There is an edge to the universe, and early man went there. We that remained on Earth, we were the idiot cousins. Though in time, we built buildings and split atoms, early man mastered immortality on garden-craft. They found themselves distended on the other side of the first black hole, and bodiless on the far side of the second. This was how they visited the edge of what can be known, and on the other side of that, they found themselves the idiot cousins of something far greater.