I think it bears repeating that the "vast size of the universe', as a disheartening obstacle to cross-species contact among the stars, is a hurdle only from narrow perspective of the body's common perceptic channels. It is pretty well established that black holes, worm holes and possibly trees of alternate universes govern things at very large scales, where we cannot see for ourselves, and that quantum entanglement, 13-dimensional strings, and time-reversal seem to be going on at the sub-atomic level of reality where quantum foam rules.

If you think of the universe as you would a trip in a Mini down a highway, things seem impossibly far. At other levels of measurement, the intertanglement of spaces and lines in the universe may be very, very different.

Early sci-fi was fond of referring to these possibilities under the general rubric of hyper-space jumps. However it might work, do not underestimate the appetite of the species for uncovering bold new ways of gittin' thar fum hyar.


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