If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup, then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
Light travels faster than sound.
May the torque be about you. Nature abhors a vacuum. So does my sister's dog. On the sixth day, God created the platypus. Particle physicists are always trying to hold a meeting, but whenever they decide on a place, the time changes.