I Am Amazed At the Universe

An endless feast for theorists, and wild speculation for everyone else, which is all fine because it fuels and promotes deep thinking, thoughts that build like slow evolution from a mere morsel and layer into something conceivable and vital.

Of course early man gazed up at the unfettered stars and, amazed at the beauty, eventually asked the question to themselves, "Where did we come from?"

Sadly, the tragic paradox and the answer of some of those staring who built layers with little deep thinking and no actual evidence led to religion and a supreme being which along with greed has been the curse of humans and humanity.

For those of us fascinated and interested in science we are amazed at the millennia of accomplishment but we usually start and stop at the Big Bang and the 15-billion year outward explosion which we are merely visiting as a form of space dust. We write off what happened before that titanic explosion of the infinitely small as simply, "We have no idea; existence of something simply was." The discussion of that unanswerable question is something that I smile about because it is hard-written in all of us....our cosmic dust and our curiosity was spelled out long ago even before our ancestors looked up at the glitter and the wonder.

Now what would have happened if earth's climate provided ongoing gloomy clouds?

The image on the cover of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" is a shot of the Earth taken from Voyager as it hurtles past Jupiter looking back at us. In the crystal clear clarity of space we are in fact what the title describes and nothing more, a disappearing speck of dust, a grain of sand tinged blue because at least at this juncture of not having fucked things up completely we are awash in oxygen, water and a blue hue.

We are a totally insignificant part of this universe let alone our place in one of the millions of galaxies and that is refreshing to be a particle of eventual space dust considering that tiny bit has been around since the beginning.

Such a great, mind blowing topic. Some days when I feel so BEYOND disconnected from other people, I 'll often remember Eckhart Tolle's line..'I don't 'have' a life, I AM life.' It really centers me, and I remember how we are all really the tiniest SPECKS on this planet, compared to the universe. I guess we are like ants to its' view. So weird to think of that.. and how if we are ants in the view of other life or planets, then what does ANY of it mean? Probably nothing .. it makes me sad in some ways, but like you said, relieved in other ways.

I've never hitched my waggon to any train but the way I think could be seen as animist.
Everything has a lifeforce, everything has energy.
Humans have no more or less lifeforce than a rock to me.
We are all just matter and I'm still trying to learn the why and how or maybe that there's no why or how maybe we just are.

“It’s important to simultaneously let people know that we don’t know what we’re talking about,”

is probably the most important line in the whole piece, but eventually, with enough speculation, theory is developed.

Everything has to have a beginning, at least that is what our feeble minds hope for, but this also supposes an end, which is unthinkable.

I like the idea of hope and faith. All ends are simply another beginning. The collapsing and then expanding universe ideas (low entropy to high entropy) are almost comforting.

All events should be subject to the same laws. I find this useful when addressing the prospect of a multiverse guaranteeing eternal existence. In this hypothesis all events get the same treatment, and this is in sharp contrast to the magical (supernatural) hypothesis where only humans (perhaps creatures too) can eternally exist.

The multiverse would represent perfect balance between creation and destruction. That's why I mention this application.

Very interesting post...