Big Hole

If you are a fan of Ironweed Breakdown, you are probably aware of the recently-discovered hole in the universe. Last week scientists at the University of Minnesota announced their discovery of a void a billion light years wide. That is to say, if you were moving at the speed of light, and you left one edge of this thing heading for the other side, you would encounter absolutely nothing, no dust, no Starbucks, no tumbleweeds, no planets, no quarks, no regular material of any kind, and not even any of the more mysterious things, such as dark matter or black holes, in short, nothing at all, for A BILLION YEARS. If you Google "Hole in Universe" you will find all kinds of articles. This is good stuff. Fun fun stuff.