Humans wonder
about everything, especially when it comes to Earth and what is beyond it. I
believe that it is beneficial for humans to ponder about the vastness and
unknowability of the universe. In, “Our Universe May Be a Giant Hologram”
Greene stated, “There was a time when the word universe meant “all there
is.” Everything. The whole shebang… Yet a range of theoretical developments has
gradually qualified the interpretation of universe. The word’s meaning now
depends on context.” What he meant by this was that at one point the universe was
all everyone had ever known and it was the only one to exist. Nowadays though,
people question everything and their minds drift and they start to wonder if we
are the only ones out there. In, “Is Everything Determined?” Stephen Hawking
writes, “One cannot base one’s conduct on the idea that everything is
determined. Instead one has to adopt the effective theory that on has free will
and that one is responsible for one’s actions.” Hawking shows the readers that humans
control their own thoughts and ideas. We are our own person and we can think
for ourselves and wondering what else could be out there is healthy and extremely
beneficial because in the process we have discovered so many new things we
would’ve never know had no one’s minds gotten curious. Wondering how vast our universe
is in the end is very helpful. Without wondering we wouldn’t have made it to
the moon and we wouldn’t be looking for life forms on Mars. Unknowability is
good because it leaves people wanting more, and knowing everything all the time
takes the enjoyment out of life. The more we wonder the more we push to
discover what else is really out in space and if there is life beyond Earth.
I agree that it is beneficial to learn what we don’t know about the universe. We can’t help but to be curious about who we are, how we got here, and why we are on this Earth based on whatever one may believe in. To think about that our life is predetermined is an unusual way to look at. We don’t technically have free will but it doesn’t matter to us because we are clueless on to what will happen in our future. Since we don’t know why we are we are set on our own path in life it is up to our interest to find out more about the universe which is why we now know so much about many advancements in the science and technology world. Humans can never get enough to learn about because the Universe provides endless possibilities for us to look at new perspectives of our lives and theories to discover.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is beneficial to ponder and wonder about the universe and the vastness of it. Like Hawking said in "Is Everything Determined?" "If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory, why should the theory determine what we draw the right thing we say have any validity?" We learn more of us and where we live in the universe when we ponder the vastness. As we think more of it and wonder for reasons and answers, we learn more and push our knowledge and the knowledge of experts, because we don't want things determined for us. Like Greene mentioned in, “Our Universe May Be a Giant Hologram” as a kid he would look at the mirrors and think and question about them and the parallels. He grew to be interested in the situation and learned more, showing that pondering about the vastness of the universe is beneficial because it pushes us to learn more of something important or interesting to us, but when it’s determined like Hawking discussed, doesn’t let us grow and learn.
ReplyDeleteI think that pondering at the vastness and unknowability of the universe is beneficial to us as humans, because it lets humans explore the unknown. People naturally are curious, and because of their curiosity it led to many discoveries. In Our Universe May Be a Giant Hologram physicist Brian Greene says “But these youthful flights of fancy, with their imagined parallel realities, resonate with an increasingly prominent theme in modern science—the possibility of worlds lying beyond the one we know,” People pondering in the unknown helps us want to go and explore the unknown. In Is Everything Determined by Stephen Hawking, the author talks about how the future is determined for us, but we don’t really know what’s going to happen “Is everything determined? The Answer is yes, it is. But it might as well not be, because we can never know what is determined,” (914). Even though our future is already determined we don’t know what the future holds, so we ponder at the unknown.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the point that you make about humans wondering about what is out here in the universe. There is indeed a lot of knowledge that we acquire from what we hear in the news and anything that we ourselves go out and do to discover the world. For example, “The idea that everything is determined by a grand unified theory is that anything we say is also determined by the theory”. There are so many questions as to why everything happens and why it does. As well as in “Our Universe May be A Giant Hologram” when they describe the world universe. “Universe has given way to other terms that capture the wider canvas on which the totality of reality may be painted. Wondering about why things happen invites us to explore more about what goes on in this world and why it does. The word universe is just one way to describe what science has seen. One cannot stop just because science says to do so. Explore that’s why this world is here to explore and take care of for other generations to come.
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