From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 21:00:05 MDT
At 06:53 PM 7/21/03 +0200, Anders wrote:
>> They don't have to be made of ordinary matter
>> at all. They could exist on many levels that we are unable to detect.
>Exactly. This is my own personal guess at the answer of the Fermi
>paradox. But it has the problem of invoking the existence of some kind
>of physics we do not know about; not an unlikely assumption or
>prediction, but rather unsatisfying
Anders went on to say maybe new physics is *not* unsatisfying, but I'd add
that since current canonical theory asserts that 90% of the mass of the
observable cosmos is made of something unknown (dark matter), and that 70%
of the energy is unknown (dark energy), the portion we're made of is
trivial. If anything, on Copernican grounds it's our existence that needs
to be ignored as absurdly minor if not anomalous.
Damien Broderick
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