Friday 12 December 2008

13 MATTER/COLLECTIONS/THE UNIVERSE

The Universe is not as big as people think. The only person to nearly grasp this was Einstein when he said ‘There are only two things that are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.’ In recent years physicists have got carried away with inventing all kinds of things from dark matter to cheesy strings. At the time of writing the biggest map of the Universe includes more than a million galaxies with the farthest sitting more than 5 billion light years from Earth. The Universe is in fact an illusion and is only about the size of a small haddock and roughly the same shape. It is amazing how many delusional beings can be contained in the space of a haddock.
Humans are not the most delusional race. The Iam, from the bit near where the dorsal fin starts, are a lost cause. Worse than Eskimo’s for their fascination with snow, they have an infinite amount of words for the word infinite, and spend most of their time making them up. The most enlightened race is the Horton. They are not quiet there yet. They think it’s more like a turbot.

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