From: alcore@uurth.com   
      
   On 23 Jun 2005, dipps1234 wrote:   
      
   >It's like if you're inside a wall, like locked in a room, there must be   
   >something behind those walls....so mustn't there be something beyond   
   >the edge of the Universe?   
      
   No.  There doesn't.   
      
   Imagine that the universe is like the skin of a balloon.  You live on/in   
   this skin and it is all that you can percieve.  Conceptually you've   
   grasped that the universe is finite (and expanding as God adds air!) but   
   the "edge" is a concept beyond your comprehension.   
      
   Relative to the physics and perceptions of the balloon skin people, the   
   rest of the hyperverse is undefined and unrelatable.   
      
   So yes and no.  If there is a greater context to our universe it still   
   doesn't matter.  We can't exist there and we can only talk about it and   
   imagine it as mathematical abstractions and metaphors.   
      
   Gene P.   
   Slidell LA   
      
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