Its true I've dreamt about looking up and seeing another galaxy within ours. Even more so, to see other planets up close like moon but actual real planets at similar (somewhat safe) distance.
It would seriously be a magical moment (possibly not the best use of descriptive words!).
Sadly the best we can hope for presently are meteor showers or comets passing by. But I think I'm with you and selfishly would like to see more of the universe in real life (not just pictures of distant cloud nebulae).
Your reincarnation theory (or hypothetical dream) I feel does have some minute substance. As you state from stardust to stardust, physically we don't just vanish. Our mind though may live on through our children (not sure, but that's the best hopeful that I can think of).
In the news they are presently questioning the big 'bang' part, and starting to theorize that it was just a crystallizing cooling effect that created cracks and the matter we see today. But that would mean that space actually has (or had) physical substance in its entirety to actually crystallize (like water into ice). It seems the 'bang' part of the big bang isn't perfectly natural to the universe (ie no real bangs in the last 13.7 billion years either out of nothing!)
I'm still an evolutionist (and really so should everyone be) but we have much more to discover and possibly (hopefully) change a few laws of physics allowing us to travel to the ends of our expanding universe. One of my best dreams is to actually go all the way to the edge of the universe, and you know what they say, if you can dream it, it may be possible.
Somehow I don't feel there is a single intelligent entity looking over mankind (and no other life form at that!). Although there may be 'energies' yet to be discovered (like how the electron discovery changed the world, especially in our gadgets day) Maybe we'll find it on another planet one day, maybe its within our universe already, all around us. Anyway that's as close as I'll go towards unfounded beliefs, and I noticed that this type of 'thinking' is not respected well in our rational natural world. Still, allowed to dream :)
Is it normal to wonder what future beings will think?
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Just revisiting this topic briefly.
Its true I've dreamt about looking up and seeing another galaxy within ours. Even more so, to see other planets up close like moon but actual real planets at similar (somewhat safe) distance.
It would seriously be a magical moment (possibly not the best use of descriptive words!).
Sadly the best we can hope for presently are meteor showers or comets passing by. But I think I'm with you and selfishly would like to see more of the universe in real life (not just pictures of distant cloud nebulae).
Your reincarnation theory (or hypothetical dream) I feel does have some minute substance. As you state from stardust to stardust, physically we don't just vanish. Our mind though may live on through our children (not sure, but that's the best hopeful that I can think of).
In the news they are presently questioning the big 'bang' part, and starting to theorize that it was just a crystallizing cooling effect that created cracks and the matter we see today. But that would mean that space actually has (or had) physical substance in its entirety to actually crystallize (like water into ice). It seems the 'bang' part of the big bang isn't perfectly natural to the universe (ie no real bangs in the last 13.7 billion years either out of nothing!)
I'm still an evolutionist (and really so should everyone be) but we have much more to discover and possibly (hopefully) change a few laws of physics allowing us to travel to the ends of our expanding universe. One of my best dreams is to actually go all the way to the edge of the universe, and you know what they say, if you can dream it, it may be possible.
Somehow I don't feel there is a single intelligent entity looking over mankind (and no other life form at that!). Although there may be 'energies' yet to be discovered (like how the electron discovery changed the world, especially in our gadgets day) Maybe we'll find it on another planet one day, maybe its within our universe already, all around us. Anyway that's as close as I'll go towards unfounded beliefs, and I noticed that this type of 'thinking' is not respected well in our rational natural world. Still, allowed to dream :)