#497 The Gift of Existence: Finding Fulfillment in an Infinite Universe
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The Gift of Existence: Finding Fulfillment in an Infinite Universe
In the vast, silent expanse of the universe, our lives flicker like tiny candles. Yet, in this fleeting existence, we are granted an extraordinary opportunity: to live fully, to self-actualize, to find meaning amidst the cosmic wonder. Join us as we explore the profound gift of life in this boundless universe and discover how to make the most of our precious time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. When I was growing up my family used to do a lot of camping trips on the weekends. |
| 0:15.0 | My sister and my mom would usually go to bed early, but my dad and I would stay up just talking. |
| 0:20.0 | And he would often talk to me about the vastness of the universe. I didn't know a lot about |
| 0:25.7 | it back then and he knew some but not a great deal, but those talks with my father really |
| 0:30.8 | sparked my interest in trying to understand the universe better. |
| 0:34.3 | And I've spent a good part of my life doing that. |
| 0:38.0 | I ended up getting so fascinated by it that after I finished my first PhD I started to move in the direction of getting my second |
| 0:45.8 | PhD but I realized I probably should work for a while and pay off some of my student |
| 0:51.1 | deaths. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm definitely not an astronomer, but I do find it |
| 0:55.1 | feels so fascinating because our universe is exquisite. There's two qualities of the |
| 1:01.5 | universe that really stand out to me. |
| 1:03.5 | One is its immense size. It started about 13.8 billion years ago |
| 1:09.2 | and if you were able to measure one end of the universe to the other, it would be close to a hundred billion light |
| 1:15.1 | years across. Light travels at 300,000 kilometers in one second, so think how fast that is. The other thing is how many stars |
| 1:27.1 | there are. We live in what's called the Milky Way. It's a galaxy about the |
| 1:32.2 | size of 100,000 light years across. |
| 1:35.0 | And in our galaxy alone, there's estimated to be 100 to 400 billion stars, just in our galaxy. And then, of course, there are many other galaxies. stars just |
| 1:45.0 | in our galaxy. |
| 1:46.0 | and then of course there are many other galaxies in the universe. We're just one in a countless sea of galaxies |
| 1:50.0 | but they estimate there may be up to two trillion |
| 1:52.0 | galaxies in our universe alone. |
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