I am afraid dear readers that convention has been thrown out the window here at Dossing Times Towers this week and Top 6 Friday goes the way of Monday Morning Cheer Up and Ninja Tuesday. I simply have not had the time to write a worthy entry and given Simon’s and CK’s absence there’s nobody to pick up the slack.

In it’s place I would like to give you something to think about if I can. Well, tell you about something that struck me one night and fascinated me for several days.

Last year, whilst I walked home inebriated from the local, I glanced skyward and was greeted with a perfectly clear night sky, bejewelled with countless shimmering stars. Entranced, I was struck by how insignificantly small we truly are and quickly my thoughts turned to the vastness of the cosmos. The Universe is infinite, I said to myself and yet at one point in time it would have fit on the top of a needle, just after the Bing Bang.

It was at this point that I had a revelation which I believed to have disproved the Big Bang theory.

Is it not impossible for something to grow to infinity? For example, If I start counting at 1 and I continue counting for ever and ever I will never reach infinity. There will always be another number that I can add and infinity will frustratingly remain unattainable (much like the brunette I had earlier been talking to)

Surely the same principle applied to the Universe and therefore, if it at one point in time would have fit on top of a needle it could not grow to infinity. So either the Universe was not infinite or the Big Bang theory was debunked, and rather embarrassingly, debunked by a drunk Irish man with pass Leaving Cert physics.

Over the next few days the thought bounced around in my mind from time to time. Eventually, I satisfied myself that it was airtight and I decided to tell Simon that he had been wasting his time in college the past 7 years and he should, instead, have come drinking with me more often.

Its funny what verbalizing an issue or thought can do to it once it has been cast out into the cold light of day.

Whilst telling Simon of my genius I had my second revelation which came just before Simon was about to burst my bubble and unfortunately it did the job for him. I was correct in believing that infinity was not something you could reach by simply growing bigger and bigger however I had made a rather simple oversight based on some preconceptions on the nature of life, the universe and everything.

Any ideas what that oversight was?