In the Dark

Being a human is being surrounded by mysteries you may never know the answer for. That is true of people and certainly true of me. I'm very much in the dark. I wonder what would happen if King Henry the 8th's older brother Arthur wasn't killed by a disease when he was still a prince. No one knows. All I know is Henry wouldn't be king, we would have a different line of monarchs. What would history be like if king Henry's older brother lived to old age? 

Then there is the question of perception. If I was telepathic and saw through the eyes of another person, would their red and green be the same as my red and green. Do our brains assign the same colour to the different wavelengths of light. How would I ever know? 

What crashed into Jupiter, I remember shoemaker levey 9 smashed into Jupiter, was there anything bigger in the past, like a planet? Perhaps a planet smashed into Jupiter. Of we had more planets but some of them cascaded into the sun because their orbit was disturbed. 

How big is the universe, is it finite, or never ending. If it is finite, what happens when your leave the universe? 

Christmas thought

Christmas is a time of peace and reflection. One thing I was thinking about during Christmas is what my ancestors were like.

All non inbred people on this planet have 2 parents, 4 grandparents and 8 great grandparents that are their ancestors.
That means 14 people contributed to the DNA of one person in just 3 generations.
I wonder what all those people were like. When you think about it. The family tree of every person is very big.  Every person on this planet has many ancestors and most of them are a mystery.

I have 16 great great grandparents. They all have personalities and stories. So many ancestors, so many story's and so much to learn about. Life is such a mystery.