When we think of space, we usually think of something extending to infinity. Space is where the planets and stars are. Space is the final frontier. We stare into space, scarcely able to take in its magnitude. It seems to go on forever – even though that is almost unthinkable (just as unthinkable as the idea that it is less than infinite). It contains everything that there is. It is vast. Silent.The ultimate isolation would be to be cast free in space, drifting away from everything that we value. Space is what is out there.
Yet much of the time we inhabit something much more down to earth: enclosed space. We are within rooms,
