In understanding how small prime gaps can occur so far out, it helps to think of primes as gaps in the projection of all prior prime numbers (i.e. the shadow of

In understanding how small prime gaps can occur so far out, it helps to think of primes as gaps in the projection of all prior prime numbers (i.e. the shadow of all prior primes). It is then fairly easy to intuit that every so often there'd be gaps in the shadows right next to each other.