My take on the universe

Every once in a while, I stay up a bit later than usual, and just wonder about what's beyond us, over the stars and far away. Although I have a pretty clear notion of the size of the Universe and its age, and I know that it looks somewhat like a bubble, I still find it hard to integrate its vastness into my head. And, to make things worse, no one seems to be able to tell us for sure how the whole thing was formed. Admittedly, some say that it was made by God, while others say that physics played a major part. Don't worry, I won't turn this editorial into a debate between creationism and evolution. Definitely, the most mind-boggling thing about our Universe is that it could, potentially, fit into a single grain of sand. That is to say, for world is beyond it. This idea was exploited in the Men in Black movie, which featured the catchphrase “the galaxy is on Orion's belt,” where Orion was just a small kitten, which carried a little glass sphere on its collar. The sphere contained a full-grown galaxy, millions of light-years across. But the relativity of scale is one of the fundamental truths of the whole design. In astronomical terms, objects that are near to each other may take thousands of years to travel between, even on ships going as fast as 10 kilometers per second. Our nearest neighboring solar system is 75,000 years of travel away, yet, on the grand scheme of things, it's very, very near. And, come to think of it, that there are so many billions of stars everywhere. Just imagine that many of the lights we see in the sky at night aren't stars, but entire galaxies, shining bright because of their massive size. Moreover, each of them features millions and millions of stars, each with its own solar system. And they all revolve around the all-present black hole, either super-massive or small, which makes all galaxies spin. However, even galaxy clusters and impressive black hole fade away at the sight of the majesty of the Universe. According to one theory, the whole thing started about 13.7 billion years ago, with the Big Bang, and it began to expand, thus giving birth to everything around us, and more. When I say more, I'm talking about dark matter and dark energy, the mystery concepts that denote forces that shouldn't theoretically be there, but are nonetheless.