Re: Fermi "Paradox"

From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 15:37:37 MDT

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    Robert J. Bradbury
    > But now you raise some questions more perplexing than
    > the F.P. -- e.g. have they always been there or did
    > they evolve in some way? Do they not contact us or
    > spread into our sphere by choice or simply because
    > it is impossible?

    Of course I do not know. But we can also imagine
    there are different time arrows in the universe.
    Could that explain something?
    H. Weyl, Vic Stenger, Novikov, Barbour, J.A. Wheeler,
    H. Price, J. Ashmead, P.J. Nahin, and others have
    written beautiful pages about the block universe
    hypothesis, or, at least, about 'propagators'
    symmetric in time(s) and space(s). Now let us imagine
    *they* performed experiments and found the block
    universe hypothesis is 'true'. Or, as Minkowski
    put it long time ago 'Henceforth space by itself,
    and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into
    mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two
    will preserve an independent reality'. Could that
    explain something?

    > Ok, now here is an idea for making the list easier to deal with.
    > We divide it into two halves -- one where submissions solve more
    > problems than they create and one where sumbissions create more
    > problems than they solve. Just a thought.

    Definitely I'm in the second half :-)

    s.

    'The objective world simply is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my
    consciousness, crawling upward along the life line of my body, does a
    section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which
    continuously changes in time.' H. Weyl



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