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They can crawl forever and never reach an edge; at best, they might return to where they started. ... And even if you did, those same wacky cosmologists that dreamed up the ants-on-a-balloon explanation say they have no clue whether there is more of our universe (or more universes) beyond the limits of the observable one.
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www.livescience.com/mysteries/060902_universe_edge.html
www.livescience.com/mysteries/060902_universe_edge.html
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One of my favourite questions is this: What's beyond the edge of the observable Universe? I like it because there is a definitive answer - though not a palatable one. The observable universe is like a giant bubble of space centred on the Earth.
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www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2007/02/whats-beyond-ed...
www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2007/02/whats-beyond-edge-of-observable.html
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This is the entire observable Universe for Earthlings. We have seen in these tutorials that the local Universe consists of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters of galaxies. These elements are the wave crests in the large-scale structure of the Universe.
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www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/duguide/exgt_edge_ob...
www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/duguide/exgt_edge_obs_universe.php
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The cluster of galaxies is observed as it was at a time when the Universe was only about 10% of its present age because it has taken the light now recorded by the VLT about nine-tenths of the age of the Universe to travel this huge distance.
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www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.1507/outputRegister...
www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.1507/outputRegister/lowhtml
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Scientists have spotted a giant galaxy at the edge of the observable universe. Detecting this huge galaxy (the same size as the Milky Way) was a challenge because of the massive quantities of light coming from the black hole, and... ... The galaxy, which is 12.8 billion light-years from Earth, ... Which brings us to the second issue:
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www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/giant-galaxy-disc...
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/giant-galaxy-discovered-at-edge-of-the-observable-universe.html
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A Twentysomething Misanthrope Writing About The Little Distractions And Fripperies He Uses To Paper Over The Gaping Cracks In His Soul - But Funnier Than That Sounds. ... [ Watch The Birdie (Page 5) ] ... It’s been a bloody week since the Green Bay game. This is starting to get really, really boring.
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blue_man.users.btopenworld.com/blueman/stories/birdie5....
blue_man.users.btopenworld.com/blueman/stories/birdie5.htm
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Answers to frequently asked questions about cosmology ... So we know empirically that the volume of the Universe is more than 20 times bigger than volume of the observable Universe. Since we can only look at small piece of an object that has a large radius of curvature, it looks flat.
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www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html
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How old is the observable universe? ... But the estimates also depend on the rate at which the observable universe is expanding, which in turn is related to its exact composition and evolution. ... Does the observable universe have an edge?
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www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/universe_overv...
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/universe_overview_010605-2.html
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By edge of the universe cosmologists mean the edge of the observable universe or the horizon. Just like on Earth the fact that you cannot see past the horizon doesn't mean there's nothing past there!
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supernova.lbl.gov/~evlinder/umass/faq.html
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