Are you actually kidding? "But until the probe returns data do not publish any papers purporting to know what the edge of the solar system looks like." I'm pr

Are you actually kidding? "But until the probe returns data do not publish any papers purporting to know what the edge of the solar system looks like." I'm pretty sure that no decent scientist ever 'purports to know' what the edge of the solar system looks like - they are merely using what evidence they have available to make an educated guess and try to get a workable model of it. This is how science works. You make a model, test it and finds the evidence does not fit your model. You then modify your model. Also, you seem to be suggesting that all of, say, theoretical physics is necessarily worthless. What about pure maths? String theory? All of these things are just models, and have no basis in reality. What of them?