Originally Posted by Tom Shea
Well it is a fascinating issue. I read quite a bit about cosmology and how current thinking among the astrophysics community is dealing with the issue. It is very difficult to conceptualize but essentially there is no nothing. Space is curved and there is no edge. An analogy in two dimensions is a loop of string. There is no "end" just like in the universe there is no edge.

It gets even more complicated when one considers the presently accepted view that there are 10 dimensions instead of four that we commonly think of. The extra dimensions are very small - quite difficult to visualize except in mathematical terms.

And then there is the issue of muti-universes. According to M theory (formerly string theory), there are probably an infinite number of universes being created each moment - for all possible outcomes of events.

Quite something to think about.

Tom


I'm fascinated with all this Tom. Will we ever know the whole story?

A couple years ago I got into a debate with a mathematician. I told him if you keep dividing a number in half, it will only keep getting smaller and smaller. He explained to me with long complex equations where it would eventually be "0" (nothing).

Commonsense tells me otherwise. I couldn't accept it. Of course those equations were way beyond my Algebra classes in high school.

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