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On the similar theme of "things we don't have answers to yet": When I was five years old I asked my dad what was beyond the "edge" of the Universe. He said "Th
by kloch 4y ago
On the similar theme of "things we don't have answers to yet":
When I was five years old I asked my dad what was beyond the "edge" of the Universe. He said "There is no edge, it goes on infinitely forever. Even if there was an edge, there would have to be something beyond that, even if it was a vacuum right?".
I literally cried myself to sleep trying to visualize this.
- weatherlite 4y agoI still occasionally cry myself to sleep and I'm nearing 40...
- dieselgate 4y agoCool to see someone articulate this specific point. My dad has some grad schooling in astrophysics so we used to chat about this kind of stuff when I was young (still now but less so). I’d always ask “if the universe is expanding what is it expanding _in to_” and he’d kind of always change the subject to black holes or something. Thinking back on that it’s amazing how easy it is to “question” or “push/poke” the boundaries of known (or even knowable) knowledge. But alas guess it just furthers the point of how all people ponder these things.
- agumonkey 4y agoone of the only question i want an answer from smartest people on earth