Jan 112012
Once you grasp that it is possible that the universe is infinite, meaning, no matter how far you travel in any direction you will continue to encounter new stars and planets, and once you grasp that some 14 billion years ago this infinitude of space, energy and matter was entirely concentrated in a single point of no size, yet still infinite (an infinity concentrated in a singularity) and have leavened this thought with the multiverse hypothesis that there is an infinity of such infinite universes continually coming into existence…. it’s time for lunch.
After lunch, meditate on the fact that 25% of the universe is not conventional matter but dark matter, 70% of the universe is comprised of dark energy (no one knows that that is), and only 5% is made up of matter and energy as we experience them directly. Consider that our knowledge of the existence of dark matter and energy is entirely the result of the rational mind making reasonable conjectures from observed data, and that we both know it must exist, and yet cannot observe it except through its effects on things we can observe. In short, most of reality is experienced through mathematical hypothesis and scientific imagination – it can only be seen by our minds, and not by our eyes. Now it’s time for dinner.