If you were to place a person in dead space which direction would they go?

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I had to shorten that up for the main question. Here's what I mean.

Provided the person had a life sustaining space suit of some kind; If you placed a person in absolute dead space (this universe,but NO particles,planets,matter of ANY kind in it) with NO momentum what-so-ever (a dead stop/no direction), (a) would he be able to make himself move?, (b) If he couldn't "make" himself move, is there any reason he would not stay in that EXACT location in space forever? (c) let's say the man couldn't/didn't move his body by his own "will" at all, would he STILL stay in that exact same spot?
And if he can move (go from 1 point in space to another), what would be making him move? Why?

(same physics and laws as this universe, but absolutely dead empty space except for him)
I know this is a kinda' stupid, obviously hypothetical question, but it just floated through my head and got curious.

(ps. it could be a her, no offense.....or a TV set,or a pillow for that matter, it just made it more interesting for me. I just always use the masculine term. I got yelled at for that before on here!)
 
To get out of gravity it would be over 300 light years in space. Yes he would move from the solar winds.
 
Uniform motion in a straight line is considered a "relative motion" it has to be compared to something else. If your hypothetical astronaut is the only thing in the hypothetical universe, then motion is impossible to define, except non-relative motion, like say, rotation. Also in order for him/her to move, an external force would need to be applied. If there is a "jet-pack" then the astronaut could move using it, it would expel a burst of gas in one direction, sending the astronaut moving in the other, but now you have more than one object, the astronaut and the quantity of gas which "pushed against" each other, and going in opposite directions, this would be considered an "outside" force.
 
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