These days we get flooded with details about our universe. Almost everyone knows that the universe started roughly 14 billion years ago. Just the other day the Hadron collider had a field day with a few protons. Basically we are bombarded with the same knowledge from different sources. Our Universe is Immense. It takes light 8 minutes to travel and reach Earth from our Sun. And yet there are great distances that will take billions of years of travel at the speed of light before they can be reached. This is how far and wide the universe is. And still it can all be contained in a googol, 10^100. The latest estimation states that the universe contains less than a googol of particles. I am not sure how they make the estimates but this is what scientists claim.
I was watching a program on Nova and there the scientists were trying to find all the necessary elements for a planet to hold life. At first the requirements list had one major ingredient, water. Everyone assumed that if water exists, then some form of life will develop. But when we need complex life then the requirements list grows tremendously. Water alone doesn’t suffice anymore.
Looking at our own planet, scientists keep on adding to the requirements list for complex life. This list is becoming very big. If we look only at the electromagnetic spectrum, the visible light is the only wavelength that sustains life, and that is a very small margin within the universal electromagnetic spectrum. The rest of the spectrum is quite damaging to life, except for cockroaches which are resistant to radiations. For them the spectrum of survival is a bit larger than ours. Now, we owe the visible light to our sun, which also had to be the right size and composition to support life. The distance between Earth and the Sun had to be exact, Earth’s iron core maintains the force-field which keeps our atmosphere from fading away in space. And the list goes on. This is only at our scale level, I mean the solar system level. But from the galaxy’s point of view is another story. Is like these improbabilities came together and allowed life on Earth to just burgeon. At the galactic level, our solar system is positioned halfway from the Milky Way center where it allowed for the proper elements to combine into the Earth.
The universe is highly dependent on about 20 constants. As an example, one of them would be the atomic mass. They also reached the conclusion that if they fiddle just a little bit (very tiny bit) with these numbers the universe would either collapse in itself or no mater would form. Whoever picked these values, ahead of time, was very smart, could it be that guy with infinite wisdom? Well that is not the main question of this post.
Therefore the chances that we are here seem slim to none, and yet we can attest that we are here. Now my question is to all of you my avid and rare readers. How would you feel if we would be the only complex and intelligent life form in the universe? Would you feel terribly alone, would you feel special and sought after by God? Describe your ideas.
Below are some videos to blow your mind, watch them a few times each, especially the ones that are more difficult to grasp.
