2024-12-10
Some think that there is reason to believe that humanity stands upon the edge of a new age, a new cosmic age, when we will be introduced to the inhabitants of the Cosmos that have been taking an interest in our progress for millennia.
Of course many will scoff, but go out on a starry night and review the wonders of the visible night sky - can you seriously justify an outright denial of the existence of life in that unfathomable infinity of elsewhere? Are we really the only place in the heavens that harbours intelligent life? And if here, why not there?
It makes no sense that we should be alone.
But Einstein determined that nothing and nobody can travel faster than light, so how could they in practice get here?
Well, Einsteinian physics displaced Newtonian physics as a model for understanding our universe, so who's to say that another genius might not supplant Einsteinian physics with a yet newer model of physics that would open up space travel?
Perhaps an ontological physics? (More here)
Einstein might not have the last word, right? We need only one assumption - that faster than light travel is indeed possible by some currently unknown means - and we can then open up a huge can of technological worms that would indeed enable "them" to arrive here.
Bearing in mind that "they" may have evolved/developed over billions of our years, and may live for far longer than our miserable "four score years and ten".
Maybe we can and should envisage that it really is entirely reasonable to expect that "they" exist, and from that it's but a short leap of imagination to expect that sooner or later, they will end up here, and want to say "Hello"!
Now consider the wealth of unexplained aerial phenomena of at least the last century and possibly far longer ...
(7 minutes - purely for your entertainment ... )
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