Progress can be defined as an improvement in the well-being of human beings. Although some may consider this an excessively anthropocentric view, the author and the reader are part of the human race. Under most circumstances everybody would put himself or herself and his or her kin ahead of other lives — human and non-human — and especially prior to the inanimate world. Of course, under special situations men and women do sacrifice themselves and, if need be, their families for a cause, but such behavior is the exception rather than the rule. Self preservation and preservation of one’s family has always been an inherent human instinct. Moreover, if intelligent life fails to survive and observe the universe, does the cosmos’ existence matter?