Diving back in to some form of intellectual thought, here we go.
We see the disease of cancer, cells inexplicably not doing what they are supposed to, and soon other cells see their apathy for living and take to it as well.
What if the universe is not expanding?
I mean, where is there for it to expand to? Did that space not already exist if it is expanding into it?
Like the quantum physical particles of an atom, and like the nucleus of an atom itself, we know there are particles moving and reacting in a vast empty space.
Is this vast empty space not similar to the vast emptiness that separates every galaxy in the universe? Is this smaller scale an accurate representation of the "larger" universe?
If so, is our world a nucleus? Are we all forces that serve specific duties in prolonging the life of this one atom that we know, our universe?
Perhaps there are other planets, in other dimensions that we don't see, because we have no comprehension of how they could be there.
Like the ships the natives saw when Christopher Columbus came... they were invisible because no one knew what a ship was.
And in this relationship, we see that our purpose is to understand how we are all related, how our universe(atom){cell} is helping the larger entity... perhaps our concept of God.
Until the cancer spreads. And the reason for cancer is exposed as a flaw of universal nature, and nothing associated to our existence. It is just the microcosm within us of our entire universe dying in the same manner.
We don't consciously try to destroy the Earth, but it happens. We try to prevent it, but are powerless.
Until one day the Earth will die.
These other places, dimensions, fundamental atoms or cells; won't know why... but their will to live will suddenly cease to be as well.
[cell].................
The death of many..
leads to the death of more.