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MeJennifer---As far as I can tell when I think about it space time is 4 dimensions and space is 3 dementions but it exists only in my head. No jokes please. How can space exspand without bringing the 4th demension along with it? You do think that the universe is getting bigger and "exspanding"?

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What keeps it from being faster or slower thru open space? Space is not an either or is it? I was taught many years ago that light propegated by each point on the wave front acts as a primary source and each point on that wave front acted as a primary wave source and so on. That was physics in...

Jennifer, hmmm if space time doesn't expand, why is the universe getting bigger? Also it is accelerating as time goes on. Does not the space between the galaxys make the universe bigger now than in the past? Maybe I'm using the wrong words? Please let me know were I'm going wrong. I know that...

Dave that's great as you have a way with words. Well said. Now as I see it space time is curved and exspanding even though the light we see looks like it is traveling a straight line. Light travels at C due to space exspanding at C so space time started first so it is the cause and light speed...

Dave Yes I agree and what I should have said if we could travel instantaneously which we can't but it is a way to describe what we see as that is the shape of the universe. It was late and I'm really not a bright bulb. Mysearch, the only thing like a center is the spot were the singularity...

Glad to hear we are all about equal in knowledge. Now let me restate. that as we look out to a time and distance of the cosmic background that it fills the sky in every direction that we look. The universe is much smaller then and all directions we travel will take us back to that time. Now go...

Marcus I disagree and believe that space time is something. It is a quantum foam were virtual particle pop in and out of existence. It is what "Blew up" in the beginning and is still expanding with each passing day. ST consists of at least 4 dimensions and more I'm almost sure. The matter we see...

Dave sorry I missed your point. The question; Does a finite universe make sense to you? I would say yes it does. I'm new to the forum and tend to jump in and say what I think. I didn't do any research(past posts) into balloons as universe models and if I had I would have held my post. Finite now...

Dave The beam of light followed the surface of the balloon but when it arrived it came from a point that is now inside the balloon. Now this curve is in the 3rd dimension. Scaling that up to our 4d world the light beam would have come from a point in a smaller universe. In fact all light beams...

BoomBoom Does this make sense. If we were living on the surface of a 2d world, the ballon. The balloon would be a finite world but now let's start out with a singularity of a balloon and the balloon inflates and keeps getting bigger. The galaxys are scattered about on the surface now if light...

NYsportsguy----Thats a good point about the fact the galaxys would decrease. I think the spin of the galaxy would hold the stars out in an orbit about the center but as you say the push would be to collapse the galaxy. That is why I said that the push would help gravity and the stars would spin...

Malawi Glen since I'm awake I'll add that since the CMB was smaller and is in every direction it is a big clue space time is curved and there is no direction you can go to get outside or to an edge it just isn't there. Go beyond the CMB and you will reach a barrier were nothing but space and...

Malawi Glenn----No it didn't occur in space time as it is space time. There are exsperiments going that will look further back in time using TV frequencys. The frequency of the the initial impulse is zero and we see it everywere. As we go back in time the universe drops in frequency to the...

Malawi Glen what I ment was as we go back in time and space the universe gets smaller until it is a point and that is were the big bang started. It should still be there and we are closing on it and experiments with lower frequencys will or should take us further back and closer to the...