http://tvo.org/video/documentaries/how-big-is-the-universe

In the last few years, astronomers and particle physicists have found new ways to probe the cosmos and are creating detailed maps that stretch almost all the way to the birth of time - 13.6 billion years ago. Using an innovative graphic that reveals the scale and wonder of the universe, Horizon travels from east to west, in to the setting sun and the wheeling cosmos, and all the way to the edge of existence, unlocking some surprising stories.

Are there parallel universes beyond our own? Does our universe have an edge?

This video could send some people over the edge.

Here's some answers, anyway:

From what I can tell from the drawings, the Universe is about three giant turtles high.

Two quote the immortal apocryphal little old
lady "You can't fool me with that! It's turtles
all the way down!"


By the way, that link wouldn't load for me, but
this one does: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22qcqz_bbc-horizon-how-big-is-the-universe_news

We will never know since celestial bodies are moving away from us faster than the speed of light, and accelerating.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Well, they're using the term "observable univese." Even that alone is big, but what about the space beyond?

...and that'd be only one universe. There may be gazillions more, possibly even every moment. The totality of the multiverse might actually make quantum physics deterministic again, as every possible solution to a given particle's location in its quantum distribution formula might have its own branch of universes. It might appear random only to us because we cannot sense in which of the universes we're in, and which branch of constantly splitting universes our consciousness follows.

The Universe is almost infinite...


But after Thanksgiving dinner, it will loosen it's belt and there will be no measure that could really tell it's size, forcing it to wear elastic waist shorts for the rest of the day and eventually causing Uranus to run out of orbit.

...and keep Auntie Venus away from the cider from crissake!... she keeps bringing up the election and driving Grandpa Mars crazy.

I think about this a lot. It is finite, I'm pretty sure, but beyond that, how big? Who knows.

Not bad for 6,000 years...

Lol Chucky. My sarcasm detector is alive and well.

Humbug, The Universe is Flat and when the planet reaches the Edge it will fall off. Or so, I heard someone say recently.

I'm going with the concept of a multiverse so outside our universe there are more universes.

I would love to meet my counterpart in one of these alternate universes. I've always wanted to see myself wearing all black and sporting a goatee.

PM and his alternate counterpart.

Ah.. You just had to bring religion into it didn't you..

Trying to ridicule the belief of one person(6000 years), with the belief of another (Big Bang), will get you in trouble. You do realize that the belief of the Big Bang says that the universe didn't take 6000 years to come into existence, but even more ridiculous.... a mere moment of time...

So, not bad for a split second.

Equating those 2 beliefs is like equating flat Earth and round Earth beliefs.

What if you ARE the evil universe PanzerMeyer?

Not quite. The big banger belief is now considered erroneous. Science is now moving away from it, just like they did with the flat earth.

http://www.livescience.com/49958-theory-no-big-bang.html