Reminds me of an Einstein quote
so relevant
But alas friend we landed the probe, against immeasurable odds.
Quantum theorists would bring up the immeasurable smallness of a Planck length to shore up their arguments that these odds are nauseatingly reasonable and pathetically "measurable" compared to the odds of the moon tunneling a million miles away forth and back before the Terran tides realize it. I must share that this sometimes reminds me of religious promises of heaven.
I would attribute that to the power of human ingenuity. One thing we should avoid is placing human limitations on this vast universe. We accept the majority of the universe is made of energy we cannot detect, and matter we cannot measure.
Dark energy and matter may just be placeholders for a new theory we have yet to understand, it could be inferred their very names connote their temporary undefined assignations.
That large exploding stars rip the fabric of spacetime and have the force to swallow light.
Not very hard to accept, given the objective evidence available-we've
watched this- and the practical evidence-we've employed black hole lensing to see behind stars and beyond the distance limits of our telescopes.
That gravity, pressure and temperature can combine gases and create every atom within us.
again, not really hard to accept, in fact this may be even considered trivial given that we've employed nuclear fusion to our own nefarious and constructive ends and that we are one age advanced from nuclear.
That this could be one of many universes,
I don't accept that theory as having any significance
and you question whether the quantum world can exist?
Not my claim really
look at it this way
Consider this achievement an experiment upon the stability of space-time (matter and forces, seen and unseen) but subsumed within the relevancy of a human lifespan. for ten years space-time behaved predictably to a degree accurate and reliable enough that, from a mere few initial energetic inputs by us (and then time lagged inputs too),
it could land a tiny machine within proximity of a tiny rock so said tiny machine could then land an even tinier probe on said tiny rock. Though the voyager 1 is 26 more years out in space-time than Rosetta, it does not and can not provide as exquisite feedback upon such an experiment.
tiny stream of thought bubble: So the same thing can be said of earth being a satellite faithfully traveling clockwork in space-time but to me the Rosetta breaches the object-subject conundrum, and places us firmly on the metaphysical ground, we initiated and controlled our own tiny space-time object with amazing unprecedented accuracy.
What excites me is not how we got to the comet, but what we will find. Water, amino acids and other building blocks to life. To truly confirm it. Then it won't seem crazy that large blocks of ice can slam into planets and create...what? Molecules, matter, RNA ...Life. Because it isn't crazy that stars can explode, and create new atoms. New matter. And that matter creates planets, and comets that crash into planets with life's building blocks. And stars explode everywhere and planets exist everywhere and comets exist everywhere that have those same building blocks. Which means life is...
Strangely I find this relatively trivial, panspermia simply kicks the ontological question down the road, or rather the primordial soup pond to another setting. it would definitely challenge the bible for some people.
