Escaping from the Universe - sometinmes it's a very appealing idea - shame it's not possible!

There was a young fellow named Bright
Who travelled faster than light.
Hea went out one day
In a relative way
And returned the following night!

Here's a mind-boggler for you ... if you tied a magic endless rope to the North Pole and started winding it it round and round on the ground (alright, the ice), you'd be on the outside of an increasingly wide circle of rope ... until one day, you'd be on the inside of an icreasingly smaller circle, surrounded by rope, until you ended up clinging to the South Pole. Now, stretch your imagination ... if you had a magic hod of bricks that was never empty, you could start bricking up the universe. You'd start up on the outside of the bricks, but end up bricking yourself up! (It would take a lot longer than the rope trick, though.)

Steve

P.S. You'd have to lay bricks faster than the universe is expanding for it to work, of course! Somebody ought to write a song about it ...