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I hear a lot of people say that looking at our universe from a solar system, galactic, or cosmological scale makes them feel small and insignificant. Insignificant to who and what? I look at our universe and I see the incredible complexity that has arisen from a few forces and a few fundamental laws. You see it in the structure of the cosmic background, you see it in the shapes of galaxies, you see it in the heavy elements formed in our stars. Nowhere do you see that complexity more than when you look at life. It was a glorious accident that allowed us to exist, and we exist in an incredibly delicate balance.<\/span><\/p>\n 99.99999999\u2026% of the universe is empty space. 99.9999999\u2026% of that which is not empty space is lifeless. Why does it matter if somewhere light years away something doesn\u2019t care about your individual existence? \u00a0We have this amazing planet and it might not be unique in the universe in its complexity, but it is incredibly rare and special, and I feel very significant \u2014 overwhelmed with a sense of purpose and duty, in fact \u2014 because it is up to us to try as hard as we can to preserve this rare and special place and all the life on it.<\/p>\n The structure of the universe doesn\u2019t make me feel insignificant. It makes me feel incredibly lucky. By some chance I exist in this rare place. Thus it is my duty to try to keep life existing here, and to try to make that life as pleasant as possible for the other rare and lucky creatures who share it with me.<\/p>\n –\u00a0Jenn Seiler<\/a>, astrophysicist and Universe Sandbox \u00b2 developer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Learn how we simulate Earth’s climate and how you can explore it in Universe Sandbox \u00b2:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hear a lot of people say that looking at our universe from a solar system, galactic, or cosmological scale makes them feel small and insignificant. Insignificant to who and what? I look at our universe and I see the incredible complexity that has arisen from a few forces and a few fundamental laws. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n