> The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly > Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. > > It wasn't infinity

> The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly > Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. > > It wasn't infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. > Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is > incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into > which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very > very big, so that it gave the impression of infinity far better than > infinity itself.