Will the universe eventually come to an end?
Astronomers once thought the universe could collapse in a Big Crunch. Now most agree it will end with a Big Freeze. Trillions of years in the future, long after Earth is destroyed, the universe will drift apart until galaxy and star formation ceases.
How far to the end of the universe?
The comoving distance from Earth to the edge of the observable universe is about 14.26 gigaparsecs (46.5 billion light-years or 4.40×1026 m) in any direction.
What happens if you touch the end of the universe?
Once we reached the ‘end’, we would only see blackness, a void, with nothing there. The universe is ever expanding, so we would never see anything ahead of us, rushing ‘outwards’, but if we were to look back, to where we came from, we would see stars and galaxies approaching us.
Is the Big Rip possible?
One grim possible outcome is a Big Rip, which would ultimately unravel all matter down to the atomic level—though not for billions of years or longer.
Will we ever reach another galaxy?
The technology required to travel between galaxies is far beyond humanity’s present capabilities, and currently only the subject of speculation, hypothesis, and science fiction. However, theoretically speaking, there is nothing to conclusively indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible.
Is the space infinite?
The observable universe is finite in that it hasn’t existed forever. It extends 46 billion light years in every direction from us. (While our universe is 13.8 billion years old, the observable universe reaches further since the universe is expanding).
Is it possible to reach the end of the universe?
Because universe is currently expanding almost by the speed of light on the furthest ends. Since nothing can travel faster than light, therefore you will not be able to reach end of universe.
Is it true that the universe has no end?
The universe has no beginning and no end According to a study involving quantum mechanics, the universe may have existed forever. by Jose Juan Gutierrez
Does the universe have a beginning and an end?
Conventionally speaking, things have a beginning and an end within time. There is no clear reason why time itself should come to an end unless by collapsing the very structure of space-time. In other words, if indeed the critical density of our universe equals 1, then there may never be an end.
Was there never a beginning to the universe?
In the new formulation, the universe was never a singularity, or an infinitely small and infinitely dense point of matter. In fact, the universe may have no beginning at all.