if it were possible to travel faster than the speed of light...
and, get to where the universe as yet to expand to...
would do you think it would look like?
would it be just...white...nothingness?
2006-09-09 09:47:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Probably black nothingness. And of course, in the process of flying there, you would have expanded the Universe to that point. You could even sit there waiting (or rather, firing your rocket outwards to counteract dark energy) and watch the outer galaxies expand towards you over the course of billions of years (the galaxies are traveling slower than their own images).
Of course, this hinges on the possibility of going faster than light. So far, having no evidence of ways to go faster than light, we can only guess what kinds of physics would be involved. It's possible that your spaceship would hit the outside edge of the Universe and stop, or explode, or vanish, or be transported to a parallel universe. The last of which would probably be even more interesting than watching the galaxies catch up with you. :P
2006-09-09 09:50:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Universe has no borders or boundaries, so no matter how fast you can travel, you will never be able to get there to see anything.
The reason is that our Universe is like the surface of a spherical balloon. All the galaxies, stars, planets, etc are on the surface of the ballon, and when the Universe expands, it is like the balloon expanding. The galaxies, stars and planets on the surface of the balloon flies apart from each other (in fact, like the balloon, what is expanding is space itself). So if you were able to travel anywhere on the surface of the ballon, you'll find that there are no boundaries. And if you were to travel continuously in a straight line, you will in fact come back to the same place. This is exactly like us living on the surface of our planet, Earth. In the old days, people thought the Earth had a border or an edge, and that if you sail too far on a boat, you'll fall off the edge of the world.
In the same sense, we can never find the edge of the Universe to see what's further "out there" beyond.
2006-09-09 10:05:15 · answer #2 · answered by PhysicsDude 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Firstly as per theory of relativity no one can travell at the speed of the light
secondly Expension of the universe means: when it started there was nothing.......u can take the example from a bucket of water.......when it is empty the first position of the universe can be assumed when u start to fill it with water u can take it like expension of the universe.......but in the case of universe i can not tell what is the size of this bucket and when it will get full
2006-09-09 10:00:04 · answer #3 · answered by gaurav k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly even moving faster than light to escape the expansio nyou cannot move to where there is no space because movement msut occur through space. Secondly because no light can move through where there is no space you would not see anything.
2006-09-09 09:57:50 · answer #4 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably more like black nothingness, if it were white there would be light present
2006-09-09 09:50:15 · answer #5 · answered by roamin70 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would be multiple universes.
2006-09-09 10:06:05 · answer #6 · answered by JAMES 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y'all listen to phyics dude. His answer was on the money.
2006-09-09 10:44:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋