Another Kind of Place Altogether

"The Reverend Peters makes a funny ticking noise with his tongue sometimes when he is thinking.  And he smokes cigarettes and you can smell them on his breath and I don't like this.

I said that there wasn't anything outside the universe and there wasn't another kind of place altogether.  Except that there might be if you went through a black hole, but a black hole is what is called singularity, which means it is impossible to find out what is on the other side because the gravity of the black hole is so big that even electromagnetic waves like light can't get out of it, and electromagnetic waves are how we get information about things which are far away.  And if heaven was on the other side of a black hole, dead people would have to be fired into space on rockets to get there, and they aren't or people would notice."

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time