Oh Alamo-Girl -- so beautifully said! Why would God have made such a glorious Cosmos, made it possible for humans to be intelligent and so capable of exploring such Cosmos -- and then tell us we shouldn't do it, because that would be putting "Him to the test?" How can it be a "test of God" to love and admire and study His works? Instead, maybe what we have here is a test of man; and our "indifference" with respect to studying and understanding His creation according to our best lights earns us a grade of "F."
It's just a thought. (No man knows how God judges.)
Somewhere around here I have some Jewish thinking on the subject, that we are expected to explore, appreciate and wonder at His creation. The paper indicated that the only criticism in heaven would be a lack of curiosity.