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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
2/13/2007 12:36 PM |
Sometimes, when I gaze up into a clear dark sky, alive with the twinkle and glow of millions of stars and a magnificent moon, my thoughts wander back through time, and I marvel at how many humans before me must have looked into the same sparkling depths of darkness and dreamed of other
worlds, alternate realities, and what does it all ultimately mean?
One reference on www.wikipedia.com says there are about 80 billion galaxies in the observable Universe. Each of those galaxies theoretically contains millions, perhaps even billions of stars. But no one
knows for sure if the observable universe is the entire universe, not even our astronomers. What we, and instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope, can discern may be like just a grain of sand on a 1,000-mile long beach. It’s enough to numb your brain if you really think about it for very long.
It’s often suggested that life must exist on other planets – out there somewhere. Then scientists are quick to point out that even if life does exist elsewhere, the distances between the worlds are so vast,
that it would be almost impossible to bridge those gaps within one lifetime, or even a dozen lifetimes. But then, you throw quantum theory into the mix and the discussion gets much more interesting. Some maintain that space-time is curved and that the shortest distance between any two points may not necessarily be a straight line, as we are wont to think. The shortest distance may be a shortcut across the gap between curves, much like a bowstring cuts directly across the curve of a longbow. These so-called “wormholes” could make travel across vast, unimaginable distances, practical.
Now, that really would be interesting! We’ll never see it in our lifetimes, probably, but someday, our descendants several generations in the future, may travel dizzying distances in the blink of an eye, and set foot on worlds we could never conceive of!
Gosh, it’s enough to make one hope that reincarnation is really true! |
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