Scientists Tend To Risk Theories They Admire

In Fact, If One Considers The Possible Constants And Laws That Could Have Emerged, The Odds Against A Universe That Produced Life Like Ours Are Immense.

Only Time - Whatever That May Be - Will Tell.

Not To Leave Planet Earth Would Be Like Castaways On A Desert Island Not Trying To Escape...sending Humans To Other Planets ... Will Shape The Future Of The Human Race In Ways We Don't Yet Understand, And May Determine Whether We Have Any Future At All.

If Everything In The Universe Depends Upon Everything Else In A Fundamental Way, It Might Be Impossible To Get Close To A Full Solution By Investigating Parts Of The Problem In Isolation.

Because Imaginary Time Behaves Like Another Direction In Space, Histories In Imaginary Time Can Be Closed Surfaces, Like The Surface Of The Earth, With No [existential] Beginning Or End.