[net.startrek] Leaving the Galaxy?

jgd@ih1ap.UUCP (pp) (04/30/84)

    When I saw the episode in which the Enterprise left the galaxy I was
surprised to hear the crew referring to some kind of barrier at the edge
of our galaxy.  Is there really such a barrier?  Or is this just fiction for
the sake of the T.V. show?  I all ways thought that the stars in our galaxy
became more spread out toward the edge.  Could the spiral motion of
the galaxy have anything to do with a barrier?  Are there any current scientific
theories on this subject?   I sure would like to know.



   					Jerry Donovan
					ih1ap!jgd

matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (05/01/84)

	There is no barrier of any sort at the "edge" of the galaxy, but
	somewhere beyond the limits of the observable universe there is
	quite possibly a "domain wall" where the forces of nature
	(strong, weak, electromagnetic) get rearranged.  If it weren't
	so far away it would make a good sf topic.