Where Does Space Come From

[36grit]

If the universe is expanding, where does all that extra space come from?

[sanctus]

This may sound as a stupid counter-question, but it is not ;-) Define space or space-time?

[Qfwfq]

Define space or space-time?

Uh, how about, uhm... define distance?

[Vox]

If the universe is expanding, where does all that extra space come from?

 

From "Itself", "Outside" do not exist ?

 

"There can be only one"...

[36grit]

would it be ridiculus to think that the distance of the past comes from the distance of the future?

If so, what point or entity might define the present?

Perhaps mass doesn't bend space/time so much as it radiates space time :o

 

 

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[Guest Domenico]

Uh, how about, uhm... define distance?

A short while ago I posted in the <Alternative theories> forum The dual nature of space. Would you please have a look at my hypothesis and possibly comment!

[Guest Domenico]

If the universe is expanding, where does all that extra space come from?

One of the most perspicacious and profound questions I have ever heard, you must be a very young man. Nowadays, the average man of science is too much of an accomplished scholar to answer your question with an unbiased mind.

[36grit]

One of the most perspicacious and profound questions I have ever heard, you must be a very young man. Nowadays, the average man of science is too much of an accomplished scholar to answer your question with an unbiased mind.

 

I am 47 years young and a grandfather of two. I am not a man of science but a man of curiosity who thinks deeply, well outside of the box. We all have a biase mind in my mind :)

[Guest Domenico]

I am 47 years young and a grandfather of two. I am not a man of science but a man of curiosity who thinks deeply, well outside of the box. We all have a biase mind in my mind :)

I am glad to hear that you're a grown up fully fledged man, and coming back again with some old-fashioned wisdom. I am referring to your we all have a biase mind.. Actually, this is what I was trying to say before. Academics have a set of rules called, if you like, formal education which they instinctively honour. It is my view that students, or anyone who wants to learn something, must listen to them because that's where one gets a solid platform needed to eventually take off in some other direction.

[dduckwessel]

I hope I understand this correctly that the early universe was highly compressed. Momentum from the Big Bang built up so much pressure it caused a balloon effect (slow at first but then suddenly the entire balloom inflates very quickly)...and the balloon (universe) is still inflating.

 

However, from what I've read, apparently the universe has a maximum stretch capacity and if it continues to expand due to momentum, will eventually rip (The Big Rip) and recoil on itself.

[lawcat]

If the universe is expanding,

This sentence is a scientific interpretation of observed facts.

where does all that extra space come from?

This question is a request for a valid theory of universe.

 

Unfortunately there is no single theory on this. I am sure one of the mods can point you to the many threads on this site discussing the theories about universe. One of them may sufficiently appeal to you as a satisfactory answer.

[pjlueck]

No...we don't "manufacture space..." : ) : ) Except in the case of the recent Super Bowl, where they manufactured negative space by losing a block of seats..

 

I have always been irritated by snooty types (none on this board...I refer to posts on other...more distant, expanding boards!!) who correct posters who talk about the "expansion of the universe..."

 

They (the snoots...) always point out: "It is SPACE that expands...not the universe!!"

 

I now know that theorists are loathe to use the phrase: "expansion of the universe," because they don't want to give the impression that there is "something" to expand "into." Fair enough.

 

But Damit!! DISTANCES BETWEEN OBJECTS* INCREASE! There is no "magic" that happens to space (whatever "space" may be...!!).

 

*(those objects that are not gravitationally bound...in "clumps..")

 

The best short exploration of this subject is Wikipedia...

 

Go here: Wikipedia: Expansion of Space/Univers and read the first few paragraphs. Also note the short discussion on distances INCREASING faster than the speed of light... Sort of like my cat, when it is time to go to the vet!

 

There! I have vented...(and am now accelerating!! Expanding!!! Forever!!!)