Bernhard Riemann is mostly known these days for either his prime number conjecture or as a part of a hyphenated mathematical procedure. However one of the most far reaching insights from him came in his doctoral dissertation On The Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry.
In this paper Riemann questions the connections of the infinite and infinitesimal. He did not consider that the infinitesimal was bounded in the same way the infinite perhaps was. However with Plank's incredible insight regarding black body radiation indeed a bound upon sense certainty was arrived at. This principle is what the field of statistical wave functions built upon.
Likewise the boundedness at the extremely large scales of the measurable universe also fall outside our species sense certainty. Our instruments of perception in both cases only provide us with dual paradoxes. Thus the field of quantum mechanics and determining the rate of expansion of the universe are indissolubly connected to humanity's technological progress in producing the instrumental means to investigate them.
It is via investigating these extremes scales that we alter and improve our very perceptions of time and space. Time can now be measured in attoseconds as well as several billions of years. Space can be measured near the resolution at the distance of the quantum limit as well as at the boundary of the hypothesized Big Bang. The means of advancing the microscopic at the quantum scale and the telescopic at the deep space scale are remarkable in their interconnected technological spheres. This is why as we disrupt the physics of the subatomic world via "atom smashers" we seek explanations at the bounds of the forces of attraction and repulsion at the scale of galactic structures of the astronomical world.
Once the world's political institutions recognize that these very investigations are the sine qua non of human cooperative and peaceful progress, we can embark upon a true Renaissance that unlike our limited human perceptions breaks through all artificially imposed bounds in the manifold applications of technologies in improving the standard of living.
There is no other intelligible way forward for our posterity.