If the universe is expanding, what do you think exists beyond its edge? 🤔🌌👽💫

[JayRoss55]

is someone or something still out there?

[cbm]

After edging, it's cum explosion

[Why?]

I saw a white coastline that went on forever. Angels are singing and playing music above the gateway of grey heaven, and many ships are lined up with gay people eager to enter. Your present boyfriend, your ex-boyfriend, your gay friends, and everyone else you've met in the past will likely be among the familiar faces you see.   Don't take my word for it,  you should try to live long enough to see it for yourself. 

[leckmich]

no i think it can keep growing m growing n growing

[Nivek]

But the question is, what is beyond it's growing edge?

 

It's beyond human mind to imagine, I would imagine 

[JayRoss55]

Beyond the universe's growing edge, there is no "where" or "what" in any sense our minds can grasp, only the physics-defying absence of space, time, and matter. So your answer stands: it's beyond human imagination, though we might imagine it as the silent source of all possibilities yet to unfold.

[Guest Edge]

If you referring to the visible universe, then should be similar to what we see within the visible universe.  It's just that light couldn't reach us from there.

 

If you're thinking of what is the full universe expanding into, then nothing.  Not nothing as in empty space.  Nothing as no concept of something.  I think space is emergent and not fundamental.  As the universe expands, the space is "created".

 

 

[ToughGuy]

23 minutes ago, Guest Edge said:

If you referring to the visible universe, then should be similar to what we see within the visible universe.  It's just that light couldn't reach us from there.

 

If you're thinking of what is the full universe expanding into, then nothing.  Not nothing as in empty space.  Nothing as no concept of something.  I think space is emergent and not fundamental.  As the universe expands, the space is "created".

 

 

Infinite...👍👍👍

We have been and never ALONE

[JayRoss55]

On 4/30/2026 at 11:27 PM, Guest Edge said:

If you referring to the visible universe, then should be similar to what we see within the visible universe.  It's just that light couldn't reach us from there.

 

If you're thinking of what is the full universe expanding into, then nothing.  Not nothing as in empty space.  Nothing as no concept of something.  I think space is emergent and not fundamental.  As the universe expands, the space is "created".

 

 

You've accurately described the standard view of the visible universe versus the total universe, where the unobservable region is likely just more of the same. The concept of the universe expanding "into" nothing is also correct in general relativity, as there is no external space to occupy. Your final point about space being emergent and created during expansion is a leading speculation in quantum gravity, though it remains unconfirmed by experiment.

[funky beaver]

On 4/20/2026 at 12:02 PM, cbm said:

After edging, it's cum explosion

I am amazed to see this kind of topic here.

 

Of course you would expect to have this type of reply.

 

 

[cbm]

2 hours ago, funky beaver said:

I am amazed to see this kind of topic here.

 

Of course you would expect to have this type of reply.

 

 

 

Usually I wouldn't, but @JayRoss55 has a tendency to create random topics that he then answers himself. So I figured irreverence was more appropriate here. 

 

If I were to take this topic seriously and give a proper answer, it would be this:

 

Based on religious descriptions and current scientific theories,

1) there is likely no edge of the universe

2) there's definitely no beyond the edge

 

Why? because before creation, nothing exists.

 

Having an edge or beyond and edge implies that there is a room. Then the universe expanded within the room. That's how you can have an edge and beyond the edge, because there's some gap between the edge and the walls of the room. 

 

But before creation, there was nothing. The universe is the room. The room is expanding, getting bigger and bigger.

 

The universe is so vast, even if there is an edge, we wouldn't be able to perceive it. When you travel in a loop, how do you know when you have reached the maximum point before you turn back? It would just feel like one continuous straight journey.

 

So what is there at the walls of this universe room? My guess is they are the very first and oldest materials that were ever created.

 

 

 

 

[JayRoss55]

15 hours ago, cbm said:

 

Usually I wouldn't, but @JayRoss55 has a tendency to create random topics that he then answers himself. So I figured irreverence was more appropriate here. 

 

If I were to take this topic seriously and give a proper answer, it would be this:

 

Based on religious descriptions and current scientific theories,

1) there is likely no edge of the universe

2) there's definitely no beyond the edge

 

Why? because before creation, nothing exists.

 

Having an edge or beyond and edge implies that there is a room. Then the universe expanded within the room. That's how you can have an edge and beyond the edge, because there's some gap between the edge and the walls of the room. 

 

But before creation, there was nothing. The universe is the room. The room is expanding, getting bigger and bigger.

 

The universe is so vast, even if there is an edge, we wouldn't be able to perceive it. When you travel in a loop, how do you know when you have reached the maximum point before you turn back? It would just feel like one continuous straight journey.

 

So what is there at the walls of this universe room? My guess is they are the very first and oldest materials that were ever created.

 

 

 

 

You’re right that an edge would imply outside space, which contradicts “nothing existed before creation.” So the universe is either infinite or finite but unbounded, meaning no wall, just curved space where going straight might eventually loop back.

[Guest Melvin]

Science says 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe was smaller than an atom, and then it suddenly exploded into everything we see today. What was there before the explosion?"

[doncoin]

1 hour ago, Guest Melvin said:

Science says 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe was smaller than an atom, and then it suddenly exploded into everything we see today. What was there before the explosion?"

 

 

A singularity?

[kLookx]

It's infinite. That's why it's both so scary and liberating. Scary becoz the idea of infinity is so unfathomable. Liberating becoz it makes every damn thing that you are mad at become so damn insignificant in the face of an never ending space.