• Question: what is at the end of space

    Asked by cdaveridge07 to Claire, Greg, Jane, Jo, Nuruz, Vicki on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Greg FitzHarris answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      wow… what a question…
      i suggest try and find one of the scientists in one of the general zones (oxygen, nitrogen, fluorine etc etc) with a physics background to ask…

      good luck – and let me now when you find out….!

      g

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      Vicki Onions answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      My boyfriend is a bit of a physics nut so i asked him – he said some people think space is like a doughnut and if you travel far enough you’ll end up where you started…….i heard doughnut and got distracted……….mmmmmm doughnuts

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      Jane Cleal answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      ‘Alt’ is at the end of space on my keyboard!

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      Nuruz Jaman answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      its a question i believe no one will ever know the answer to, well at least not in my life time.

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      Jo Broadbent answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi

      I wish I knew! I think there’s a theory that space is like a parabolla or a number 8 – it never ends. But I’m no physicist, I’m afraid!

      Hope you get an answer.

      Jo

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      Claire O'Donnell answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Oh no I was waiting for a question like this – the sort you have to wrap a wet towel around your head to answer!!!
      Isn’t it someting like the ‘edge’ of space is just the edge of the matter we can see and after that it’s a vacuum. And then there’s the thnig about us only being able to see stuff from a certain number of light years away simply because the light from elswhere wouldn’t have got to us yet.
      As you can see I don’t know what I’m talking about!!
      I was listening to a cosmologist talking yesterday and he said that we may just have to accept that there are things that our brains aren’t going to be able to understand because in reality, we undresatnd so little about the real nature of the physical laws of the universe. Here’s the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/reith/
      See what you think

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