Is Space different from that which is “in” it?
Lore63 .
03/11/2005 13:(1)(1) and the date 031 (1)(2) 005 which gives us a 31 and 13, a (1)(1) and (1)(2) and a (0)(0)5 and 5 the sacred number of the White Lions.
Dear Lor
I am wondering about expanding, about the Universe expanding. But if something expands, then it automatically imply there is somewhere a limit as the Universe is expanding beyond the limit – if there is no limit, how can the Universe expand? Does this now mean, for the Universe to expand, it has to have limits? But then the question, is the Universe infinitely large? If it is, there is no expansion possible – as it is already infinitely large, nothing can expand in infinity as infinity is already infinite. And if we say infinitely, we are implying that there is no expansion, but that means there never before also could have been expansion as the Universe are infinitely – this is if we assume that the Universe is infinitely. And if no expansion has taken place, does this mean that evolution did not take place? As scientists who believe in Big Bang are saying that the Universe started out small, and then expanded/evolved. But this imply the Universe was limited – otherwise it could not have expanded. And this then becomes my next question: if the Universe was limited, what surrounded it, as limited imply “in” something or something surrounding the thing that is limited? How can we say we are expanding into infinity, if we are already infinite? Or then the other possibility, if we are expanding and limited then, where is the limits where the expansion is taking place? As if infinite expands, infinite is not infinite anymore as there were someplace infinite has not been, the place the expansion took place into.
Nothing makes sense to me…
But what confuse me is because I am thinking in terms of space/Universe as if you just view the things in space to be expanding in an infinite space, or evolving in an infinite space, then expansion makes sense. But don’t the same laws and principals that apply to the things “in” space, apply to space as well? Or is space different from that which is “in” it?
When scientists are talking about Universal laws, does “Universal” not include space?
So where does infinite space come from? Or is it limited as in the above asked questions, when being viewed on the same grounds like the “things” within space as a whole being called the Universe?
LOVE
Renee
03/11/2005 13:29 or 13:11 which leaves us at exactly the same principals where we started…
“don’t the same laws and principals that apply to the things “in” space, apply to space as well? Or is space different from that which is “in” it?”
Yes it is different. For example, space can expand faster than the speed of light, whereas something in it cannot be accelerated to this speed. It’s not that crazy that space (or really spacetime) should be different from matter and energy in this way, as it is the stage upon which they act.
That said, we now know that spacetime is dynamcic, not static – e.g. affected by strong gravitational speeds or bodies moving at high speed..