The Inevitable Unity

This is a post I wrote nearly 2 years ago. I may have become wiser by now, but the essence of the post still persists.

Is there anything as a 'Spirit of Humanity'? Frankly, I find the mere suggestion of such an entity ridiculous. Even if it does prevail in a realm, it must be a serious victim of BPD. While on one side it talks about peace and unity, it has an insatiable self destructive nature to itself. By peace here, i mean the absence of human bloodshed and wars and the like.

The point therefore is, peace cannot be obtained in the way we normally assume, in the way we isolate it as complete absence of chaos. Throughout history, man has killed man and I cannot recall any phase where there has been the persistence of a utopia.

I always maintain observing things based on how they are and how they have been earlier rather than on how anyone thinks they 'should' be. Our minds aren't omniscient and therefore we always prone to committing errors. And based on how things are and have been, utopia is an impossibility. In fact it almost appears as though peace is an irritating entity which never emerges dominant, never offsets violence significantly and never ever dies.

As a ferverent fan of astronomy, I have been zealously studying about our universe as we know it. And this is where I had this revelation - the Sun will actually be responsible for uniting the world. I am not talking about some extraordinary use of solar energy although that is basically the reason here. Still baffled? Let me explain -

The sun is a star and that means it is growing and becoming hotter continuously. Life as we know it is dependent on how much energy we obtain from the sun. Our earth is in a comfort zone in terms of its distance from the the sun; it's neither too far to freeze and neither too close to melt. But as the sun becomes more intense and bigger, the comfort zone will shift further away from it. With that gone, the earth will literally melt and finally perish, consumed into the innards of the sun.

I do not see an instinct more intense in every human being than the one to sustain its well being, to survive. In the future, humanity will have a common enemy and one from which there won't be any escape unless the world stands united in tackling it.

Think about it; the wars, the altercations and the like; all seem insignificant juxtaposed against this impending cataclysm. We have to leave planet earth and such an endeavor would possibly require the cooperation of the collective intelligence of the world.

Better still, all dissidents would have to be terminated. By dissidents, I mean the usual selfish odd one out unconcerned about the status of their subsequent generations. As far as I know, there are lesser of such people on earth. Instinctively, the world will attain a sense of togetherness on being threatened by a common enemy.

Of course, my speculation is subject to many other constraints. For example, since this event isn't going to manifest anywhere in the near future, many nations might already discover means of mass inter planetary transportation and hospitalizing other planets to replicate the environment of the earth. This would make leaving our world much easier and the sun would no longer be a threat. So much for unity in such a scenario then.

But for giving the opportunity for peace to offset violence completely just for a moment in the infinity of time, I really do hope we find ourselves one day looking at the sun more as a bringer of death than a giver of life. Till then, all we can do is hope that the shattered limbs of humanity are held together miraculously and it still breathes.

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A few reasons why ET isn't here yet

Think about ET and chances are you will recall something from Hollywood - big round eyes, slithering fingers and even Keanu Reeves; who by the way has a 'massive sad' (sorry just had to say that). Not bad but what are the possibilities that they will actually look like that? More importantly, will we even come across any of them?

Sorry to disappoint you but I think the chances are quite low. Here's why -

1. Intelligence:
   
   As Neil deGrasse Tyson puts it - 'when is the last time you stopped and had a conversation with a worm'? Chimps share 95-98% of our DNA and yet we cannot really understand their ways and to be honest, most of us don't really care.
   
   So if there really are aliens who have discovered us, they must be much more intelligent than what we are. In that case, why would they even bother to communicate with us? We are nothing but what worms are to us. Probably, all they might be doing now is studying us.
   
   
   
   
2. The 11 dimensions:
   
   We as humans can see only 3 dimensions and are woven into a 4th one - time. However, M-theory suggests that there are 11 dimensions in all! So it is highly probable that these life forms we are seeking maybe existing in a dimension we cannot sense.
   
   If you have a lot of time in hand, check out this long series which explains everything.
   
   
   
   
3. What is a life form anyway?
   
   The general view about a life form is that it needs nutrition, water and air. Now we know nutrition can be different things for different creatures. Moreover, scientists have now discovered that there are creatures on Earth itself that don't need oxygen to survive.
   
   In that case, how do we define what an organism is? In a possible scenario, we may have already come across living organisms made up of chemical compositions in outer space which we have plainly dismissed as galactic clouds or something. Sam Neill wants you to think like that too :)
   
   
   

In the light of those arguments, common sense would dictate that we will probably never be contacted. However, we do know that life does exist somewhere in some form out there and that it is up to us to contact them instead.

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