How long would that tour take? About 15 billion years, assuming your "rocket" was as fast as the speed of light, approximately 700 million miles an hour. You would have to take a very long vacation for that trip.
When you got to the edge of the universe, its sea shore, you would only see networks of clusters of galaxies and your galaxy, the Milky Way could not be detected.
When I came out of the universe, I inherited the idea that God made earth and that it was at the center of everything. I don't use the word god anymore and consider most gods graven idols of the mind. I prefer the word mystery, indicating an unknowable presence behind the visible universe that I will never be able to tour.
I am in awe of that mystery, speechless about it, as it were.
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