2007-11-10 09:54:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Even if you could travel at the speed of light, it would take 25,000 years just to get to the centre of our galaxy.
The observable universe is about 46 billion light years in all directions.
So in a person's lifetime they could travel maybe 70 to 75 light years at most (travelling at the speed of light).
But there is no way humans can travel at that speed - the most we can achieve right now is maybe 10,000 km/hr.
2007-11-10 10:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are more than one hundred billion galaxies in the known universe-what we can see from Earth-and each one
ranges in size from ten million to one trillion stars. Even if we
developed a spaceship to go faster than the speed of light
the universe is a lot of space to travel. It would take more
than one lifetime.
2007-11-10 10:43:17 · answer #2 · answered by Alion 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone couldn't travel their own galaxy in their lifetime, or even to the next star (without some sort of time warp or deep freeze,) and when you take into account that there are several galaxy-wide gulfs between galaxies, and there are possibly billions of galaxies in the universe, take a wild #$#*$ing guess if it's possible to traverse the entire universe in a paltry century.
2007-11-10 10:04:43 · answer #3 · answered by damlovash 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You couldn't travel to the nearest star in a hundred lifetimes. And that's only 1/20,000 the distance across our own galaxy.
2007-11-10 10:01:40 · answer #4 · answered by Brant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
travel the universe from one side to the other?
come on.... we don't even know the shape or size of the universe. we can only see 46.5 billion light years in every direction, beyond that..... we don't know.
your question cannot be answered because of the lack of info humans have on the universe.
in a nutshell though NO..... one could not.
it would take about a few HUNDRED BILLION years to get from where we are to as far as we can in the fastest ship we have
2007-11-10 10:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
quick answer no
the universe is about 14.3billion years old with that in mind even at the speed of light (In metric units, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second 1,079,252,848.8 km/h)
Think of it this way the earth sun distance it takes light just over 7minutes to get here and the sun is our nearest star.
So no traveling the entire universe is some time off from ever happening
2007-11-10 10:13:30 · answer #6 · answered by Alien8w8 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only way you could is if you could go through black holes, or travel almost 7 times the speed of light. So no.
2007-11-10 11:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by William A 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-24 00:09:58 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Not even at the speed of light.
2007-11-10 11:01:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋