• Question: what do you think is beyond the universe? it is forever expanding but what is beyond the expansion?

    Asked by anon-244285 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 18 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      It does’t really make sense to talk about ‘beyond’ the universe; the universe contains all of space and time. It’s the space within the universe that is expanding!
      (Happy to be proved wrong on this one though!)

    • Photo: Eleanor Jones

      Eleanor Jones answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      As Ed says, everything is contained in the universe so the concept of outside the universe doesn’t really make sense. But even so, I sometimes think about it and wonder if there is something ‘beyond’ as it’s hard to imagine something not being enclosed within something else! I really struggle sometimes to get my head around concepts like this!

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