Even our scientists suffer from the same substandard education that plagues our population. The author should have done the math. The odds of a collision are about as likely as everybody in Florida winning the lottery in the same week. You can’t even graph it on paper, the distances are so astronomical. And I daresay that two galaxies could pass through each other without even a close call.(I’m guessing that the Hubble telescope has spotted one or two doing just that.
Never forget, you’re most often reading what a J-school dweeb thought he heard and not necessarily what the scientist actually said