Is there something under the surface that we have missed, or have we not evolved enough to 'unearth' what we always have felt is life 'out there'?
Do you believe there is something, as yet, beyond our comprehension?
I think it is a classic case of the mind 'stretching' itself, when we enter into such thoughts of an area we have never discovered; the universe rather like our own brains, so much apparently there, but as yet unused, unseen, unknown, undiscovered...
astronomers think they've discovered a whole lot of nothing. In the constellation Eridanus, near Orion, some 10 billion light-years from Earth, there appears to be a vast expanse of empty space, completely devoid of matter--no stars, no planets, no black holes, no gases, not even any dark matter. It's almost a billion light-years across, more than sixty times larger than any previously known cosmic void.
The void's discoverers--Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota, his collaborator Liliya R. Williams, and his graduate student Shea Brown--already knew the region was unusual because cosmic microwave background radiation (ubiquitous faint radio waves left over from the big bang) appears much weaker there than elsewhere in the cosmos. Then the team's analysis of data from the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico eliminated the possibility that the region's microwave signal was being obscured by radio waves from nearby galaxies: there are just too few "radio galaxies" in the vicinity to do the job.
The remaining possibility was empty space, which could also weaken the signal--thanks to the effect of omnipresent dark energy. Rudnick's calculation of the void's colossal size is based on the apparent weakness of the radiation. (Astrophysical Journal)