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I want to see if anyone can understand me when I try to explain outer space and reality...?
There is this thought I had since I was a kid and had a hard time explaining it. Maybe someone can put it into perspective and get the feeling I get when I think about this.
Here goes. We are all living on this giant ball (Earth) in outer space...in the middle of a HUGE black space...and that's it...there is literally nothing else. If you take away earth, what's there? (Let's not get into other life in outer space, let's just focus on us and this planet).
There was a point in time where earth didn't exist...there was absolutely nothing. And there will be a time where earth will cease to exist...and everything that we did on earth, will be for nothing. This is our reality...reality is just a huge open black space that has nothing in it...that will have no meaning and no one will ever know that we lived and did all these amazing things.
If you sit there long enough, it should hit you all of a sudden...it hits me every time when I think about it...just thinking of the fact that reality is literally a huge empty black space...
What if we humans didn't live on a ball in the middle of no where...what if there was an infinite amount of space where humans live, there wouldn't be any question about what's past that, or what is up there and the higher you go? The answer literally would be just more land, and just more sky.
But reality is pretty much nothing. Just an empty black space...
I think I did a good job explaining this thought. Please tell me what you think. Thanks.
5 Answers
- ?Lv 55 years ago
You said what was there and what will be there regarding the existence of Earth. And that there was nothing before and there will be nothing after, except the rest of the universe.
How can you be so sure there was nothing before, intending life as we know it. Maybe (but the word maybe nowadays is used less and less) other kinds of life existed before Earth was created, and even now while I'm writing this, there could be life somewhere that is more advanced technically than we are.
I, personally, am almost convinced alien life does exist somewhere. Only we can't know because of the vastness of the universe. If some day we had the right means to travel and alien life is not very far away, we could find it, or also that alien life could find us.
I wouldn't be so moody thinking what's the meaning of all this if we are alone. You should be a little more optimistic, Christopher.
- QuadrillianLv 75 years ago
Ultimately, yes, everything is for nothing.
But the fact is that we are here now, and experience the passage of time. Within that time you may as well make your life, and the life of all those around you, of any species, as comfortable as possible.
Unless you believe in myths, there is no better way to live your life, the life that none of us asked to get into.
Cheers!
- 4 years ago
There is more than one star in our galaxy, let alone the universe. Things existed before Earth and will exist after Earth is gone, do some research on the evolution of the universe and how stars/planets form.
- 5 years ago
"There was a point in time where earth didn't exist...there was absolutely nothing. And there will be a time where earth will cease to exist...and everything that we did on earth, will be for nothing."
**Precisely** the reason we need to reach to space; learn to travel through it, learn to live there, independently of Earth; so, when the day comes that Earth is no longer around, who we are will continue...
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