Universes Not With Different Versions, But Locations

[jhcrue]

You know how currently the universe is the largest thing we know of? It supposedly started from a huge mass of energy exploding at one single point like a grenade and creating everything we know of today. We haven't been to the edge of the universe or even the edge of our galaxy and it raises the question as to what lies beyond the universe. Many assume it would just be empty space of nothingness forever, but I don't think the void of 'nothingness' is true. Say a grenade goes off in a test room. The fragments of shrapnel will go off in all directions. Now remove gravity and friction. Our universe is basically the grenade in the test room, except the test room is much much bigger and it is entirely possible to have more than one grenade go off at the same time, or different times, creating life as we know it today. Why couldn't we have more than one universe? Ours happened, whats stopping another from happening somewhere else far far away?

I am mostly just looking for opinions on the matter and information to expand my knowledge of the subject.

[MigL]

I would suggest an introductory level Cosmology textbook, or even a few Wiki searches related to Cosmology with added key words like expansion, big bang, inflation, etc.

 

You have made several mis-statements in your post that bring into question your level of knowledge about the subject matter.

[Mordred]

First off as MicK stated the first misconception is the explosion. The big bang is simply a rapid expansion of space of unknown size and origin. We do not know if the universe is finite or infinite. We only know that our observable universe expanded from a denser hot state. This is completely different than an explosion. An explosion has a point of origin and therefore there is a preffered location and direction. Expansion is homogeneous and isotropic. No preferred direction Or location. There is also no outside the universe. The universe by definition is everything there is

 

 

Here is several articles to clear up your misconceptions

 

http://cosmology101.wikidot.com/redshift-and-expansion

http://cosmology101.wikidot.com/universe-geometry

 

Misconceptions (Useful articles to answer various Cosmology Misconceptions)

 

http://www.phinds.com/balloonanalogy/: A thorough write up on the balloon analogy used to describe expansion

http://tangentspace.info/docs/horizon.pdf:Inflation and the Cosmological Horizon by Brian Powell

http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4446:"What we have leaned from Observational Cosmology." -A handy write up on observational cosmology in accordance with the LambdaCDM model.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310808:"Expanding Confusion: common misconceptions of cosmological horizons and the superluminal expansion of the Universe" Lineweaver and Davies

http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~charley/papers/LineweaverDavisSciAm.pdf:"Misconceptions about the Big bang" also Lineweaver and Davies

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3966"why the prejudice against a constant"

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508052"In an expanding universe, what doesn't expand? Richard H. Price, Joseph D. Romano

http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0219What'sin a Name: History and Meanings of the Term "Big Bang" Helge Kraghcl

 

you can find more adv material including some textbook style articles on my signature

[Strange]

As the others say, the universe is not like an exploding grenade.

 

However, there are variants of the big bang model with multiple universes. You could look up "eternal inflation", for example. And I think there are a number of others.

[Ophiolite]

As the others say, the universe is not like an exploding grenade.

As we all now know, it more like a box of chocolates.

[jeffellis]

Firstly I won't berate you or try to make you look stupid for lack of knowledge as some of these folks have. I commend you for your curiosity. I believe that there are many universes, and that ours is the result of a black hole in another dimension.

[Phi for All]

Firstly I won't berate you or try to make you look stupid for lack of knowledge as some of these folks have. I commend you for your curiosity. I believe that there are many universes, and that ours is the result of a black hole in another dimension.

 

I don't think you know what a dimension is. It's not a place where a black hole can result.