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I’m no astronomer, but still I wonder. Didn’t Einstein show that two stars cannot move apart faster than the speed of light? How, then, can the unseen stars be so far away? Who can relax and sleep, if the universe is breaking its speed limit? Is the universe infinite, and are those unseen stars there in the black portions of sky? Walt Whitman [1892], as usual, had the keenest vision: “The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place.”
