Journey Back

Although this book is classed under Science and Astronomy it has a fictional twist. The fictional part is me remaining the same age, the spacecraft Falcon and the speed required to take me back to the distant place in the Universe where everything was created. This epic journey can only be carried out in our imagination and therefore impossible to achieve. But if you can set that fictional part aside and imagine a spacecraft and a person travelling through space and passing amazing objects on its journey I think it will give a clearer understanding of the vast distances and the length of time it will take to get there. Falcon will need to accelerate to the speed of light that is the maximum speed achievable in the Universe. That speed is 300 thousand kilometres per second, 18 million kilometres per minute, and a staggering 1,080 million kilometres per hour but even at that speed it is going to take 13.7 billion years to get there. Hopefully the other information in the book will be more factual. When I leave on this epic journey the Sun, Mercury and Venus will be left behind and the course will be set for Mars and from there I will head towards the four distant planets. After passing many other objects Falcon will exit the Solar System and head towards our nearest star neighbour Proxima Centauri. Travelling a further 26,000 light years I will reach the centre of our Galaxy the Milky Way. Now my journey really begins as I travel to that area in the Universe where time, space and everything we can see was created. I will use kilometres as a measure to start with but as you will see early on in the journey they will not be needed. During certain periods of time I will look back and visualise events affecting People, Earth and the Sun. Part of the information will be scientific predictions and some will be speculative. Many different scenarios can take place in the passing of millions or billions of years into the future of the Universe.