“Do you know how far the human eye can see?” I shake my head. “I do not.” “Less than three miles on a clear day.” He sets the journal on his lap, running his fingers over it once more before picking up the textbooks one at a time, examining each. “Three miles. That’s the distance from our eye to the horizon when on flat ground. Do you know how far light travels in a single second?” “186,000 miles?” I guess. He nods, drawing in a breath through his nose. “186 thousand. The world we live in is so much more vast than we can see. Imagine what’s out there, Arthur. In a time and place far from now.”
