The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.
The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.