Beyond

GNz11. The furthest thing that can be detected by modern science. A dwarf galaxy 32 billion light years away in a universe only 13.77 billion light years old. Impossible until you actually stop and think about the expansion of the universe itself. If science is right about red shifting.

Everything spins, doesn’t it? Orbits. Gravity is but one form of attractive force. What if the physical universe itself is merely a manifestation that our senses are capable of translating to us?

We have five senses. The brain interprets the inputs of those five senses and that’s how we know what rock feels like, blue looks like, Banana pudding tastes like…

Only those five windows to the greater world of existence beyond us. We never really stop and think about things outside the realm of those senses even though we are fools if we believe those are the only five windows possible to the world outside our bodies.

They don’t even provide us evidence of oxygen. Our oh so amazing human intellect has to do that. And we take that amazing human intellect to draw conclusions on the universe and reality that insist upon fitting into ‘boxes’ of our design. We insist upon the idea that thought cannot be touched. How could we know if our senses were not fine-tuned enough to touch it?

Thought manifests upon the brain. Stress has tangible effects on the body. Surely there is a physiological explanation the bows to conventional notions of why this is, but does it actually makes sense? What are thoughts in a physical, biological sense if not simple chemicals in the brain, and yet it is a well-known fact that stress has physical physical effects on us.

Why?

Does it make us breathe differently? Induce fight or flight responses in such a way to make the heart behave differently? Why is it so hard to contemplate the idea that thought is… more…

That though has more a tangible effect than we can perceive with our five windows that offer no guarantee that when I see the color red, someone else sees it as if it is blue to them and they call it “red” because that’s just what they see? How would they know the difference?

Thoughts swirl around in our heads and we can identify them – in fact we must – without those five windows. Might dark matter itself

What are dark matter and dark energy? Per science no one really knows; they are terms created to explain the mathematical realities of the universe as we know it and aspects of it that we can’t understand. We can’t see or touch dark matter or dark energy.

We can’t possibly be wrong about how gravity works or universal laws as they have been established up to this point, so we put on our little shortcuts that “we just can’t understand yet” in our model as if it has any right to be called the final model of understanding as the Ptolemaic solar system when it comes to the grand scheme of human understanding in however many millennia are species lasts.

If one listens to modern science it’s almost sad that all the horizons are being filled in by our current brilliance in understanding everything about the universe. Ironic that this goes against the very nature of the scientific method but why nitpick?

Maybe it’s just human nature. After all we have our five windows and our brilliance, both of which are simply understood, never needing to be questioned.

So there is that drive to look beyond… to understand the vastness of reality itself, which our five windows somehow will give us full view of. And even adding a sixth or seventh wouldn’t alter the fundamental equation.

Cats can’t comprehend taxes. Human beings can’t comprehend the universe. Much less the reality that is beyond it. The universe is the only part of reality that we can actually perceive with our windows.

It’s the only part the skeptics even allow themselves to contemplate being there because nothing else can be “proved” to or by our current level of evolved ape-hood.

And yet here we are… insistent that we see what we don’t. That what little we don’t know we’re eventually going to figure out.

We are truly an arrogant species. Narcissistic. Truly our greatest curse. It is said that pride is the worst of all sins, mainly because it justifies the rest. it is the centerpiece that all of our failings ultimately orbit… a black hole so deadly to us because we can’t see it and it’s so easy to pretend isn’t there.

I don’t want to look beyond. I don’t want to pretend for one second I could understand what is beyond. I love the bliss of ignorance. The kind comfort of “why not?” that becomes so easy when you have faith in something greater than yourself.

The inner peace. That everything is unfolding as it ought to, and the tiny aspects that we have power over can represent pre-determination and self-determination at the same time.

Why not?

What’s the point of looking beyond when it requires taking the eyes off the reality one actually has power over? To insist the universe is a way it’s not because that’s just what one wants to believe, as if we know what’s best from literally anyone’s flawless track record of amazing decisions in life.

What makes love different than gravity? Why our five windows of course. Because they are absolute. Authoritative. And we are never wrong – how can we be when we always just say “well we’ll figure out how it fits in at some point.”

And it will always just so happen to fit what we want to believe anyway… what a marvelous discovery.

Narcissism thy name is humanity.

When we can see a Galaxy further away than the age of the universe would allow and still demand to see beyond…

…God is real. The universe could not have been created by something without a sense of humor.