141 / I'm really enjoying my new book: A Short History …

… of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I'm still Lost In The Cosmos (chapter 1) but I have learned something new already.

Like most people who don't think about these things in a professional manner, i.e. as laypersons, I had a concept of the universe being really big alright (I knew it's about 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles - or 90 billion light years - across) but I didn't think much about what's beyond our visible universe, I mean - who does? Bill Bryson, apparently.

"According to most theories the universe at large - the meta-universe - is vastly roomier still. The number

of light years to the edge of this larger, unseen universe would be written not with ten zeroes, not even with

a hundred, but with millions." Who would 've thought. Thanks, Bill - and I'm only just beyond chapter one.

Light years to go!

I love this stuff - I've written an essay about it: COSMOS.