WHY ARE WE HERE? WHERE WILL WE GO?

I will continue to have Wednesday science, today on Why are we here? , and tomorrow delve into  Where are we Going?  Sunday will usually be a time for religion, so a spiritual version of Why , which on September 28 will describe the more sacred Where . We are here by an incredible fluke.  The odds on you being here to read this posting fall into the realm of a miracle.  But science has a best guess: For now, accept that there was something called the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Around 12 billion years ago, our Milky Way galaxy of 200 billion stars formed.  It was as recently as 1924 when Edwin Hubble announced our galaxy was not the Universe .   In time astrophysicists came to a realization that there are now 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe.  But observations show that we can only see as far out to 46 billion light-years.   However, the sphere representing our Universe is 7 trillion light-years across, or 250 times l...