Expert: Jayendra Upadhye - 3/20/2007

Question
What is beyond space? Is it like spherical shape with no end or beginning if it is could you go up or vertical from it or does that deifies the laws of physics or does it have an end and what is beyond that end. Could we ever reach that end and if we could would it be solid could we get onto the other side or would that be impossible? Do you know these answers, does anyone!

Answer
Elliott!
If i said i knew the answers, it would be very foolish of me!

But if you imagine a sphere with 3d space as its surface, and all "outside" and "inside" of this sphere, to be "4d" etc space, you would be closer to the picture.

The 3d universe is the surface of that 4d universe, and it is expanding.

When the bang happened, this sphere was infinitesimally small, and so the bang happened "everywhere" in this centerless 3d universe.

"centerless" because the center lies outside (or rather inside of this sphere) our cognitive boundaries.

Now using this perspective try answering your own questions.

Remember.."up/down" means moving radially into uncharted 4d space, in the universe in this scenario.

Doing so, you would literally pop out and pop in into the known world!

Most likely all answers to your question lie in the realm of the future.

Some day mankind may know these answers "by analogy" or by direct experience!

Who can say?
Jayen