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Fermi's Paradox

7/19/2019

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​Fermi's Paradox suggests the death of civilizations is a commonplace event. There are no civilizations left alive in the Local Fluff close enough for us to find or communicate with, but there are probably billions gone before in their Goldilocks Zones, and billions to come ad infinitum. We're still wondering about the infinity of the Universe and we might well wonder forever more. 

Fermi's contribution to the world of quantum mechanics is vast, but his input to the paradox bearing his name is slight. It's said that he engaged in a conversation in the summer of 1950. Michael Hart put the idea to paper in 1975 that civilizations reach a point of singularity wherein they self-destruct, so the chances of two civilizations of similar technological advancement existing in the same galactic neighbourhood are too slim to be potentially possible.

We can clearly see we're careering towards such a singularity, ourselves, on this planet - the unstoppable race towards Doomsday not slowing up any time soon, about to cross the inescapable line with you and me as bystanders, watching it happen in slow motion, like the spagettification of a lifetime into the last dense drop of quark-gluon plasma a Singularity has to become before... before the laws of physics break down and we don't know what happens next.


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The power fuelling this race to global destruction is clearly money, for nothing else motivates the trawling of the seas or the stripping of the forests, the pesticides and herbicides, genocide/infanticide crawling across the Earth's surface like a seething mass of excrement, the ‘what we left behind' when all is said and done in this region of the cosmos where no man has gone before. When money can buy so many thrills and spill so much waste in pursuit of its corruption, who'd want to think about fighting it? So they - we - buy in and stay locked in the talons of the darkest power there is, a few breaking free like photons break free of a light beam. Who'll be alive to see it, after all?

What if IT happens in the next 12 years? Prince Charles gives us 18 months to Irreversible Calamity. 

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Yet even Royalty has no advantage in pulling the stops on the system of self-destruct, because we are effectively in our own black hole in spacetime, from a ‘consciousness' point of view - there will be little left of what we know when that point is reached. Meantime, we've got to go through spaghettification which could mean anything to us in relative terms, since inside the event horizon time passes just the same as it always has, relatively speaking. Only the observer sees you locked in a warp of infinity. The same infinity that scientists try all the time to get rid of. Anyone noticed time speeding up?

Here we are then, merry observant spaghettifees watching renormalised disaster strike from all sides and helpless to do anything about it. Except think. We can think all we want, intelligent beings that can comprehend a Universe. Think ourselves into being a bit more double-slit, where choices are made in advance of probability and wave forms can take you for a different kind of ride. ​​

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    Kathy Ratcliffe has studied quantum mechanics since 1997 in a life surrounded by birds and animals, She's a metaphysicist, if such a thing exists, looking as we all are for the inevitable bridge between humanity and particle physics.

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