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Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - The lonely universe
Identifier
014146
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
How will this ever expanding universe appear to us?
It will be an apparently lonely place, a universe of one galaxy
“And one by one the stars would all go out
and you and I would gently fade away”
A description of the experience
Sir Arthur Eddington
It is still quite possible for us to see things in or through the regions, which are now broken off from us, because there is a lag of light messages. …......I suppose that the distance of one galaxy from the next will ultimately become so great and the mutual recession so rapid that neither light nor any other causal influence can pass from one to another. All connection between galaxies will be broken each will [appear to] be self contained 'universes' uninfluenced by anything [physical] outside it