one of the many possabilities.
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Latest scientific research suggests that the universe has no beginning or end, both spatially and temporally.  Thus, there was never a creation.
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The thing is ... a parrallel universe may exist. We cannot prove it one way or another ......YET! :) How do we know that another universe and our universe and many other universes .... do not exist in a metaverse? And if so .... maybe something like distance etc. exists in that metaverse ... which imparts some of it's qualities to our own universe and indeed to any other universe within that metaverse. Hence ..... we may not even have a void outside our universe at all.
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Space doesn't exist. There are things IN space. Matter makes up the stars and planets and gasses and eveything you see. Everything you DON'T see, I.E. the large black void, is nothing. There is no matter or antimatter or anything there. It's just....emtpy. Therefore, it doesn't exist. Only the things in it exist.
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at the present time, the only widely accepted, scientifically valid theory of the origin of the universe is the "big bang" theory.  british astronomer fred hoyle gave the theory this name to ridicule it.  the big bang is substantially supported by evidence.  for the first 380 000 years, the universe was opaque.  light could not travel far without interacting with a charged particle (electron or atomic nucleus, mostly hydrogen and helium nuclei).  the universe became transparent when the electrons and nuclei combined to form atoms.  light could travel unhindered because the atoms have no electric charge.  because of the expansion of the universe, we see this light at much longer microwave wavelengths.  this is called the cosmic microwave background, and we can see nothing of the universe before this.  within the first fraction of a second, however, the universe became much larger during an extremely short fraction of a second.  this super-fast expansion is called inflation.\n\ni can't really say much about the many myths of the origin of the universe, what the universe is, or even if the universe had an origin.
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To me none of this makes any sense. Things like this is what made me question the validity of religion in the first place.\n\nI DO believe in the ultimate being. This world & its functions didn't create itself. There were programs to follow & rules set forth.\nSure the universe probably came from a big bang. But something had to make the bang possible. Evolution all well & good, yes, but something was programmed to make that possible.\nI'm not an atheist because of religious reasons but rather for logical reasons. Something had to come from something.\n\nBut I don't believe in this Satan Devil character at all.\nIt's hokey.\nGod created an assistant???\nWhat the hell does God need an "assistant" for anyhow?\nThis is not limited mankind this is Ultimate Being!\nGod needs nothing but God.\n\nIn fact this whole thing about God needing us makes no sense either. For what?\nIf God needs others then God is limited and not the ultimate being. And if what we refer to as God is not the ultimate being than who is? I ain't got time for no middlemen. Who's the top dog?\n\nMy theory on this whole universe is that it is nothing more than God exploded. All pieces and parts within are fractions of the whole, the ultimate. From a simple rock to the species of mankind to oil sludge.\nWhy this happened no one will ever know. We're only fractions and we can only get fractional information.\n\nIt is true. God always was and always will be. But hell if we'll ever know why that is or why it should be.\nJohn Lucas