We are a ball of rock spinning around the sun in a galaxy that is also rotating and moving through space. How is it that we still see the same constellations as seafarers thousands of years ago considering all of this movement?
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Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
*- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*
In short, space is so large, that even the speeds and times we have been experiencing, we don’t observe hardly any differences. Things are just that far away.
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