- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
the way space would end up working is that if the big bang is correct, its happened hundreds of times before
the way atoms work is that all energy is conserved, none will dissapear
space expands, then when gravity between all atoms is at the least it can possibly get to, it will condense into the marble again, and a new bang occures.
One can never reach the edge of space, for the if not for the obvious reason that you would be long dead and decayed b4 u got there, that there is no end. If it is a curved sphere, can you find an edge? a sphere has no edge, anybody with math knows that. same as a sqaure has 4 and a triangle 3, a sphere has none. Thus, assuming u reach the edge (meaning the wall of the sphere..) , all that would happen would be u would begin to travel the outside of the sphere as it expanded. All this assumes that there is one universe. With the (proven i belive) multiverse theory that all possible choices can and will happen, (parrel universes, basicly Hitler won WW2 in one, the USA never won the Revolutionary War, Pearl Harbor never happened, and you, my friend, never existed..), we could theoretically bend time and space to travel extraordiaryly far in a short amount of time..
space can be represented by a string.. --------------------
if we take that string, and bend it, so the ends meet themselves, its a much shorter string, -- for us to cross.. (if u ever read A Wrinkle in Time, think the string and the ant example)
What all that means is, if u can bend space, you can make 1000 lightyears a few miles, by folding space. Or, you can rip space-time and go to a parrel universe, and in theory do whatever u wanted, b/c every choice happens. If we killed Hitler in WW2, lets simplyfy it and say all possible choices were that he lives or dies.
A universe where he lives appears, and one were he dies.
In one where he dies, choices become Allies win, or remaing Axis counrtries win, thus making more universes
In one where he lived, say choices are Axis win, or Allies win.
If allies won, we end up essentially in this universe
but, in other universe Axis won, and were all speakin German right now.
Yes, its confusing, but essentially every possible outcome happens, spawnign a parrel universe. A good book with an example of this much clearer is Micheal Crichton's book, Timeline (great book, sucky movie, read book then see movie almost a complety diffrent thing)