He had some questions. He wondered if there was an edge to the universe. He knew it was expanding, always expanding. But way far out there, was there an edge, that you could fall off of?
And what if the universe is just part of something even bigger? And all the stars were like grains of sand. Would its inhabitants be able to predict the future of earthlings,
the way we can predict the behavior of atoms when we split them?
Can the flapping of a butterfly wing on a beautiful summer day cause a turbulence in the heart?
Does anyone realize that there’s a star (called Sagittarius A star) just dancing around a black hole in the center of our galaxy?
If a powerful flare flashed out of the sun and caused a current to run through the crust of the earth, causing all the artificial lights on earth to be extinguished, would the rhythms and desires of women’s bodies return to being ruled by the moon?
The tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion (inertia) varies with its mass (according to Newton.) Could one make oneself denser, make one’s existence so substantial that the state of their motion resisted all change, and nothing affected it?
If you left a person on a platform and you got on a train traveling at the speed of light, causing time to stop for you relative to her (according to Einstein) would your feelings about her stop also?
Does the message I’m not certain I want to be with you change when you’re not looking at it?
If the Earth’s inner core is made up of solid iron, what is a human's
inner core made up of? How hard a blow would it take to shatter it?
Can a magnet be attracted to something that repels it?
Would you have time to tie yourself to the earth if gravity suddenly stopped, or would you shoot into space, tumbling in the darkness until you died?
How much energy would be released if your mass was reduced to zero?
If you make a wish on the evening star, will it come true, even though it’s a planet?
Writing prompt: "he'd always wondered…"