As you look at the deep space image above taken by the Hubble Space Telescope it's hard to imagine why we haven't spotted any signs of life outside of our own. Hubble has taken pictures of galaxies and stars going back in time to nearly 13.5 billion light years ago. One would think we should see some sort of craft traveling between us and they sometime over the last 13.5 billion years. Yet nada!
The Fermi Paradox"-- "The age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that unless the Earth is very atypical, extraterrestrial life should be common. In an informal discussion in 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi questioned why, if a multitude of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations exists in the Milky Way galaxy, evidence such as spacecraft or probes is not seen."
Yeah, why is that?
We scour the universe using all kinds of optical devices in both the visible and invisible to human eyes spectrums of light. Constantly listen with sensitive radio telescopes for any kind of distinctive electromagnetic pulse(s) that might be that of intelligence beyond our own. Again nothing!
Why Not?These are just a few of the possibilities. Now before someone thinks I've gone off my rocker I want people to think about this. This concerns human nature when it comes to dismissing such things as impossible crazy talk. Human ego likes to think we know more then we do. Anyone who speaks of such things such as I are some sort of loon to be ignored. Not so fast...
You want to talk about something really nutty?
Electricity-- Nearly everyone on this planet takes electricity for granted. What is it?
Science explains it as the flow of electrons. A free electron jumps to the next atom taking with it a charge (energy). This goes through a conductor which eventually converts it back into a electromagnetic pulse to accomplish what we want it to. Most people think they understand this most amazing thing but actually no one can actually explain it.
Sure we generate electrical energy by introducing a electromagnetic field to cut across a metallic conductor. Thus displacing an electron which moves down the conductor. This produces an electric flow for all the modern miracles we see today. YEAH BUT.. What is magnetism?
Some will explain it as alignment of a material's electrons in one direction (north/south). While this is true, can anyone really explain the forces at work between the magnet and the conductor to get electrons to move in the first place without physical contact between the two. They can not!
At loss for an explanation mankind describes magnetism as a force of nature or physical phenomena. In other words, they don't know what the hell it is.
There isn't one electronic device made that doesn't utilize this mysterious force. Capacitors within these circuits result in voltage lagging behind current and inductive coils doing just the opposite. The combining of inductors and capacitive circuits create the resonate frequencies needed to transmit the signals in our cell phones, routers and countless other broadcast devices. Introducing resistors to these 'resonant circuits' control their all important bandwidths.
All this WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE REALLY IS!
Why is it within humans to accept and take for granted of this while rejecting the possibilities of such things I said above as too preposterous to be even considered?
I tend to think such things are never discussed because most people would rather go about their daily existence living in a bubble never questioning. If someone were one of those I assume they never read this far into this post. If you have read the last sentence, too late.. you're as screwed up in your way of thinking as I...
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