Hawking Forum Post 32490


Subject: Re: are we alone?
Date: October 16, 2000 at 19:43:12
Poster: Samuel A. (Sam) Cox

Hi:

Those unfamiliar with the tenacity of life might smile at your insistence, but I agree that if encased in rock as an asteroid, endospores could probably survive interstellar travel. Of course the rock would have to be large enough to at least partly survive entry into an alien planets atmosphere.

Even more profound of course is the initial creation of life in the universe.

In the static geometric universe, order is conserved- and happily life is preserved forever, including ourselves. The universe is eternally experiencing and observing itself at some coordinates.

Unhappily, we must undergo change and the disquieting uncertainty of birth and death as part of our intermittent though eternal existence. We are part of the whole, but the whole cosmos does not depend on us- far from it!

If the Earth blew up, the cosmos would notice- but would continue with hardly a shrug. The cosmos has backup on backup. It is as stable as well, Gibraltar. The universe is prepared for every contingency.

In the beginning, from our frame of reference, light, moving on the surface of the waters, was able to impose order and organization on the matter here on Earth. That order, communicated and imposed by photons, came from the "other side" of our dual universe, the almost complete (at those coordinates) antiverse.

Life was explosive in its origin, on a geological time scale. It probably formed on Earth many times during the first billion and one half years of the Earths existence. Unfortunately, first a glancing impact with Mars, which formed the moon, and then many major global killer asteroid impacts wiped out life over and over again.

By 3.2 BY ago these impacts became rare, and the size of the bodies striking the Earth became smaller, enabling life to get a foothold. Animals and plants which lived in stable environments changed little. Those organisms exposed to the stresses and demands of more rapidly changing environmental conditions experienced de-selection, leaving only those most fit to continue.

The almost unimaginable evolution of man in but a few million years (we have changed as fast as some bacteria- which experience thousands- even millions of divisions in one human lifetime) has brought us to new frontiers. We would not be here if an asteroid 65 million years ago had not destroyed the Dinosaurs. Just as individual sperm meets individual egg is an impossibility come true, our existence as a species came about by an impossible series of coincidences.

That's the way it is in 4-D. From 7-D and a cosmic perspective we have always existed and will continue to exist forever. The 7-D and up universe may be complex, but it is fixed, stable and almost uncomfortably "secure"

And so we and life in the universe have always existed. We live in a universe where technologically, almost everything which can be done, has been done. If we doubt that, we can look in a mirror.

We live in a garden. We are here to enjoy, explore, and care for that garden. Maybe we will even somehow be able to add some new and interesting twist, some unique contribution of our own to the eternal reality.

Best Wishes, Sam Cox

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