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The edge of the Universe could be exploding and we wouldn’t know it

Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:25 pm
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:25 pm
The farthest observation is 13.5billion light years away. Everything out there could have been exploding for billions of years before now and we wouldn’t know it yet.

Seriously how would we know if the edges of the universe are destructing right now?
This post was edited on 2/5/18 at 10:28 pm
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
56113 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:27 pm to
yep...if I remember right, the universe is expanding at a hell of a rate...so things may happen and the light never gets back to us so we never see it happening.
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
34076 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:27 pm to
I too like to hit the weed late in the evening
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
109145 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:28 pm to
There could be places exploding with life like 20 light years away. Hell Europa and Titan could have life. Mars is naturally producing methane despite the planet being dead. We don't know shite.
This post was edited on 2/5/18 at 10:29 pm
Posted by SabiDojo
Open to any suggestions.
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:28 pm to
And it's expanding faster and faster and we don't know why.

In fact, it's expanding so fast, we are becoming more and more isolated.

Eventually, we will truly be all alone in the universe.
Posted by Anonymous95
Member since Sep 2014
2078 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:29 pm to
Question is, if it is exploding, will it outpace the sun going red giant and swallowing the earth in 5 billion years?
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
62899 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:30 pm to
I think it would be neat to be staring up at the Big Dipper, then all of a sudden one of the stars just goes away.

We'd have to rename the constellation, correct?
Posted by dbuchanon
Member since Nov 2014
19837 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:30 pm to
quote:

The farthest observation is 13.5billion light years away


And yet I lose cell signal driving over a big bridge...
Posted by Peazey
Metry
Member since Apr 2012
25418 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:36 pm to
And if it is all of us are going to be long dead before it could possibly have any effect on us. Not only that, but our entire planet and sun would likely be burned out before it reached us.
Posted by mailman
Houston
Member since Jul 2009
6143 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:37 pm to
There is no edge
Posted by Ancient Astronaut
Member since May 2015
33167 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:39 pm to
Universe is just expanding into another universe
Posted by BigDropper
Member since Jul 2009
7667 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:45 pm to
the universe is flat! signed tRant...
Posted by AUsteriskPride
Albuquerque, NM
Member since Feb 2011
18385 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 11:07 pm to
Who cares? We're all going to die and all legacies will be wiped out regardless. Just live your life.
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
27325 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 11:21 pm to
The sun could explode and we wouldn’t know it for like 10 minutes.
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
51916 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 11:45 pm to
quote:


The farthest observation is 13.5billion light years away. Everything out there could have been exploding for billions of years before now and we wouldn’t know it yet.


Actually.

We will never know what is happening at the corner of the universe from Earth.

At those ranges, space cumulatively is growing faster than the speed of light.

So the distance from the source to here is growing faster than the speed of light cam reduce it.
Posted by olgoi khorkhoi
priapism survivor
Member since May 2011
14898 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 11:49 pm to
quote:

Seriously how would we know if the edges of the universe are destructing right now?



Would we know if the edge of the universe was touching itself? Can anyone definitively say that dark matter isn’t galactic ejaculate?
Posted by WinnPtiger
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2011
23917 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 11:58 pm to
your mom has been exploding for the last 30 seconds
Posted by GeauxDoc
Highland Road
Member since Sep 2010
2548 posts
Posted on 2/6/18 at 5:48 am to
Limit To How Far We Can Go

This is an interesting clip that touches on the concept of the universe expanding.
Posted by CharlesLSU
Member since Jan 2007
31929 posts
Posted on 2/6/18 at 7:17 am to
Who knew humans can’t see the edge of the fricking universe. #surprised

Posted by madmaxvol
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Member since Oct 2011
19198 posts
Posted on 2/6/18 at 7:24 am to
quote:

Seriously how would we know if the edges of the universe are destructing right now?



The edge of the universe could be cosmically transforming into pink sea turtles and we wouldn't know...
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