Monday 5th December
Time is quite meaningless in the Universe. Most of it is light years away, and unless we can ever travel faster than the speed of light then we will never visit even a tiny fraction of it, which given our track record on this little planet might not be a bad thing. Scientists currently think that around 13 billion years ago there was a Big Bang, where the entire Universe was condensed into a tiny space and suddenly expanded, projecting everything outwards, where most of it is still hurtling along. The heat and pressure was so intense that everything was created, all the atoms which made up the elements coalesced into stars and planets and comets and all that other stuff out there.
But it all happened a long time ago. And there seems to be no evidence of anything before the Big Bang. And anyway, does it matter? Fascinating as the Origins and History of the Universe may be, does any of it matter to us in the 21st Century? As long as the Sun continues to shine, that is. We have other things to contend with, such as Global Warming, and we may not have that much time to sort that out either. In fact the way we are going our time in the Universe may end up having been very short indeed – and of absolutely no consequence either. If the History, the entire time the Universe may have existed for, were represented as a clock face, humans would have been around for a few milliseconds. Which does rather beg the question; if god created Us in His image – how come it took him so long to get around to it?
Anyway, time I was going….that is it really, my Short History of the Universe; far more we don’t know and may never know than any of us can contemplate.