PUZZLING QUESTIONS

Here are some things that are puzzling me.  

First, why is there no 'e' in the world puzzling?  I have always pronounced the word "puzzle-ing" in the past.  I wont in the future.  Thank you, Spellcheck.

Second, why do we keep looking further and further away?  What do we hope to come of this?  You know, we now have the James Webb Telescope in orbit in addition to the Hubble telescope.  It has just found clearly (?) a star (called Earendel) that is further away than any other object in our sky that we have seen.  This baby is just 28 billion light years away from Earth.  (As a reminder, a light year is a distance measure that tells us how far light would travel in a year.  Light is pretty fast, the fastest thing we know.  It could go pretty far in a year.)  Luckily, we can see this star with our new toys in space and because it is about a million times more luminous than our Sun.  When will this knowledge pay for the expenses we have incurred in finding it?  

Third, do you know we and the world have incurred more huge expenditures to develop means to make pieces of atoms travel super-fast in a big circular building like a roller derby rink only much, much larger?  These are not whole atoms but just parts of atoms.  How small is that?  You've heard nothing yet.  They call this deal a collider because they not only send these little particles in a circle in one direction but both directions.  They try to have these little fellers collide with each other.  When they do collide, the physicists get a glimpse, for an almost infinitesimal small amount of time, what the things are made of.  When will this knowledge pay for the expense we have incurred in finding it?