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And I was going to make this into a longer article tonight. There's two things here. But I thought I'd add this as just some trivia for you. So I've made a very short and very truncated narrative on this for you. But I thought you might find it interesting. Expansion in our universe. Our universe is expanding. The expansion is actually accelerating, or an accelerated expansion. And the expansion universe, as I said, it's accelerating. And as the universe expands and gets bigger, dark energy combined with matter energy, our energy budget, is increasing. So billions of years from now, the cosmos will be expanding so fast that it could actually tear itself apart. And this is often referred to as a big rip. There's other versions of what may happen to the universe. But I thought I'd just include this one tonight. And a big rip can only happen if dark energy exerts just the right amount of negative pressure on space time relative to its density. So it's not certain right now whether dark energy can actually do that or not. The universe right now, out beyond or right at the observable horizon, it's about 40, maybe around 42.5 zillion light years out, is probably speeding along at and most likely past the speed of light. So at some point, the universe will be moving no faster, and faster, and faster. And at the end, there is the possibility that at some point, time is actually tearing itself apart. But that depends on the matter distribution through the universe as well. Stop it.