Universe Truths?

 

 When I woke up one morning last week, my dominant thought was about the universe. I lay, thinking of how this works for us as human beings on one planet in that universe. I guess that such wondering always has happened, as soon as we could think beyond how to capture food.

Basically, we think on several levels. The first is likely most primal-- bodily. How are we physically doing? If it's not as we wish, what should we do about it. When that goes wrong, likely it's the whole of our wondering until it gets fixed-- if it does. This is not true for everyone, of course, like Stephen Hawking, who did a lot of thinking beyond himself despite a horrendous illness.

The next level is what I'd call close community. This means family, friends, those we care about. If that's good, we can go on.

Next is the broader community, our country. This is where our religious and political concerns come into play. Is it governing as we ourselves would like? Where it comes to religion, is it working for the good of that broader community? Somewhere in there humans figure out their take on the spirit side of life. If they find religious answers for behavior, forever, a god, that might end their explorations.

For many, it is then time to look at the world beyond our piece of it, other countries. Are they getting out of control, as once Germany did, what should we want done about that?

Only then, do we look to the broader universe, planets and stars beyond ours. Are those aliens visiting us; and if they are, is it for good or negative purposes?

There are a myriad of stars out there to wonder about. Do they have life on them? Does it matter if they are light years away? Do they visit us? Are there worm holes through which to travel past time constraints? This is all being studied by those with more tools than I have or even want.

The theory that the universe has a beginning (big bang) and an end is currently being questioned. Might it be infinite? We know one thing, based on human observations-- stars have ends as that can be observed. Hence what we call the sun, which has allowed for life here, will eventually end it based on too hot or maybe an explosion. 

What I lay awake considering is-- are there universes beyond ours? If there are, are they parallel to us, or we just a raindrop in a much larger world picture-- even though humans have thought of themselves as the center of it.