We Are Almost Not Here

I find it utterly amazing that every planet, star, nebula, gas cloud, and galaxy - everything that we can see in this Universe - only adds up to a mere 5% of the total STUFF that makes it up. It's not as if we simply can't see the remaining 95% of stars, galaxies, nebulae etc. We CAN see nearly ALL the stars, nebulae, galaxies etc in the Universe ... it's just that they all add up to a mere total of 5% of EVERYTHING.

The remaining 95% of the 'stuff' of the Universe is something utterly mysterious. We simply don't know what it is. We give it the labels 'Dark Matter' and 'Dark Energy' simply because we don't know what else to call it.

Furthermore, we don't know why there is even 5% of 'normal' matter at all. Why isn't there 100% Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and 0% 'normal matter'? Of course, if there were, we would not be here to talk about it anyway.

This is just one respect in which 'we are almost not here' at all, existent in this Universe. There are many other reasons as to why we are only JUST here.

Almost not being here at all in this Universe provides us with a very humbling perspective that lends itself to a deep appreciation of existence itself, and a profound insight into just how rare and precious this Earth, with all it's fantastic diversity of life, really is.

This is the main theme of this video. I hope you enjoy it.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Universe
• Big
• Bang
• Hydrogen
• Helium
• Dark
• Matter
• Energy
• Carbon
• Nuclear
• Reactions
• Organic
• Life
• Earth
• Biosphere

[Melanatedone]

I am 100% sure that it isn't this 5% that you speak of, but it is actually 10%... following the principle as above so below... everything that we actually see in space is a reflection of everything that goes on inside of our bodies. "Think about it"

[ScientificThinker]

Actually, I rounded up the 5% figure. The true figure is actually around 4%!  Meaning that 96% of the Universe comprises of 'stuff' that we have no idea what it is (other than calling it 'Dark Energy' (74%) and 'Dark Matter' (22%)).

[sandustanBrasov]

SandustanBrasov

The universal attraction law of the Newton is the UNIFIED LAW because all those three fundamental interactions: the nuclear interaction, the electromagnetic(electron-proto­¬n) interaction and the gravitational interaction are interactions produced through the ethereal matter, what bind the classical physics of the good part of the modern physics, but it bind and the ETHEREAL PHYSICS.