What on a map should have been a 45-minute trip ended up taking nearly 10 hours.

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When he was done, more than a minute later, Jobs had more than 70 countries on the map.

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But it is possible to detect minute deviations in this signal, and these fluctuations - seen as mottling in the map - are understood to reflect the differences in the density of matter when the light parted company and set out on its journey all those years ago.

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Is it possible, in the crazy there-one-minute-gone-the-next lifestyle that expats live, to meet someone while staring at a map on a street corner that is everything you never knew you needed?

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