Time Will Tell

Stephen Hawking reminds us in his books about time that regardless if, or when, we figure out how the cosmos began, we are here because of what did happen those billions of billions of years past. How do we know that? Well, I don't know about you but I know I'm here. So whatever happened did it right, for me.
Nose-in-the-books kind of gals and guys who study physics, relativity, gravity, space, and genetics found irrefutable evidence of underlying rules that govern all the stuff (minerals, chemicals, atoms, light) around and in us. Good thing, too. As insignificant as I am in the universe, I'm happy to know what holds me so I don't fly off as the earth spins endlessly around the sun.
Humans figured out many things in the recent fifty thousand years but we could only know what was understood after scientists made up symbols and recorded them. And that's only been about fifteen centuries. The concept of time didn't enter into equations until Einstein learned how to write.
That's all heavy stuff. Words are OK but see and touch is what counts with me. I know I'm here because when I pinch myself it hurts. Try it and see if you're here too.
Naomi Sherer