2006-07-27 10:41:10 · 12 answers · asked by kruzo 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Behind every horizon is another further horizon!
2006-07-27 23:43:11 · answer #1 · answered by SouthOckendon 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
It's a moveable feast.
The horizon is limited by the curvature of the earth and your eye height. If the world was a perfect globe, you would see the horizon as the perimeter of a perfect circle all around you. As you moved, this circle would "move" with you, so you would always be in the centre of this perfect circle. The nearest we get to this state of perfection is at sea.
Going higher or lower would enlarge or diminish the size of the circle, until you reached the point where you were too low to see the surface of the earth, or until you were so high you could see the actual curvature of the planet.
As the horizon is the perimeter of a circle, I don't think it has a behind, but what is outside it is the rest of the universe.
2006-07-27 22:27:46 · answer #2 · answered by hi_patia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just wait a bit and all some of the stars behind the horizon will become visible. To see what is on the ground behind the horizon just go for a walk and the horizon will move with you.
2006-07-27 19:19:51 · answer #3 · answered by m.paley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can only see the horizon, but you can never ever get to that place. The Horizon is a great example for the saying things are not always what they appear to be.
2006-07-27 17:45:23 · answer #4 · answered by johncharlesrealty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no horizon. It's a visual line that keeps receding in the background as you go closer to it. It does not exist in the physical world. Wherever you're standing, there is a horizon line and what you don't see from where you're standing - or behind the horizon if you prefer - is just more earth, land or sea, or sky.
2006-07-27 17:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by browneyedgirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe there is no horizon, it's only space beyond, earth is once known has a horizon of an edge but it isn't as it was proven round. In space, there is no horizon but it counted in light years, is a huge mass of area is ten times bigger than our planet. However, from our discovery so far our planets lives in milky way of our universe, which is likely there is no horizon except there might be another milky way of parallel worlds, and stars which filled the space endlessly.
It's just that there is no edges in space, so our milky way might be located in a spherical shape of a empty space. It may be unreachable because of columbus distance. The unreachable which is based on religion we believe in. Probably where creator/god lives.
2006-07-28 08:36:05 · answer #6 · answered by Eve W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything. The horizon is a line for visual reference, as the earth or any other planet you happen to be on, bends out of view. This "out of view" segment contains everything that your eye will see as you advance towards the horizon.
2006-07-27 18:14:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
another horizon probably
2006-07-27 18:08:47 · answer #8 · answered by andy white1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two horses and a monkey with wings carrying a
basket of hostess cupcakes.
2006-07-27 17:49:53 · answer #9 · answered by PoohP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here be dragons !!!
And the tempest will awaken and swallow you whole.
Abandon hope. All ye who enter these waters. they belong to the Kraken.
2006-07-27 18:06:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋