The significance of insignificance
The world is getting smaller. Information travels at the speed of light in between routing stations that delay the data by fractions of a second, a slice of time so small it cannot be perceived by human detection. When something happens on the other side of the world I don't need to wait for the simple flapping of a butterfly's wings to move the buffalo that causes an eagle to blah blah blah. We can get everything from around the world nearly instantly.
This is no shocker anymore. This was predicted nearly 50 years ago. The thing that is getting larger however us our universe. Not in that ever expanding way that we all like to think of. Matter is always expanding, or the universe is constantly spreading... Sure lets let the theoretical physicists try to figure out how to measure matter that is expanding or contracting at a constant rate when all you have are tools made of the matter that is expanding or contracting at a constant rate...
Let us for a second consider the vastness of everything. I don't casually mean a subset of everything, like everything blue or everything I know about. I am talking about _everything_ that is known and all of the things that are unknown. I am talking about he vast system of stars, the specs of light hubble barely has observed that are themselves vast quantities of stars and solar systems. Lets think about a scope so large that the billions of people on this earth become a biological anomaly on the skin of a warm ball of iron. Let us ponder of the idea that we are specs inside of an vast space that is seemingly empty but so full of unknowns that we only consider what is within arms reach.
You and I, we are two of billions. We wrestle daily with the complications of things that are so small they seem like a breeze puffing between a small valley on a larger rock that we think we understand. The problems we face, are of such a small scope compared to the inclusive selection of the superset everything. I want to stop thinking about the insignificant problems of my day to day. I want to spend time pondering on what can be done to effect the vast system of everything. I want to explore the vast space with my mind, and with my hands I want to build a device to help us get there. I hope for a time when the insignificant worries blowing through the vallies our lives will seem as insignificant as the biological oddity that is the human race.
The part I get stuck on, how do we unify our efforts? How do we see beyond our differences so we can join hands and build. The exploration and proliferation of humanity among the stars should on its own be the unifying theme that empowers people to enjoy their differences rather than exploit them, come together to build rather than move apart to destroy.
It is so sad to think that with the billions of people we have that we should call brothers in arms move away from each other because of hue of the skin, or the accent of a tongue. We could be building things greater than our known definition of humanity but we get stuck in the vallies of insignificant problems and dilemma.
I hope things change, and I believe we could come together and move into the stars. Will you take the hand when it is extended? I hope I haven't missed my chance out of foolish pride. Maybe I will get the chance to extend my own hand to another so we might come together, to overcome.
This is no shocker anymore. This was predicted nearly 50 years ago. The thing that is getting larger however us our universe. Not in that ever expanding way that we all like to think of. Matter is always expanding, or the universe is constantly spreading... Sure lets let the theoretical physicists try to figure out how to measure matter that is expanding or contracting at a constant rate when all you have are tools made of the matter that is expanding or contracting at a constant rate...
Let us for a second consider the vastness of everything. I don't casually mean a subset of everything, like everything blue or everything I know about. I am talking about _everything_ that is known and all of the things that are unknown. I am talking about he vast system of stars, the specs of light hubble barely has observed that are themselves vast quantities of stars and solar systems. Lets think about a scope so large that the billions of people on this earth become a biological anomaly on the skin of a warm ball of iron. Let us ponder of the idea that we are specs inside of an vast space that is seemingly empty but so full of unknowns that we only consider what is within arms reach.
You and I, we are two of billions. We wrestle daily with the complications of things that are so small they seem like a breeze puffing between a small valley on a larger rock that we think we understand. The problems we face, are of such a small scope compared to the inclusive selection of the superset everything. I want to stop thinking about the insignificant problems of my day to day. I want to spend time pondering on what can be done to effect the vast system of everything. I want to explore the vast space with my mind, and with my hands I want to build a device to help us get there. I hope for a time when the insignificant worries blowing through the vallies our lives will seem as insignificant as the biological oddity that is the human race.
The part I get stuck on, how do we unify our efforts? How do we see beyond our differences so we can join hands and build. The exploration and proliferation of humanity among the stars should on its own be the unifying theme that empowers people to enjoy their differences rather than exploit them, come together to build rather than move apart to destroy.
It is so sad to think that with the billions of people we have that we should call brothers in arms move away from each other because of hue of the skin, or the accent of a tongue. We could be building things greater than our known definition of humanity but we get stuck in the vallies of insignificant problems and dilemma.
I hope things change, and I believe we could come together and move into the stars. Will you take the hand when it is extended? I hope I haven't missed my chance out of foolish pride. Maybe I will get the chance to extend my own hand to another so we might come together, to overcome.