@Termite said:
"@Hailinel said:
" Trying to give a reason as to why existence exists is a pretty tall order. It's hard to say that there could ever be truly "nothing", because even if the vastness of space was devoid of planets, stars, and galaxies, there would still be the vastness of space itself. How can something like that not exist? "
Is there a solid boundary between the ends of our universe and...well...whatever is OUTSIDE of it? The universe is constantly expanding, but what is it expanding into? Is there anything outside the universe? GAH, these are questions that cannot yet really be answered. "
The only reason people think our universe as a boundary is because they are so closed minded, due to the nature of our lives and everything we do with them, humanity is unable to believe something else could truly be eternal, and so we impose limits on everything else.
As for the universe expanding, again, complete bullshit. Given that the 'big bang' was X many millions of years ago, light can only have traveled a certain distance in that time, and the light from outside this sphere (with earth as the centrepoint) has not yet reached the earth, so we cannot see it. Yet, as we get further and further from the big bang, more light reaches us because it has had longer to travel, and thus it appears to us that the universe is expanding when in reality, someone is turning on the lights, very very slowly.
It has also been proven than our galaxy is slowly on a collision course with another galaxy (dont worry, it's billions of billions of billions of years away from happening, our sun will have exploded before it happens) and that other galaxies have collided as well, it is not unreasonable to believe that after an unimagionable amount of time, every galaxy in the universe (or at least a big enough portion of the universe to reset itself, like I said we cannot see whether the universe has an end or not as light from that distance has not yet reached us) collides, it would render itself the correct conditions for another big bang, and the cycle starts again.
That's just my opinion/theory though, many scientists will tell you I am wrong, insane, misinformed etc, but then they all say that about everything until something proves them otherwise.
