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The Search for Meaning

Significance

Ruben David Azevedo tells us why, in a limitless universe, we’re not insignificant.

Many people assume, in the face of a virtually infinite universe, that we are insignificant beings. This assumption arises from our comparative extreme smallness. After all, our planet is nothing but a ‘blue dot’ in a vast solar system, a grain of dust lost in a second-rate suburb of a vast galaxy, which in turn dwells among another three hundred billion galaxies or more in the known universe alone. We’re negligible and peripheral – they say – and the universe is completely blind and indifferent towards us.

Nasa Hubble Space Telescope: Butterfly Nebula NGC6302.

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