Dark Energy
The things that stand out to me, are the limited size of the Universe, in a really big box, that we do seem to be able to date it, a number that has changed since I have been watching, but stays in the same range.
Everything I have learned says one DNA is the root of all life, and so complex, an infinate number of monkeys on keyboards would never write it out, would have no idea how to build it, or where the keyboards came from. Matter seems to have been formed in a prior universe. Our star a common type, some five billion years old.
At first I thought DNA could survive floating through space, but then it would have been in moon dust, on mars, new classic blue-green algae here, and nothing. I really hope the same DNA was spread through the universe, for there are Sagans of worlds like ours. If all started with the same, each world would still come out differant. The basis of Science Fiction.
DNA is Cambrian, another dating. The materials are simple, but the structure complex. Only whole does it have that wiggle. It is not a survivor of the DNA wars, there was only one, all life came from it.
I am constructed of star barf, infested with DNA wiggleys, I observe, ask questions, find some answers, am driven by boredom when I don't, and I enjoy it. Halfway between an atom and the universe in size, my purpose to observe, to gather thought, sensation, then die.
Energy formed from matter and life, suddenly leaves both behind, the third great question.
The universe was so dense at that time that none of the photons could escape.
I find so much of what I read on this subject and similar subjects absolutely fascinating.
I think the first thing needed as a human being to try and understand the way in which everything around us works is the understanding that we only have certain capacities and capabilities when it comes to understanding "life, the universe and everything".
I am personally of the opinion that we could learn a lot about the greater universe by observing the nature and associations of as many different things as possible, and finding the similarities in their processes. For example, what do the activities of parts of a cell and the activities of a certain environment (say, the amazon rainforest) have in common? What are their common similarities? What are their common differences? Perhaps if we could establish a better idea of relativity in environments that are common to us, we could try applying the theories we make from these observations on a greater scale, and try and make sense of them that way?
One aspect of relativity that directly affects the reasoning and sense shown in all humans on the subject of the universe that I believe is frequently overlooked is humanity itself. For instance, look at a dog's perception of the world. From what we have researched, humans have come to a general conclusion that dogs perceive the world differently to humans- they process information slightly differently. They visually see differently, they hear differently. They most likely come to different conclusions when experiencing the same stimuli as humans. And this is just a basic example of our flaws in information processing. With this in mind, apply those differences to humans, and you will find that even different people process things differently to each other on some scale. Theoretically, this would mean that our view of the universe should be to some degree different from the actual universe at all times. To get real answers to our questions, we as a race first need to define what the normal is, what everything is/means/etc. without our own perceptions influencing the resulting "evidence". This pattern of thought of mine leads me back to comparing different events, interactions, anything really that I can observe, in order to look for a common link. But even then I am still only human and my perceptions affect the information so.
I think what I am getting at is that we need to try and accept that nothing is certain or known in order to get to more concise ideas about the workings of everything around us.
Personally, on a side note, I believe that the universe is most likely of a cyclic nature that also incorporates inverses and dimensions that we cannot see and/or perceive as a race yet, if ever.
I would also love to perceive life as a different organism in order to compare that experience to that of my own human existence, I think it would be extremely helpful in terms of understanding how everything works.
