[chicken head]

When i was in high school, our science teacher told the class that space has no end.. The girl next to me stood up and said, “ thats impossible for space to have no end, there has to be a wall out there..” -— I looked at the girl and said, “ well, whats on the other side of the wall?”.. ——I guess the human mind can’t process something thats eternal and has no end..

[fieldmarshaldj]

Thinking about what’s beyond that wall freaks me out more than anything else.

[Texas Songwriter]

There are no actual infinites. It is said that our galaxy has between 100 billion and 200 billion stars. It is said that there are in excess of 100 billion galaxies. The distance, on average between stars averages about 30 trillion miles. To give an example that allows a modicum of analogous comparison.....If a grain of sand on all of the beaches and deserts of the world was considered a star, and the distance between each grain of sand was 30 trillion miless.....that gives one a starting place. Count the number of grains of sand on all beaches and deserts and that is about how many stars that we know exists. But it must be remembered that the universe continues to expand, and moreover, it is expanding as a rate which is faster than the speed of light.

It is a remarkable, reasonable universe essentially governed in the physical realm by essentially 4 forces. We sent up a space probe in 1977 and it is traveling at about 17,000 miles per hour, and it is only now leaving our solar system. That is 35 years (roughly) moving at 17,000 per hour, each hour for 35 years and it is only now leaving our solar system.