Universal Remoteness: What the Multiverse Means About Us
Our
Universe is vast and mostly empty. Even if many of the billions of
planets we suspect are out there have life, most of the cosmos is
uninhabitable, and those worlds are unreachable by any means we know.
That’s just within our galaxy, which is one of about 100 billion in
the part of the universe we can see (the “observable universe”),
which itself is only part of a bigger universe, which may extend
infinitely in space. Then there’s the possibility, arising as a
consequence of several theories, that that universe is but one part
of a multiverse. All these things understandably can lead to feelings
of insignificance.
That’s the entry point : Is
