Description
We think of space expansion primarily as a search for a planet suitable for our biology. The issue of fine-tuning is considered if the celestial body does not exactly meet our refined requirements. We don't mind terraforming Mars or Venus if there isn't a better one available. But what if our true role is not that of the user, but of the creator?
It's not that there are few or no suitable planets in our Galaxy. Let's leave aside the transformations and mutations that would be necessary for us, our biological bodies, and our consciousness to settle into the viscous atmospheres of giant planets, because in fact, it is a trifle.
The main thing is that the incredibly beautiful process of creation of everything in the universe is happening literally before our eyes. Modern telescopes are able to see the birth and death of stars in other galaxies, the formation of protoplanetary disks, and the planets themselves in stars relatively close to us. We were surprised to discover and record mergers of black holes and neutron stars at the farthest reaches of the Metagalaxy. But we look at it distantly, as if we have nothing to do with it, as if we are strangers in this vast World.
But this is the World we were born into. Once upon a time, matter — in some way not fully understood by us—managed to become so complicated that it turned into living and even intelligent beings. Everything we are made of was once just hydrogen and helium. As you can see, there wasn't much variety. And this matter is considered an unreasonable substance. But it did that — it became intelligent, it gained a variety of forms, and the ability to act more rationally and intentionally — without waiting for everything to happen by itself for probabilistic reasons — in millions or even billions of years.
And now we are standing at the cosmic threshold, doubting that this World will accept us. But it gave birth to us. Or rather, we are it, but in a more perfect and meaningful version — one that can take over the initiative from Chaos, from Entropy, from the laws of Physics, finally. And to continue building this World according to the laws of Art — decorating space like a limitless canvas and using the most unimaginable colors for it.
At the current stage of development, we are timidly moving beyond low orbit and only plan to create habitable laboratory stations on the nearest celestial bodies — on the Moon and Mars. And even they don't seem hospitable to us, because over the past half century we have grown so fond of comfort and pampered ourselves. But this is a temporary setback.
Billions of years of evolution of cosmic matter cannot be in vain. And we'll certainly become aware of our role in this World — it is exceptionally creative. We are very necessary for the cosmos to do everything that is inaccessible to the evolution of unintelligent, uninspired plasma and cosmic dust. We are simply doomed to create the most complex structures that did not exist in this World before us and could not have arisen by the will of Chaos.
Do not be discouraged by the realization that there are not too many planets suitable for life in the visible part of the universe. Perhaps it is those beings who will turn out to be our evolutionary continuation who will have to create the best planets in the universe, life on which will be filled not with gloomy survival and struggle with the elements, but with happiness and creativity.
