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<blockquote data-quote="rknop" data-source="post: 7728095" data-attributes="member: 20176"><p>The problem with the existential dread is that we live in an era where the vastness of the Universe and our insignificance in comparison to it is widely appreciated. Even if you aren't fully up on the expanding Universe and so forth, you have some idea about lots of Galaxies out there and how we're but a speck on a speck in a speck. Also, lots of people are familiar with the idea that the Universe is bizarre in ways that are not intuitive to humans -- quantum mechanics on the small scale, general relativity on the large scale. We're used to this idea, so the bizarre and human incomprehensibility of the Universe is something that we're used to rather than something that might cause cosmic horror.</p><p></p><p>My sister sort of got it; 20 or so years ago when I was actively working on cosmology, and I'd talk to my sister about the size of the Universe and the expansion and so forth, she'd get a bit creeped out and say "it reminds me of death". Too many of us are just used to it, though, so the cosmic horror thing just doesn't resonate very well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rknop, post: 7728095, member: 20176"] The problem with the existential dread is that we live in an era where the vastness of the Universe and our insignificance in comparison to it is widely appreciated. Even if you aren't fully up on the expanding Universe and so forth, you have some idea about lots of Galaxies out there and how we're but a speck on a speck in a speck. Also, lots of people are familiar with the idea that the Universe is bizarre in ways that are not intuitive to humans -- quantum mechanics on the small scale, general relativity on the large scale. We're used to this idea, so the bizarre and human incomprehensibility of the Universe is something that we're used to rather than something that might cause cosmic horror. My sister sort of got it; 20 or so years ago when I was actively working on cosmology, and I'd talk to my sister about the size of the Universe and the expansion and so forth, she'd get a bit creeped out and say "it reminds me of death". Too many of us are just used to it, though, so the cosmic horror thing just doesn't resonate very well. [/QUOTE]
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