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Hi Pete
First of all, whatever you do think about the Universe it is just as right as what I do think about it or just as right as what any Doctor, Professor, or winner of Nobel Prize thinks about it. Simple truth is that we don’t have clue what the Universe is and how it works. With any luck we may in next couple hundred years explore our solar system and really understand how it works. Next challenge will be to explore and comprehend vast void between us and the nearest star. If we ever get there then we maybe able confirm or reject some of the current theories about the Universe.
It is only few thousand years ago when we discover mathematic and learn how to preserve our thoughts in writing. Some five hundred we believed that Earth is flat and the centre of the Universe. It seems to me that we still think that we are the centre of the Universe. We look on the Universe relative to us, instead us relative to the Universe. It is little presumptuous of us trying to give definitive answers to the nature of the Universe or impose limits as the speed of the light at such early stage of our civilisation.. It seems that our Solar system will be here for quite long time (by our perception of time). Do you imagine that in the year one million AD much of what we think today about the Universe would be still true?
I see the knowledge as endless stairway up. Someone discovers something new and steps up. The rest of us follow, pausing, dissemination new knowledge, trying to apply it to different disciplines of science and for the practical use it in our lives. Then someone makes another discovery based on previous discovery and that’s how our knowledge progresses. Ancient Egyptians build the Pyramids but could not build Space Shuttle. We can build the Shuttle but cannot build faster then light spaceship. Not until we take number of steps up. However, if the Egyptians had not build the Pyramids I doubt it that we could build the Shuttle.
And your question about hyperspace- I will have to think about it.
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