Is it normal i am saddened that i will never learn the answers

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I'm not a scientist by any means, or even smart enough to even attempt to study the sciences, but I have a deep yearning to know the answer to some of the most unanswerable questions and it saddens me that I will one day leave this world without knowing the answers.

Some of the questions I have are:

- What came before the Big Bang? Was there nothingness? If so, how could the big bang have even happened?

- how far does the universe span? Does it go on forever? I learned that it's expanding, so does that mean there is an end to it that just keeps reaching outward? If so, what is beyond that ending? More nothingness?

- What other sort of cool space anomalies exist? I've read that the further out into the galaxy you go the more undiscovered space anomalies there may be. Like black holes and things of that nature.

- what exactly is a black hole? I know we have our observations and theories but I don't think mankind actually truly knows what they are or what is inside them.

- Is there life on other planets? This one seems like most likely a yes, and probably the most answerable of the questions, but still unlikely to be answered in my lifetime.

- If light only travels so fast and we can see stars billions of light years away, how do we even know most of those stars are still burning? The light from those stars would take quite a while to get from there to our eyes so technically the further outward we see into space the further back in time we are actually witnessing. A million lightyear-wide space catastrophe could have happened thousands of years ago that obliterated those galaxies and could be on it's way toward us and we wouldn't even see it until it got way closer and even then when we do see it it would in reality be even closer than we perceive it to be...

So yeah, a lot going on in my head or what? Lol.

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  • nikkiclaire
    5 years ago

    I like the way you think. The first these questions can never be answered by science except they will have you believe they have the answers. They don't.

    The more I think about the world and life the more absurd it seems to me. It will drive you crazy if you think about it too much or too often, but it's fun to do. It's also terrifying.

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  • RosaBella612
    5 years ago

    You seem really smart to me. Why do you doubt yourself?

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  • SmokeEverything
    5 years ago

    Your problem is you think about reality as three dimensional because you have the sensory abilities to see in the three dimensions around you in terms of where objects are located and their characteristics. If you could see through time, like a direction you could turn your head and look in, the world would no longer look three dimensional, and you can't imagine what it would look like because you don't have the sensory inputs availible to imagine what it could be like, without taking some kind of psychedelic drugs.

    What if you could see all of time as it was through the entire history and future of creation, by turning your head. You can percieve a change in your surroundings based off the concept called "time" but you can only see the very sliver of it that exists in the instant, like if you had 2 dimensional perception you couldn't imagine what a ball looked like, but you could see a circle appearing, growing and then shrinking and disappearing if a baloon floated up past your 2 dimensional plane of perception. How could you explain to somebody like this what a balloon is and what it was actually doing?

    That is our understanding of the earth as it exists now without seeing it as it exists through time and whatever other dimensions of movement we don't have the ability to sense.

    also, NASA IS 100% FRADULENT AND A TAX SCAM, THE BEST THEY HAVE IS HIGH ALTITUDE PLANES AND FAKE PHOTOS OF SPACE. THERE IS NO ISS.

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