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imagine it, but it does not seem so to you
because of its expansiveness, any more
than in the case of a person who was looking at a far-off
horse running down a large mountain -- it would not
appear to him at all that the horse was running fast. And the
further away the horse was from him, the slower
it would seem to be running. The sky is
so far above us that if a stone were up in the
air as high as the stars, and were of the heaviest
material in the world - lead or metal - and it
started to fall from way up there, it is proven and well-known to all
that the stone would only reach the earth after one hundred years. The sky
is that far away from us. And it is so large
that the whole earth has no size at all in comparison
with it, any more than a point in the
middle of the largest possible compass has any size
when compared with the largest possible circle that could
be made on earth. And if a
man were up in the sky and he looked down
onto the earth, and if the earth were burning
all around like lit charcoals, it would