A human trying to understand the universe is like an ant trying to understand how the

Depends on what way you look at it. An ant does have a conciousness to an extent but not to the degree to understand how the world works. Likewise I think humans don't have a high enough level of conciousness to understand how the whole universe works. It just goes way beyond our understanding. Do you not think this is a possibility at least?

Yes its definitely a possibilty. However humans are not really that old as a species. We've had civilisation for only about 10000 years and proper science for a few hundred.Its a bit early to give up on understanding the universe.Of course its possible that the universe is simply too large to ever understand fully.It might just go on forever and ever.It might be a multiverse. But still pretty fascinating to learn about though.

A human trying to understand how the universe works is just like an ant trying to understand how the universe works.

Humans have only been around for 200,000 years. I don't think humans will be around in 1 million years. They'll be all gone.

It won't be long until computers can self-develop and evole themselves beyond us. So even if our minds aren't complex enough, theirs will be.

No not in the near future.

A computer doesn't process information as well as our brains can.
A brain has a bigger processing power than a computer
but a computer can store much more memory.

There's something fundamental to how our brains wire and work to process things that we haven't be able to replicate with simple maths in a computer.
Doesn't stop us trying though.

Provided we don't kill each other, I don't see why we can't be here in 1 million years.

Not sure what the OP's point is or why this thread even exists. Makes no sense.

The analogy isn't the same, humans understand far more than an ant.
Surely even 10,000 years ago there's evidence that we already can understand more about the universe than anything else in the world. Farming, irrigation for example show that we can understand the universe to a degree.

What you mean is to a 100% all knowing, all understanding degree.
No it'll never happen.

You have a paradox there- once you know completely how the universe works- on all scales (Quantum and Macro) and in all forms of energy (both matter and Energy) and then have managed to understand the other parts of the universe we don't at the moment- Dark matter, dark energy, "nothingness", consciousness - the next goal would be to replicate it and to find a purpose.
There in lies your problem in trying to replicate it, you cannot and therefore you won't ever be able to fully understand it.

It wouldn't surprise me if there is a world war soon. But even if there was that wouldn't be enough to completely wipe the whole human species of earth.

But what about if a powerful asteroid comes along?

How does it make no sense? some things are just completely beyond human understanding. You even go onto admit that humans will not ever understand everything completely.

The best answer we have in terms of science is the big bang theory and the clue is in the name- its just a theory.

How does it make no sense? some things are just completely beyond human understanding. You even go onto admit that humans will not ever understand everything completely.

The OP says:

" I just think the universe is wayyy beyond human understanding and we will never work out the true reason that it ever began (if there was even a starting point at all). "

I use a different argument though.

The OP has shown odd opinions throughout and doesn't really make sense because we can understand the Universe to some extent.- Atoms, sub atomic particles, quantum particles-
It's a flawed logic argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Observational_evidence

It isn't "just a theory"

It's a theory in the same way the theory of gravity is "just a theory".

It isn't pure philosophical speculation cosmologists came up with, it is based on observable evidence. You then infer from that evidence what is the best explanation. OF course you have all the problems of inference, but then so does all science.

I'm pretty we would know if there's an asteroid coming at us. Our telescopes would see it while it's still millions of miles of away.

The big bang theory will be replaced by something else in the future.And people in the future will be like 'omg I cant believe people from the past were so stupid to believe that.'
Then that something else will be replaced by something else- and so on and son and so on.