What Comes After Space..

From what we know, we live on a particularly lonely planet, whereby the nearest star is a mere few light years away and is likely to be a barren place with no life-supporting planets orbiting it.

Beyond this, there are billions of other stars making up The Milky Way and you would think it highly improbable that none of these have similar life sustaining characteristics like our own lonesome orb. Beyond this ofcourse, we have the inconceivable blackness found between neighbouring galaxies, each galaxy holding itself, billions of stars.

Beyond the furthest reaches of our telescopes and the distances of which light can reach and to what our mind can wonder, what do we find?

An unlimited span of black. Nothingness, a vacuum of complete darkness? I find the prospect of an infinite of something quite hard to get my head around. Yes. We can have an infinitude of numbers as they reach from the hundreds, to the thousands, to the millions and trillions. Numbers however, although being a universal constant, are man-made none the less. When considering an actual space, with width, depth or even circumference maybe, how can a physical space have infinitude mass and density.. Surely there must be an edge to space, and if there is, what would we find?

My personal thoughts with concern to this are that space may be looped or spherical, much like we find on everything else in the universe which has sufficient mass. If this is the case, when travelling through space, you are merely transversing the surface of a sphere (or loop), be it a very, very long one.

Ghosts. Do you believe?

Ghosts.. Mysterious beings that linger in the darkness, but what is your stance on such things. Do you believe they exist or are they merely created by an overactive imagination.

The sceptic inside me always pulls me towards the latter. We see ghosts only in dark spaces (the viewing is therefore disoriented, unclear and could be mistaken for something else). There is a certain mystery to the dark that powers our imagination and shapes what we see and noises we hear, can be exaggerated to something more.



Thinking more openly however, ghosts may well exist. They always tend to appear in places that have a history, or a person who may of lived there, who would have a good reason to linger about. Using modern reading devices to also monitor temperature and electro magnetism these days (forgive me if thats wrong), also push this further to become somewhat believable.

How about if ghosts are merely another creature living on Earth which we have yet to understand or find, or could they be the shadows of people from another dimension? (perhaps a little too far, or is it?)

I have seen a ghost myself many years ago but am still not fully convinced on the prospect. I guess public opinion on such a topic is divided, like many other things, but it makes you ponder..