Posted on 07/24/2020 12:31:51 AM PDT by knighthawk
So we could go to a different Earth in a different universe, but we wouldn’t be able to go to the closet star in a “reasonable” amount of time?
Some on here claim with certainty that we are the only life in the universe, with the simple reason that we haven’t found anything out there yet.
My personal belief, this should be discussed. This falls under the government’s mandate to protect and inform the people.
AND if it is truthful and discusses real life UFO encounters, the basement dwelling bed welters will freak the eff out.
Let it eat, bring on ET
Like our government needs another excuse to waste taxpayer money.
That relativity thing is a sticky wicket. Unless you can fold (Warp) our universe the thing traveling hitting infinite mass and requiring infinite power to even get to light speed is a teensy problem. Of course slipping inter-dimensionaly does not have a rule set since it is all theoretical with zero empirical evidence, but we don’t have a glaring square peg round hole problem we have discovered yet. The bottom line is that mass can not travel as fast nor faster than light speed with the rules of our universe and light is terribly slow at interstellar distances. It is even slow at stellar distances. See here: https://youtu.be/1AAU_btBN7s
8 Minutes and 20 seconds for light to get from the sun to the earth. 4.37 Years for light to get to the closest extra-solar system, Alpha Centauri. Close to 6 years to Barnards star. Wolf 359, Lalande 21185, Sirius and Luyten 726-8 are about 8 years out. Ross 154, Ross 248 and Epsilon Eridaniare about 10 years out. None of these system can conceivably have terrestrial type native life.
Theoretically time travel is possible if the universe splits at the point of back travel at the point of time travel paradox. It is also theoretically possible to travel between the split universes. There is a theory that the universe splits at every random event where a universe is created for every possible outcome down to subatomic events. Absolutely mind boggling implications.
I snafued the full quote. Here it is:
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey, #2)
That’s it! Thanks for fielding the question!
Only if you assume C is constant. This is the major flaw, assuming C is constant for all situations. It's not. Standing wave and gravitational lensing are two examples that demonstrate C is not constant. Remember, it's called Einstein's Theory, not Einstein's Law.
Nice looking Faraday Cage.
Frankly aliens would be more belivable.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean THEY haven't found us!
I, for one, welcome our new overlords...
I also find the idea that other life out there will be like us to be preposterous.
Like the movie Interstellar?
“So why would the Pentagon waste time and money” ...... Maybe for fun and profit?
Enrico Fermi declared “so, where are they?” In retort to a discussion among several astro physicists back in the day.
Now, rapid tech advances have us ,well, some, asking the same question.
The problem stems from the proposition that there are others “out there”, not from the reality of , well, reality.
Since humanity has part and parcel swallowed the “billions of years” antiGod platform, and chooses man’s word over God’s Word, is there any doubt that the conclusion begs an other worldly answer?
Because it gives someone a command and you don’t have to do much?
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