What Lies Beyond the Edge of the Universe?

The view of the starry night sky is simply overwhelming. And yet we should not forget that all the countless formations that sparkle towards us do not represent the big picture! On the contrary: the truth is that from our earthly vantage point, we can see only an infinitesimal fraction of the universe – and consequently we are not able to describe the exact shape and extent of the cosmos. But in the same breath, a fundamental question arises: what wondrous things lie beyond our optical range of vision – and is it even possible to discover them? Well, apparently it is: some data literally scream that a full-grown colossus is lurking out there, its arm already stretched out towards the structures of our world!

[timothy]

Don't you find the edge first? What if there is no universe just space going on as a huge brain. We have spooky neurons flowing from brain to muscle. We function from messaging to different parts of our bodies and we interpret each other. Spooky action from a distance. Sound is spooky action from a distance but it is interpretation of a event passed. We see into the past events.

[DanH-uf]

What lies beyond? Another universe and on and on.

[stoobydootoo]

There is no edge of the universe, as far as we know.

[Celestialexplorer-le]

Sitting on my porch at home in Florida on my beach front property overlooking the ocean while sipping on my favorite tropical drink. Life is good 😃🌊

[benbooth]

Modern cosmological models state that the universe has no edge as this would break the cosmological principle (that the universe is homogenous and isotropic on large distance scales). There are three possible geometries that can meet these criteria:

Spherical - parallel lines converge - finite. If you keep travelling in one direction you get back to where you started like a planet, except in this case it is 4d sphere.
Hyperbolic - parallel lines diverge - infinite. This is like a Pringle chip but in 4d, very difficult to visualise.
Flat - parallel lines remain parallel - infinite.

We have measured the curvature of the universe and it is very flat (with some uncertainty), so the current consensus is that the universe is flat and infinite. This means that the galaxies go on forever.

There is a cosmic horizon that defines the *_observable_* universe. The light from the galaxies outside the cosmic horizon hasn't had enough time to reach us yet because the universe isn't old enough. The cosmic horizon moves away from us as time moves on and the observable universe grows larger.

However, there is a secondary effect, the expansion of the universe. This causes the distance between the galaxies to grow over time. Far enough away, the galaxies are moving away from us at the speed of light which infinitely red-shifts the light from them making them disappear from view.

The net result of the growth of the observable universe (more stuff comes into view), and the expansion of the universe (stuff disappearing from view) is that over time we will see less and less. Eventually, all we will be able to see is our own galaxy.

[بوحميدةمحمدبنأحمد]

- We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago -
The cause of climate change is that the Earth is in travel to the deep past since May 10, 2010.
Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us 1000 years to the past of the Earth.
Today March 26, 2025 our Earth is at the point 5 million and 434 thousand years in the past.
On October 13, 2026 our Earth will be at the point 6 million years in the past.
On September 25, 2037 our Earth will be at the point 10 million years in the past.

[aznguymetal]

Now I'm thinking each galaxy it own universe and in that bubble. Think of it as different regions within a vast multiverse framework where each galaxy is a separate universe with its own unique properties and evolutionary history. The distances and timescales involved are so immense that, practically speaking, each galaxy functions as its own universe.

[grcnczm]

There is no edge to the universe. The divine cosmic consciousness, God, is an infinite living entity. Everything exists within Him. We are simply a different form of His energy, which cannot be created nor destroyed. Steve Bush

[baby-turtle]

There is no edge. There are no negative values. Not in this reality.
In this reality everything happened everywhere all at once. There's no empty space.

[aiartrelaxation]

The more questions you have... the more questions are coming
We build more and more on speculation, and that's creating loops.

[apollo-rz]

The universe of spacetime is expanding into itself, space and time are continuously being created at the speed of light homogeneously throughout the universe. There is no edge, the 'edge' is right here, it is everywhere.

[MgtowRubicon]

The only "edge" of the universe is the event horizon surface of black holes.

[TheHiddenSecretsoftheUnive-nd]

Hopefully there isn't a wall outside the edge of the universe, otherwise it'll be hard to get home!

I wish we could see more than what we’re able to see.

[horiaioanfilip]

What lies beyond the edge of the universe ? What lies beyond the edge of a spherical surface, that is spherical surface too, because the sphere hasn't an edge.😀

[grcnczm]

I'm OK, you're OK. God loves us all. Steve Bush

[kwuae]

FIND THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE? WELL FIND THE MISSING MH 370 MALASIAN AIRLINE FIRST.

[LOLONO]

There is a billion universes behind our universe, , this is the answer

[thomascorbett]

After you get past the planets stars and galaxies there is absolutely nothing on and on forever .

[fourmula]

may be it gets very cold out there where there iz no galaxy universe and it get so cold you cant even travel there with a star behind you then you be trapped in the universe until it expire and reincarnate