A little more...
All this discussion fades and seems irrelevant to me when I look through my little telescope. Not always, but every once in a while I will get an actual physical sensation while observing all the wonders and vastness out there. The only way I can describe it is that I feel like I almost understand infinity....but then I start to think and realize I don’t.
IMHO, the important thing to understand is that we have a relationship, should we care to embrace it, with The Creator, for whom WE ARE the center of the Universe, each of us individually. If we can hold that fact in our feeble little minds amid all the distractions available we can keep our keels pretty well stabilized against any storm. Having done so we are thus free to make all sorts of wonderful observations from a “stable deck”. IMHO, those who try to make observations while being tossed about by random and many not so random things have a great deal of trouble making sense of their world, and not surprisingly so.
Where I live now, in VA, there is so much Haze and light pollution that we can’t see much beyond the major constellations and planets. I remember, as a teen, camping in New Mexico, laying back on my sleeping bag and just being left breathless. The combination of dry, dry air, no light pollution, and a teen’s young eyes. Man, you really could see “ infinity and beyond” it seemed.
As a teen it seemed to me that while my grandparents had seen man first fly and my parents (well, one of them) saw man go to the moon that our generation would see man go to the planets or beyond and our children definitely would. To me the true human tragedy of our generation is that we allowed the “forces of evil” to distract mankind with a useless, unwinnable “war on poverty” that squandered tens of trillions of dollars that should have been used to actually advance mankind technologically. We have allowed these evil people to chain mankind to this planet and THAT is a crime against humanity.