An abnormal bubble of space time...

çsome time ago, I encountered a concept originally attributed to Bacon (the first one, back in the 16th Century), where he noted that too much of science is based on either deducing generalities from too few experiments, or from too narrow a perspective; furthermore, there is a tendancy to discount evidence that conflicts with one's pet theory. It is rather presumptuous of we humans to immagine that we know all about the universe, considering modern theory is based on concepts originating only in the past century or so- much of it even younger. Our ability to observe the universe from a perspective outside the effects of earth's atmosphere has been around for only about 60 years. How can we humans, who have been around for maybe 150,000 or 200,000 years, on a relatively small planet circling a third-rate star which has been around for only about 4 billion years (about 1/4 the supposed age of the universe), in a mediocre galaxy, presume to claim any truely valid knowledge about processes or events, or even the true time scale, that occurred so many millinia ago? We seem to have trouble remembering what happened only last year...We are just now getting information back from our first probes near the edge of the solar system, and, even though those probes are designed with ancient (by our standards) technology, they are still giving us surprises that challenge our understanding of the solar system...

Yes, we live in a bubble- but that bubble is most likely the product of an inflated ego...