October 12, 2012

My dearest,

You tell me that our observable universe extends more than 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metres in every direction we look.

Then you tell me that this may not really be the size of our real universe because our sight is fundamentally limited by the speed of light.

(What’s the speed of light, I wonder, but I do not ask you this.)

Finally you tell me that our cosmic horizon is the distance light must travel for the entire age of the universe to reach us.

(And I wonder, how long more do I have to wait — the age of a universe, the span that light must travel — before you kiss me? My stars are about to burst.)

Yours, ever and always.