That is the spiritual truth which is always underscored for me in the book of Job. Starting in chapter 38 God spurns Job harshly for speaking words without knowledge.
Returning to the astronomy if I may assert another aspect for your meditation.
What appears to us to be such an awesome display in the universe can instead be understood as no more than the phenomenon of the mathematics of observation.
Please take a few minutes and experiment with this interactive display of the powers of 10.
At 10+0 meters, youll see a bush but decrease the powers of ten and youll see a universe of molecular detail. Increase it, and youll see astronomical vistas.
This is part of what betty boop and I call the observer problem. What we presume to be real is strongly biased to our position as an observer.
All 1080 particles in the perceptible universe, for instance, may be multiply imaged from a single particle in a fifth, time-like dimension. Matter may be a shadow of extra-dimensional momentum components we cannot yet detect. Etc.
IOW, "all that there is" is God's revelation of Himself, His will and unknowable in its fullness. The revelation is not for this heaven and earth but rather, for the next heaven and earth.
Adam was to observe good and evil. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was placed where he could see it in the Garden of Eden. But he was not to feed on it, not to make it part of himself. By observing good fruits v evil fruits, he would have gained a better understanding of what it means that "God is good". Ditto for Light v. darkness, etc.
To use a modern metaphor, it is as if Adam was being shown a stage play [the physical universe] so that he could understand the difference between good and evil to comprehend that God is good and not evil. But instead of watching the show to absorb this revelation of God, he jumped onstage and became a part of it. He couldnt step off the stage to be just a spectator again and thus he was banned to mortality, doomed to be an actor in the play he was intended to watch (Genesis 4.) He did it to himself. The only way Adam can get off that stage is to be born anew as a spectator, that is what Christ accomplished in the Resurrection.
WOO- WEE.. the metaphor adds to the truth/power of it..
. . . though as I recall from an FR thread not that long ago, the old business of light being a particle or a wave DEPENDING ON whether it is observed or not--HAS NOW BEEN PROVEN FALSE.
I don't know that it matters. Perhaps all of observed aspects of the 'multi-verse' are 'mere' lights projected on God's living room wall by God's computer for God's children.
I don't know that it matters what REALITY IS. We are, in our EXISTENTIAL THROWNNESS tasked with dealing with what we observe as though it were a tangible reality that we are responsible for making choices amidst and performing actions within.
And, somehow, those choices and actions in this bootcamp will have SOME INFLUENCE on SOME ASPECTS of our RULING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST throughout endless ages and perhaps countless multi-verses.