in a spaceship, you will never actually go past everything. Light does not even go past everything. Our known universe has it ends, but that end is actually the beginning. If you were able to travel faster than the speed of light, which you can't, you would only bend space time; eventually bending enough to wind up right back where you started. If you were actually able to travel far enough and fast enough, you would first reach dark space. If you were able to continue on you would eventually reach just another universe... expinentially. The only way to go past everythin is to go nowhere and creat enough energy to create antimatter. Creating enoug antimatter and using it to somehow open a rift in the space time continuam that is large enough to allow passage to another dimension.
2006-09-04 14:31:05
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answer #1
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answered by richard a 1
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You need to be a bit more specific. The edge of existence or the edge of the solar system? Solar system is a little more obvious: stars, nebulas, comets, other planets, black holes, quasars, etc. This information is readily available in a variety of sources.
I must assume however that your question is more directed to the edge of existence itself from the wording you have used. In that case, there are so many views about the answer to this question being that it is the source of intense research in mathematics and theoretical physics. One person to reference most obviously is Stephen Hawking. He is (or has been since I last heard) of the view that the universe is of a finite size that is expanding at some speed (believed to be comparable to the speed of light). If this is so then General Relativity states that it is impossible to know what is beyond this point because time and space break down at this speed, so you could be at this point...ever. Others, such as Neil Turok of Cambridge believe in an infinitely large Universe detailed by the theory of "open inflation" (which has been largely disproved by Hawking). Hopefully this points you in some sort of direction to what you want to know.
2006-09-04 20:51:43
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answered by BuzzRocket 2
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At that point all you will see are distant galaxies. They will appear no larger than a star here on earth. They are probably not as plentiful.
As you advance the path you travel is going to be warped. This is according to a theory prooven by Einstein that mass warps space. One theory is that you will gradually turn and then you will be out in from of nowhere with infinite space forever.
The other theory is that there is enough matter in space that you will eventually travel a full circle or curly cues and end up passing where you once were.
2006-09-04 20:36:20
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answered by eric l 6
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lots of stuff in orbit beyond the planets out a long ways but after that there is a few light years of nothing ( till the nearest stars ) AS FOR THE DUST mentioned above then if you consider less than a thimble full per cubic mile SOMETHING then yes there is dust ( and the odds are there are even planet sized bodies- or moon sized - that we haven't spotted yet but few and far between ) AS FOR THE UNIVERSE i prefer the Steady State Theory which is that the universe is UNENDING ( think infinity ) so no edge just goes for ever ( no Big Bang )
2006-09-04 20:33:59
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answered by Anonymous
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Beyond the planets there are stars. Roughly 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone. Once you get out of our galaxy there are other galaxies. We don't know how many galaxies there are, because there is surely more than we can currently see. But since you cannot get out of the universe, there will always be something there - more galaxies, and each galaxy containing stars, many of those stars having there own planets, and maybe some of those planets having intelligent species on them!
2006-09-04 20:56:57
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answered by kris 6
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There is no getting past the realm of our universe. Look at it this way:
Say you and a friend were standing, faced in opposite directions, each with your outlandishly, amazingly strong telescopes in hand, both searching for the farthest object. You know that you'd HAVE to be looking at the same thing, for there could only be one most absolute furthest object, despite the fact that you're faced in opposite directions.
The geometry of the universe is not how we think in terms of geometry here on Earth. If you were to hop in your spaceship and travel in an attempt to go to the "end of the universe," you'd end up back in the same spot you began, given enough time.
Why is this? Einstein said that gravity is a manifestation of the curvature of both time and space, meaning that gravity curves space and time--basically, everything we as humans know to be "real." Because of the gravity in the universe, both space and time within space are curved in on themselves, creating NO edge to the universe. You can think of it as being "spherical" in shape, but as far as we know, thinking in terms of that is not entirely correct. Although, one may think of the non-edged universe like he may think of the Earth: there is no edge to the earth because of its spherical shape; there is, however, a discontinued border of where the Earth stops and the rest of space begins.
If you were to travel "beyond" space, you'd have to travel out of this dimension, which simply is rather impossible. Just because one travels "far enough" doesn't mean there's a point at which our dimension of space and time both end and some other dimension begins. You'd be following the same curvature of space and time that gravity creates for all other matter in the unvierse, including the universe itself.
Weird thought, huh?
2006-09-04 20:43:09
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answered by Angela 3
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After you pass the Moon, Sun and all planets, you are still only 1/69,000 of the way to the nearest star. After that are billions more stars in our galaxy for you to pass, and after that billions of known galaxies. Past that we can't see and people who say they know what it out there are kidding themselves. We may have good theories but nobody really knows for sure.
2006-09-04 21:35:23
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answered by campbelp2002 7
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Are you asking what happens to the person? As it has never happened, it can only be speculation.
If you are asking what is outside our solar system, then it is the rest of our galaxy (known as the Milky Way), other solar systems orbiting around other suns (we see them as stars in the night sky).
There is more than likely to be several planets somewhere, each in its own solar system, within its own galaxy that has an abundance of intelligent life forms.
2006-09-04 20:39:22
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answered by serenityredflowers 5
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Eventually you will come to other galaxies, when you pass those, you reach the (theoretical) end of the universe which is expanding too fast to catch (unless you can travel faster than the speed of light which Einstein said was impossible)
2006-09-04 20:32:53
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answered by DonSoze 5
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The universe is constantly expanding. You would hit other stars, other solar systems, you would just keep going. You could never catch up with the edge of the universe because it keeps moving away from you.
2006-09-04 20:36:23
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answered by brainy_ostrich 5
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