Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Space. Time.


 
Some of these galaxies appear as they were over 12 billion years ago, and this is the furthest back the Hubble Time Machine has ever viewed.
Still no sign of Doctor Who though, so I'm sceptical.

2 comments:

Sue said...

You know how people often say it freaks them out to see stuff like this, as if the thought gives them awful agorophobia (all that bloody spaaaaace!)

It actually just spins me out really :) I sort of like it in a way.

So do you think there is life anywhere else, Harry?

Harry said...

I just think it's stunningly beautiful, Sue, and, in the best sense of that hideously overused word, awesome! It's a cosmic jewel casket.

We have to remember that it's from all those galaxies that the stuff of which we're made actually originates. We are Star Dust, literally! We - our bodies that is - are made of the same stuff as All That Out There, and are therefore One With It All. I find my response to that fact to be just beyond words. On top of that, the Energy which is God inhabits and animates both 'us' and 'all that', so we are also One in that most profound sense.

There's Life, Sue, but not as we know it;) There's the Life Which Is God in every subatomic particle, giving it its very existence.

As for what we conceive of as 'life', I've absolutely no doubt that it's 'out there'. I think we may well have been visited frequently by such life, and that those beings have been trying to show us that there's a Better Way than the mess we're making just now:) Just my thoughts...