Probably a dumb question ...

"Zilva Zanga" ha scritto nel messaggio
...
from someone with an interest but no education in this area.
If the universe is expanding, doesn't that mean that there is a boundary
to
what scientists define as the universe? If yes, what's on the other side?

Being the whole universe a huge computer simulation the question has no
answer.
After my death I'll ask the Big Programmers, if they think I'm so
interesting, as a sim, to live in another computer simulation...
If not, they simply will turn off my qbit soul.
Sounds a bit unlikely, but who knows?
Maybe also the pawns on my chessboard think they're fighting a real war...

Luigi Caselli

In message , Luigi Caselli
writes
"Zilva Zanga" ha scritto nel messaggio
u...
from someone with an interest but no education in this area.
If the universe is expanding, doesn't that mean that there is a boundary
to
what scientists define as the universe? If yes, what's on the other side?

Being the whole universe a huge computer simulation the question has no
answer.
After my death I'll ask the Big Programmers, if they think I'm so
interesting, as a sim, to live in another computer simulation...

What makes you think you'll meet me? :-)

"Jonathan Silverlight" ha
scritto nel messaggio ...
In message , Luigi Caselli
writes
"Zilva Zanga" ha scritto nel messaggio
u...
from someone with an interest but no education in this area.
If the universe is expanding, doesn't that mean that there is a
boundary
to
what scientists define as the universe? If yes, what's on the other
side?

Being the whole universe a huge computer simulation the question has no
answer.
After my death I'll ask the Big Programmers, if they think I'm so
interesting, as a sim, to live in another computer simulation...

What makes you think you'll meet me? :-)

Because, just after my death, I'll see a Silver Light and Jonathan, the
Chief Programmer, will answer some dumb questions about the simulation...
:-)

Luigi Caselli

"Zilva Zanga" wrote in
:

from someone with an interest but no education in this area.
If the universe is expanding, doesn't that mean that there is a boundary
to what scientists define as the universe? If yes, what's on the other
side?

"Misconceptions about the Big Bang"
http://tinyurl.com/4hw24

Brian
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"Zilva Zanga" bravely wrote to "All" (31 Aug 05 15:36:15)
--- on the heady topic of "Probably a dumb question ..."

ZZ From: "Zilva Zanga"
ZZ Xref: core-easynews sci.astro:444924

ZZ from someone with an interest but no education in this area.
ZZ If the universe is expanding, doesn't that mean that there is a
ZZ boundary to what scientists define as the universe? If yes, what's on
ZZ the other side?


As it stands the universe has no boundary except how far in the past
we can measure it. The earliest record gives the universe a limit of
when the primordial energy was able to liberate itself from matter and
space became opaque to radiation.

Metaphysically speaking, the universe is in our minds. The unknown
parts of the universe are where new symbols need to be created to
describe what we perceive or imagine. At the frontier of our
knowledge, the universe thus will be what we want it to be. However,
perhaps 100 years from now, just like the flat earth folk and Earth
centric people, we will have to reconsider any misconceptions we make
today about the universe.

A*s*i*m*o*v

.... Galileo: Condemned in 1633. Pardoned 359 years later. About time!!