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That is, unless we are an experimental ant farm run by aliens who live on the far side of the moon. Then they would know where to find us.
Sure makes the place seem laughably unimportant in the big picture but extremely important in ours.
The Shop
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Does that mean traffic will be a lot better in the future?
The kind of questions I always ponder are like: "What happened before the beginning? What will happen in a trillion years?
They say that at some point in the future, no stars will be visible, because they will be so distant from one another that the time it takes for light to travel between them will be longer than the age of the universe.
If you think of things on a macro level.... I'm here, and in an alternate universe there is another me, but wearing a yellow shirt, but a guy in china is wearing blue. If you take these combinations out as far as you can think of, it would be so infinitely impossible to have so many combinations. You have to think about every combination possible across all the world. Take it down to a micro level and think of how angel falls water fall splashes in different directions. In some of those directions on the other side of the country I'm wearing a yellow shirt, but in other water drop combinations I'm wearing blue. Just take these combinations out to infinity.
Wild stuff for sure....
It's possible the beginning was the end and the end was the beginning. Meaning there has never been and end or a beginning.
And of course if there was a "beginning", well what was there before that?
What's crazy is if you look at all of the matter in the universe, the billions of galaxies, the trillions of universes, etc, where the fuck did all that matter come from?
Pretty cool stuff....
Lawrence Krauss and Robert Scherrer conducted research showing where the study of cosmology could potentially lead to in 100 billion years. Their essay was titled “The Return of a Static Universe and the End of Cosmology,” They concluded that in the far future due to the expansion, cosmologist would no longer be capable of accurately studying the universe leading them to the incorrect conclusion that the universe is static. They talk about what a special time we live in which we have been granted a view into these things. However what Krauss and Scherrer fail to recognize throughout their research is that perhaps we are the ones today who not capable of accurately studying the universe.
Take "light years" for example how can we take a measure of light as a yard stick for distance when we are not even sure how to measure light. Is it a particle or a wave? Both they say. But we can not put a distance of measure on a wave, it can be in a specific place and everyplace all at the same time, it is infinite in nature. The speed of light was long ago also thought to be infinite now we have placed it at 186000 miles per second (measuring it as a particle in a vacuum). Even if it is truly measurable how can we been certain that this is the correct measurement, and not simply the highest possible speed at which WE are able to measure as we have never measured anything any faster? (Don't even get me started on Tachyons, special relativity, and quantum mechanics haha.)
Light could be going faster then what we are capable of capturing and coincidentally in its wave nature perhaps it is not really moving at all, but acting in an eternal state. Now if we apply these ideas to cosmology we could suppose that stars and galaxies could be as infinitely close as they are far away. The universe could be as small as it is big. Not in a retaliative way but in a real way which we are incapable of perceiving.
@hard2kill
I'm certainly no expert, but are there specific passages that definitively say life was created only on Earth? Could the book of Genesis be interpreted to be applied to other world's as well?
Pit Row
While it MAY be true these are pretty bold claims being made. Did you know that out of the billions of discovered planets no one has actually ever physically viewed a single planet orbiting any star through any means, not even by the Hubble or James Webb telescope. The "discovery of these planets is based on conclusions drawn upon presuppositions about the interaction of, guess what LIGHT something that advanced science is admittedly yet to understand.
For me, lots of science supports religious views. When they talk about 10 dimensions, subatomic particles, multiverses, etc., it really implies to me that we are only able to truly understand the 4 dimensions we can actually perceive. Perhaps that's all we were meant to understand.
Although I believe the Bible is more parable than actual fact, it's funny how science almost always leads me back to God.
The study of these things often reminds me of the following scripture:
1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
I find the term used here (seeing through a glass darkly) quite interesting considering it was written nearly 1600 years before the invention of the telescope.
It really is mind boggling when you think of it. Makes me want to go watch the movie Interstellar. If you haven’t, please do. It will leave you brainstorming about this stuff for the rest of the day.
I agree that the universe and the other things that exist, are things that humans just can’t comprehend. Maybe we will evolve in the future and be able to comprehend these things, but at this time, we just can’t.
Fascinating really. I also like thinking of what happens when we die. As someone who believes in an afterlife, I don’t believe in a heaven or hell, but another dimension, your energy is released, and it’s just something we can’t comprehend as well.
I know that I don’t want us meeting any aliens in my life time. Think about this. If we discovered another existing civilized species on another planet, and they were not quite as smart or advanced as us. Let’s say there technology was early 1900’s era. What would we do with them? And let’s say they had resources we could really really use and found them valuable. We would obviously take advantage and take them with or without force. Therefore, if we find an alien race smarter than us, I think we are somewhat fucked.
It really wasn’t long ago we were fighting with swords and suits of armor, seiging castles with catapults and army’s of swordsmen over things that weren’t worth fighting about. Think about how short your life is. I’m 22, and I feel like yesterday I graduated high school at 18. 40 is gonna come quick lol. But think about your ancestors, and it’s like this. Let’s say average age throughout the past 700 years is 50. About 15 lifetimes ago we were in the mid 1200’s medieval warfare. 400 years ago we were settlers, pilgrims, and indians. That’s only 8 lifetimes. Life’s so quick. Mind blown
Hopefully, you find your formula for staying grounded. You're going to need it.
/sarcasm
Man, this is like the 10 minute discussions we have before each one of our physics classes at my University lol. It amazes me just how truly brilliant (and mildy insane maybe?
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