Its not often anymore you can actually see the milky way. Light pollution from all our cities and towns has flooded the night sky and has obscured our view of the stars. I remember when I was little and we moved to the countryside I was really surprised that the night sky was black and not orange.
Last night driving to Temoris from the mine, away from the lights of the camp and the mine, deep in the mountains, the milky way really was as white as its name and spanned the sky in a glorious arc from one horizon to the other. We must be in the right time of year also to see it so clearly. It made my heart sing, the galaxy is unimaginably huge and the universe even bigger but we are just as much a part of it all as the brightest star in the sky.
I have often wondered about distances in space. Maybe they are just an illusion constructed in our minds, all that empty blackness between the stars, is it really there or is it going to be a big as we think it is? I had a very good argument once with a pair of very scientific minds on the nature of breaking the light speed barrier.
It’s not possible (them)
But how do you know? (I)
Because it has never been done and we have never recorded anything going the speed of light (them)
But that’s because you were measuring things with instruments constructed using the laws of physics as we know them now (I)
Its just not possible (them)
I considered briefly getting into astral projection, dreams and the nature of reality but decided to save my energy for my own explorations.
If we are light and whatever atoms are made of, bouncing round in the vibration called ‘I’ then speed of light is possible, in fact forget the speed of light and go read Jonathon Livingston Seagull for a lesson in the nature of possibility…
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