On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 7:58 AM Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As I've said before, to pursue knowledge you need a brain and to operate >> a brain you need energy; and in this galaxy alone hundreds of billions of >> stars are radiating all their energy uselessly into infinite space. And all >> the other galaxies that we can observe are doing the same thing. Don't you >> find that odd? >> > > *> "It depends if it was the only and easiest way to achieve it... who > knows what we don't know, because we don't observe something constrained by > our own knowledge doesn't mean anything, nothing to conclude from this non > observation of an entire universe filled of dyson sphere." * > Because the observable universe is finite in both space and time there MUST have been a first technological civilization, and all the evidence points to us as being that first civilization. So if the existing laws of physics can explain the fact that the entire universe is not filled with Dyson Spheres (and it can) then there is no need to conjure up radical new laws of physics to explain it. Richard Feynman said science is imagination in a straight jacket, and I think he meant you should feel free to imagine anything you like and push what we know as far as you can to see if anything breaks, but if an idea conflicts with the results of an experiment that you believe was conducted in a competent and honest manner then the idea must be rejected. And postulating new fundamental laws of physics to explain something should be the last resort, not the first. And I think someday the universe WILL be full of Dyson spheres, and we will be the ones who got the ball rolling. See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> qtm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3brnLF1%3DYZwDpYOHOVeM1CZpNTjZWDYt2xeg4mcg_6Ww%40mail.gmail.com.
