Many people believe so, and the reasons they give often have to do with space and time.
Compared with the vast universe, we are but infinitesimal specks, they say, and the human life span constitutes the merest blip on the cosmic timescale. Others fail to see how our spatiotemporal dimensions alone could make life absurd. The philosopher Thomas Nagel, for one, has argued that if life is absurd given our present size and longevity, it would be no less absurd if we lived for millions of years or if we were big enough to fill the cosmos. The best way to go about answering this question is to look for a fundamental unit of space and of time that would render the two dimensions comparable. Here is where contemporary physics comes in handy.