The Universe Doesn't Care

Did you ever feel like nobody cares about you and like the whole universe hates you?

We all kinda get this once in a while. Today, it is what is prompting me to write. But don't worry I am not writing about my feelings and why so.

Instead, let me just tell you why I think the universe is such cold hearted place.

True, I am now contradicting what I said from a previous post that the universe is a loving place. This universe has no partiality to us or to life in general. Sometimes we could even think that it hates us and it wants to kill us.

Now, how is that?

1. The Earth doesn't really care about us.

The earth is not perfect for life like many would say. In fact it wants to kill us. Earth and nature are conspiring to constantly create natural disasters to kill us. Volcanoes explosions, tsunamis, typhoons, floods,  landslides, and others. Its all over the news everyday.

Fossil records would tell that 99% of all species that has ever lived are now extinct. And while we are now enjoying our time under the sun, that doesn't mean that the Earth will not eventually succeed in trying to kill us .

2. The Sun doesn't care either.

It makes life on earth possible but it doesn't shine for that purpose. It does so, because it is its physics. In fact it radiates solar flares that endangers us  with radiations. Just late last year its has started spewing solar flares from its badest sunspots and  the in  movie 2012 the sun's solar flares can cause earth's core to boil and give us earthquakes and tsunamis. In the movie it killed all life except those who were saved getting in the ships.

In its next 4 billion year the Sun will bloat itself, grow red hot, and kill whatever life Earth will be harboring at that time. That doesn't seem like a very loving Sun, is it?


3. And the universe doesn't care about us or about the Earth.

Earth is just an insignificant speck in the vastness. If it would disappear now, it wouldn't even slightly change the picture of the universe. On the other hand the universe is a life-threatening place. Explosions and collision are everywhere, everytime. If you would look at the Moon's surface, you would see how aften it would get hit by space rocks. Our earth recieves just about the same frequency. Only that it is able to hide and heal the impact craters (like probably how you hide or heal a pimple in your face).

The dinosaurs that has existed for millions of years certainly not expected that this angry universe will throw a rock to earth one day. And of course that is not an exemption. There are billions of other space rocks just floating and waiting to be pushed out of their orbit in the asteriod and kuiper belt. And almost certainly will impact Earth sooner or later. Actualy we have one treathening to hit by 2036. Read about Apophis here.

There are also supernovas. Any nearby supernova that is close enough will wipe out our protective atmoshere with high-energy radiation. Radiation emitted would fry the Earth in instant.

Gamma Ray Burst. Some scientists hypothesized such an event caused the mass planetary extinction on Earth about 444 million years ago. Gamma ray bursts (GRB) are flashes of gamma rays  usually coming from outside our galaxy.

There are lots more, like blackholes, pulsars emitting radiation, galaxy collisions, the Big Rip- the point is the whole universe doesn't care about our existence. We can even think that it wants to kill us. In fact the majority of the universe is full of either vacuum or deadly gasses and other stuffs. If just go little higher or above our atmosphere you will surely die without a spacesuit and air tank.

In a pragmatic view, the universe doesn't care whether it has life on it or not and it will always do its thing whether it will please us or or hurt us. So the next time you feel lonely and the feel the universe around you doesn't give a damn- well, live with it, that is true . Don't ask for any compassion. You are the only one who can only care that you exist.