IN THE DISTANCE

Distance is one of those deceptively simple concepts that gets wilder the more you think about it.
On a human scale, it’s just how far apart things are—meters, miles, the length of a bad first date.
Zoom out to the cosmos, and distance becomes mind-bending: the observable universe is about 93 billion light-years across, even though it’s only 13.8 billion years old, thanks to space itself expanding faster than light in the early universe.
Zoom in to quantum weirdness, and distance loses meaning entirely—particles can be entangled so that measuring one instantly affects the other, no matter how far apart they are, like the universe’s version of a cosmic text message with zero latency.
In the end, distance isn’t just space; it’s also time, perception, and connection. Sometimes the person sitting right next to you feels light-years away.