Don't look now, but it turns out that we may not live in the universe, but instead in something called the, or a "multiverse", in which our lil ole universe is but one of many. How many? Ad infinitum, or eleven? Who knows...who cares...
It also now appears, to the world of cutting edge astrophysics, that all creation is simply an amazing accident, a fluke. Suddenly we seem smaller than ever. Or do we?
It could easily be agrued that a godless existence renders our existence more marvelous than ever.
But be warned. You haven't heard the last of it. Maybe we'll never hear the last of it, and maybe we wouldn't want to. Maybe the multiverse produces numerous intelligent forms of life, all of which seeks answers to this ultimate question, none of whom ever attain it...
Carl Sagan once said : "we are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Perhaps he should have said "to seek to know itself". In a short story by Arthur C. Clarke the universe ends the very moment all nine billion names of God are spoken.
Every few years the world of science presents us with yet another cosmic paradigm theory, and more power to it. How many more are forthcoming? "Billions", Carl Sagan might say.
Maybe our remote descendants will either gain true cosmic understanding, or accept the mystery, and quit trying...
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