There are numerous theories and beliefs on how the universe came to be. Recent science shows the universe came from the Big Bang. Everything from nothing. I have a hard time fathoming a nothing and then everything coming a dense space. This may be because I am not a scientist with years of experience studying the universe. Many religions believe a supreme being was all alone and they created everything.
Pertaining to this belief, I have no idea where the being could have lived or came from. I am Christian myself but I find myself combining the words in the Bible with scientific theories. I do this because I feel the Bible, to a certain extent, is up for individual interpretation.
No one truly knows what happened to create the vast universe but more and more people are believing in something that was just the subject of science fiction movies. These are aliens. If the universe truly infinite, there has to be some form of life other than our own. The real chances that life is formed and evolves solely by chance is 1 to 1 with 40,000 zeros behind it. I’m not sure exactly what those chances can even be compared to because they are so miniscule. Adding whether it is intelligent is an even smaller chance. These statistical chances can either be a relief or saddening depending on each person. In my opinion, I find this to be very interesting because it makes the human race and all other living things on this planet feel just that much more special.
Not to shoot my own self down, but we aren’t as important as I would hope. In fact, we are quite small and insignificant. The largest known star, VY Canis Majoris, is 2,800,000,000 kilometers in diameter while Earth is a measly 12,742. I physically frowned as I found this out. 3 trillion, 729 billion Earths can fit inside of the star. It is absolutely massive and we aren't even half of a speck compared to it. I am not even sure what to do with this information but think about how very insignificant we are.
Does anything we do really matter? I ask this because there is almost nothing we can do as of now that can really affect anything outside of your solar system. So does anything we do really matter? I think it does because not everything has to be the biggest and it doesn’t need to bring the most impact. What we do may not matter in the big picture of space, but it matters to each other. We can just not care and treat everything as if it doesn’t matter but that would affect the people who really care. The people who believe in what they are doing and those who believe things are really important. I think it is important to care because you should want to be good to yourself and to others while you are on Earth. If that means working on something that seems small or insignificant, do it anyway. Having a sense of purpose in all things is what keeps the world spinning around, even though our world is comparatively small.
In this age of science we know more than we can comprehend. In this age of science I think people are losing hope and purpose because of how much we know. In this age of science we need to think small every once in awhile. We can all have hopes, dreams, and we can all think big. I just think we can lose ourselves in the big picture. Once in awhile we need to appreciate the flower’s bloom and the bee’s buzz. It keeps things in a perspective.
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