Have we placed ourselves further away from the universe and beyond?

Question

With the introduction of time and such a time oriented earth that we live on, has it affected our perception of what else may lie beyond our earth? I mean just think about the origin of the concept of time, it probably started out by monitoring the sun/moon/day/night but now those thing are taken for granted

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Answer 1

What is it that makes us the most dominant species on the planet? its simply our curiosity, and our desire to understand what we dont know. that is all that seperates us.
time is something that we never quite understood in the beginning. now, its something we THINK we understand. we make theories about it to explain higher things. Yes, we do take it for granted.
We begin creating new ideas, new perceptions, new philosophies, based on previous assumptions, and dare to beleive things we would not have otherwise, and then eventually we will take that for granted.

its an unending cycle, for our better or our worse. thats what makes man different. we have sent our voyager crafts outside out solar system. would we have thought that possible, a century earlier?

Answer 2

Our presence or absence on this earth will have little effect on the cosmos. Certainly as we gained knowledge our perception of same has greatly altered our view.

Humans are by nature explorers. We always want to know what lies beyond that hill, across that ocean, and by extension - what lies in the great beyond. Most of us thirst for knowledge.