Tom
An Old Friend
You can see a universe
Um, Sorry... We are both in THE Universe. One of mankind's biggest delusions is that we are somehow outside the Universe looking in. Everything everyone can know, dream or fantasize is IN THE UNIVERSE. Yes, That means The Universe thinks, dreams and knows. At our level of consciousness we are unable to fathom the Universe's level of awareness but perhaps that is not so for aliens species that have developed for a million or 100 million years. Its a tough concept to grasp and most people can't even go there but with some discipline we can touch the edge.I can see a universe
Creativity is something different than art. Creativity is all around us. From atoms to galactic super-clusters. Art is a concept that is rooted in our perceptions and associations. Art is a learned appreciation. If we put the whole concept of art to the entire spectrum of life as we know it. Art is not a common thing. You can teach a chimp to paint a picture. You can teach it to look at the picture and enjoy it. What chimp, in the wild paints pictures, makes music that is repeatable, sculptures their parents likeness out of river mud? That is just a chimp, What about the other billion or so life forms that are on our planet? What kind of pencil sketches make worms take notice? Do the trees get excited over the sunset colors? Which termite mound is a sculpture of their God? Do birds sing for the same reason as humans create music? My point is that just because we perceive art in nature doesn't mean it was intended as art.universe that is all creativity and art
In the essence of we being part of the Universe it does, because we do. I should have wrote 'Aliens may not appreciate creativity and art'. Creativity is such a common thing in the Universe an alien mindset may not even acknowledge its existence. If it does, It might not place as much value on it as we do. It's possible aliens may not be able to perceive beauty. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Aliens may not have a need for eyes as we understand them. Perhaps they appreciate patterns or as a beauty to behold, the absence of patterns.The Universe may not appreciate creativity and art.
Funny thing about law, Its not a law unless it is agreed upon by all concerning parties. A natural law is one that supposedly cannot be broken in all the Universe so if it is breakable it is not a law. I give you Black Holes. If known natural laws can be broken within a Black Hole then the known natural laws are not really laws but suppositions. We are like infants compared to the age of the Universe and possible alien intelligences. Place 2 million of our years against hundreds of millions or even billions of years and you realize that what we think we know is far, far less that what we don't know. To assume that humans have it all figured out is our own delusion.according to law
We all have difficulty accepting. We have programmed our thinking with bounding boxes. To think outside the common delusions is considered insanity. At our level of development perhaps it is insanity. It's a hard discipline to even attempt to fathom reality.difficulty accepting
Science sees patterns but only in a conservative way. Chaos itself can be a pattern depending on the scope of the comparison. Point geometric is one example I like that shows chaos in a pattern. You take a point (A true point) and radiate lines out from it on all sides perpendicular from the point. We see a star. We see only a finite number of trajectories possible but we can split each arc in half and add another trajectory based on that. Not only around the circumference but around the entire sphere. Given enough distance, every arc is divisible no matter how close they are at the point. Now, This will blow your mind, add a true point directly beside the first and do the same thing. Then fill all the space in the known universe with points with the same radial lines. This already exists. If this was beheld/observed it might look like chaos, it would be chaos but it is also a predictable pattern. To give you some insight on this concept imagine a single atom. The space within every atom is sparse compared to a true point. The components of atoms are made up of structures such as neutrinos, quarks, muons and the like. Within the scope of each of those components lies even more true points. Even the elusive boson is composed of true points. And that is still only a scientific observation made by a species less than 2 million years in the making.Science sees patterns
The first law of thermodynamics, states that the energy of a closed system must remain constant—it can neither increase nor decrease without interference from outside. The universe itself is a closed system, so the total amount of energy in existence has always been the same. The forms that energy takes, however, are constantly changing.
Everything in nature everywhere is comprised of energy. It is the ... GOD ...of the natural world. It takes many forms but it persists and has been around for MORE than 14 Billion years. It has never dissipated or grown. My feeble mind quantifies energy on the same level as the radius of a true point.
Not to be confused with the quantum concept of Zero Point Energy. The quantum world comprises the uncertainty of nature. Quantum dynamics opens paths of dialog that I am currently unwilling to discuss due to the limitations of this topic's parameters. Not to dismiss an alien's possible understanding of quantum science but because it requires more in-depth discussion than would be appropriate for this topic.
Vacuum Energy is also a very interesting topic in itself. It basically destroys the first law of thermodynamics. Stating that energy is constantly being created and destroyed in the Universe.
The reason I expound on the things I do in this topic is that we need to realize that an alien culture that is even slightly more advanced than us might already know our fundamental laws of nature are flawed. Sorta like the silly belief that the speed of light is a barrier. We already know of particles that can exceed that limitation, Neutrinos from an exploding supernova as one example. We know because we have observed them.
Imagine the dismay of our best scientists when an alien reveals proof of anything that goes beyond their concepts of the natural laws. It's not just the random Joe that aliens will affect. It will be humanity as a whole.
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