And in a few mere seconds relative to the overall life of said pixel, if you compressed it into a couple of weeks. Total perspective vortex business. We are nothing....
Only the deluded and terribly small minded still believe we could possibly be the only life in the universe. The odds of it just being us, amidst all this incomprehensible vastness, are impossibly tiny.
We are clearly not alone. Sadly our closest neighbors are probably hundreds of millions of light years away I really hope they come and say hi before i die. Even if its just to bag us all up and ship us off for food, i would like to be around for it.
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None of this "proves" the existence of other life elsewhere in the Universe.
The Drake equation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation) does indeed throw out stupendously large numbers which make it seem impossible that we are alone, however given all available data, the probability that we ARE alone can still also be 1.
What's driving me nuts at the moment is the Planck Length. A tiny tiny tiny distance, which according to many of the latest theories is the smallest distance anything can move. Everything moves in "quantised" steps of that length in most of these theories.
Like a digitised waveform, that instead of having smooth curves, jumps from one sample point to the next with no in-between.
If true, it means the Universe isn't analogue, but digital.
i think there's a documentary about all this, The Matrix i believe its called. i think the whole dark matter thing of most of the mass of everything isnt there (im paraphrasing) also leads itself to being in some kind of simulation.
i think there's a documentary about all this, The Matrix i believe its called. i think the whole dark matter thing of most of the mass of everything isnt there (im paraphrasing) also leads itself to being in some kind of simulation.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy are basically code words for "We don't have a fucking clue what's going on here".
I think I'd happily put my money on neither existing.
The current theory Gravity works fine on earth and for the planets, but fails to explain what we observe at both the Galactic and Quantum scales. We don't even know what Gravity is.
But instead of admitting Einstein only got it partly right, they invent magical fairy matter that has no effect on light and that we can't measure in any way. Scientists can be very stupid at times imo.
If you know about the History of Quantum Mechanics then you'd know we've already been here before: The Luminiferous Aether.
At the time, it was the best way we had to explain the wave properties of Light. Even when it failed every test we had, it was clung on to for dear life.
It took a genius like Einstein to come up with a new paradigm, a new way of looking at things.
That's really where we are now, Dark Matter and Dark Energy are just the plasters holding the old paradigm together.
We have some bright minds about, but no-one has come up with a completely new paradigm since Einstein (except perhaps String/M Theory). We are overdue. Then in another hundred years that will look out of date and false, and on it will continue.
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