NASA 'looks to the heavens' for help: Agency enlists 24 theologians to assess how the world would react to the discovery of alien life on distant planets and how it might change our perception of gods and creation

Daily Mail UK ^ | 12/24/2021 | By STACY LIBERATORE

[cgbg]

One of the problems in dealing with truly revolutionary concepts is that it is hard to think what we cannot write or say with language.

Understanding how time works will require a radically different way of looking at things—which in turn will require new language.

Scientists are stuck in old paradigms because of the assumptions behind the language that they use.

A simple example of this is the concept of “infinity”.

Georg Cantor had to create a totally new mathematical language to describe the complexities of “infinity”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor

The criticisms of Cantor are rather amusing today—but they are typical of “science”, which is almost always stuck on yesterday.

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/mathematics/georg-cantor-the-man-who-discovered-different-infinities/

Here is a long article explaining how this “new language” opened up breakthroughs in the “real world”.

https://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~nunez/COGS260/JoP_InfinityR.pdf

[jmcenanly]

This was the basic plot of an old Outer Limits episode called The Architects of Fear. Of course most of those episodes seemed to deal with an alien attack of one sort or another.