Posted by: yatri_freewoman November 4, 2004
Where does space end??It must end somewhere?? or Is it infinite??
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Genesis says Chicken came first before the egg. So that being solved lets continue the thread. I wonder if there is an axes system we can abstract such that time is in one of its axes. But if we do get time in one of the axes what are we going to put in other axes because we define motion in terms of time like at that particular time it was there, after these many years that grew. So the normal things we know will not be appropriate to label other axes. Then the remaining thing that should accompany time will be something that is independent of time. But can we think of anything that is independent of time? I cannot think of anything that can be independent from time. Talking about Space and if it is limited. By defintion it is the place where universe exist. So there cannot be an end to Space. Because if there were, then it would mean that the thing we were considering to be space is actually a little bubble and that the bubble itself exists somewhere else. And so what we were regarding as space actually is not The Space. Thus the Space is infinite. I like to imagine the space where our universe exist as a big big sphere in three dimensional axes system. So the sphere itself is limited. But the space in which it exist goes on for infinity. And there actually doesnot even need to be a wall that separates our sphere from the rest of the space. It could be an open sphere meaning after certain point the sphere does not exist any more but it is not bounded by something visible and so we can always form solar systems of some radius inside the sphere. Yikes I dont think I make much sense here, do I?.
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