King of Earth and Moon: Chapter 35
Many people thought space was, like, totally empty. The Kid knew otherwise. He’d watched the Discovery Channel enough to know that even in the remotest parts of space, there were some particles shooting around. Spssh, like, even if no particles happened to come into an area, there was still the whole quantum thing. 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. With quantum, there were fluctuations that caused particles and antiparticles to appear and then annihilate each other. 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. 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. “You okay?”
“Spssh, like, yeah.”
“You know, this isn’t like going to space in a rocket. They burn fuel, so there’s a constant acceleration. For us, it’s more like throwing a baseball into space. The acceleration at first is really strong, but then there’s no force acting on us, just gravity trying to pull us down. So, our launch was rougher than a rocket launch, but at least we don’t have a constant force pushing us back.”
“Like, why do you work at a convenience store?”
