I need to know what would happen if it went up and up. Is there actually a roof to the universe.
2006-09-04 03:08:46 · 9 answers · asked by pete6692_5000 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The space probe would end up traveling into space forever.
It would never reach an end or return to it's original position because the universe is expanding.
Some 50 billion years later when the probe is lost thousands of lightyears out into space, the probe will likely be destoryed because of the expansion of the universe.
2006-09-04 04:06:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no roof and the limits of how big the universe is remains unknown. There is no up and down in space.
A probe sent out will remain in a forward motion until captured by the gravity of a planet or sun, which may deflect it from it's course or capture it in an orbit where it will eventually crash. A meteor might deflect it or destroy it. An alien space craft might pick it up for study.
2006-09-04 10:21:17 · answer #2 · answered by Seikilos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a rocket or some other type of space probe kept going up from Earth, and it could avoid smashing into cosmic debris or getting sucked into the gravity well of a star or planet, it would leave the solar system and venture into interstellar, and eventually intergalactic, space.
There is a limit to the known universe. But at sub-light speed, it would take billions of years for a spacecraft to reach it.
2006-09-04 10:20:59 · answer #3 · answered by sandislandtim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
while there is no "up" there is no roof either, so it would just continue on its path forever, or until it crashed into something. There is a theory though that eventually all matter in the universe will get so spread out that the antigravity that is resisting its movement now will overpower the expansion, and send everything back. This is unlikely though because the expansion rate of the universe is actually speeding up.
2006-09-04 10:43:15 · answer #4 · answered by Adam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hard to say. when it gets up in space, there is no longer "up" or "down"
"roof to the universe?"
2006-09-04 16:04:29 · answer #5 · answered by ♫ sf_ca ღ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will bounce of the orbital plasmaphere, which will create a geostictal stochastic gravitional force sending the probe round and round
2006-09-04 10:13:04 · answer #6 · answered by warz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our up is another universe's down. This means that someday it would land in another universe.
2006-09-04 12:43:01 · answer #7 · answered by dam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no up and down in space.
2006-09-04 10:11:14 · answer #8 · answered by A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no roof. There is no "up" either. "Up" is an illusion caused by gravity.
2006-09-04 11:19:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋