Void of Loneliness

Space travel fascinates many people, or at least mostly back in the 60s onwards. With this fascination comes many fictional tales of exploration, heroism, alliances and wars with extraterrestrials (if they exist) and so on. However, it seems that most people do not pay attention to the simple yet deeply disturbing burden a human must endure, travelling the great ocean of stars. Inevitably if we must travel a great distance in space, we will be thrown light years from our friends and family, perhaps never to see them again. How profound a thought this would be! It would not compare with traveling our earth; at least we would be standing on the same rock as they are.

My point is that with the expansion of space travel, humanity will be thrown across the bare reaches of space, communications taking many light years to travel from place to place (as Voices of a Distant Star puts much emphasis on) and one could call this time of expansion the 'Age of Loneliness'.

To the contrary on a brighter point, quantum physics has already established that particles are interconnected over as large a distance as you wish. So perhaps communications would remain instantaneous. And in the case of space travel...well maybe it is possible to enter hyperspace? We'll soon see. But is the majority of humanity always going to remain happy?