We're On This Planet For The Briefest

But If You Think About A Practical Implication Of Enriching Your Life And Giving You A Sense Of Being Part Of A Larger Cosmos And Possibly Being Able To Use This [gravitational Waves] As A Tool In The Future Maybe To Listen Not Just To Black Holes Colliding, But Maybe Listen To The Big Bang Itself, Those Kind Of Applications May Happen In The Not Too Distant Future.

Assessing Existence While Failing To Embrace The Insights Of Modern Physics Would Be Like Wrestling In The Dark With An Unknown Opponent.

Cosmology Is Among The Oldest Subjects To Captivate Our Species. And It’s No Wonder. We’re Storytellers, And What Could Be More Grand Than The Story Of Creation?

So: If You Buy The Notion That Reality Consists Of The Things In Your Freeze-frame Mental Image Right Now, And If You Agree That Your Now Is No More Valid Than The Now Of Someone Located Far Away In Space Who Can Move Freely, Then Reality Encompasses All Of The Events In Spacetime.

The Fact That I Don't Have Any Particular Need For Religion Doesn't Mean That I Have A Need To Cast Religion Aside The Way Some Of My Colleagues Do.