The Universe...

[john1066]

I read many years ago that you can travel so far into space until there is nothing there not even empty space. That has baffled me for many years.What are your thoughts on that ?

[wildwood]

It is very unlikely that we will ever be able to travel faster than the speed at which space is expanding so I guess we'll never know.

[zig.zag]

until the big crunch

[annie0000]

I've been there, it's called east kilbride.

[noway2]

After traveling for many years at the speed of light,you eventully end up at heavens gate.But if you travel in the opposite direction you end up at the gates of hell.I would recommend you take a compass with you.

[Graham-W]

According to the experts, space is curved, so even if you travel in what appears to be a straight line you will always come back to where you started.
Isn't that how boomerangs work?

[Teddio]

It's like travelling on the surface of a sphere. There's no beginning or end. No matter how far you travel you will not find an end.

[rov1200]

Space is infinite. The universe is not. Its just filling the void.

[Rev. Green]

When you see light from one light year distance you are seeing things which happened a year ago. If you could see light from 14 milliard light years distance you would be looking at the big bang.

If you were to travel there it would take you 14 milliard years even at the speed of light, by which time space would have expanded by an extra 14 milliard light years.

[RTFishall]

I'm afraid John sensible answers for you seem to be a bit thin (excuse the pun) and far between.
The answer is very strange and almost impossible to visualize. Lets just say that the Universe is finite but unbounded. Lots of things are brought into play, such as gravity bending (curving space). May I suggest a very good book by Professor Stephen Hawkins called "A Brief History of Time". It was a best seller and worth a serious read.

PS. Does the 1066 bit mean you are from Hastings? ;-)

[PeteHull]

Though there is a lot of brain mass which we don't actually use, our brain isn't equiped to even imagine an answer to the question you are asking, that's not to say that it wouldn't be able to contain the knowledge if we were enabled to understand it, maybe it is a facility that has been purposfully removed from us for fear of what we would do with it, maybe our existence on the planet is to prove to us what will happen if we are left to our own devices, much the same as a farther would say to his offspring who wouldn't do as he advised..... In All, a very good question....

Thanks
Pete

[FjallRaven]

if there is nothing there then there is empty space.

[Rev. Green]

There is no empty space outside the Universe. In fact there is no space outside the Universe, and there is no empty space anywhere: space is packed with virtual particles.