for example, if I had the IP address/default gateway/dns server number for another computer and I was to go in on control panel on here to assign a static IP, and I typed in the IP address/default gateway, e.t.c. for the other computer, would this mean I was connected/would be able to connect to the other computer? And what would happen after I assigned the settings, i.e. how would I know I was connected to the other computer? Keep in mind that I am just speaking hypotetically because I am not able to change the settings on this computer. But I would just like to know if it would work for future reference.
You can see the edge, but can never get to it. It's like walking on a treadmill. You can keep walking and walking but the edge never gets closer (in fact, it moves farther away.)
There are theories that it does have a boundary, theories that it curves back in on itself, and also it doesn't have a boundary but the galaxies are just rushing away from each other because of dark matter and eventually will be very very far away.
No because if the universe continues to expand it dosent make sense that the universe has a boundary . If it always expands it will never stop and there will never be a boundary
Mine only chirps if the battery is getting low. One time the ex husband bought a detector. We had plenty so it was thrown in a seldom used drawer. Months and months later I thought there was a cricket in the house. It got to the point were I would sit in the dark and wait for the chirp and the flip on the lights to find it. Well, you guessed it-it was that detector. LOL
Well no - not exactly. Michele's answer is rather close to the answer I try to give. Imagine that you could represent the universe as a large 'flat' sheet of rubber. (so a tremendous 3D volume becomes a large rubber 'sheet' or membrane) (You can then use this representation to sort-of look at the effects of large masses (where you get 'dips' in the sheet) Where does it 'dip'? Well - that's into an entirely different dimension - into the dimension of say gravity/time instead of space/time. In any case - this sheet is a 2-D representation of the universe sort-of. But to complete it - you *wrap the sides back around together - and either 'pinch off' the ends (creating a rubber 'balloon') or connect the ends (creating a rubber 'tire') (Lets use the 'balloon' analogy here ) *We* - here inside the universe are 'inside' the rubber membrane of the balloon - not 'inside' the place where air would go in a 'real' balloon - and not 'outside' the balloon's membrane. Where is the boundary to this 'balloon universe' ? The 'boundary' is off in a direction or dimension that we very literally cannot perceive. The 'balloon universe' can expand - - and inhabitants can *see* the expansion - - because they could very easily perceive that 'galaxies' at a different point on the balloon would be moving away from them - and the further away the galaxies were - the *faster* they would move away. But the balloon surface does not 'pop'. It just continues to expand. (If you like - you can imagine tiny dimples and spikes across the face of the balloon-surface - where planets/stars and black holes would be found)
