• Question: Do you know what is up above space

    Asked by 422radg37 to Reka on 4 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 4 Nov 2016:

      Presumably more space! A lot of emptiness with a few celestial bodies such as stars and planets in-between. The following thought always blew my mind: try imagining how big space is, or what its shape is. Every time I think about this, I’m stumped, because I simply can’t imagine space having any ‘edges’, and how can something without an edges have a shape?!

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  • Photo: Pip

    Pip commented on :

    As far as I’m aware, just more space!

    On Earth, it’s easy to understand what we mean by words like “above” but in outer space, they lose their meaning. Scientists argue all the time about what shape space is and even whether it goes on forever, joins up with itself in some way, or has an “edge”.

    If space does have an edge, the best guess that there is *nothing* beyond it – no light, no matter – just nothing.

    I like to think there be dragons.