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3. The universe and its origins
| 3.4 | Existing theories on the origin of the universe | |
| To our day to day lives, absolute questions of why the universe was created? who or what created it? may appear to fairly meaningless, and "nit-picking." How can the questions like why was the Universe created? who or what created the Universe? for what purpose? have relevance to our immediate needs for earning money, self sustainment, friends and happiness? | ||
| The answer to the relevance of continuing the quest to find the answers to these questions in many ways has more to do with the expectation of what possible treasures of understanding we may find from the answers. | ||
| What if the answers provide us with a way to look at matter differently and unlock the secrets to creating and controlling matter to certain forms (e.g. fusion power)? What if the answers open up an understanding of synergy existing in the universe, a set of meanings that transcend from the largest structures and the smallest structures to our own existence? What if the answers were able to provide meaning and purpose to our everyday lives and the lives of people we love? | ||
| The quest therefore would continue to have the same importance to our continued individual sustainment and species sustainment as it did thousands of years ago, when humans first began the search for meaningful answers. | ||
| 3.4.1 | A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings | |
| Science and philosophy has helped us understand the cause and effect of one small element cascading to create a more and more complex situation until the original event can be traced from a major disaster. | ||
| Like the analogy used to describe the interaction of elements such as a "butterfly flapping its wings deep in the Amazon" that through a series of interrelationships affects the bird, that affects the tiger that affects the trees, that affects the air, that affects the weather patterns, that creates a hurricane off the coast of Africa. | ||
| Sometimes, we feel that our lives are ruled by this chaotic interaction of different forces; the need to earn money, versus people we owe money to, the desire to raise a family, versus the violent societies we live in, the fight to stay healthy versus the inevitability of physical death. | ||
| We are in effect dealing with the consequences of the butterfly flapping its wings across the other side of the world. Why then would it not be possible that if we understood why the butterfly flapped its wings or how the butterfly was created that we might address the consequences of living in a system affected by that? | ||
| This is why the quest to answer the fundamental questions of how was the universe created? Or what created the universe? How many universes are there? Why was the universe created? is so important. | ||
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