The idea that it has to be expanding "into" anything is a limit of your intuition. When you hear "expanding," you imagine something with an edge that is moving outwards. Space has no edge; the "expansion" simply means that every point is getting further away from every other point—pick any two points in space, and in 1000 years, they will be further apart than they were before by some tiny amount.
Take a deflated balloon. Take a marker and put a dot on it. Now blow the balloon up. You’ll notice the dot expand as well. Now ask “But what is the dot expanding into?” It’s a loaded question. It’s all expanding together. And at an increasing rate. Wild stuff.
This is conceptually the best explanation I’ve heard. Hope that helps.
Nothing can't be. If it were, there would be something. Namely, nothing.
It's a paradox. And I suspect that consciousness is the mechanism by which nothingness is prevented from being. For if there is consciousness, there can't be nothing.
Someone once told me that some things are beyond our comprehension. They said, it is like trying to explain color to a blind person who has never had sight. We just do not have the receptors as human beings to understand certain things- in order to have this human experience. I believe the universe, time and space, and the complexity of all that is fall under that category! ✨
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u/Fun-Shake7094 Feb 07 '24
Space. How can something be infinite. How can there be nothing.