Jeninah A.

Calimlim 2LM1
2011031316 August 13, 2012

We are living in a world placed in a vastly large cosmos, and it makes me wonder how
human intellect can contain and absorb tons of information that are and can still be gathered
from it. It is so hard to imagine that the Sun is only one out of billions of stars, and the Milky
Way is just one of many billions of galaxies that dot the universe. I once believed that the Earth
is flat and the universe has edge at someplace, as well. There were nights I was thinking very
profoundly about the universe like, how big is it and the question that most human beings ask,
how did it begin. As my intellectual expedition advances, somehow, some of these disturbing
questions are answered and explained to me yet they remain uncertain.
There are many laws governing the universe like gravity by which the planets attract
each other with a force proportional to their masses. But if gravity really governs the universe,
are we also to say that the universe is either expanding or contracting? I do believe it is
expanding since the nebulae and some of the nearby galaxies are moving away from us.
However, why space here in Earth isnt expanding? Are these spaces different from each other?
The Big Bang Theory provides that space did not exist before the universe, so where did the
explosion of expansion happen if it did not occupy any space? I know every event inhabits a
place for it to transpire. A theory cannot be proven since there are observations that disagree
and might disagree to its vitals. It turns out to be very difficult to devise a theory to describe the
universe all in one go, instead, we break the problem up into bits, and invent a number of
partial theories.
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For me, with certainty, we can find everything that exists and known to exist in the
universe. Again, if not, then it cannot be called a totality. It is what made life possible. [Where
else could life exist besides the universe?] Honestly, I do not have an ultimate understanding of
the universe because my perception and the studies that I go through change overtime; we
have more to discover since it is expanding. Humanitys deepest desire for knowledge is
justification enough for our continuing quest.
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Will we ever be able to grasp the fullness of the
cosmos?

1
Hawking, Stephen W. (1988). A brief history of time. New York: Bantam Dell Publishing Group.
2
Ibid.