This much we know about the World:

The Earth is positioned about 1 Astronomical Unit (1 AU or 149,598,000 kilometres) away from the Sun.

The solar system is located in the Local Fluff in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter estimated at about 100,000 light years containing approximately 200 billion stars.

1 light year is the distance travelled by a photon over a year. A photon travels at the speed of 300,000 km per second. Over a year, a photon has travelled a distanced of 9,460,800,000,000 km or 9.5 trillion km.

The Milky Way contains between 200 and 400 billion stars. The solar system is only a tiny speck within the Milky Way. If the Milky Way was a human body, you and I would be smaller than an elementary particule.

The Milky Way is a member of the Virgo Supercluster, a group of galaxies, which comprises the Local Group (about 30 galaxies). There are 100 similar groups within the Virgo Supercluster, meaning, there could be about 3,000 galaxies in the supercluster and between 6 and 12 quadrillions stars within the Supercluster.

There are not enough room on this screen to write all the zeroes of the length of the supercluster in kilometers.

It has been calculated that there are about 100 million superclusters in the Universe.

It could be said that the radius of the universe approaches infinity as time approaches infinity or lim t->∞ r(t)=∞.

Spinoza wrote something about the insignificance of Man in the eyes of God. He also wrote in his Short Treatise on God that God and the natural world (the universe were one).

The following is wild speculation:

There is a theory in mathematics and computer science named emergence that states, provided that a system is complex enough, it will gain sentience.

There is no need to talk about sentience for the following.

Let us divide the universe into coadjacent cubes with sides of 1 cm. Let's assign to each cube a random value of 0 (nothing happens here) or 1 (something happens here). Let us say that the value of those cubes changes every 10 minutes.

According to the latest calculations, the Universe is over 16 billion years old. The Earth is about 4.57 billion years old.

To say that the origin of life has to be intentional (i.e. God) underlines an extremely narrow point of view.

On the last page of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein wrote: "That which we cannot speak of we must pass on in silence."

Comments

François Luong said…
we are so small compared to the universe. our digging of its grandeurs is insignificant. :p

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