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Old 04-14-2008, 06:46 PM
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Default Hypothetcially, if you could travel in a spaceship to the edge of the universe, what would you see?

What would you see if you tried to look beyond it?

And what would happen if you tried to fly beyond it?
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Old 04-14-2008, 06:49 PM
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There is no edge to our universe.

If you mean to the edge of our visible universe, then if you flew to the edge you'd see essentially the same thing you see now, only in a slightly different arrangement. It is assumed our universe is basically isotropic, so no matter where you are you'd always see the same stuff.
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Old 04-14-2008, 06:53 PM
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No edge, period
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Old 04-14-2008, 06:53 PM
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There is no edge to the universe, so you cannot go to it. There is an event horizon beyond which you cannot see from this location. The event horizon is created by the expansion of the space of the universe, and the expansion can be greater than the speed of light. This does not violate special relativity because the space is expanding.

No matter where you are in the universe, it all looks the same at cosmological scales.
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Old 04-14-2008, 07:00 PM
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Scientists say that the outer space is not actually a perfect void. Ii is made of some sort of less dense molecules, stardust etc. So, I imagine that what you would see beyond the border is actually the perfect void, in other words, nothing.
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Old 04-14-2008, 07:02 PM
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sorry to disappoint you but the universe has no edge but i probably could see uranus
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Old 04-14-2008, 07:06 PM
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Considering that there is no edge to our universe, you would find nothing but space itself. Space never stops, I know it can be very frustrating to understand. But at the same time, it is quite beautiful.
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Old 04-14-2008, 07:27 PM
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opinions are divided but there is a general consensus that there may be an end? to our known cosmos/galactic area created by the big bang. It is also possible we simply cannot 'see' any incoming light as more stars etc may be so far away in light years it hasn't got enough light for us to see anything. It is possible also they there simply Inst anything else beyond our known universe. Coming back to the non seeing bit. it may also be possible that dark matter or no reflecting gas clouds are in fact obscuring our penetration or vision but so far infra red and x-ray search are still going on. NASA astronomy site is helpful here and may give Far more factual and insight you seek. good luck/
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Old 04-14-2008, 07:45 PM
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You would see the inside of a giant black hole.
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Old 04-14-2008, 08:04 PM
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more of the universe... It is infinite and does not end you could travel in any direction for 500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years and you would not be any closer to the edge of the universe.
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