In a distant alien world, intelligent life yearns to know that they are not alone in the universe. But what if they aren’t the only ones reaching to the stars? This is Through the Eye of the Needle, written by Michael Carabott, performed by Lance Reddick. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello.
My name is Kai, and this is through the eye of the needle, performed by Lance Reddick.
The problem is that the universe is big.
Very, very big.
We all know it, intellectually at least, if perhaps not with the same bone deep certainty with which we know those things that we can see, touch, or observe directly.
But when the experts tell us that the universe is big, we nod vigorously and say we understand, like rational individuals, even though the concept of a million miles is too big for us to truly comprehend, let alone a million light years.
Those same experts compound the problem by telling us that the universe has a built in speed limit, the speed of light.
If this most ethereal of energies, unbound by the trappings of solidity, cannot pierce the heavens in a mortal lifetime, then what hope have we sheathed as we are by the constraints of flesh and mass?
None.
And so we are trapped, doomed to rot in the prison of physics.
It therefore makes sense that when an intelligent species is faced with distances so great that a lifetime of travel at conventional speeds, even a thousand lifetimes, barely gets you out of your own stellar neighborhood, then that species will inevitably go looking for shortcuts.