Expert: Jayendra Upadhye - 7/31/2008

Question
what's at the end of space?

Answer
Nikki,
We have to answer this very carefully.
NOT jumping to conclusions imposed by minds, but reasoning all the way.
By definition, "everything known and unknown that exists" is in the universe.
In set theory it is best described as the universal set.

technically we would never "reach the end of space" as like all concepts of "limits", we always "can get to within a millionth of an inch and then a nillionth of that and then a millionth of that but we would never ever reach the boundary. (As in x tends to 0 etc examples of limits).

Even if you mentally "reached there", then by definition anything you see would be "immediately arrogated by the universe as part of itself"! Period.

It is an ineascapble situation. (May be because of this, it "expands"!! :) jesting there...

Akin to falling thru the event horizon of the black hole. The guy doing the falling never crosses! Time slows down every nanometer closer one gets!

Secondly our 3d universe is actually is a seamless bubble with its center in the 4th dimension "outside of 3d space". As the universe expands, seamlessly, centerlessly, everywhere simultanously, where would one find the end?

I "like to imagine" that during the first split second in the inflationary stage, the 3d universe had "ends" or edges". But these closed as a 3d shell enclosed a 4d "volume" to form the perfect bubble that has been expanding in 4d space ever since. May be that is why inflation was neccessary, where the "closing" edges had to overtake light itself and inflate or happen simultanously over that "starting minimum 4d volume. (like a sheet covering an egg).

May be the secrets of the natural constants..why they have those values..the logarithmic base e = 2.71828, G = 6.67 * 10^-11, The gas constant, Boltzmann's constant, Joule's constant, h the constant coupling frequency and energy, the admittance of space 277 ohms, the permittivity constant epsilon..all have their secrets stored there..some secret 4d space where GOD lives? Doing his machinations and manipulating the universe at will?

What do you think?

regards
Jayen