Cosmic Consciousness

Cosmic Consciousness

If you earned $100,000 one year, how many years would you need to match that in order to earn a billion dollars? Not ten years; not a hundred years; not a thousand years: rather, ten thousand years.

Viewed another way, take one step and think of it as 100,000 years. How far to walk to “a billion years”? About five miles.

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. It takes about 1½ hours for light to travel a billion miles. In science magazines, you can view photos of galaxies whose light reached the camera lens after journeying 13 billion years.

In one year’s time, light travels 5.88 trillion miles; multiply that by 13,000,000,000 years, and you have (at least) that many miles of the cosmos which we can see (not counting what we can’t see).

And that’s looking in one direction: look in the opposite direction, and the camera lens will there, also, intercept light that traveled 8½ billion years before our solar system even existed—and more than another four billion years before we were around to build that camera.

In this vast (if not infinite) universe, sits this earth—not even 7,500 miles wide, passed by light in a quarter of a second.

Contemplate such things, when you’re evaluating your importance in the universe!