I loved the ending - you could see, he would have been happy to continue back past the sun to the history of the universe -- but he stopped, and let you wonder. Genius. If you ever get a chance to look at some of his full lectures (they're on various places online) where he describes quantum electrodynamics, omg, i GOT it, and his way of explaining things just makes sense. He's one of the few people I've known that were 100% comfortable with the idea that the arrow of time can just as easily flow backwards as it does forwards -- from the point of view of electrons they just don't care which way time is flowing. phenomenol. "