THE GRAND PARADOX OF BEING

THE  GRAND PARADOX OF BEING

The universe we live in is unimaginably vast and incomprehensibly big. In fact it is bigger than we have the mental architecture to imagine and it's getting bigger at an astonishing rate every moment of its existence. Edwin Hubble proved that by showing that galaxies were moving away from each at an ever increasing rate in 1929. Just imagine how much larger the universe has gotten since then.

So in comparing ourselves to the ever increasing enormity of the universe, Human Beings are infinitesimally small and insignificant by comparison. Our short lifespans are just a blink of an eye in the face of a universe that scientists currently say is 13.7 billion years old. Since the universe is that old, no one can say with a straight face that we are the point and purpose of the universe. We most certainly have not been around near long enough to be considered any thing more than an afterthought in the cosmic scheme of things, a random by-product of the prevalent forces, a minuscule side effect of the fundamental of physics, and  a billionth of a nano-second in the grand arc of time.

Thus the universe can't be about us or have been created for us, but THE GRAND PARADOX OF BEING is that it seems to us THAT IT IS. The universe spreads out before us in all directions as if we are indeed the center of it, and according to physicists, because the Big Bang happened everywhere at once simultaneously, and the universe is so unbelievably vast, everything in the universe is technically at the center of it. Each of us as individuals are obviously patently unimportant in the vast scheme of things. But all of us are visited by the persistent illusion that it is all about us. Though this notion may be illusory, it none the less seems powerfully real TO US.

Despite our actual insignificance, as far as each one of us is concerned, we are at the center of our own bubble universe, and our obviously the most important person in it. It seems to us that everything revolves around us and starts and ends with us even though we are actually a relatively microscopic part of it all and are not the start and end to anything other than than ourselves. The space of time we occupy is actually unbelievably brief, but from our perspective and frame of reference it's a virtual eternity.

Going further, everything in the universe, whether it is animate or inanimate matter, or a particle on the Quantum level, every molecule, atom, quark , or a piece of dark energy and matter is basically the center of the universe as well.  EVERY SINGLE THING IS AT THE CENTER AND EDGE OF EVERYTHING SIMULTANEOUSLY. EVERYTHING SIMULTANEOUSLY MATTERS AND DOESNT MATTER AT ALL.

The eternal irony is that only living matter can experience this GRAND PARADOX OF BEING. More precisely, in the known universe. only highly evolved and complex living matter, ONLY US, can truly contemplate this paradox. All other living matter in the known universe, by virtue of its sensory and mental limitations, is incapable of contemplating it. 

So the GRAND PARADOX OF BEING is that despite are actual insignificance, from our perspective we are the most important thing in the universe and everything else is mere ambient background noise. To each is us the universe is ALL ABOUT US.