Getting edgy

Have you ever wondered how far it is to the edge of the world, (not the end of the world, the edge) It's something I often speculate on.

So.... speculate no more. It's quite simple really.

First approach the water until your toes are getting wet. This is a good thing to do anyway for non-mathematical reasons. Recall how tall you are (in metres) and deduct the distance from your eyes to the top of your skull. Work out the square root of this number and multiply by 3.856. Simple. The answer in kilometres is the distance you have to swim before you fall off the edge of the earth. So if I were an average height of 1.7 metres, dangling my toes, there would be 5kms to the edge of all I can see.

As the Buddhist's say, 'no moment is like the last, we are constantly changing.'

This is never more obvious than by the ocean.