Does space have height ??

[ufomaybe]

I mean when you fly a plane you can go up and down and increase altitude. <br /><br />If you fly through space , can you go up and down? Or are all the planets and stars on the same level like a sheet of paper?<br /><br />Something I never seen asked before, but im sure it was. <br /><br />

 

[vogon13]

You can go left and right (yaw) and up and down (pitch) and round and round (roll).<br /><br />The planets are not all the same plane. Mercury is off 7 degrees, Pluto 17, and IIRC, one of the new KBOs is off 45.<br /><br />The European probe Ulysses is in an orbit around 75 to 80 degrees off the track.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[Saiph]

well, they're in the same general plane, but that's due to how they were formed, and various reasons.<br /><br />However, you're free to move any direction, any distance in space, but some directions are harder than others due to the forces at work. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#c0c0c0"><br /></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">----</font></em></font><font color="#666699">SaiphMOD@gmail.com </font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">-------------------</font></em></font></p><p><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">"This is my Timey Wimey Detector.  Goes "bing" when there's stuff.  It also fries eggs at 30 paces, wether you want it to or not actually.  I've learned to stay away from hens: It's not pretty when they blow" -- </font></em></font><font size="1" color="#999999">The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[harmonicaman]

...but wherever you go, you will still always maintain the relative perspective of being the oldest and most centered point in the entire universe. (Of course, this perspective is also shared by every other point in the universe.) <img src="/images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

 

[Saiph]

right...but that fits into this question how? I don't see the connection. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#c0c0c0"><br /></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">----</font></em></font><font color="#666699">SaiphMOD@gmail.com </font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">-------------------</font></em></font></p><p><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">"This is my Timey Wimey Detector.  Goes "bing" when there's stuff.  It also fries eggs at 30 paces, wether you want it to or not actually.  I've learned to stay away from hens: It's not pretty when they blow" -- </font></em></font><font size="1" color="#999999">The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[harmonicaman]

<b>Saiph -</b><br /><br />The poster asked; "<i>Does space have height?",</i> and I was just trying to illustrate the concept that space has no definable height -- you cannot attain a point in space that is "Higher" than another point of space because you will still always be located at the very center of space.<br /><br />Concepts like height and distance can be used to define relationships between objects within space; but space itself does not relate to a 3-dimensional coordinate system.<br />

 

[Saiph]

I see your connection now..that's what I get for reading these things on little to no sleep. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#c0c0c0"><br /></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">----</font></em></font><font color="#666699">SaiphMOD@gmail.com </font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">-------------------</font></em></font></p><p><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">"This is my Timey Wimey Detector.  Goes "bing" when there's stuff.  It also fries eggs at 30 paces, wether you want it to or not actually.  I've learned to stay away from hens: It's not pretty when they blow" -- </font></em></font><font size="1" color="#999999">The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[kmarinas86]

<font color="yellow">I mean when you fly a plane you can go up and down and increase altitude. <br /><br />If you fly through space , can you go up and down? Or are all the planets and stars on the same level like a sheet of paper? <br /><br />Something I never seen asked before, but im sure it was.</font><br /><br />You can go towards or away. Up and down implies a gravitational gradient, hence going away would be like going up (up, up, and away) and going towards would be like going down. Going really, really down, you start to observe the smaller things in life and even smaller than that.<br /><br />The universe is not like sheet of paper. It is more like an ocean with plenty of neutrally-buoyant "buoys" called galaxies that have neutrally-buoyant "buoys" of their own called stars and nebulae. The ocean is four dimensional, hence, the buoys don't float to a top, unless you suscribe to the accelerating universe hypothesis <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />.