The Outer Darkness by Henry Morris, Ph.D. Astronomers have
guessed that there are possibly as many as ten thousand billion
trillion stars out there in the observable universe, of which
perhaps five thousand can be seen without a telescope. If the
universe is expanding, as many astronomers believe, there is an
outer limit to this vast population of stars, as defined by the
distance thus far attained by the expansion. This limit might be
considered the boundary of the universe. This boundary is also,
practically by definition, the limit of the so-called background
radiation, presumably a cosmos-filling remnant of the postulated
primeval Big Bang which its proponents believe must have started
the expansion. No matter where astronomers point their
telescopes, they see a distant sheet of light surrounding us.
Beyond that enormous shell of radiation, astronomers can see
nothing. We are caged in by this surface; the cosmic microwave
background (CMB), the faint afterglow of the big bang.1 Since
there is no radiation