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There is no other form, you cannot track space to find your location. And if you were to use a compass it would point north towards every planet and stars magnetic field.

you must use familiar objects around you to give you an idea where you are at. That is why we use stars and planets.

There is no definite frame of reference. - Einstein said that

2006-12-13 11:16:27 · answer #1 · answered by philosopher 3 · 0 0

There is no absolute direction anywhere in the universe, and no single magnetic field encompassing everything. Therefore there cannot be any type of magnetic compass that points anywhere.

Without stars, planets, or any other object in the universe with which to navigate, you'd be hard pressed to prove that you were even moving. If you felt yourself pressed against one side of the ship, you could assume you were accelerating - but towards what, and how fast would you be going at any instant of time? There'd be no way to know.

Besides, where would you go? Once you're outside the solar system, it will take a ship built with current technology thousands of years to get to the nearest star - whose location you don't know, since by your question you can't use stars to navigate. Thus you would have to enter another solar system at random; the probability of that happening is essentially zero in the lifetime of the universe.

In short, you'd just drift for the rest of your life, then die.

2006-12-13 19:21:02 · answer #2 · answered by almintaka 4 · 0 0

Try finding out what exists in space other than stars and planets, like back ground and cosmic radiation, perhaps these can be used to help us navigate the universe in some way.

2006-12-14 12:29:06 · answer #3 · answered by Mini 2 · 0 0

Compasses point to the magnetic poles, not the real poles, of our planet. Unless there were magnetic poles in the universe, which there aren't, your idea wouldn't work. To my knowledge, all navigation other tools would relate in someway to the stars and planets.

2006-12-13 19:21:31 · answer #4 · answered by Miss Independent 3 · 0 0

No. I compass only works on a planet. It will point to the north of earth actually it does not really point north. you would have to guide yourself via planets. Or some short of stable object I would assume you could make a compass to point to the nearest black whole but such a thing does not exist.


hope this helps
-David-

2006-12-13 19:09:25 · answer #5 · answered by David M 2 · 0 0

Wrong Before u launch out into space u align a triple gyro system ,which u make sure that u get it aligned correctly if u don't your auto guidance want know how to automatic correct.

2006-12-13 19:56:05 · answer #6 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0 0

Difficult question.
There is no equivalent of our magnetic field for the universe.
Maybe the origin of the Big Bang (radiation?) could give us one coordinate, but more than one is needed to make the point.
Another possibility is to use gyroscopes on board.

2006-12-13 19:15:50 · answer #7 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0 0

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