Taking a moment to understand scale is a fascinating idea. And to get a sense of the size of things we usually need to compare one to another. For example, as Allan Lightman explains, “If we wanted to travel to the Sun on a high-speed train, say at two hundred miles per hour, it would take about fifty years. But to get to nearest star beyond the Sun on the same train would take about fifteen million years.”
A scale of time between our sun and the nearest star grants us insight as to the size of the universe. From where do you get your sense of scale from, for example vocationally, physically, spiritually, emotionally? What do you compare yourself to in order to gain perspective on your life and place in the universe?
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