This is definitely off-topic and chatter!
Recently I've gotten back into astronomy a bit. I'm learning to navigate the night skies and I'm reading more about Cosmology (origins of the universe).
It's all interesting of course particularly as you are able to put some limiting numbers, terminology and other framework together in your mind it helps to paint a clearer picture.
One question that comes to mind that I haven't really seen addressed (outside a religious context) concerns the nature and structure of the universe.
That is, what is the "point" of the universe? I'm not talking about meaning of life or any questions with religion as the answer. For instance, on Earth an ant, worm, tiger all have their place in the order and are productive. There is a point in their being there.
There is a purpose for the sun, rain, wind, erosion, etc. as well.
When you consider the universe it is vast (an understatement) but it doesn't need to be. There is an abundance of energy in the form of the stars but again there is no need for it. It's not doing anything or feeding into any other system
There may be life out there somewhere that we haven't found but it certainly doesn't appear to be common so again one could ask the question "why is the universe as it is?".
Of course man or Earth isn't the center of the universe and we could all be ants trying to figure out what's going on. That's about the only answer to the question that I can come up with.
If anyone has any other thoughts or has read of something that provides some reasoning as to why the universe is structured as it is I'd like to hear it.
This isn't a religious question and it isn't a strictly scientific one either. I've read all about how the universe come about in the early days but when you step back and apply logic or observation you are usually able to "see" a bigger picture with most science or natural processes and why it's good that they do exist. With the universe as a whole that's harder.