Anyone who writes stuff like he does has to have a few screws loose...................
Edgar Allen Poe, in addition to being a writer of strange tales, was an amateur astronomer.
He actually 'solved' a problem that had plagued astronomers for hundreds of years: "Since space has a near infinite number of stars, Why is space dark? It should be white."
Answer: The light from the farthest stars has not arrived here yet.................
Well, if you think about it, assuming infinite space and assuming stars are in that infinite space, if all of the light from all of those stars impacted the human eye at once . . .