If I wound down the window as I travelled on the very edge of the universe and stuck my arm out, what would happen?
(Under the assumption it was safe to do so!). How could I put my hand into nothing!
2007-09-07 04:16:06 · 23 answers · asked by vasquez109 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
WHAT A GREAT QUESTION!!!!!!!!!
Here's what I think.
driving to the edge of the universe is like driving out of the city into the country. When you start there are small side streets and pedestrians and cars to navigate, much like leaving your solar system. Once out of the solar system, city limits, you have less cars, pedestrians and obsticles to pass like the area in between solar system within the galaxy. Then you jump on the interstate and hit the gas!!
Soon your out of the suburbs and into rural life, interstellar space. Like driving across Iowa, nothing but corn you travel across the universe and see very little of anything. Eventually you take a dirt road to the middle of one of those corn fields and come to the end of your journey, the edge of the universe.
Now you can go on furthur into the field but there is more of nothing, much like the edge of the universe. I don't believe there is a wall that one will hit, just a infinite void.
This is the MOST difficult thing for us to comprehend. How can there be NOTHING, there has to be something. I don't believe so. Do you expect to see traffic and pedestrians and clutter in the middle of an Iowa corn field??? But you haven't left the existence you started in just the location. So if you opened the car window and put you hand out in the city or in the cornfield, there really isn't any difference.
Stick you hand out at the edge of the Universe would be like doin it in low Earth orbit.
Maybe...... What if... when you reach the "edge" of the Universe you keep going and there's the beginning of ANOTHER Universe!!!!!! queue the "Twilioght Zone" music
This was fun Thanks for the question
W
2007-09-07 04:39:27 · answer #1 · answered by The Big W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolute nothingness. That's what's at the end of the Universe.
The Universe is like a basketball, and we're on the inside. There's a point where you can't go any farther forward - you can only go left, right, up, down, or backwards.
Beyond the edge of the Universe, there are no physical laws, because there is nothing for those laws to apply TO. As to whether you could extend your arm beyond the edge of the universe? Probably not, but nobody knows for sure.
2007-09-07 11:24:54 · answer #2 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There isn't an end to the universe, as such. What ever direction you go in, after a while (a very very long while), you'll end up back where you started, so you'd just be sticking your arm back into another patch of space. But outside the universe there is nothing, and it is not possible to put your hand through the divide, because there is no divide. There isn't an edge, really.
2007-09-07 11:47:03 · answer #3 · answered by Kit Fang 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Travelling to the edge of the universe is the same as asking what would happen if you travel to the edge of the earth : there is no edge. If it'd be possible to travel that long etc. you'd end up where you started.
2007-09-07 17:41:26 · answer #4 · answered by noodlemaster 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The edge of the universe is something that cannot be reached. We can calculate how big the universe is, but we can't reach the end of it because the universe is all that there is. Something can only have an end if there is something beyond it - and there isn't.
2007-09-07 11:23:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A mirror-like parallel universe with everything exactly the opposite. If you are right-handed, you would find a left-handed version of yourself, your dog would be barking 'Fra' instead of 'Arf' and if you have an 'outie' bellybutton, your double would have an 'innie'. You would believe in a supreme being that you are sure is in the other parallel universe and refer to it as 'heaven' (yes, some of those doubles have made it to our universe!). It would be completely mind-blowing and you would never believe anything anybody has ever told or taught you.
2007-09-07 12:12:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question makes me feel like our brains as humans are so insignificant.
Anyone remember back when everyone thought the earth was flat?
I can't wait until (hopefully) one day, in the future, someone discovers what's beyond us. We're trapped in such a little net of what we can comprehend.
What if the universe is like a country... the galaxy is like a state, and us, earth, is like a city.
there may be more than just one country in.... whatever it is that's so much larger than us.
It blows my mind to think of the possibilities.
So, I guess my answer is, "another universe"
2007-09-07 11:27:35 · answer #7 · answered by theregoesguts 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there's an end of the universe which a human can reach and see. If there is I would say there will be an empty space with nohting but gasses and other substances. Or another world.
2007-09-07 12:02:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other side of the universe. It'd be like you'd just appear on the other edge of the universe.
2007-09-07 11:21:46 · answer #9 · answered by jg655 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to "Futurama", there's a scenic overlook there. You park your spaceship, get out, put a quarter into that big binocular thingie, and look through the eyepiece.
Again, this is unconfirmed data, you understand, but what you will see is your exact duplicate, (except that he wears a cowboy hat) looking through a binocular thing back at you from his parallel universe.
Really!
It was on a cartoon, so it must be true!
2007-09-07 11:26:43 · answer #10 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋