Fascinated by the beauty of the universe, obsessed with the mystery of the universe, I am eager to collect all kinds of researches about the universe in contemporary science; I can't help but ask myself: Does it make sense to understand the universe? By the end of this video, I feel like I got the answer I was looking for.
There, that's the Earth, where we are, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, everyone who's ever been in this world, and they've spent their time here his own life. There are thousands of religious beliefs, ideologies, and economic doctrines here, full of our joys and pains. Hunters and foragers, heroes and cowards, creators and destroyers of civilization, kings and peasants, every young couple, every mother and father and hopeful children, inventors and explorers, every noble Every teacher, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in human history, lives here like a speck of dust, suspended in a ray of sunshine. middle. Against the background of the vast universe, the earth is but a small stage. Think of the rivers of blood in the past, the blood shed by all beings for emperors and generals, just to make them instant great men in glory and victory, to occupy a small part of that small point. Think of the endless cruelty, the people in one corner of the little dot in the image, daily inflicting this cruelty on their compatriots in another corner who are no different from them. Why do they often misunderstand each other? Why did one of them always want to kill the other? Why is the hatred between them so frenetic? We are still pretending, always pretending to be arrogant and arrogant, delusional thinking that we have a special status as human beings and are different in the universe, all of which are now shaken by this pale blue little dot! Our planet is but a lonely speck of dust shrouded in the vast cosmic darkness. We are unknown, sunk in infinite space and time, and there is no trace of our existence other than ourselves. Who else can save us? Earth is the only world known to have life. There is no other place for life, at least in the near future. There are no alien planets for human migration. (Those planets) can only be visited, not settled. Like it or not, there is only Earth on which to stand right now. It is said that learning astronomy can make people humble, reshape their hearts, and hone their personality. Perhaps there is no better way to show the conceit and stupidity of human beings better than this distant picture. For us, he emphasized our responsibility to be kinder to everything on this planet, to know how to cherish and love. Know that this pale little spot is our only home.
When I was young, I always felt that I had infinite possibilities and could become whoever I wanted to be. I thought that everyone around me revolved around me. I was the center and everything. I was the only one who was the most important. When I grew up, I found that there were too many things in the world that I couldn’t control and couldn’t do anything about. I originally wanted to change the world, but I didn’t even have the ability to change myself. Slowly, I began to change from self-confidence (believe in myself) to inferiority (believe in others), and I started to admit that I was small from the greatness I thought I was. This reminds me of the transition of human beings from geocentric to heliocentric. With the growth of human beings, with our understanding of the universe (in fact, we may not understand the universe at all, we just observed the appearance of the universe and began to draw conclusions), we realized that our earth is only in the vast universe. A little blue dot of , this transition from arrogance to humility is probably also part of the binary opposition of this world, we are always in contradiction. However, I also seem to see the beauty of this contradiction: looking back on human history, our inventions and creations are worthy of our pride and pride, and those amazing creations are enough to give us a sense of greatness; throughout the universe, from the Milky Way to the solar system Then to the earth on which we live, it makes us feel like stardust, and our hundreds of millions of years of history seem to be just a blink of an eye in the universe, which makes us feel insignificant. Two opposing feelings coexist, intertwined.
Follow 5 simple rules - 1. Question authority and don't trust others, including yourself. 2. Independent thinking. 3. Self-doubt, not believing anything because you want to believe. Believing doesn't mean it can become reality. 4. Rely on observation and experiment to test ideas with empirical evidence. If an idea you like doesn't pass the full test, it's wrong. Be optimistic. Follow the evidence wherever it points. Don't jump to conclusions without evidence. 5. Perhaps the most important rule to remember is that you make mistakes too. Even the best scientists have been wrong about certain things. Newton, Einstein, and every great scientist in history, they all made mistakes. It's normal, everyone makes mistakes.
Science makes us stop deceiving ourselves and others. Are scientists guilty? some. We have abused science and used it like a tool at hand, so we cannot put science in the hands of a few in power. The more science belongs to all mankind, the less it will be misused. The value of science prevents fanaticism and ignorance.
Finally, don't forget that, like all sciences, the knowledge we hold as truth today may be overturned tomorrow. A hundred years from now, the truth of the film may no longer apply. Who knows~(<ゝω・)☆
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