What is the meaning of life, the universe and pretty much everything that exists?

[Ayatollah So]

As you can see from the post above (by our mutual friend Ayatollah So) I'm disqualifed from answering that question. Have no fear however, I'm quite certain that our friend will explain it all for you.

A "heat death of the universe" is not guaranteed - here's a link with some interesting possibilities. Follow the link in there to "Dyson's eternal intelligence hypothesis." There are other hypotheses too. Bottom line is - too early to say what the long-run fate of the universe is.

As for the early universe, this link says

The early universe was nearly homogeneous, i.e. the same in different places. Our most direct measure of this uniformity comes from observing the microwave background radiation that was emitted when the universe was roughly 300,000 years old. The intensity of this radiation is a direct measure of how dense the universe was at that time. Looking at this background radiation coming to us from different directions shows that the largest density differences from one point to another were about one part in 100,000.

Thanks to gravity, this initially near-homogeneous distribution of thermal energy resulted in the wonderfully non-homogeneous distribution we enjoy today.

 

[warpus]

The meaning of life is to figure out who the hell you are.

Most people never achieve this goal.

 

[Prince_Imrahil]

The meaning of life is to figure out who the hell you are.

Most people never achieve this goal.

I contend. Most people figure out that they are just that, themslves, and ive their normal lives content with that fact.
People who think theres something more to figure out about themselves than what they make of themselves sometimes realize it was all in their hands and get whack at the thought and sometimes shoot other people.

 

[Swedishguy]

As far as I can tell, life is meant to teach us how best to love and serve yourself, while growing in wisdom.

Changed the typo.

 

[punkbass2000]

I know you won't believe it, but the two sentences are identical.

 

[Kozmos]

The purpose of life is life itself.

 

[scy12]

The meaning of life, the universe and pretty much everything that exists is for humanity to understand scyisalwaysright .

I believe in Scyisalwaysrightism . The reason that this is the only true religion is because i say so. Since the religion states that i am always right then i am always right and so the religion is true. Also i have a book called The Holy book of Light that proves it.

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[warpus]

I contend. Most people figure out that they are just that, themslves, and ive their normal lives content with that fact.
People who think theres something more to figure out about themselves than what they make of themselves sometimes realize it was all in their hands and get whack at the thought and sometimes shoot other people.

You misunderstand. Of course most people know that they are themselves; that is a fairly trivial realization. What I'm talking about is a good understanding of one's personality/psyche/consciousness/etc.