Space Time Stories

“Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize planets where life could exist. The planet is not habitable but it has the same chemistry that, if found around a rocky planet in [...]

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The basic argument of an atheist is “If there is a God then prove it, where is the evidence?  I can’t see him, I’ve never seen a miracle, there is no evidence of supernatural powers or beings.”  Replace those words with aliens and you get the exact same argument.  Anyone who argues against the existence [...]

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For those who might misinterpret my prior comments on Darwinism here’s a clarification. The philosophy of Darwinism leads many people to use the word “paradox” to describe the lack of alien visitors. They all “know” that the evolution of sentient life is easy, so facile, that the Milky Way “must be” teaming with intelligent life. [...]

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Many recent blog posts continue to try to explain the Fermi Paradox.  I’ll try to explain why these writers just don’t get it. http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-fermi-paradox/ http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_9.html http://www.entangledstates.org/2009/06/where-are-they-another-solution-to-fermis-paradox.html http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23604/ http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1796-Alternative-solutions-to-the-Fermi-paradox.html http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408521v1 Many people still are confused on several points about the Fermi Paradox.  Let’s start with the name. The word paradox is used because everyone “knows” it’s [...]

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Reginald Smith from the Bouchet-Franklin Institute in Rochester, New York has written a paper which claims that every civilization in the Milky Way stops broadcasting EM after 1000 years.  Based on this assumption he shows that it is reasonable that our galaxy has multiple sentient species who never interact with each other. This assumption seems [...]

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Suppose the cosmologists have it wrong and dark matter really is composed of baryons.  It’s not like cosmologists have a great track record.  Most of their theories have been proven wrong over the past few centuries.  Comparing the track record of mathematicians with cosmologists is pretty much night and day.  When a mathematician says they [...]

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