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If we could take a giant step to the furthest point of the universe and look out, what would we see?
Herman D’Hondt
Sydney, Australia
The simplest answer is that nobody knows.
Right now we can see to a distance of about 46 billion light years, the edge of the so-called visible universe. However, most scientists will agree that, if we went there, the universe would look pretty much the same as it does from here.
Just how far the universe really stretches isn’t known, but there is agreement that it is larger than what we can observe. As for…
