I've been playing a lot of Elite recently where you can zip around solar systems beyond the speed of light. If you try to restrict your speed to below the speed of light it takes a really long time. If you stop and think about it, you realise just how big everything is. But conversely, it also struck me how slow the universe is.
Take two human bodies and information can be transmitted between each other seemingly instantaneously from the other side of the room. Yet light between two suns that far apart relative to their own sizes takes a long while to travel from one object to another.
But then the universe exists for billions of years rather than 80 years so taken over that time span maybe it isn't that slow?
Take two human bodies and information can be transmitted between each other seemingly instantaneously from the other side of the room. Yet light between two suns that far apart relative to their own sizes takes a long while to travel from one object to another.
But then the universe exists for billions of years rather than 80 years so taken over that time span maybe it isn't that slow?
