An article in the March 10, 2026, edition of The New York Times reports that plans are afoot to launch a "Space Mirror" that would "bring daylight to the nighttime." You can click right here for the article, and I am informed that there won't be any paywall to defeat your effort to learn about this newest high-tech plan to turn Planet Earth into a human-built environment. After all - don't you agree? - "night" is just plain inconvenient. With this "space mirror" idea, we can bring sunlight to places on our planet that would otherwise be shrouded in nighttime darkness.
My "Two Worlds" hypothesis postulates that our "human world" is constructed within a "World that God created." We do, ourselves - and there isn't really any doubt about this - build the world in which we most immediately live. One term that describes that human world is "civilization."
Ultimately, though, whatever humans think up and then construct turns out to be completely dependent on the "Natural World" that came before us, and before any of our efforts to construct a "human world" within its confines. Not to understand this is a really, really big mistake.
[Think "Global Warming" if you want an example of just how big our mistakes can be.]
That article I cited in the first paragraph indicates that we continue to make the mistake of thinking that we can do anything we want to. Our job is not to start trying to "run" Planet Earth, or to replace it. Our job is to find good ways to live, happily, and together, in the Natural World that is absolutely not the product of human action.
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