How arrogant is it to sit on that little red dot and think all of this started from subatomic particles?
How arrogant is it to sit on that little red dot and
think all of this started from subatomic particles? The article says that this discovery “fundamentally
change our understanding of cosmic structure” and “structures of gargantuan
size challenge our understanding of the cosmos”, yet we have completely ruled
out intelligent design or any higher power?
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As we study the universe more, we have found
ourselves to be part of much larger structures, formed by gravitational
interactions. We orbit the Sun, the Sun is part of the Milky Way, and the Milky
Way is part of the Local Group, which includes several small galaxies as well
as Andromeda, of "it may collide with us" fame.
“Our universe is like a giant web, with galaxies
lying along filaments and clustering at nodes where gravitational forces pull
them together,” University of Hawai'i at Manoa astronomer R. Brent Tully
explained in a statement. “Just as water flows within watersheds, galaxies flow
within cosmic basins of attraction. The discovery of these larger basins could
fundamentally change our understanding of cosmic structure.”
According to the team's simulations, there is a 60 percent
chance that our own Milky Way is in fact not in Laniakea, but in the Shapley
concentration.
Simply put, structures of gargantuan size challenge our understanding of the cosmos.

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