To pilot a spacecraft and fly through space . . . that, too, would be something.
But what is space? A metric of our ignorance?
Flying through water, flying through a gaseous atmosphere — okay, these make sense. But deep space lacks matter — thus the very efficient maintenance of momentum. When astronauts fly through space, what are they really flying through, if anything? A field of quantum potentiality? What?
If you have an answer, I’d love to hear it.
But even lacking an answer, I’d gladly have a ticket punched for a flight through I-don’t-know-what-the-heck-”it”-is.
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[photo courtesy of NASA]
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