a short essay on virtual particles

The universe continues to amaze with each discovery enticing us further into the world of the multiverse; what miracles await us in the deepest regions of space has now been answered as the Kepler telescope shows us that our little pale blue dot in this quadrant of the galaxy is not unique. There are at least four thousand alien worlds that could host life. Beyond that exist planets with climates so powerful no being could ever step foot on the surface, from exoplanets that rain glass down sideways at over a thousand miles per hour to alien homeworlds of molten lava as if it sprung directly from…