[b]Neil deGrasse Tyson from Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Without the billion-and-one to a billion imbalance between matter and antimatter, all mass in the universe would have self-annihilated, leaving a cosmos made of photons and nothing else—the ultimate let-there-be-light scenario.[/b]
You never really know whether to believe something like this.
We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out…
So, close enough?
In an undistinguished part of the universe (the outskirts of the Virgo Supercluster), in an undistinguished galaxy (the Milky Way), in an undistinguished region (the Orion Arm), an undistinguished star (the Sun) was born.
Of course God knows better.
Dare we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us?
Well, me more than you of course.
Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?
So much for dasein, right?
…some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc.
Their piss in other words?