Explain the universe

I’m lying on the couch with a headache. Why? you ask. Because of a very annoying thought. Yes a thought. A big fat lousy thought. You know. It’s that one that everyone has sometimes in their life. That on about the universe. The universe is big.Very big but what comes after it? Nothing. But how can that be? There has to be something. Maybe it goes on forever. But there has to be something else. The universe is big. Very big. But what comes… Then I stop. Maybe if I think logically I’ll come out with an answer. Then it struck me. You know those makeshift Christmas decorations – the one that you get strips of paper and make a loop and another one through the first and another and another. Well I made one of those and looped the last loop through the first so they it made a sort of big loop out of lots of little loops. Then I go up to my parents and say “Look, I have explained the universe!” I run my hand around one of the loops. “This is a galaxy and my finger is a space ship. The space ship goes around the galaxy and goes to another one. It goes In a circle through all the galaxies. It has gone around the universe. It could have gone elsewhere but it didn’t. You see, the universe is big but there might be something else out there. Because of these days technology, no one can get there.

I know saying I’ve explained the universe sounds a little bit too grand, but who cares. I don’t.

I still have the paper chain I used and I’m going to keep it.