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Isn't the universe constantly expanding also so do you think there's a limit to that expansion?

As I understand it, the universe started expanding with the Big Bang and has continued to do so ever since. So yes, it's still expanding which means that it is a finite distance across.

I have no idea if there's a limit to that expansion.

"Dammit Jim I'm a doctor not a physicist!"

The thing I don't comprehend is now the universe is only 13 trillion years, yet the sun has a life of 10 trillion years, earth about 3... All heavier atoms come from inside stars so... That would mean there was a lot of stars doing quite a bit...

Of work to make heavier atoms, yet they had a significantly shorter life that the sun. I think the universe is much older than our current estimates given the age of our sun. (Sorry it's only ~7 trillion years old.)

Thinking about the vastness of the universe always makes me feel a little sick.

It makes the little things we fret over seem pretty insignificant to me. It doesn't creep me out, but it definitely makes my mind spin a bit. :)

Another universe, potentially an alternate one.

Well that is what we think anyways. The problem with these sorts of things is that we really can't know for sure what is happening, we can just observe the effects. We can observe that galaxies around us appear to be moving farther away at great

Speeds but there could be a number of possible explanations or phenomenon that result in such an observation, the expanding universe is just the best explanation we have for it right now. Scientists in the past have agreed in theories that have later

Been disproven, especially with things regarding the universe and microscopic activity (the earth was thought to be the center of the universe, ect.) and theories are constantly being disproven and revised. It is very humbling to think how little we

Know for sure about the universe.

Oh hey I just realized who I was replying to, what's up doc?

Do you think there's a limits to the universes expansion or is that expansion infinite?

Hi, Zack. :)

I don't think there is a limit, but I'm certainly not the person to ask.

You are assuming that we are created by chance, if we are created by God there is a 0% chance of that.

I believe in God, but I don't think the universe is infinite. I'm stating that actual fact that is to an infinite universe which is that is its infinite, no matter how small the chance, every possible world exists in the universe because it's infinit

If god created us, there is a 0% chance that another human like world even exists

That is not correct, infinity does not imply every possible combination will be fulfilled. Just look at 1/3, it is equal to 1.33333333 with infinite 3's, but even though it is infinite you will never see "8675309" in that number, only 3's

If one will search the scriptures, one will find that the universe is infinite, and that God has created "worlds without end" in order that His children may have the opportunity to receive immortality and eternal life. It is not an empty universe.

Also due to light pollution we can't really see the stars where I live.

I'm not the philosophical type, but it really puts things into prospective... We are pretty small when you take it all in!

Yeah I kept thinking about how all the stars I was seeing had been gone for millions of years too. That was the first time I can remember seeing a full, clear sky with zero light pollution, so you can imagine I was pretty mesmerized. I feel like

Living in the city, I'm being robbed of one of the most spectacular things on earth that had always been hidden from me in plain sight.

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Jenna, most of the "stars" we see are galaxies like our own, each with billions of stars in it. How's that for perspective? :o)

And each of them with their own Jenna staring at the sky in awe and mesmerization. That's how it works, right? :P

Tom- reading your comment just made me catch another one of my thumb/phone blunders... Yes, that does add some "perspective".

My fingers and phone just don't play well together :)

Mine don't either, my friend. I type one-fingered. But I usually proofread, because I expect typos (typi?). :o)

Jenna, there is only one Jenna, a unique masterpiece of God's handiwork. Don't ever forget that!

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:)

Scientists believe it's expanding.

And they believe the rate of expansion is accelerating.

But scientist don't know much. As someone who took an astronomy class 75% of what we know could be wrong.

Why would it be wrong?

Idk but the whole concept of dark matter and dark energy throws a wrench in the plan.

Almost all of what we have is theory but some of it is pretty solid. We can actually observe the expansion of the universe though as the distance between galaxies expands via Hubble Telescope.

Are opinions are bound by what me know about light speed and physics

Ha ha ha Border. You think your class in astronomy gives you a better grasp of the properties of the universe than 75% of the scientific community.

The scientific community stumbles each other all the time, I'm just stating how there are so many unprovable theories it is ridiculous to say there is unison.

Sorry, this boggles my mind from time to time.