Thanks for this…I’ve actually been thinking of this the past few weeks. Just recently came across and read Issac Asimov’s short story “The Last Question” https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf also recalled a long ago purchased slim volume “The Universe in Forty Jumps” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_View. Humans are amazing, creative and destructive…we do not honor our co-habitants on this “pale blue dot”, nor appreciate the variety of intelligence therein. That we will likely be a blip, a nanosecond, of “life”….so be it. Ultimately I subscribe to Joni Mitchell’s song lyrics sung by CSNY “we are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon”. Also, to quote another singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen: “we are so small against the stars, so large against the sky”. Nothing is ultimately wasted…but who knows where we will drift….
Do we matter in the universe?
Thanks for this…I’ve actually been thinking of this the past few weeks. Just recently came across and read Issac Asimov’s short story “The Last Question” https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf also recalled a long ago purchased slim volume “The Universe in Forty Jumps” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_View. Humans are amazing, creative and destructive…we do not honor our co-habitants on this “pale blue dot”, nor appreciate the variety of intelligence therein. That we will likely be a blip, a nanosecond, of “life”….so be it. Ultimately I subscribe to Joni Mitchell’s song lyrics sung by CSNY “we are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon”. Also, to quote another singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen: “we are so small against the stars, so large against the sky”. Nothing is ultimately wasted…but who knows where we will drift….