Enjoyed the read my friend. I was raised in a family that goes to church and my wife was raised very religious. I very much have a scientific mind and outlook to things, so I question them. I have become interested in astronomy as of late and the ins and outs of how this universe works is utterly amazing. Such as, just our Galaxy would take about 150,000 years to cross going the speed of light...which is like 150000 m/s. That’s just one galaxy. The trillions upon trillions of stars helps back my belief in a higher power. I just find it hard and unimaginable that this universe we know so little about, just magically came about from nothing. Something that literally appear when hydrogen atoms became to hot and initiated the beginning stages of the first star. I believe God, certainly a higher power not only because of just searching out my questions about faith, but because I truely believe we all have a soul. No higher power, no soul. Anyway mate, sorry for the long reply, take care.
It's hard to keep it brief when it is so deep. Just think about the planet 100 light years away, that looks like ours. Now go there...How long did it take. You got there at the speed of thought...faster than light.
More perplexing than that are black holes for sure, especially now that they found out recently the supper massive black holes, the ones up to 100 Mil mass of our sun, are actully growning at about a 10 perent faster rate than the galaxy! Also, the concept that when an opjecdt is so big and and has such mass it can literally no only warp space, but can slow time. It is just mind boggling. Last thing before I bore you, haha, are pulsars. A star that has collapsed to about a 7km diameter ball that is so dense 1tsp ways around 2-300 tons. Depending on the sequence in which the star burns through all its fuel like from like hydrogen to nickel, depends on whether is collapse into the ignigma that is a black hole, or compresses its self into a pulsar. Which can spin at about 30K rev a sec or some nonsense like that. Shooting gamma rays out like a light house upwards of 65 light years! I promise, Ill stop now, nerd switch off.