Summary: Many people thought space was, like, totally empty.nbsp; The Kid knew otherwise.nbsp; He'd watched the Discovery Channel enough to know that even in the remotest parts of space, there were some particles shooting around.nbsp; Spssh, like, even if no particles happened to come into an area, there was still the whole quantum thing.nbsp; The Kid had yet to wrap his mind around quantum, but whenever the Kid did something, he pretty much just did it until he mastered it.nbsp; With quantum, there were fluctuations that caused particles and antiparticles to appear and then annihilate each other.nbsp; The universe was totally crazy. The Kid thought about sharing some of this knowledge with Eri, but decided instead to focus on not being sick.nbsp; Eating before being shot into space was totally a stupid idea. Through the porthole, the Kid could see clouds and blue sky. Eri looked over at him.nbsp; ldquo;You okay?rdquo; ldquo;Spssh, like, yeah.rdquo; ldquo;You know, this isn't like going to space in a rocket.nbsp; They burn fuel, so there's a constant acceleration.nbsp; For us, it's more like throwing a baseball into space.nbsp; The acceleration at first is really strong, but then there's no force acting on us, just gravity trying to pull us down.nbsp; So, our launch was rougher than a rocket launch, but at least we don't have a constant force pushing us back.rdquo; ldquo;Like, why do you work at a convenience store?rdquo;
