Hi, everybody.

After Friday night's lecture, I'd like to hear people's ideas about why knowledge of the Big Bang is important to them. Thinking about the great distance and time scales that are involved in the story of the history of the universe makes many people feel small and insignificant. I find that it adds to my sense of significance to realize that we are part of this grand process that extends so far beyond ourselves. Knowledge of the history of the universe connects us to things almost unimaginably far away and long ago. The part of space that we occupy now was once close to everything else in the universe. We can see into the distant past by looking at far away objects today. How strange and wonderful!

What do other people think?
Amanda