Dear Humans

by Mr C
(Melbourne)

Dear Humans, in the known universe, your planet resides in one of the billions of different galaxies. Your galaxy in particular, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy. There is a giant black hole at the centre which sucks in planets, suns, and stars. This will continue for a few billion years until a collision with our neighbour - the Andromedea galaxy.

Your galaxy is a spiral galaxy where the centre and inner surrounding arms of the spiral cannot support life because of the extremely violent nature of the place. Like a giant washing machine bombarded with deadly radiation.

If your planet was in an outer spiral life could not exist either. For life to exist, it must be close enough to the galactic center that a sufficiently high level of heavy elements exist to favor the formation of rocky planets. Heavier elements also need to be present, as they are the basis of the complex molecules of life.

But your solar system resides in the only habitable part of the Milky Way galaxy which is only about 5% of the galaxy. This rule also applies to the other billions galaxies. For life to exist, the planet must not be too far away from the centre, or too close. A delicate balance or otherwise known as 'The Goldilocks area'.

So lucky you huh?

A combination of billions of years of cosmic chance and harmony, the formation of your home has occurred in only a tiny area of a somewhat small galaxy amongst millions of other galaxies - in a cluster of galaxies. These clusters of galaxies live together either like a suburb or a town, called filaments, or in a more condensed version, like a major city -these are called super clusters.

There are thousands of filaments in the known universe that join to other filaments and millions of super cluster galaxies.

On a larger scale, the known universe would essentially look like a giant sponge. The holes is all the dark matter that holds all the galaxies, filaments and super clusters together, whilst the the differing thickness of the sponge material is all the super cluster galaxies and filaments.

But back to your tiny little galaxy, and even smaller solar system, a combination or gas, dust, cooling down and gravity has formed these rocky specs which float around just one average size star - one of trillions. Even though these specs reside in the only habitable area of your small little galaxy, life has not been embraced on the other specs in your solar system - just yours.

For billions of years, your 'room' (Earth) has been modified whilst your 'house' (Solar System) has also seen changes. The 'street' (Milky Way galaxy) where your house is, is constantly being landscaped, but when you look around, your house is the only standing structure. The suburb or town (filament or super cluster) you live in is always changing in reaction to other towns or suburbs they connect to.

So dear little sweet humans, can I ask you a question?

Considering how unfathomably remote your miniscule solar system is relative to the centre of you galaxy, which is again unfathomably remote in relation to other galaxies in your cluster or filament, which is one of millions of clusters and filaments, why do you think you are in any way significant in the bigger picture?

Relative to the tiny little room you occupy on that small lonely street, you may be the best, but isn't everything the 'best' when there is no competition, comparison point or perspective?

Considering the unimaginable remoteness of your galaxy, I understand why you would ask why you exist, it is a valid question, but an unanswerable one, and additionally, the amount of time you have of your entire existence is extremely short - too short for the previous question. So let it go!

By all means go for a walk around you house, maybe even look out the window to see the rest of your street, but that is all. My advice to you is keep your room clean for the benefit of all other roommates, but please stop trying to control everything else - you can't, you are far too inconsequential and your time is too short.

Enjoy, how amazingly random and mind-blowingly beautiful your room is. Concentrate on finding harmony and please accept that being insignificant and random is a gift I have given you. It will allow you to see clearly for the very first time.

Regards

The Creator (insert deity name here)