More on the Universe....

Our collective ignorance is a magnificent thing, and this fellow's book about the Universe raises more questions than it answers. For starters, it speaks of 4% that we know about, and 96% of it that we don't know thing one about....

So, today's Question Everything is:- "Where did the author get his numbers, if nobody knows for sure exactly how big or small the universe actually is, by reason of the fact that we are unable to see or detect more than a relatively small representative sample of the entire whole?"

In the previous posting here, the commentator mentions: "To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome."

The universe could have a purpose without implying intent. The intent in question could be that of its Creator, whose nature or intent remains completely beyond comprehension. We can speculate, and my speculations are as good as yours, but these are all only speculations. There's no proof beyond the very small percentage of the physical reality we are capable of observing.

Is that physical reality an infinite continuum of variously-sized objects arranged from smaller to larger ad infinitum, as seems to be the case? If hydrogen is the commonest element in this universe, then was that universe created from the residue of the explosion of some hydrogen-based thermonuclear device? Were we produced as the byproduct of someone's experiments with thermonuclear weapons perhaps in some infinitely vaster dimension than we are presently capable of comprehending?

See what I mean? This whole topic opens up a veritable Pandora's Box of speculative possibilities, proof of which remains absolutely impossible. Your guesses are just as good as mine or Uncle Albert's, or anyone's, because we're all punching at shadows.
Examined intimately enough, religions and philosophies and scientific theories all blend
into one confusing primordial soup of bittersweet speculation rife with doubts, errors, insecurities and wishful thinking. In short, we just don't know for sure, and even those who think they do know really don't. Or, as Will Rogers said, "It's not the things we don't know that get us into trouble; it's the things we do know that ain't so." 

Here's where more of these heavy-duty ideas can be found in case you'd like to read others in the series, or review the one I made reference to here.