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When you look at the above image you are not seeing a galaxy. You are seeing the light from that galaxy — light that’s been traveling through space for a hundred million years. If we had the technology we could zoom in on one of those planets. And if that planet had life on it, we’d be able to see its creatures going about their daily business. They would be completely unaware of the fact that they’ve been dead for a hundred million years.
Now, the light from our own galaxy is traveling through space. And that light has captured your life and is sending it, like a movie, to every corner of the universe.
If there is intelligent life out there in the cosmos then they may one day look into our light and see you going about your daily business. Though you will die on this planet, your life will go on for as long as our universe exists.
Science tends to point to the fact that everything is already made of light (energy). If this is the case, then we may have already died. Our solar system may have collapsed millions, if not billions, of years ago, and we are just repeating our lives over and over and over (this may explain how we sometimes feel that we’ve experienced something before — Deja Vu).
Just something to think about.
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