The Universe Backwater

It was first Douglas Adams in "T.H.H.G.T.T.G." The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy that described the Milky Way galaxy as being within the backwaters of the universe. This would seem to explain why we have no visible neighbors to speak of. When I was a child I imagined that all the beings that should inhabit our universe left for other universes in transdimensional starcraft. Now we know that this is totally possible and without the aide of a starcraft. We contain within our own mind, the ability to travel to other worlds, other galaxies, even other universes. Truly there is nothing extraordinary about the universe we inhabit, just as there is nothing extraordinary about any other universe. Each universe seems just as strange and just as bland, for afterall, these terms, these value judgments cannot be applied to something as huge and complex as a universe. We might notice that another universe is very different from our own, even to an unsettling degree, but this would never serve as an accurate qualitative or quantitative analysis. The experience of exploring universes is one in which the explorer finds them self exploring them self in an effort to explore the immense infinite scale of existence. We cannot help but become expanded, complicated and changed by this strange and wonderful dream that unfurls within our infinite mind.