{"id":351,"date":"2018-03-20T23:40:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T23:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/td_uid_85_5ab19c05923cf"},"modified":"2018-05-11T02:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:01:01","slug":"gadget-ogling-amazon-on-fire-virtual-reality-true-nature-and-energy-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/gadget-ogling-amazon-on-fire-virtual-reality-true-nature-and-energy-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"The cosmic dawn mystery."},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a really big mystery about exactly what happened before the big bang.\u00a0 We know with a high degree of certainty that the cosmos, or at least the part we can see, started out as an infinitely small, hot and dense speck of matter and energy that expanded over billions of years into what we can see today.\u00a0 We know this because we have been able to trace the universe back through time to a few millions of years after an event measurable due to cosmic background radiation.\u00a0 What we don’t know at present is the mechanisms behind what makes the cosmos work with enough fidelity that we could extrapolate understandings about why the big bang banged or what might exist beyond our technological ability to ever see or measure directly.<\/p>\n

The ideas that there was nothing before the big bang is an absurdity that can easily be traced back of human tendencies to see ourselves as central to everything else around us.\u00a0 Though we naturally tend to see everything from the perspective of looking out through human eyes, that view has been repeatedly disproven by science.\u00a0 Maybe that is why some of us find science so unsettling.\u00a0 But the earth is not flat and we are not at the center of the universe.\u00a0 And though we have been forced to accept a bit of modesty after realizing everything does not revolve around us, when it comes to realizing who and what we really are and are true place within the scheme of things, we still have not learned our lesson.<\/p>\n

The same type of thinking capable of reaching the false conclusion that humanity is at the center of the universe can also be found alive and well in misguided concepts that life only exists on earth or that there was nothing before the big bang.\u00a0 The only thing that supports either idea is the irrationalism that if we cannot see something hidden under the table then a valid view is to assume there is nothing under the table.\u00a0 This way of thinking completely ignores the valid and highly rational thinking processes whereby we extrapolate from things we do know; things history and common sense tells us we will learn about later.<\/p>\n

It is perfectly logical and rational to assume that the existence of evolved life on earth indicates that the same holds true on the billions of trillions of similar planets throughout the cosmos.\u00a0 While it is certainly true that the probability that evolution following the exact same path as what took place on earth over billions of years is highly unlikely and therefore other lifeforms would likely take on an almost infinite variety based upon the specific conditions and events that shaped their evolutionary paths, our uniqueness in the scheme of things should never exclude countless other lifeforms from existence.<\/p>\n

There is absolutely no evidence that can support a conclusion that life on earth or life in general is the exception rather than the norm.\u00a0 And yet we seem to easily accept the premise that the default understanding should be that we are alone in the universe unless proven otherwise.\u00a0 Did I miss something here?\u00a0 It seems to me that our existence is in itself worth something and in fact evidences something.\u00a0 Is it not a more rational position to view the fact of life on earth as proof that life exists not only here but throughout the universe in a broader range than the life sustained by earth’s specific environment.<\/p>\n

We already know ourselves well enough to understand our well-established tendency to reach biased conclusions that embellish our importance within the scheme of things.\u00a0 Crowning ourselves with the crown of specialty only evidences our willingness or need to do so rather than anything special about us. Taking all of this into consideration is like putting a corrective lens on the Hubble Space Telescope.\u00a0 If you can see beyond human distortions, suddenly a much clearer picture of the reality we were born into begins to emerge.<\/p>\n

Based upon the above it is rational to conclude:<\/p>\n

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  1. Humanity tends to see things from a biased perspective limited by our misguided understandings of the reality around us.<\/li>\n
  2. Our very existence evidences the universe is teaming with countless other lifeforms both more and less intellectually and socially advanced than ourselves.<\/li>\n
  3. The big bang did not occur from nothing but rather occurred in the normal course of countless other big bangs arising from events we have yet to fully understand.<\/li>\n
  4. Immortality is improbable if not theoretically impossible. There is no evidence that anything does or could ever last forever including time itself.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It is nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    You guys go on without me! I’m going to go look for more stuff to steal! You guys realize you live in a sewer, right? Hey, tell me something. You’ve got all this money. How come you always dress like you’re doing your laundry? If rubbin’ frozen dirt in your crotch is wrong, hey I don’t wanna be right.<\/p>\n

    Fetal stemcells, aren’t those controversial? You don’t know how to do any of those. What’s with you kids? Every other day it’s food, food, food. Alright, I’ll get you some stupid food. You won’t have time for sleeping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    Oh yeah, good luck with that. Hey, tell me something. You’ve got all this money. How come you always dress like you’re doing your laundry? Explain that. Leela, Bender, we’re going grave robbing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    A Bicyclops Built For Two<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    I love you, buddy! Yep, I remember. They came in last at the Olympics, then retired to promote alcoholic beverages! The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.<\/p>\n