How significant are we in relation to the universe?

Question

I just found this info recently and wanted to get some feedback on it.

1. The universe is about 15,000 billion light years across and we are carbon based life forms.

2. There are all of these strong and weak forces in the universe.

3. Carbon doesn't begin to form or exist until these forces reach a stage of equilibrium.

4. They reach this equilibrium when the universe is about 15,000 billion light years across!

As one Nobel Prize winning scientists said (crucify me for not knowing the name, and it's not an exact quote, sorry going from memory) "we shouldn't be surprised that the universe is so large. If it were any significantly smaller, we would not exist."

So how significant are we in relation to the universe? Extremely!

What do you guys think of this?

This was info from a guy named David Block. He's a Cosmologist/Mathmatition in South Africa and a Nobel Prize nominee.

Answer 1

It seems to me that the reverse is true...the universe is extremely significant to us, not the other way around. We did nothing to facilitate anything that benefits the universe...but the universe has done everything to benefit us.

And to keep the idiots from yelling "but we must be significant because the universe exists in a state EXACTLY as we need it!", lets not forget that there are lots of carbon based organisms...and we're only a speck of a speck on the grand scheme of those. In other words, we're no more significant than a bit of bacteria.

Answer 2

In size and productivity. We are nothing. Dust on the scale of equal balance with the universe.
Job 38; tells how the spirit sons of God were shouting in applause at the creation of the earth and man.
We were a new creation, nothing like us had ever existed before.
they were thrilled at this new creature. All the animals and birds and fishes. What en imigation God had to think of all these things. Then look at the variety of people.
Some it says in Genesis gave up their place in the heavens to come down here and live with the daughters of men.
We were not important or large or powerful. except to each other. But, God liked what he had created. and said it was very good. How sad when a few thousand years later we became so violent we had to be destroyed by a flood and only one man survived Noah. and his family. Who would be save this next time?

Answer 3

We are just another insignificant part of the universe. Perhaps the only significance is that we might be the only intelligent life ever to have evolved in the universe. But when the sun swells and swallows the earth in the next couple billion years, we will all be gone back to total insignificance.

Answer 4

Yeah, i agree with no 1 point. no.2 point is also true because the universe existed for several billions of years b4 life came to it. man being the apex of the universe is here to expirience & experiment with what life(energy) is all about. When they master this they will become a co-worker with God. Now, the significancy of man in the universe...man is like a fish in the mighty ocean. so, we can as well ask what is the significant of fish in the mighty ocean? fish is the life in the mighty ocean expiriencing life to become a better fish. Man is here learning how to become a better spiritual being, to some day become a co-worker with God. or let me put it this way: man is a microcosm in a macrocosm.

Answer 5

On the physical side - nothing!
On the intellectual or spiritual side the fact that we comprehend and observe the universe makes us (from our point of view) central to it!
In other words depending on your viewpoint we are either nothing to the universe or the universe revolves around us and wouldn't exist without us. (Because we wouldn't be here to appreciate it!)
Now this is about as deep as you can go from a philosophical point of view
Your Humble scribe
Allan W Janssen
Alan W Janssen is the author of the book "The Plain Truth About God-101' (what the church doesn't want you to know!)

Answer 6

This is all just conjecture... a Theory... no one can really know that the universe is 15,000 billion light years across (that would be 15 trillion by the way... shows how smart you are)... You really take that for fact??? You are deceived

Answer 7

Not very well-developed ideas, so there isn't much that can be said about them. But any discussion of our relative place in the universe would really necessitate checking around for other life, something which we really haven't done. Maybe there is life everywhere. Even one civilization per galaxy would give us billions of civilizations. Pretty common from one point of view.

Answer 8

according t o the universe, we are vertually nothing, just a speck of life on a tiny palent on the out skirts of the MilkyWay Galaxy. We percieve of only 10% of t he galaxy in the sky, and have yet to discover t he true meaning of how life itself works, we are a small portion of matter in this universe so we are something, we are a 3rd rate form of being, in which means, we are a learning race, not yet found the means to travel the stars

Answer 9

If a person can allow his mind to escape the bondage of the present, he should realize that it is possible that our universe is a cell within a larger structure.

And, within our own bodies, we have an infinite number of similar "universes,"

Humans are insignificant and claims a "creator" invented humans in his own image are almost laughable when one contemplates the vastness of "infinity" and "eternity."

Conscious self awareness has no impact on the universes or anything else. Other than human arrogance, that is.

Answer 10

Rubish!!!! the universe and stars in the universe goes on for ever! THEY ARE INFINITE, the stars are innumorable as abraham was told by god.
if it was only as big as you said what would be beyoud the end? a brick wall? if you broke that then what next?
no it goes on for ever. people are always trying to find limits to everything just so their mind can control "it" and understand it.