Light Cones
As of today, my ever-expanding sphere of potential causality has grown to encompass 49 stars in the known galaxy, having now reached and extended beyond Mu Herculis. This is no small feat, and I have managed to accomplish most of it sitting right here at my computer in this very pose, this slightly skewed angle of derision, bubbling out my coronal mass ejections of the internet kind. Because of limitations on the speed of light, today is the soonest possible moment Mu Herculis could know about my existence, however frivolous; and actually, right now, quite fittingly, is the first time I have ever heard about Mu Herculis, at least the Mu Herculis that existed 27.4 years ago. So we're bonded now, you could say, in that quantum-tangled sort of way.
I can only imagine what other celestial wonders exist beyond the reach of such a magnificent star as Mu Herc, what other beautiful vistas bask beyond. Unfortunately for the opposing viewpoint, it's just more of me and my irritable incoherencies frisking by at the speed of light as time unfurls; in fact it's probably a good thing there's little else out there but carbon compounds and gamma ray bursts, I am prone to stage fright and would likely just forget my lines.
- Tuesday, June 02, 2009 at 20:52
