(January 30, 2019 at 11:21 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(January 30, 2019 at 11:05 am)Brian37 Wrote: This is a bit misleading as a title. It is not saying the universe has more galaxies, than, what scientists once thought meaning we used to think the Milky Way was all there was. That is not what the article is saying. The article is saying space is mostly empty, and this is hardly new.
Not knowing what makes dark matter/empty space doesn't default to the tooth fairy, unicorns or Yoda either.
What you seem to miss, is within the last couple of decades scientists have been able to calculate the volume empty space at a better and better scale. Just like one can use math to calculate the volume an empty jar can hold if you put a solid or a liquid in it.
"We don't know everything" does not default to any old mythology being true. There is lots humans DO KNOW now, and old mythology is not the way to fill in the gaps.
Quote:"The overwhelming majority of the universe is: who knows?" explains science writer Richard Panek, who spoke about these oddities of our universe on Monday (May 9) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) here in Manhattan. "It's unknown for now, and possibly forever."
That's what scientists are saying; Brian. From the article above.
In Islam; God is never to be pictured or described except with what he told humans to describe him with. So the "unicorn/yoda...etc" cannot be applied but on Heathen religions; it's unfair and utterly wrong to generalize on all religions.
Considering that humans ARE stuck in a macro world, manifesting from a micro QM world, while, if we don't blow ourselves up over stupid shit like religion, we will certainly come up with more answers in the future. But yea, it is very likely, even if our species extends our ride without dying by our own hand, I agree, it is HIGHLY likely we will go extinct not having 100% perfect knowledge.
SO WHAT?
There is still a TON scientists HAVE figured out. When the world's top scientist Stephen Hawking says, "A God is not required". I think he knows what he is talking about.
It makes much more logical sense to me, that humans are NOT important in the time scale of the universe, and we are simply a temporary blip, just like a temporary rain storm, or snow storm in a gigantic weather pattern.
Point is, again, not knowing everything DOES NOT mean we don't know anything. There is TONS of data that does rule out the extremely unlikely.
It is enough for me to know, the atoms in me are a result of the death of another star prior to ours forming. I feel no need to think my cognition was around prior to my birth, or that my cognition will survive me after my brain and body die. I am thrilled to be here now and don't need old mythology to value what I do know now, nor do I feel the need to fall for fictional utopias of an after life.
There is NOTHING wrong with accepting my finite existence . It does not mean I want to die, I do not. It does not mean I want crime and violence. It just means I accept reality without myth making.
