Why hasn't the Borg invaded Earth yet? I've seen every episode of Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager and Enterprise, and many more films in which aliens invade Earth. I love science fiction. But this is fantastic, and it will remain so. This is how Robert Lanza, Ph. D., scientist and author of Biocentrism, begins his essay, published in the Huffington Post.
Many people, including the famous scientist Stephen Hawking, are also worried about the possible invasion of aliens on Earth. "For my mathematical brain, numbers alone lead to the idea of extraterrestrial rationality," Hawking said. "My guess is that they can exist in massive ships, conquer and colonize every planet they can reach."
But, as you know, it would be strange if we were alone. Suffice it to imagine that "there are a trillion planets in the galaxy," says Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI Institute. "There are many places to live." Dan Wertheimer, director of the SETI Research Center, added that "only a meager mind does not ask if there is life there."
So where is extraterrestrial life? Since the 1960s, Soviet scientists, NASA and others have been looking for signs of intelligent life. Scientists have calculated that the universe contains over 100 billion galaxies (and our Milky Way alone has over 300 billion stars, about 400 billion). According to Carl Sagan, there must be a septillion (one followed by 24 zeros) planets capable of supporting life. Of course, intelligent life could well develop even as a result of random events and acquire consciousness. But despite half a century of scanning the sky, astronomers cannot find a single sign of life that our radio telescopes should be able to capture with ease.
Scientists note that the aliens should have had enough time to colonize the entire galaxy. What, did they blow themselves up, or is the problem more fundamental? In a recent Wall Street Journal, Eric Metaxas wrote: “What happened? As our knowledge of the universe grows, it becomes apparent that there are many more factors necessary for life than Sagan suggested. Its two parameters increased to ten, twenty, and then to fifty, and the number of planets capable of supporting life decreased accordingly. The number has dropped to a few thousand and continues to fall. As new factors are discovered, the number of planets capable of supporting life has reached zero and continues to fall. In other words, statistics show that we should not be here either. In general, there should not be planets with life in the Universe."
Nevertheless, we are on this warm little planet at the right time in the history of the Universe: the molten Earth has cooled down, but not yet completely. And it's not too hot on it; The sun has not yet expanded enough to fry the earth's surface. The chances that random physical laws and events will lead us to this point demonstrate a statistical impossibility.
The scientific theory of biocentrism offers an explanation - and predicts that we are alone. While evolution has done an amazing job in helping us understand the past, it cannot capture the momentum. You need to add an observer to the equation. Truly, “when we measure something, we make the uncertain and indeterminate world take on an experimental value,” said Nobel Prize winner in physics Niels Bohr. We do not "measure" the world, we create it.
Cosmologists speculate that until recently, the universe was a lifeless collection of particles colliding with each other. It is represented by a clock that has somehow wound up and will count down the time in the most unpredictable way. But they ignored a critical component of space because they don't know what to do with it. This component, consciousness, remains completely mysterious. How inert and random bits of matter can turn into Lady Gaga?
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To understand what is happening, you need to understand what role the observer plays, our presence. In accordance with the current paradigm, the universe and the laws of nature simply came into being from nothing. From the Big Bang to the present, we have been incredibly lucky. Our luck started from the moment of creation; if the Big Bang were one millionth stronger, the universe would grow too fast for galaxies to form. There are over 200 physical parameters that could have changed everything that went wrong, but everything went exactly as it should, and we are here. Change one - and life would never be.
Our luck doesn't end there. Without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby (which sucks in asteroids), Earth would be attacked by a thousand times more asteroids, each of which would cause a thermal explosion with a dust release that would lead to icing and starvation of all life on the planet. A nearby star could go supernova, and its energy would sterilize the Earth through radiation. And these are just a few of the millions that could have gone wrong.
There is something strange in our existence, concludes Metaxas, “so astronomically dizzying that the phrase“it just happened”is contrary to common sense. It's like tossing a coin and throwing tails ten trillion times in a row.
But all this makes sense if you admit that it is we, the observers, who create space and time. Take a look at everything you see around. All you experience is a whirlwind of information in your head. Space and time are the tools of the mind that stores this information.
In their book “The Grand Design,” theoretical physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinov stated: “There is no way to remove the observer - us - from our perception of the world. In classical physics, the past exists as a specific set of events, but according to quantum physics, the past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."
We are the observer - this is the first reason, the life force, which destroyed the cascade of space-time events of the past, which we call evolution.
I recently bought a 3D TV to watch Avatar and watched it three times. There may well be a universe in which there is an inhabited moon like Pandora, on which extraterrestrial beings live in harmony with nature. The good news is that in such a biocentric universe, there would be no humans to invade their world.
Ilya Khel