10 Things I Believe

(or at least have an opinion about...)

1) I believe religion is an outdated phenomenon and that human beings will inevitably stop trying to connect to something beyond a physical presence. 

2) I believe that it isn't necessary to have a supernatural intentional agent to have a moral society.

3) I believe that the world will not become completely uninhabitable or damaged beyond all hope of repair. I believe that the human race will learn to undo enough of the major damage done before the situation gets totally out of hand and/or learn to adapt to a world on the edge of habitability. 

4) However, I believe that things will be completely different after human beings stop the complete destruction of the planet. I believe that it will be a world without many, if not most, of the current species of animals that we now know. 

4 a) I believe that resources will be very low and the population will diminish to a level in balance with the resources that will still be available. I believe that life will be much more difficult during this transition and that it will present unimaginable hardships for those who will have to live through this time of change. Also, I believe it is more difficult to kill a planet that one might imagine. If it possible to actually kill a planet, I believe it would take longer than the current thinking suggests. 

5) I believe that life will be found to be very common throughout the galaxy and that the universe is teeming with all manner of living entities. I believe that human beings are incapable of knowing all forms of life and that there are living beings that are completely beyond human understanding. I also believe that there are other universes where the laws of physics that govern this universe do not apply.

6) I believe that human beings will come to understand dark matter and dark energy and that there will be immense practical value in the knowledge gained. I believe the understanding of dark matter and dark energy will provide the "theory of everything" that will join the theory of relativity with quantum physics. I believe that this new understanding will bring great benefit to the human race. 

7) I believe that travel at speeds greater than the speed of light will become possible because of the fact that space itself is able to travel faster than the speed of light.

7 a) I believe human beings will piggyback on the edge of the expansion of the universe and even be able to travel though the multiverse and explore other universes.

8) I believe that human beings will explore and eventually settle on many other inhabitable planets throughout the galaxy and eventually beyond. I also believe that when the sun becomes a red giant and expands enough to envelop the planet earth, human beings will return to the solar system to witness the end of the planet from which the race began. 

9) I believe that there will come a time when money will become unnecessary.


10) I believe that I cannot, at this time, come up with a tenth belief. However, I will post more beliefs in the future.

11) No wait, I have the tenth belief: I believe that time travel will become possible after the "theory of everything" is discovered. I believe that quantum mechanics will meld with the physics of the observable and time travel will be one of the outcomes. I also believe that time travel will then become the most controversial issue to ever exist and that its resolution will take a very, very, very, very long time.

(Of course, I could be wrong about all ten of these things)