How do you explain the universe to a per/school child

[Pharian (Christopher)]

Originally Posted by sil

Space is Big, Really really big, You may think its a long way down the road to the chemist but thats peanuts compared to space.

Ha! Was about to quote the Addams when I saw you already had. So I thought to myself "don't panic!", then wrapped my towel around my head to soften the blow of the imminent gold brick from the pan galactic gargle blaster I was swilling. Good times...

[silv (Annette)]

For 13 billion years, a balloon has been blown up and still is.
It's gotten soo big now that we can't visit any other interesting places with our fuelled space rockets for we'd simply die of old age on the way.
And it get'sbigger every day. That's why people are looking for other means to go visit other places in the universe.

And what's at the end of the universe?
Well, it's not only a room full of stars with a wall around it, you know.

It's a time full of stars. And at the end of time, time hasn't happened yet.
Until tomorrow.
And the next day.
No need for a wall when there's no time, see?
Time creates space.