Occasionally I have pondered the deep questions of life.
There is none deeper than the question of "standard gauge"- the distance between rails on tracks all around the world- exactly 4 ft 8 1/2 inches. It doesn't even translate neatly into metric.
Ponder no more. Everything is revealed here.
It appears that we are following the horse's rear all the way into space!
That is amazing! Can you imagine if you were to tell the first Roman workman who built a wagon the implications of his choice of measurement! Kind of a good lesson for us - how our humble actions can affect things world-wide and over some 3,000 years! It makes me want to be careful!
ReplyDeleteLOL!We think we are so clever in this awesomely technological world. Yet our basic standards go back all that way, and in the end to the way God created the world.
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