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Politics : Evolution
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To: John who wrote (64994)1/21/2015 12:01:22 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
what exists beyond the edge?
I suspect that our universe is a manifestation of the boundary of dimensions we cannot perceive. The "foam" I mentioned was just one of those constructs of how I imagine the interaction that lead to what we see as space time.

Another simpler idea I use to visualize the universe in two dimensions is:

Imagine an "energy" field spinning around a point. It would appear as a couple of cones joined at the points.

Imagine an "energy" field that is a bubble.

Now if the cone were passing through the bubble, the intersection of the two fields would be a circle or oval and it would be expanding. Now just assume the energy fields were in 4 dimensions and the intersection was a three-dimensional sphere that is expanding even though the energy fields were not necessarily expanding, just changing relative position.

The resulting "sphere" would have nothing outside of it that made any sense in terms of the sphere itself. What I mean by that is that there may be nothing outside the universe that is perceivable as anything like another universe.

(I could be that if the intersection moved down a cone to the place where the two cones are joined at a point, then continued onto the other cone, it may be perceived as a big-bang)
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