Is space never ending?

[NTDaws]

If there was a end to space, would it be pitch white, and if there was do you think we could get to the end in maybe 30 years?

[NTDaws]

wow I'll be 46 years old then. BUT ILL STILL BE ON THE FORUM

[AshleyAshes]

1) No, space is not never ending.  It is firmly established that there is an 'edge' or 'end' to the known universe.

2) It wouldn't be white, it would be black.  It would be the end of everything, no energy, no light, nothing.

3) I doubt that we'll escape the solar system with a manned mission in thirty years.  We sure as hell won't be getting to the end of the known universe in that amount of time.

[bossman1]

Ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson he can answer your question with style and grace and be funny at the same time.

Youtube it.

 

No one knows so no one can say. Are you a "God Gap" person?

[Real_PhillBert]

 

[Mug]

37 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

I doubt that we'll escape the solar system with a manned mission in thirty years.  We sure as hell won't be getting to the end of the known universe in that amount of time.

It all depends on politics, with the perfect funding and international cooperation, anything is possible.

[AshleyAshes]

1 minute ago, Mug said:

It all depends on politics, with the perfect funding and international cooperation, anything is possible.

No, it really isn't.  Let me make this clear: The edge of the known universe is 46 billion light years away.  Human civilization would have to discover a method to travel billions of times the speed of light to get there in any reasonable amount of time.  It's not a matter of 'politics' and 'funding'.

[Mug]

1 minute ago, AshleyAshes said:

No, it really isn't.  Let me make this clear: The edge of the known universe is 46 billion light years away.  Human civilization would have to discover a method to travel billions of times the speed of light to get there in any reasonable amount of time.  It's not a matter of 'politics' and 'funding'.

ok. fine. be a cynic.

[AshleyAshes]

1 minute ago, Mug said:

ok. fine. be a cynic.

Erm...

 

Quote

an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism.

"public cynicism about politics"

'Cynic', that word, it doesn't mean what you think it means.

 

12 minutes ago, Mug said:

It all depends on politics

...But THAT would be an example of cynicism...

[Mug]

3 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Erm...

ok, ok. fine. I'm too tired right now to respond to you about this. wallow in your success.

[dalekphalm]

1 minute ago, Mug said:

ok, ok. fine. I'm too tired right now to respond to you about this. wallow in your success.

It's possible (although incredibly unlikely) that we may discover technology that would allow us to travel faster than light within 30 years (Most likely some form of naturally existing worm hole, or the discovery of advanced alien technology), but seriously, reaching the end of the known universe within 30 years, or 300, or even 3000, is so unlikely as to be practically impossible.

 

I don't know why you think this makes @AshleyAshes a cynic because she's realistic.

 

In 30 years, we'll be lucky if the manned Mars missions are on schedule. Ideally, in 30 years, with, as you say, "perfect politics", we might have a successful colony on Mars, and manned missions to other stellar bodies within this solar system.

 

Barring some outside interference, the odds of us even leaving the solar system in within 30 years are pretty much zero.

[Dash Lambda]

8 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

1) No, space is not never ending. It is firmly established that there is an 'edge' or 'end' to the known universe.

The known universe is different from the universe in general. The former is basically our field of vision, the latter is everything.

We don't have enough data to determine whether the universe is infinite or finite, though it's my understanding that it would be very strange if it were finite.

[Misanthrope]

The known universe is so unfathomable for all practical intends and purposes it is never ending to the human experience. Even traveling much faster than the speed of light we could never even approach and if we do, we have no idea of what we'll find since we're guessing the size based on the light of stars and galaxies that was where we think it is millions upon millions of years ago.

 

The distance is so great when we get there and if it kept expanding we might find out we are effectively not even close to what we thought was the "end" of the universe. 

 

And that is not even getting into alternate or multiple dimensions and universes.