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I will try my best to demonstrate how the so-called "Fermi Paradox" has already been resolved, or at the very least, remains a matter of having asked the wrong question.
When we factor in the quantum realm along with the actual nature of the spacetime continuum, certain aspects prove to be counter-intuitive; which is to say, paradoxical.
Heraclitus has already pointed out that we may never step into the same river twice. But what does that mean? Try to think of it this way.
The universe (an expression of electromagnetism) remains rather like a river, except it flows in all directions--that is, one trajectory: outward (since everyone already knows there's no orientation (up, down, left, or right) in outer space--and it does so at the speed of light, constantly expanding.
This is precisely why all the countless extraterrestrial beings that have existed and will continue to come into existence have little, if any, hope of communicating with one another (much less making physical contact). If we gather our wits and focus on the matter better, in the future we may discover electromagnetic traces, that is, a sort of galvanic fossil evidence of their existence.
The scientific-minded have overlooked the startling fact that by the method of inference ( a type of faith) we may correctly deduce the existence of countless alien civilizations and life forms having almost certainly proliferated throughout the universe; all of which have at least one thing in common, which is sharing a relatively solitary existence.
I rest my case (or should I say--for the moment, I place a bookmark in my casebook files).
{to be cont. See my 4 postscripts below for a general summation.}
~Shaun Lawton
December 12, 2019
The Year of the Replicant
The Vital Importance of Dismissing the 'Fermi Paradox'
ReplyDeleteFar too much time, money, and energy has been wasted on the fruitless search for so-called "signs of extraterrestrial life" when we consider that time, money, and energy could and should long ago have been diverted toward resolving much more pertinent problems facing us here on our one given planet, such as working together to help protect ourselves from climate change and each other.
I've been fervently circling the problem presented by Enrico Fermi's so-called paradox--with so many countless stars in our galaxy, why no signs of, nor contact with, extraterrestrial civilizations? Well for starters, it's a matter misrepresented perspective, of course.
ReplyDeleteAt least back in January of 2015, I posted a suggestion as to the Fermi Paradox's resolution. Ask yourselves this one question:
Can we convert radio waves into shorter (light) waves?
If we could somehow convert those radio waves from other stars, tantamount to rewinding them until they were shorter in length, might they not eventually be rendered back into visible light images?
Here I have presented an alternative method which might, at the very least, broaden our SETI team's (we're all one large collective team searching for signals on our personal PCs, aren't we?) scope in the search---or more to the point, help focus it into a narrower laser beam which might prove beneficial in conjuring, at the very least, the ghostly traces of extraterrestrials whose fleshly existences have long passed into radio waves for us to gaze past, wondering where they all went.
It has to do with our base expectation of alien contact stemming from our necessarily projecting what we perceive down here on Earth--via visible light (the wavelength in the center of the electromagnetic spectrum*)--onto so-called "outer space" while failing to realize that's not how outer space works, at all; rather, outer space = time (and in time, as the universe continues to expand, shedding electromagnetism in a solitary direction outward at the speed of light) and as Heraclitus has already pointed out, "you can't step into the same river twice." Only the river in this case is our galaxy--a subset of the universe--continually expanding so that the one thing all the sure-to-exist extraterrestrial life forms and potential civilizations "out there" (another misnomer of our perception) we have in common with, is our relatively solitary existence amid a crowd of stars.
Delete*(the wavelength at the center of the electromagnetic spectrum):
DeleteSee- -(haha, there's that in-joke again)- -today in our high-minded scientific viewpoint of sneering in contempt at the idea we may be "alone" in the universe (necessarily having been temporarily distracted by the tantalizing specialization of scientific discoveries) few, if any, ever point out that our perception of visible light is in the center of the electromagnetic spectrum. Wake up: *the electromagnetic spectrum IS the universe*. / I have presented sufficient evidence to why the Fermi Paradox, far from needing to be "resolved", must merely be dismissed entirely so we can "move on" to far more pressing and integral matters concerning the human race---such as planting billions of trees to help each other survive climate change, and switching to alternative forms of sustainable "green energy," finding new ways to fight or eradicate deadly diseases, spreading food clothing and shelter to the homeless and disenfranchised, etc. etc.
Just think of all the money, time, resources, and energy wasted on a search for beings like ourselves "out there" when we could divert that energy, time, and money toward helping our own species survive longer and more fulfilling lives right here on Planet Earth in the present ongoing moment that actually matters more to us than anything.
Time remains the only real commodity we have.