The earth should be surrounded by extraterrestrial civilizations…

The Ferengi are...

 

I waffle on the idea that we are alone in the universe. On one hand they say how could we be alone given the scope and breadth of the universe. How could we be alone given the genetic variation on this planet alone. I understand that. It makes sense. But I also think to myself, that we may very well be alone, an accident. We could be nothing more than a mutation in a vast system. That is just as likely in my opinion. We could be the first of our kind. We could be last of it as well.

String theory, would, in my opinion, lend credence to the idea that we are indeed alone. If the strings exist and bind the entire universe, holding it together through vibrations, it would seem to me that this harmonic connection to everything in the universe directly negates the idea that there is something out there we have no knowledge of. Afterall, if we are connected to everything by strings, we would have knoweldge another life form. But we don't.

 

Phi,

They have discovered possible life from the Maritian meteorite, I think the universe has life all over it...

DD

 

From the millions of galaxies that we've identified up to this point...from the billions of planets that exist within these galaxies...somewhere, there has to be living organisms.

 

C'mon, we all know God just put them there to test us...

 

did you see the recent NOVA on string theory? interesting stuff..

In 1995, string theorists from all over the world gathered at the University of Southern California for their annual conference. Ed Witten showed up at Strings 95 and rocked their world

Witten's work sparked a breakthrough so revolutionary that it was given it's own name, "M-theory," although no one really knows what the M stands for.

Before M-theory, strings seemed to operate in a world with 10 dimensions. These included one dimension of time, the three familiar space dimensions, as well as six extra dimensions, curled up so tiny that they're completely invisible.

But M-theory would go even further, demanding yet another spatial dimension, bringing the grand total to 11 dimensions.

The extra dimension Witten added allows a string to stretch into something like a membrane, or a "brane" for short. A brane could be three-dimensional or even more. And with enough energy, a brane could grow to an enormous size, perhaps even as large as a universe.

The existence of giant membranes and extra dimensions would open up a startling new possibility, that our whole universe is living on a membrane, inside a much larger, higher dimensional space.

It's almost as if we were living inside...a loaf of bread? Our universe might be like a slice of bread, just one slice, in a much larger loaf that physicists sometimes call the "bulk."

And if these ideas are right, the bulk may have other slices, other universes, that are right next to ours, in effect, "parallel" universes.

Not only would our universe be nothing special, but we could have a lot of neighbors. Some of them could resemble our universe, they might have matter and planets and, who knows, maybe even beings of a sort.

Others certainly would be a lot stranger. They might be ruled by completely different laws of physics. Now, all of these other universes would exist within the extra dimensions of M-theory, dimensions that are all around us. Some even say they might be right next to us, less than a millimeter away.



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3012_elegant.html

 

Great. Now I'm hungry again. Carbs no less.

 

I'm fascinanted by this subject. And I think it's entirely possible there are other civilizations out there.

But this seems a lot like a guess to me.

 

I agree
Also . . . I figure billion year old physics that would
make it possible for them to get here
would
make it nigh impossible for them to be detected by us
if they did not want to be detected.

Much can be said about experience, guile and manipulations
Just as early settlers manipulated and played upon
the naivity of more primitive cultures
creatures millions of years older than us
could IMO easily manipulate events in our lives
without us have nary a clue they are doing it. . . . .

Since i cannot do jack about it
I don't worry about it .. . .

Omen River

 

not trying to sound rude but that doesn't really make sense if u want to make that correlation. if strings do exist they are so insanely small that we wouldn't be able to detect anything from them or at least not with anything with have now.

 

Ah the old Multiverse theory....

Love it.

DD

 

For me, the definitive proof of aliens are crop circles . I know some of them are man made, but there are a lot that show advanced geometry. There's no way a group of pranksters can get something like this done in one night:

 

Proof the Ferengi are already among us:

"I hear a giant suckin' sound........."

Seriously, I imagine that any civilization that survived that long would have to be a peaceful one. Besides, wouldn't the possession of Star Trek-caliber technology be something that only a peaceful, responsible civilization could manage?

 

Have you ever read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? The earth gets destroyed because it is blocking an interstellar highway. I think that's how advanced civilizations will view us - like how we view ants.

 

I hope not. But hey, we've got Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum and a computer virus. Those alien bastards better not come starting a ruckus........

 

Glad I bought a PowerBook...

 

Man, I should read that book before the movie comes out. I had no idea that was the reason for the Earth getting destroyed. How freaking awesome is that? I mean, if we ever found out that we were just insignificant peons to others, how would that make people feel? What would be the effect on religions?


Personaly, I'm pretty confidant that life exists out there, I just don't view it as naked aliens in flying saucers sneaking around our planet.

 

I always thought those naked aliens gave me the willies. It's just that oompah-loompah vibe.