My Professor at Standford asked: If you went to the edge of the Universe and poked your finger through what.?

Question

....would you see on the other side? So I ask you...what do you think you would find?

And I am laughing my head off....thank you Nanaj...I love it....I actually have a degree from there.....................lol lol lol lol.............this makes this question null and void............for gosh sakes. LOLLOL

for all of you...it is STANFORD...correction, I am writing the corrected form 100 times. I am sorry for the mis-spelling.......LOL

Answer 1

You'd probably see what mariners failed to find after dropping over the edge of the world.

Note: Whatever was over the edge moved to the end of the universe after Magellan circumnavigated the globe.

Do you suppose we'll ever find it? Or will man push it into other dimensions?

Dimensions not only of sight and sound, but of mind. At the signpost up ahead, your next stop: The Twilight Zone.

Answer 2

How embarrassing! Another college student who can't spell.
This makes me suspicious that this is a fake. I mean, holey moley, he would have to see the name dozens of times every day. It is really hard to believe, but then again it IS in the USA
where everything is possible, right?

First of all, it is impossible to do because the Universe is expanding at such a rapid rate. Every time someone invents a new dessert, a new question about the Universe, writes a new fictional or non-fictional book, creates a new work of art manages to have a new thought about anything at all, or even thinks, feels, senses a preference or desire, not to mention the preferences of the animal or plant world, the result is a further expansion of the Universe. Could it be that this professor is merely attempting to get his students to exercise their noodles? I would think so. Will I attempt to do so? It is not very tempting, I must say. I mean I am a high school failure or dropout.

Ok so let's be a little creative, just for the fun of it, since I don't have access to psychotropic drugs like most college students apparently have.in the USA. Life IS supposed to be fun.

Using nothing but a sincere and passionate desire to fulfill my professor's homework, I reach the cutting edge and poke my finger through something which appears to be a sheet of thin clear plastic. Well I'll be damned! There in front of me is the scene of my immediate past but it is stretching out like so many theatre stages into my more distant past until I cannot process my thoughts any more. Wait! All of this includes in the background a huge firework display. Actually it is composed of rockets of desire being transformed into physical AND non-physical births which then are adding to my saran wrap border of the Universe instantaneously so that my poking finger has to keep advancing at impossible speed.

Phew! What an effort and just for a slight unsustainable peek! It was similar to holding a mirror in front of another mirror and trying to see into eternity without the factor of the bending of light. Thanks for the challenge! I enjoyed being in Stanford once again. That's the closest I have ever been to works of Rodin.

Answer 3

Your professor is making a mock of you and at the same time is making you think. That is good. At least the question got retained in your mind and now you want an answer to it.

The words your professor used are all pertaining to the senses of touch and sight. Tell him next time that the universe just does not operate on those two senses alone. If it did, then it would not be the universe but would just be a restricted and crooked man-made world, lesser than most simulated computer games nowadays.

Answer 4

Well.

I don't believe that such a place exists.
There ISN'T an edge of the Universe..
just like earth, there is no EDGE to fall off, it just simply keeps going Outward.. and never ends...

It is just out of human comprehension, so i will stick with something simple and try not to drive myself insane with something no human can comprehend.

I think if I were at the edge of the Universe I would poke my hand through a variety of gasses similar to earth's because i would be... on earth.

This is exactly i would find, at the "edge of the Universe", Something that keeps going, something you will never find, and it will never exist...

Answer 5

the "edge of the universe" is like finding the "edge of the world"...you know those old olde world maps, the ones where the world is flat and the oceans are falling off the sides and there is steam and vapour boiling up from the void, and there is a picture of a menacing dragon, and the caption says in olde english script "here there be dragons" like the mapmaker is certain of that very thing.
anyways that is what your question invoked with me.

Answer 6

That's a great question... mostly because that's what we actually believe. Most scientific belief is that there is an edge. Someday we'll look back on this and just laugh our heads off at what we called science.

Answer 7

The trick is finding an edge on infinity and learning how to spell Stanford.

Answer 8

Probably the same thing Christopher Colombus and Ferdinand Magellan found when they sailed clear off the edge of the Earth...

Answer 9

There is no end. The universe is curved, so there is no actual "edge". Also, the universe, ever since the Big Bang, has continued to expand.

Answer 10

We recently took a real image of the beginning of the Universe. AND, we theoretically MAY be able to "see" just a wee bit beyond:
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0217/