If you shrank the solar system to the size of a dinner plate, the diameter of a correspondingly shrunken Milky Way would still be one hundred thousand kilometers.
We both take advantage of ordinary objects in our world to enlarge and extend our abilities.
“I think what I’m working on is beautiful. Entering the world of stars is like entering an infinitely vast garden. No two flowers are alike.… You have to think that’s a weird analogy, but it’s exactly how I feel.”
Perhaps you think it no more than tossing a pebble into the sea. But that’s not the case, Papa. This is dropping a grain of sand into an eye.
“As far as I know, Alpha Centauri A is our closest star. It’s only about … four light-years away.”