And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Casey Handmer has a blog that fairly often does deep dives on things you might find interesting: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/ I used to keep a link to his on mine but he went pretty quiet for a couple of years.
I think God, our Creator, would've revealed to us in Scripture if, and it is a BIG if, aliens were in fact a reality. I most decidedly think aliens are not. And we're definitely not alone in the universe. God is with us.
There's life out there and it steps between our reality and the spiritual reality we don't quite see - the Bible is quite open about it. While its a huge call but I don't think there's intelligent life doing the 40 hour week thing out there while wondering what its all about which, again, as the Bible claims, makes us incredibly special.
That other technical civilizations exist may be a moot point. That they don't exist at the same time as us is probably more like it. Like we don't have an ambassador from the Empire of Rome or the Third Dynasty of Egypt or the Incan Empire. They existed just not at the same time as us.
Contrary to modern thought (which was contrary to older modern thought) ... perhaps the speed of light is not constant. That would upset some apple carts. Just a thought exercise. (also PhD: electromagnetic physics)
There is an equation derivable from General Relativity (not saying i can derive it) that goes GM=tc^3. G = gravitational constant, M = mass of the universe, t = time in seconds from the Big Bang, and c is the speed of light in a vacuum. If this is true, the speed of light has been decreasing ever since the Big Bang, and is in slow decline now. Louise Riofrio did some work for NASA on this. A declining speed of light seems to solve a lot of unrelated problems. I am convinced it's true.
Statistically the odds of at least a few civilizations exist out there are pretty good. But the amount of energy required to move any meaningful mass even close to the speed of light is prohibitive. Without some bizarre as yet unknown method of bypassing the speed of light existing then interstellar travel is not feasible for any mortal creature. The odds are we, like any other civilizations out there are chained to our own solar system by the fundamental reality mod physics.
There’s an ant hill near down my driveway half way to my mailbox. I never stop by to say “Hi!’ to them, or ask them how their civilization is progressing. I do, sometimes, think I need to pick up some pesticide from the hardware store.
Why would a technologically advanced civilization want to visit us? Perhaps, we should think about that. Perhaps the Fermi paradox is because smarter civilizations have decided or learned to keep their heads down.
Earth is a real unicorn; a water world just the right distance from the sun, with a molten metal core creating electromagnet shielding, and a single large orbiting satellite to keep the oceans churning.
On the other hand, life is very persistent and can take root in even the harshest environment. It could very well be completely different than anything we can even imagine.
Then there are the fun theories such as the Dark Forest one which posits that the universe is a dangerous place where civilizations remain silent to avoid detection by potentially hostile entities.
I think he's making the same fundamental error as seen in Zeno's Paradox. It doesn't take into account light that has already passed us. For example, if there was life on the nearest star, four light years away, they would have had lifetime-of-universe minus 4 years to have developed a star traveling civilization. They could have been here long ago...but they aren't. Fermi's Paradox is still a sound question.
Of Fermi's Paradox, there is the Great Filter that says great civilizations may rise but also fall due to internal events like war or natural disaster such as star going nova. We don't know if we've passed our Great Filter or if it is yet to come.
"There are two possibilities. We are either alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
ReplyDeleteAnd there's an even probability that both of those statements are true.
DeleteCasey Handmer has a blog that fairly often does deep dives on things you might find interesting: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/ I used to keep a link to his on mine but he went pretty quiet for a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteI think God, our Creator, would've revealed to us in Scripture if, and it is a BIG if, aliens were in fact a reality. I most decidedly think aliens are not. And we're definitely not alone in the universe. God is with us.
ReplyDeleteThe very existence of God and the heavenly host means there is intelligent life beyond us. The only other questions is there corporeal life out there.
DeleteYes, but that life is God, in whose image we have been made. The science of space is infinitely interesting, but the real actual mystery is us.
DeleteThere's life out there and it steps between our reality and the spiritual reality we don't quite see - the Bible is quite open about it. While its a huge call but I don't think there's intelligent life doing the 40 hour week thing out there while wondering what its all about which, again, as the Bible claims, makes us incredibly special.
DeleteThat other technical civilizations exist may be a moot point. That they don't exist at the same time as us is probably more like it. Like we don't have an ambassador from the Empire of Rome or the Third Dynasty of Egypt or the Incan Empire. They existed just not at the same time as us.
ReplyDeleteContrary to modern thought (which was contrary to older modern thought) ... perhaps the speed of light is not constant. That would upset some apple carts. Just a thought exercise. (also PhD: electromagnetic physics)
ReplyDeleteThere is an equation derivable from General Relativity (not saying i can derive it) that goes GM=tc^3. G = gravitational constant, M = mass of the universe, t = time in seconds from the Big Bang, and c is the speed of light in a vacuum. If this is true, the speed of light has been decreasing ever since the Big Bang, and is in slow decline now. Louise Riofrio did some work for NASA on this. A declining speed of light seems to solve a lot of unrelated problems. I am convinced it's true.
Delete"Sir, you are incorrect, I have the right to ask for and see your license."
ReplyDeleteStatistically the odds of at least a few civilizations exist out there are pretty good. But the amount of energy required to move any meaningful mass even close to the speed of light is prohibitive. Without some bizarre as yet unknown method of bypassing the speed of light existing then interstellar travel is not feasible for any mortal creature. The odds are we, like any other civilizations out there are chained to our own solar system by the fundamental reality mod physics.
ReplyDeleteMONS Theory Of Jagged Space
ReplyDeleteThere’s an ant hill near down my driveway half way to my mailbox. I never stop by to say “Hi!’ to them, or ask them how their civilization is progressing. I do, sometimes, think I need to pick up some pesticide from the hardware store.
ReplyDeleteWhy would a technologically advanced civilization want to visit us? Perhaps, we should think about that. Perhaps the Fermi paradox is because smarter civilizations have decided or learned to keep their heads down.
Earth is a real unicorn; a water world just the right distance from the sun, with a molten metal core creating electromagnet shielding, and a single large orbiting satellite to keep the oceans churning.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, life is very persistent and can take root in even the harshest environment. It could very well be completely different than anything we can even imagine.
Then there are the fun theories such as the Dark Forest one which posits that the universe is a dangerous place where civilizations remain silent to avoid detection by potentially hostile entities.
ReplyDeleteI think he's making the same fundamental error as seen in Zeno's Paradox. It doesn't take into account light that has already passed us. For example, if there was life on the nearest star, four light years away, they would have had lifetime-of-universe minus 4 years to have developed a star traveling civilization. They could have been here long ago...but they aren't. Fermi's Paradox is still a sound question.
ReplyDelete"They could have been here long ago...but they aren't"
DeleteMaybe we're the ones that arrived long ago.
Of Fermi's Paradox, there is the Great Filter that says great civilizations may rise but also fall due to internal events like war or natural disaster such as star going nova. We don't know if we've passed our Great Filter or if it is yet to come.
ReplyDelete