What caused infinite space outside our universe?
The working of the human brain from its comfort centres makes you to imagine there must be something outside of anything finite. The Universe is best thought of everything that ‘could’ be and that little word ‘could’ validates the science we have done so far in an attempt to understand Cosmology. There are Elephants tolerated in the rooms occupied by most popular theories and unfortunately it is another part of human nature that when we are in a hole we tend to dig deeper rather than shift the paradigm.
We don’t know what is outside the universe, if anything. Science can’t create things – it is the method of finding out about things which already exist. Something which is infinite (in time) has no beginning, if it exists. If there is an infinite (in time) something outside the universe, then that needs no cause. If it exists, it exists, and if it doesn’t exist, it doesn’t. God doesn’t need a cause, so why would something which is god, only without the omnipotence, awareness, moral righteousness and attached religion, need one? If there is space outside the universe, there are simple observations we can do to determine it’s nature: – If we see a border, but no Hubble expansion, the outside is finite in time but infinite in space (or the other way around). Something not from the dimension of time needs to have triggered it. – If we see a border, and a Hubble expansion, space is finite and time is finite. It’s effectively just another universe. The same causal dilemma exists as exists fo
Difficult to answer, because the definition of ‘universe’ is not specific. Universe used to mean that it included everything – and I mean everything. So, in classic form, there is nothing at all outside the universe – not even space. To dumb down discussions about the Big Bang and its spawn, the re-definition of universe was to limit it to the results only of the Big Bang. Theoretically, there could be lots of space outside the realm of it. Consider that using the classic model, a small Significant Moment after the B-B, almost all of the space invaded by its current results, was still outside of its diameter: it has grown into the space it now occupies and before there was less space within its realm. Since its classic model has it continuing to expand, there is space yet left to occupy with its results. The answer is, nothing caused the infinite space outside our universe (B-B universe), because it has always been there – it exists outside of time and with no regard for time.
