Do we matter in the universe?
Answering honestly opens up a whole range of possibilities
I love knowledge. I love fantasy too, but knowledge trumps fantasy. Every. Single. Time. Thus the question: are we humans important in the universe drives a lot of inquiry from me. Why? I was raised to believe that we are important in the universe, but I have since come to understand that is very likely a fantasy.
That fantasy may be entertaining in the place and time where I am right now, but historically, a very dangerous fantasy that caused a lot of murders. Is it permissible to murder because you want other people to pretend that your fantasy is knowledge? Of course not.
We are but specks, and the better the tools we make become, the more obvious this knowledge is to any and all given the chance to study it. We are specks or less on a universal scale. In fact, I doubt there is a human alive today (or ever) who can truly fathom the scale of reality.
Humanity occupies a very small place in an unfathomably vast Universe. Traveling at the speed of light – …
