Artist Pablo Carlos Budassi has put together a stunning “logarithmic scale conception” of the observable Universe, with the Solar System at the centre. Thanks to discoveries by physicists, mathematicians, and many others in the 20th century, we know that time and space are interrelated, and that the universe is expanding every second, with galaxies, stars, and planets racing apart from each other.
But what lies at the event horizon, beyond the universe (the white space beyond the cosmos’s border? A blank whiteness? Many more universes? Personally, I believe the Buddhas’ traceless cosmic fields lie in the unseen, visible only to those who have attained Buddhahood.