Folks, it’s time I took you all on a little journey. A journey through time and space across the vastness of the universe, then on into the spaces between the particles that make up this insane and loony universe. Explore the near perfect emptiness filling the void in which all the stars float about in. And most importantly how big nothing can be. In fact nothing is a lot bigger than you or me or even the solar system. But it’s nothing. You can’t breathe, smell, eat, or feel it, but nothing is everywhere. That’s why it’s so darn big. Our big yellow ball of a sun is small compared to it all.
We are just so small and young compared to the rest of what’s out there in space. There is light from stars older than our own sun racing through the inky near perfect emptiness and still has yet to reach us. Out of the whole of the universe we can only see about 14 billion parsecs out into space. A single parsec is 19 trillion miles. So it is perfectly clear that WE ARE SMALL!
Did anyone see the white dot in that lovely two thousand by two thousand picture? Look closer. Zoom in? Find it? Good, that dot is a generously sized marker of how big our little solar system is. Tiny isn’t it? Still can't find it? Neither will the giant mutant space goat. However in case that the giant mutant space goat find us, we should stick all the telephone sanitizers and every other useless type into space to a different planet. What if it’s not a space goat, but a coelacanth? If that was the case then we would really be screwed.
All right I’m going to stop the planetarium now because it is four in the morning and I promise to make a part two where I finally get to my point. My smaller than our solar system point, about space and nothing.
