RE: Is Humanity Ready for First Contact?
October 11, 2016 at 2:25 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2016 at 2:27 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
I can't answer for Vorlon, but myself, I doubt we humans will ever come to a point here we say, "That's that! Time for a beer."
The Universe seems an awful lot like a Mandelbrot set, to me. Russia dolls, as you put it. The finer we see in detail, the more unknown details seem to crop up, molecule to atom to proton/electron/neutron to fermion and bosons. The grander we see in scope, the wider the vista seems too -- we started by observing planets and bright stars, but as we added technology to our observational capacity, we discovered a galaxy -- our own -- then other galaxies, then galactic clusters, then the Great Wall.
Paraphrasing Paul Williams from his book Das Energi, "We are as large to the smallest thing we can detect as we are small to the largest thing we can detect. We sit in the middle of our own perceptions."
The Universe, this universe, appears to be fractal.
No doubt Alex K will show up and start pulling my short hairs, my Teutonic brotha always catches me out.
The Universe seems an awful lot like a Mandelbrot set, to me. Russia dolls, as you put it. The finer we see in detail, the more unknown details seem to crop up, molecule to atom to proton/electron/neutron to fermion and bosons. The grander we see in scope, the wider the vista seems too -- we started by observing planets and bright stars, but as we added technology to our observational capacity, we discovered a galaxy -- our own -- then other galaxies, then galactic clusters, then the Great Wall.
Paraphrasing Paul Williams from his book Das Energi, "We are as large to the smallest thing we can detect as we are small to the largest thing we can detect. We sit in the middle of our own perceptions."
The Universe, this universe, appears to be fractal.
No doubt Alex K will show up and start pulling my short hairs, my Teutonic brotha always catches me out.
