Richard Branson (+ crew) going into space means space tourism will be open to all of us soon, and I hope to experience Space someday.
But taking a bigger picture view, it’s only a start, and the Moon and Mars are coming soon. However, even that is only the start since we may eventually have access to warp drives and wormholes permitting us to traverse the cosmos faster than speed of light limitations.
So let’s say humanity, or more precisely “post-biological” humanity, has progressed to mastering spacetime itself including harnessing Black Holes for travel, energy, information storage, computation, and other practical things, with a theory unifying General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics that explains Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and other problems.
We’re STILL confronted with a question that no amount of science and technology can ever answer even in principle…
“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
“Nothing” here does not refer superficially to the vacuum of space, since even in that emptiness there exist quantum fields giving probabilities of matter/energy, and of course any emptiness we imagine resides “within” spacetime itself which is definitely not “nothing.”
