Now imagine the universe. It starts with Cedar City, expanding to Iron County. Iron County gives way to the state of Utah. Utah is drowned by the United States of America. Zoom your vision out further and you will find our North American Continent. Past that we get a view of the world. It is a grain of sand on a zillion mile beach with

Grab a string and stretch it until it is a football field-width long. Now tie a knot in the middle of this string. The knot is our earth and on either side is the expanse of black punctuated by tiny lights of terrestrial beauty. Take the string and bring it around the world. Even then we are not touching base with the dream of forever.
Massive, endless, forever, eternally our universe extends. Try imagining forever. Try to see the string with no beginning. Now see it with no stopping point.
Go take some aspirin.
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