Our pals at The Pentagon released another batch of documents relating to
UFO sightings, which of course was followed by yet another round of
conjectures as to whence these objects come. Myself, I’ve no idea what
is behind the sighting of objects that are generally called UFOs. I do,
however, know what UFOs are not—visitors from other planets.
Earth has never encountered such visitors and never will. Never. This is
because such contacts are impossible.
To accept the premise that UFOs originate with distant alien
civilizations, we would have to also accept that space, matter, and time
—indeed reality itself—will behave in ways that we know they do not.
Without again covering details I've shared before, I'll just point out
what proponents of distant space travel misunderstand.
Nothing can travel faster than light. We know this is so because we can
model the progressive energy required for any massive object to reach
the speed of light, and we observe that to do so would require infinite
energy.
We also know that the speed of light is constant for all observers. For
this to be true, space and time must be changeable, but the speed at
which one can travel through space remains limited. There is no escaping
this fact.
Even if it were possible to travel at, or near, the speed of light,
which it is not, as a practical matter making a meaningful round trip
remains impossible, as time dilation (which can be demonstrated) makes
it impossible to ever return to one’s point of origin again, within the
same time reference.
The speed of light defines an absolute speed limit; time and space are
changable and these do not favor space travel.
Under what we might grant to be a conceivably achievable speed of travel
(yet one that has never been reached), a round trip to the stars nearest
earth (assuming a reason to go there) would take perhaps 1,000 years.
The universe simply does not allow practical distant space travel.
Old Man Wardell
David Wardell
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