Friday, January 8, 2010

Choosing my Galactic guidance

The Fermi paradox caught my eye a few days back. A little Calvin and Hobbes quote seemed created with Fermi's feelings precisely - "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." A little more digging into the Drake equation and, a load of conspiracy theories and a couple of alien movies (district 9 and Avatar in 3D) later I was still like a puppy in London with a road-map of New York. The patterns are similar but something felt totally out of place. Ok the movies were just for fun.

I dusted off my hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and although it provided lots of entertainment and another entry on my impossible list of things that I must have, it did not provide much insight into what I was actually looking for. Just to clarify what I wanted was a feasible and probable solution to the paradox which seemed a little less far fetched as compared to the others. Wiki does give a lot of options in that regard, from the ones that make you go "They're heeeerrrreeee!!!!" in a freaky little girl's voice to a gruff "Welcome to Earth" as in Will Smith (Independence day).

Drake's equation provides a lot of possibilities but the variation in the assumption of the parameters is just too huge to even attempt a valid assumption of the answer. The one definite result from it all is the criticism of it looks very valid. A random stumble to the Schrödinger's cat problem messed my mind up a little but then I decided using that in these equations was certainly way off target.

Anyhow, my final thoughts on these are pretty much summarized by my limited knowledge of the universe. It is infinite is my supposition and my fanatic belief. Hence as per simple probability theorems, if there is a finite (even infinitesimal) probability of an occurrence then it certainly occurs due to the infinite repetition. Restated as since the universe is infinite, if it is possible, it is probable and so it is happening. Either somewhere in time or somewhere in space or both. In my opinion in both as I consider time meaningless and space as infinite (fanatic belief, no questions permitted on this statement). Which probably means we haven't seen any action as this part of the universe has no visible action for us.

Digging deeper into the above conclusion, I came to see some extremely disturbing causality patterns. A set of dominoes set up were falling into a pattern which is a little
discernible but does not take into consideration present choice. Or as the Oracle in the matrix would say "Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it". Life itself does seem like that at best or way worse. Where certain choices that may seem unique to every individual maybe the rational consequence of a series of environmental, biological(genetic and natural) and other miscellaneous background experiences brought upon the biological entity (who has the so called "choice") through random probability. So then this writing was the result of a continuous falling of dominoes. Hope the aliens are reading. But then again maybe the Flying Spaghetti Monster is going to erase it all with its mysterious invisible tentacles.

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