I'm inclined to think it's true.
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Baseless hypothesis.
Proto
Level 6
May 9, 2018
2
I can't tell if that's sarcasm, or you're being serious. If sarcasm, good on ya... you're good at it.
Love, it is fiction, from a book of fction written by a fiction writer. One can take it as gosppel or as satire. In both cases, you are right.
There is absolutely zero evidence for that.
dare2dream
Level 7
May 9, 2018
1
Things exist because of a prior cause. The reason is why they exist. Not why they should disappear.
@dare2dream Have you read any of Douglas Adams' books?
@Benthoven No. Sorry. 
@dare2dream Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... that's where the quote comes from.
Sounds too much like religion to me. "What the universe is for and why it is here." It IS. It has no "purpose." And there is no "why." Same goes for us puny, meaningless humans. We interpret our lives, and the universe, in terms of "years." You know, the time it takes our tiny, tiny, TINY meaningless little world to revolve around our equally tiny star. 15 BILLION years, they say, since the Big Bang! Wow! Incredible! But if you think in terms of Galactic Years (the time it takes our solar system to orbit the Milky Way Galaxy), then it has only been 61 Galactic years, since the Big Bang. And the LAST time we were at this spot in the galaxy DINOSAURS roamed the Earth! It's all about perspective. We think we, and the universe, have been here "forever!" When, in reality, the entire thing is but a blip in time. And when we are gone we won't be missed.
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
— William Shakespeare (from Macbeth, spoken by Macbeth)
Daco2007
Level 7
May 9, 2018
0
I'm guessing you haven't read the book series and aren't aware of Douglas Adams.
@Benthoven They need help....
I must admit when a friend died of a heart attack, in my home town in his 30's, I did wonder if he had discovered the meaning of life and that's why he died.
girlwithsmiles
Level 8
May 9, 2018
3
Ive already discovered exactly what the Universe is - ive tried to educate others, but not everyone is wired to the comprehend infinity and eternity.
gater
Level 7
May 9, 2018
1
So you're a conspiracy theorist.
@gater It's even MORE naive (not to mention arrogant) to think that somehow you have information that our scientists don't. Nobody questions that there's more to the universe than we can see. What we do is admit that we don't know what it is until we can know it. That's why we do science... to understand. That's why science is incompatible with conspiracy theory, because science admits it doesn't know.
@gater We know the universe is finite because we're watching it expand. As to what it's expanding into, we don't know... and that's what we do... we say, "I don't know" when something can't be known. Maybe some day we'll have the technology, or maybe we won't... It doesn't matter as earth will be gone in about seven-billion years anyway.
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