Too much of nothing
A little humility is perhaps in order about all the knowledge and wisdom that humans possess of the ways their world and the universe function. There is a hole in the universe of unfathomable size — a billion light years across. AP:
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That’s got them scratching their heads about what’s just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That’s an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday…
“This is 1,000 times the volume of what we sort of expected to see in terms of a typical void,” said Minnesota astronomy professor Lawrence Rudnick, author of the paper that will be published in Astrophysical Journal. “It’s not clear that we have the right word yet … This is too much of a surprise.”…
Retired NASA astronomer Steve Maran said of the discovery: “This is incredibly important for something where there is nothing to it.”
“This is incredibly important for something where there is nothing to it.” It reminds us, as that fellow said, that man can walk the streets and boast like most but he wouldn’t know a thing.