The Expanding Universe

For thousands of years, astronomers wrestled with basic questions about the size and age of the universe. Does the universe go on forever, or does it have an edge somewhere? Has it always existed, or did it come to being some time in the past? In 1929, Edwin Hubble, an astronomer at Caltech, made a critical discovery that soon led to scientific answers for these questions: he discovered that the universe is expanding.

Well, for definite I know the universe is expanding and its expansion rate is increasing (recently discovered by British scientists). But does this universal law apply to our life too? Are we excepted from this law? Are we getting farer from each other? For fact I think we are expanding too! Many many years ago, our ancestors used to live together in a group, in a cave. We used to live with our family. Even if we had our own family, we wouldn’t go too far. Most of the families used to live in one house, one city, one area. But today, we don’t live with our family. Even our friends are in the other part of the world. Our brother or sister is living in another city or country. Our life style has changes dramatically. The gap is getting bigger and bigger. We think mobile phone, email, video chat etc. are the solution. I can call him any time I want to. But do we really communicate with each other? Or we just use the technology to get news from each other. Do we really call our friend to see how they are or we call them to see how they are doing?

For one fact, I am sure we are not excepted and we as part of the universe are expanding with it. One day brotherhood won’t mean anything. Our selfishness will lead us to that point; we will live alone although we will have all necessary technologies to communicate to each other on this planet.