Yes, we are insignificant, Who are we? … Does our existence have any value for the cosmos …? What is our role in everything that exists …? Are inconsequential questions.
Our search for meaning is no more than a form of complacency, a reflection of our desire to be more important than what we actually have, it is part of our justified inferiority complex.
If we look at the universe, we will realize that, for everything that exists, we are simply one more world of the heap, populated by insignificant beings. It is irrelevant that life has proliferated in him, that life has been organized, until it has become complex and that these complex life forms have developed communities and self-awareness, in order to be able to ask themselves these questions.
The Sun, our star, is a yellow dwarf, one of the most common types of stars, not the most common, but almost, it is not an especially interesting star, it is average, it is not very convulsed, like the blue or red giants , who consume their fuel with such intensity and to such an extent that they have a very short life and a spectacular and violent death, much like James Dean (yes, the phrase is not of him but it fits like a finger), “Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse”. Nor is it as boring as the red dwarfs that live for an eternity and their death is comparable to the extension of a candle flame, some shine from before the creation of the galaxy and may still be there when it ceases to be.
Our solar system revolves around the galaxy in Orion’s arm, rising and falling in the plane of this, as if drawing a wave, if we imagined it as a sphere with the Sun in the center it would have a diameter of about 2 light years, in all its immensity our solar system is not more than a tiny point in our galaxy of 100 thousand light years in diameter and it is not even a rarity, the more we search, we find more and more planetary systems, formed by an infinity of worlds . We live in a star system more than the heap.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of an array of galaxies we call the local group, consisting of about 45 galaxies, of different sizes, several of them larger satellites, among them only three can be called giant galaxies, being Andromeda the largest and the Milky Way the next in size.
Andromeda, about 50 thousand light years larger and the Milky Way, in about 3000 to 5000 million years will collide, mixing and tearing each other as if it were two wisps of smoke, intertwining, until the supermassive black holes of their nuclei combine in a bigger one and end up both forming a new galaxy. In this process our solar system could survive without almost being affected, just by contemplating the impressive spectacle in the night sky, or maybe we could shoot out in the tear, being adrift in space in the fragments of the stellar cloud that separate during the collision.
The local group is part of an even larger structure, the Virgo Supercluster, made up of more than 100 clusters as the local group, in total it has a diameter of about 107 million light years. This super cluster is at the same time contained in the Liniakea Hypercluster, a filament-like structure that groups three other superclusters apart from ours, gathers some 100 thousand galaxies and has a radius of about 520 million light years. Somewhere in the supercluster of Hydra-Centaur, the Great Attractor is a gravitational anomaly in which the center of mass of the whole hypercluster coincides and all its components move towards it.
In turn, the Lineakea hypercluster in only one of the more than 6 million hyperclusters that make up the observable universe and that are distributed almost uniformly in the form of filaments throughout the space, if we compare the size of our planet with that of the observable universe, it would be the equivalent of comparing the size of a molecule with the diameter of the orbit of Mercury, the fraction of the universe that we can see extends in a radius of 13,700 million light years, more beyond that distance, the objects move at speeds greater than the speed of light, so we will never get to observe them.
So before such vastness, such a number of possible galaxies, stars, worlds, what is special about us ?, there is only one possible answer, NOTHING, we are an insignificant world among an infinity of them, a probability of life among infinity of them , we do not know if there is life in other worlds, but the odds are in favor of it being so, so the only thing that may make us special is probably not a rarity, but the rule, where the necessary conditions exist, life is will manifest, simple organic compounds will be grouped into amino acids, these into macromolecules and these into primitive life forms, and thus the chain will initiate. We are not an exception but the rule, the universe tends to complexity, to the construction of larger and larger structures. From the elementary particles to the filaments of galaxies that form the observable whole.
Before this extreme complexity, before this order emerged from chaos, our simple existence is futile and unimportant, for the universe we are insignificant, irrelevant. We are nothing special, we are simply another species that inhabit an insignificant planet, a boring star system, in one of the many galaxies of the Virgo Supercluster.
Then no, the universe does not conspire so that you can achieve what you want, simply the universe you are not interested in, learn to accept your successes and your failures, not everything turns out as you want it, no matter how hard you try, for more positive thinking you have, you will not get everything you want, your actions do not have a transcendental meaning, do not be pretentious, your life is not a search for an ultimate goal, live enjoyment every success and learn from every failure, appreciate every moment with the his.
There is only one thing that equals us, from Donald Trump to amart29, from the president of Apple Inc., to the corner juncture, we are all insignificant for the universe, at any time a devastating event, a supernova, an explosion of rallos gamma, a solar flare or a comet, could erase our existences, and simply everything that humanity has been on this insignificant planet, would disappear from the universe leaving behind only a set of emissions in the radio spectrum, which would eventually also disappear, leaving thus erased all evidence that once there was a civilization in a boring star system on the Orion arm of the Milky Way.
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Wikipedia.Grupo Local, Wikipedia
Wikipedia.Supercúmulo de Virgo, Wikipedia
Wikipedia.Laniakea, Wikipedia
Wikipedia.Gran Atractor, Wikipedia