Leaving Earth Orbit

Thank you for joining me and the other Purpurisians on the broad back of the Cosmic Swan -- our great living ship. Her name is Neela-Megha. You will find your stay here not so different from life on Earth. She has a warm blue star in her heart. Clouds, rain, rivers, hills, valleys, villages, mothers, fathers, children, and a wide variety of plants and animals also live here.

When close to a star such as Sol, launching out of orbit is very easy. She needs only to open her wings to the stellar wind. She effortlessly spirals away from your the star. When the star is distant, her wings reach out and swim.

Those who watch us with telescopes from Earth see our light shifting toward the red end of the spectrum as successive waves take a little longer to make the trip. But here on her back everything is normal and comfortable. As we approach the speed of light (C) relative to Earth, we are hard to follow. We can only be seen in the deep infrared part of the spectrum. We are losing electro-magnetic communication, but not leaving your universe.

We are the same as we were before. Nothing slows us. There is no force that holds us below C. From our point of view Sol and other stars fade from Red to invisible, but the light from other stars in our velocity space appear and change from ultra violet to blue. The skies around our Cosmic Swan are filled with rich multicolored jewels. Snaking and tumbling around and through those jewels are filaments of dust and and opalescent mist that change color as we accelerate toward Rigel Kantaurus.