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Can we go beyond the visible universe?
Andy Green
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Can we go beyond the visible universe?
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Can we go beyond the visible universe?
00:03
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine this.
00:05
You're standing at the edge of everything.
00:07
The stars behind you are thinning out.
00:09
Galaxies stretch like fading candlelights in a velvet abyss.
00:13
And ahead, nothing.
00:14
Not darkness, not space, just the unknown.
00:18
Now open your eyes.
00:19
Welcome to the edge of the visible universe.
00:22
But what lies beyond it?
00:24
Let's begin not with science, but with something older.
00:27
Curiosity.
00:28
The same ancient instinct that made us sail across oceans without maps,
00:32
build cathedrals reaching skyward, and launch metal brains into orbit.
00:36
The desire to peer beyond the horizon is woven into our bones.
00:40
And the visible universe, the 93 billion light-year-wide bubble we can observe,
00:45
is our newest horizon.
00:47
But is it the final one?
00:49
Centuries ago, we thought the stars were stuck on a crystal dome.
00:53
Later, we imagined space as infinite, but static.
00:56
Then came Einstein, Hubble and inflation theory.
00:59
And our tiny Earth found itself floating in an expanding universe born from a cosmic fireball.
01:05
We now know that light has a speed limit.
01:08
299,792 kilometers per second.
01:12
That means we only see what had time to reach us since the Big Bang.
01:15
Everything beyond that distance remains cloaked, not because it doesn't exist,
01:20
but because its light hasn't arrived, and may never.
01:24
The visible universe is not the edge of existence.
01:27
It's just the edge of our perception.
01:30
But can we go beyond it?
01:32
Here things get strange.
01:34
Beautifully strange.
01:35
First, let's clarify, we don't mean traveling faster than light,
01:38
although some physicists speculate about wormholes or warp drives
01:41
that might one day bend space-time itself.
01:44
That's science flirting with fiction.
01:47
Fascinating, but uncertain.
01:49
What we mean is, can we access, understand, or connect to regions beyond the observable?
01:53
And that's where things get delightfully philosophical.
01:58
Let's suppose there are galaxies beyond our reach.
02:01
Millions, billions of them.
02:03
Each with its own stars, planets, possibly life.
02:06
They are real, just unknowable to us.
02:09
Like pages torn from a novel we'll never read.
02:12
But that still affects the story.
02:14
Is knowledge limited by what we can see?
02:16
Or can we infer the beyond from the within?
02:18
Think of this.
02:19
You're in a vast, dark cathedral with only a flickering candle.
02:23
You can't see the ceiling, but you hear echoes.
02:26
You can't touch the walls, but you feel the draught.
02:29
You can't see the hole, but your senses whisper that it exists.
02:34
In the same way, physicists use cosmic microwave background radiation,
02:38
the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, like echoes in the cathedral.
02:42
Its subtle fluctuations tell us about what might lie beyond,
02:46
including possible variations in the curvature or topology of the universe.
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Some models suggest we live in a bubble universe,
02:54
one of countless others, a multiverse.
02:56
So can we go beyond the visible universe?
02:59
Maybe we already are.
03:01
Let me introduce you to the balloon analogy.
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Imagine ants crawling on the surface of a balloon.
03:07
To them, the balloon is two-dimensional and the surface is all there is.
03:10
But we, outside observers, see the third dimension.
03:13
We see the curvature.
03:15
We see the hole.
03:16
Now imagine we are the ants.
03:19
Our universe may be curved through dimensions we can't perceive.
03:22
What we call space may be just the surface of a balloon in a higher reality.
03:28
What lies beyond, we don't know.
03:31
But it's not necessarily nothing.
03:33
Quantum mechanics adds more mystery.
03:35
Particles pop in and out of existence.
03:37
Entanglement connects particles across vast distances instantly,
03:40
suggesting that the universe, visible or not, is more interconnected than we imagine.
03:46
Could these effects be hints of a deeper structure?
03:49
A meta-universe where distance, time and visibility are mere illusions?
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Now let's stretch this further.
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What if the mind can go where light cannot?
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Some mystics, meditators and psychedelic explorers have claimed to experience realities beyond space and time.
04:06
Visions of infinite patterns, celestial architectures or even contact with alien intelligence.
04:11
Are these mere hallucinations?
04:13
Or might consciousness, under extreme conditions, tap into deeper layers of reality,
04:18
like a radio tuning into hidden frequencies?
04:22
Science does not confirm this, but it doesn't fully dismiss it either.
04:25
After all, the mind is part of the universe.
04:28
And if there's a beyond, maybe the mind, in some form, is its bridge.
04:33
Finally, let's imagine the end of time.
04:36
Billions of years from now, as galaxies drift apart and stars burn out,
04:40
the visible universe may shrink.
04:42
Not physically, but optically.
04:44
Civilizations, if any, remain, might see only their local group of stars.
04:49
To them, the cosmos will appear empty, static, a cold illusion.
04:52
And yet, beyond their sight, the universe will still stretch endlessly,
04:57
buzzing with quantum whispers, perhaps teeming with unreachable wonders.
05:01
Just because we cannot see something, does not mean it isn't real.
05:06
So again, can we go beyond the visible universe?
05:09
Perhaps not with ships or shuttles, but with reason, mathematics, imagination,
05:13
and maybe, one day, through consciousness itself, we just might.
05:17
And maybe the greatest journey isn't outward, but inward.
05:21
Maybe the border between the visible and the invisible isn't light-years away,
05:25
but right here, at the edge of thought.
05:28
After all, what is the universe, if not the part of the unknown we've managed to name?
05:33
And what lies beyond may simply be waiting for us to ask.
05:37
What do you think?
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