Inebriated Thoughts, Volume One: The Universe is big and we are absolutely not.

These entries are based on discussions or thoughts had while there is nothing else to do but talk or think… I guess that defines “commentary for the sake of commentary”


Volume One: The Universe is big and we are absolutely not.


Logically speaking and bare with me, but how messed up is it when we look at our own significance in the grand scheme of everything; I am speaking of the Universe as a whole. Science has already established how far the cosmos extends and that notion itself is enough to make your thoughts go in circles faster than feedback at a rock concert.

To place us in perspective, we are a measly planet in a small solar system in a decent sized galaxy. This may bring some insight into how small we are as individuals, but remember that the Milky Way is a galaxy apart of a group whose numbers basically stretch into the infinites. From an omniscient point of view, we are not even a drop in the vast intergalactic ocean, so much as the spec of matter inside that drop; and even that spec would be our planet as a whole. Now from here, people would be inclined to discuss the questions about the reasons for our existence and even try to decipher where we fit in the grand scheme of things. I, however, do not feel like starting another novel on a topic so overly discussed with no real answer to provide. However, it is interesting to think that over our lifetimes we live at about the speed of half a blink in respect to the being of the entire Universe. Now if that is the case, how fast are we actually moving? After a quick Google search –all praise the all-knowing Google- the average human lives about 70 years on this planet. In comparison, the generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about 4.55 billion years, plus or minus about 1%. Furthermore, the Universe is currently theorized to be about 13.75 (+/- 0.17) billion years old. This is the point that I find myself staring into nothing, totally overwhelmed by the speed my brain has to work at to try to contemplate the numbers and our part in the equation… Wow, I’m stopping here because in this case, ignorance truly is bliss.


Lost in a mental state of malarkey and hoping you are too,

Matias M. Barchman