(August 1, 2010 at 5:30 pm)LastPoet Wrote: We don't know! The universe may be like a buble that forms when the water is boiling, but we are trying to understand. As Carl Sagan said, we are star stuff, we are part of the universe, trying to understand itself. It may be the case that in the whole of matters humanity, the earth, even the milky way will fade in a rounding approximation. But still, we exist, we are able to grasp that, that we exist, and we strive to know more. Is the universe intelligent? There is no proof of that, despite alot of people tried to prove so. Other beings may develop, if you take the vastness of possibilities in planet formations, chemical reactions, etc. But, to communicate or travel here, they would have to be terribly advanced. The answer is that I don't know, and I am not afraid of it, I am courious.
I share with you the knowledge that I don’t know and my feelings of curiosity and lack of fear of the unknown.
I like your train of thought in describing the universe as possibly akin to a bubble in boiling water. I thought of it as something akin a sneeze, eruption, or some other explosive short release. That would be in line with the idea of an expanding universe. I don’t think the universe has any more awareness of us than my liver has of the atoms that form it. I think our current senses would not allow us to conduct any form of empirical analysis to that effect, but perhaps one day before we become extinct, we might.
