The Allen telescope array in search of alien life
Mainstream science tends to be Earth-centric when it comes to investigating alien life. In other words, when scientists talk about the search for aliens civilizations, they take the perspective that such beings generally will act – if not look—like humans. The aliens would announce their presence when they arrive and either be friendly or aggressive. They would have advanced technologies, but they wouldn’t break physical laws that we assume exist for the entire universe. They would be techies, but they wouldn’t walk through walls or float sleeping humans out of their bedrooms or communicate telepathically.
All these assumptions – and of course I’m making my own assumptions about mainstream science from what I’ve observed – lead us to Fermi’s paradox. Simply put, the paradox is the apparent contradiction between the supposition that civilizations must be abundant in the universe and humanity’s lack of contact with ETs, or evidence they exist.
Physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael H.Hart puzzled over the problem. They noted that the Sun is a young star, there are billions of stars in the galaxy that are billions of years older. Some of these stars no doubt have Earth-like planets, where intelligent life evolved. Presumably, some of those civilizations developed interstellar travel, and over tens of millions of years, the galaxy would be completely colonized.
So Fermi wanted to know what happened. Why haven’t alien colonizers arrived? He asked: “Where is everybody?”
The simplest solution would be that there is nobody else. No one is home elsewhere. In fact, there are no homes. If that’s the case, it seems that our vast Milky Way Galaxy would consist of a lot of wasted real estate. That belief was better suited for the Middle Ages. Yet, some scientists actually suggest that we may be the only intelligent race in existence anywhere. Hmm, talk about an Earth-centric point of view.
Another popular reason for the lack of contact is the so-called impossibility of inter-planetary space flight. In other words, it would just take too long to get anywhere—even if there were no traffic jams in deep space. But that again assumes all civilizations are restricted to the same limitations we face.
Meanwhile, mainstream science stubbornly rejects all hearsay and anecdotal evidence that aliens are already here and have been throughout our history, that humans are being abducted and subjected to invasive procedures, that the aliens have extraordinary abilities that bypass some of our physical laws. When asked about such contentions, they simply say that the evidence for an alien presence is non-existent.
Certainly, there are scientists who disagree, but who understand that speaking out on this issue is a career buster. And that’s the real paradox. If there is an alien presence, the most important issue of our time is not only being ignored by mainstream science, but it’s taboo. Aliens and UFOs cannot be discussed in serious scientific circles.
Meanwhile, the Internet has enough stories about sightings, encounters and abductions to keep us reading and wondering. As they say on The H2 Channel’s Ancient Aliens, “What if it were true?”
I agree totally with DP.
well turns out that traveling synchronicity thing REALLY comes into play (ah early morning beach sleeping),,,, a good 6-7 “blah blahs” beginning with the street the (CJI) is located on,,, ending with one about,,, a probably top 5 American literary accomplishments “re-appearing” and also it’s town of creation…… point though,,,, glanced over at said CJI,,,, “A Rupture in Time”,, next level on the subject…..
One day we’ll realise that aliens don’t have to be like us and that our beliefs about time, distance and space aren’t necessarily correct. There’s no reality, there’s only our realisation of how things are. Gradually our realisation will change.
If they do visit us as some people claim and if they live on other planets, they must travel really fast back and forth from a distant planet (or do something with space in between, wormholes and such). Also, the lack of communication between us could be explained either because something happens as they travel (Are they material when they come here as we are? Are there other modes of being alive and conscious drastically different from ours?) or perhaps such a trip is never affordable to the masses (Those who can come perhaps don’t want us to have too much knowledge that might be used for destruction. Also, why starting a communication which would provide us with more questions than answers?).
I don’t know whether a claim that some species on our planet live where there aren’t supposed to live (problems with transport) is real or not: https://www.jesusbelievesinevolution.com/alien_abduction_in_the_fossil_record.html
Fermi asks why the colonizers haven’t arrived. But maybe they have and maybe we are the result of that colonization. That, of course, is part of the ancient aliens scenario.
A mind blower.
Even with my weird (and I mean very, very strange) experiences, I haven’t been able to answer either side of the issue. Are there aliens? I do know that Earth is a very odd place and resembles Oz or The Matrix more than “what we were all taught in grade school” . Something is going on. Reality is not as “solid” as we think it is. Scientific method can only abide by it’s protocols, and that may be it’s weakness: it has blinders on.
Not to mention the funding of said experiments are controlled by those that may wish to keep some things from becoming known. What better way than to laugh at the possibility and not fund anything having to do with the research?
Good point, Nancy!