Cosmological Connection
Light Travel
The heat you emit and/or the light you reflect has been radiating into the universe since the day of your birth and will continue to do so long beyond your death. If you died today the heat/light of your life would shine on... and on... and on… like "a rock in a pond," radiating omnidirectionally from your position on the planet into the cosmos. In HEAT/LIGHT TRAVEL terms you are much, much bigger than the body you are in. For example, if you are 35 years old then you are 35 light years large, like a gigantic bubble spiraling out into the universe as the earth turns. (However, the metric expansion of space causes fluctuations in the accuracy of the previous statement.)
Now, if one were to consider the advancements mankind has made in space-telescope technology in the past 50 years and if one's imagination perpetuated toward a future path of picturing continual space-telescope technological growth in the pursuit of discovering other earth-like planets/extraterrestrial intelligence; then one might eventually imagine a time when the human-race will possess space-telescope technology capable of zooming into distant earth-like planets and observing their surfaces much in the same way our space-satellites view "Google Earth" today. If such technological feats are achieved, and if such observations are made and if we witness biological interactions occurring on the surfaces of these planets, then it can be reasonably assumed that we will continue to keep a close watch on such relations. One might also presume that such observance over such interactions may contain the ability to affect and/or influence the consciousness of the observer and those who learn from the observer's findings.
Conversely, if one believed in the possibility that there may be intelligent civilizations within our universe who already possess such technology, then one may be led to the realization that every conscious action anyone has ever engaged in on this planet has carried with it the potential to alter, affect, and/or influence our distant "cosmic-kin" for an undetermined amount of light-years to come.
All of our lives are on permanent light record. The universe may be watching. What will be learned from your existence? What will you shine through space and time?
The heat you emit and/or the light you reflect has been radiating into the universe since the day of your birth and will continue to do so long beyond your death. If you died today the heat/light of your life would shine on... and on... and on… like "a rock in a pond," radiating omnidirectionally from your position on the planet into the cosmos. In HEAT/LIGHT TRAVEL terms you are much, much bigger than the body you are in. For example, if you are 35 years old then you are 35 light years large, like a gigantic bubble spiraling out into the universe as the earth turns. (However, the metric expansion of space causes fluctuations in the accuracy of the previous statement.)
Now, if one were to consider the advancements mankind has made in space-telescope technology in the past 50 years and if one's imagination perpetuated toward a future path of picturing continual space-telescope technological growth in the pursuit of discovering other earth-like planets/extraterrestrial intelligence; then one might eventually imagine a time when the human-race will possess space-telescope technology capable of zooming into distant earth-like planets and observing their surfaces much in the same way our space-satellites view "Google Earth" today. If such technological feats are achieved, and if such observations are made and if we witness biological interactions occurring on the surfaces of these planets, then it can be reasonably assumed that we will continue to keep a close watch on such relations. One might also presume that such observance over such interactions may contain the ability to affect and/or influence the consciousness of the observer and those who learn from the observer's findings.
Conversely, if one believed in the possibility that there may be intelligent civilizations within our universe who already possess such technology, then one may be led to the realization that every conscious action anyone has ever engaged in on this planet has carried with it the potential to alter, affect, and/or influence our distant "cosmic-kin" for an undetermined amount of light-years to come.
All of our lives are on permanent light record. The universe may be watching. What will be learned from your existence? What will you shine through space and time?