Physics and mathematics have yet to answer age-old questions about the meaning of life, and it’s understandable that this would be disappointing! Our most intel

Physics and mathematics have yet to answer age-old questions about the meaning of life, and it’s understandable that this would be disappointing! Our most intelligent people, adequately if not always amply funded to probe the deepest mysteries of the universe have come back with: “there is no evidence that it means anything, or really that it even happened in the way you mean”. Who wouldn’t be disappointed? But this is ultimately a failure of our priests and politicians and parents: it’s not the job of scientists to be our nursemaids in an indifferent cosmos. We have people for that role, at least on paper.