The Universe isn't Expanding, Matter is Contracting.

[rickymouse]

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...  it just means that there are a real lot of possibilities, and it is not really important that we know anyway.  ... 

Well, it kind of is important, particularly as it relates to one of my 'favorite' subjects, quantum physics. (a little sarcasm there; far from my 'favorite').  If we ever want to hear the end of people attributing every imaginable impossible thing to "quantum physics", because "quantum physics", then understanding the nature of the Universe at least from a stability state is pretty darn important.  Understanding the exact origins (i.e. exact time, and precise point) is not nearly as important as at least having a better understanding of the role of mass and some far better understandings around the reality of anti-particles.  Right now, the overwhelming justification of their existence is, simply put, kind of backwards logic when you boil it all down.  The basic explanation boils down to..."well, they HAVE to exist,  because otherwise there's no other way to explain why the Universe isn't all mass, and/or how the Universe exists in the state we observe it to be."

To me, that is not an empirical scientific explanation, and it doesn't 'prove' the existence of 'anything' (as it were).  Yes, there is an element of the esoteric in proving the existence of something which doesn't (and can't) exist...in an abstract sense.  And some do in fact use this argument to justify their conclusions of the existence of such things.  It is often scaled up to the legal concept of never attempting to prove a negative.  Personally, I think that's kind of a cop-out for convenience.

... Who the hell knows, and who cares anyway, none of this really matters.  

From a purely logic perspective, your statement proves itself!  LOL!  Because no one 'the hell' knows, it kind of proves it 'does' matter.  Thus, why people should care.

This last part was more in jest than anything else, so hopefully you don't take offense as none was intended!

You can spend tons of money and time researching things that do not actually make our ability to survive on this planet any better.  Who winds up paying for all that research?  Us, taxpayers and those who pay extra for products we use.

When I was in my senior year in high school, I had to have a meeting with the counselor, the counselor was aware I was going into medical school to be a doctor.  He said I had way too high of an IQ to be a doctor, a doctor usually has an IQ of between one thirty and one forty five.  I told him I wanted to help people.  and he shook his head and said I should be working at NASA.  I found out after a year and a half of college, after testing out of another year and a half, that there was corruption in the medical field, so I decided to switch fields, but I would have lost that year and a half of college I tested out of....so I quit and learned many professions over the years. 

I now am back into hacking pharmacology and studying real medicine and metabolism and food chemistry.  There is so much BS being fed people these days, that it is hard to believe what I am learning,  Seems we have been conditioned to believe in lies for many decades now.  So much that if the truth is told people can't comprehend it is real.