• Question: how big is space?

    Asked by terimater to Judith, Gemma, Diana, Akshat, Aime on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by pakimarz.
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      Judith McCann answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      incomprehensively big, im pretty sure to even put it in numbers youd have to have the explanations of several words. i know theres an edge though because some of the static you get on tv, the fuzzy black and white screen is back ground radiation (at least thats what it said in a Bill Bryson book!).Also, the universe is still expanding. so im not totally sure, but its abit bigger than it was when you asked the question 😀

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      Gemma Sharp answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Well, I don’t know much about space (in fact I don’t really know anything about it), but I think it’s probably infinitely big and goes on forever.

      It’s difficult to imagine something as big as that, and the weird/scary thing is it’s still expanding!

      Good question, hopefully one of the other scientists will be able to give you (and me) a more in-depth answer 🙂

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      Aimé Fournier answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I actually wrote an answer to this recently (March 6, 2011) here: http://www.windows2universe.org/php/ask/quickie_questions.php

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