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Originally posted by winofiend
If a pea is lost out at sea, floating on the high waves and crashing down into the never ending turbulence, do you think you could find it, if you had no idea where to look?
If not, why? You're a highly intelligent creature, far more intelligent than any pea?
If that pea is never found, does this mean that you do not exist?
Can you exist, and never find that pea?
We're that pea.
Einstein's Wormhole Loophole
If humans can't travel to the stars, many scientists say extraterrestrial life can't come here either. However, Michio Kaku, one of the leading theoretical physicists in the world, says many scientists are too quick to dismiss the idea of other civilizations visiting Earth. Einstein may have said nothing can go faster than the speed of light, but he also left a loophole, said Kaku, a professor at the City University of New York. In Einstein's theory, space and time is a fabric. Kaku explained: "In school we learned that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points. But actually that's not true. You see, if you fold the sheet of paper and punch a hole through it, you begin to realize that a wormhole is the shortest distance between two points." A civilization that could harness the power of stars might be able to use that shortcut through space and time, and perhaps bridge the vast distances of space to reach Earth, he said.
Originally posted by CJCrawley
reply to post by ManInAsia
To say extraterrestrial life almost certainly exists is cod science because it's unfalsifiable.
"We haven't found any because we just haven't found any yet."
To say it definitely exists is simply unscientific.
Originally posted by draknoir2
Originally posted by Wirral Bagpuss
At least I can take solace from the fact that when I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s I stated on many occasions that there were planets out there and that ET also existed. I was constantly laughed at and ridiculed. Planets? Dont be daft! That sort of thing.
People laughed at you for believing in planets?
Where did you live?
Originally posted by DaTroof
Michio Kaku is a great sci-fi writer, but a terrible scientist.
Just because we exist means nothing. Koala bears can be found in Australia, so they must be everywhere, right? That's his entire basis for his statement. We exist, so there must be others. That's so incredibly naive and unscientific.
Kaku, stick to your History Channel spots where you say lightsabers are possible.
Originally posted by gort51
Conversely, We have had this transmission tech for only 60 years, 100 years ago, we didnt have it, what are the chances of a civilization that is EXACTLY on the same tech as us right now, using radio in the past 60 years same as us, that we could actually"Hear" them......... Fairly remote I would think.
Originally posted by gort51
Here is something to chew over.
We have been "Listening" for 35 years or so thru SETI, for 60 years or so, we have been beaming out radio/microwaves to the Universe.
What if, for what ever reason, the "People" that visit us, are 1,000,000 years more advanced than us, and had passed thru their Radio waves era, when we were still hairy apes in trees? (some of us still are).
The General "Theme" over the past 60 years has been that "ET" use some method of ESP/thought transfer to interact with the Universe. It has been proposed that they are in Symbiotic connection with their machines and possible control them via thought transfer.
IF (?) these creatures are 1,000,000 years more advanced than us, can communicate via thought transfer etc, Fly craft, wash dishes, make toast all with thought power, then How in the Universe, are we going to pick up Any Radios waves or such like, from these advances peoples?
Obviously we are not.....
Conversely, We have had this transmission tech for only 60 years, 100 years ago, we didnt have it, what are the chances of a civilization that is EXACTLY on the same tech as us right now, using radio in the past 60 years same as us, that we could actually"Hear" them......... Fairly remote I would think..........In 100 years from now, I bet radio waves will be old tech on Earth, much like optical cable has replaced copper wires.
If, as the "Witnesses" has stated, these ET do not talk, but use thought transfer, then we will never "Hear" them with our SETI radio antennas. Its like looking for that pea, with your hands or smell, and not using your eyes.