Brandon Fibbs · @bfibbs
18th Apr 2014 from TwitLonger
"[W]hen we study the universe...we aren’t just looking at something foreign, ancient, and irrelevant. We’re studying ourselves. And in a world whose viability is by no means guaranteed, the significance of...barely fathomable concepts like black holes and bent space-time, take on a more essential hue. We are satisfying our curiosity, but we’re also investigating the way that the universe put us here, and where it will take us—even if that’s a million or a billion years away—going forward."
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/why-the-origins-of-the-universe-matter-today-78857/