Is Reality Just a Measurement?
Where does the universe end? Where does infinity begin? And if time itself had a starting line…what does that make us — travelers, or just illusions moving through a system we invented? Let’s start with the edge of everything. If you flew in a straight line across the universe, you’d never find a wall. No sign that says “You’ve reached the end.” Space doesn’t stop — it bends. The universe curves back on itself, like the surface of a balloon. It’s expanding, stretching, but has no edge. You can travel forever and never leave it. That’s not magic — it’s geometry . Right now, the farthest light we can see left its galaxy 13.8 billion years ago. But because space itself has been stretching, that galaxy is now about 46.5 billion light-years away. That’s the edge of the observable universe — not the edge of the universe itself. Beyond that, there may be countless galaxies we’ll never see, because their light will never reach us. In other words, what we call ...