The Planets

NASA tells us that it has found Firefly's universe, a solar system with seven planets three of which are in a habitable zone and may have oceans.  Just one small problem, it is forty light years from us, at maximum velocity using our current technologies we can perhaps achieve 29,000 mile per hour.  Eight hundred thousand years later we can arrive at the new earths, of course the possibility that humanity had gone extinct during that period is a minor concern.  The other possibility is that a faster drive system is invented whilst the explorers are in flight and arrive just when the all planets in the solar system are bursting with human populations.  In fact the possibilities are endless, just read any 1950's pulp Scifi books.

Apparently it is a BIG discovery because basically they will be looking at the atmospheres and possibly finally say whether there is life out there.  Conspiracy theorists will say that NASA has had this information for years and only now they are just giving us a few breadcrumbs to work with, they will also probably point out that this is classical misdirection tactics to get the public's attention away from the orange terrorist that sits upon the throne of America.  I have to say the timing does seem a little bit coincidental but that's history for you, its full of such events.  Although we are working with a very small sample just ten thousand years of recorded history.

Also in the news is the possibility that Pluto will regain its planet status and the real question is do we really care?  The answer is quite simple until we are using a SatNav in our future spaceships to tell us which gravity well is a planet or not and whether we can do a handbrake turn in orbit without crashing like all those UFOs in conspiracy theories the answer is no.  Okay I admit not that simple.

Had a recent Twitter exchange with a Flat Earther telling me that all of NASA's photos are fakes:

@FlatEarthCity  Feb 21 @seadevil4 yeah maybe eventually they'll get one that looks real (but why dont they all match each other)...

Hey wait a minute none of my photos that I have taking since I had a camera match either does that mean they are all fakes.

@FlatEarthCity Feb 21 @seadevil4 yeap all fakes

It would appear so which means I do not exist, bummer!

Reality at a Distance

The curious thing about our universe/reality is that anything that is extremely far away from us does not make sense like for instance the fact that scientists think that the Universe is missing matter and light, to fix these discrepancies in the theory of everything they created bodge factors called Dark Matter & Dark Light. There was Dark Energy as well but they seem have spotted Gravity waves so the Dark Energy must exist.  If you leave our macro-verse and travel down to the very very small you eventually arrive at the Quantum level where surprise surprise nothing makes sense either.

Atomic particles appear and disappear seemingly randomly and if you observe a particle it changes its position I can only assume particles are particularly shy of any external observers.  Particles can also be entangled with one another which apparently allows for instantaneous communication between the two.  It has been referred to as spooky action at a distance.

Classical physics all works nicely at the human level of perception but once you observe the very distant or the very small reality falls apart, why is that?  Are there holes in the make-up of this reality?  Is Reality perhaps nothing more than a vastly complex computer model and what we are seeing are the edges of the model whereby the designers of Reality did not think they needed to code for the Quantum level or the larger workings of the Universe.  If we are part of a computer system how could we ever prove a negative or positive.

Another possibility although I suppose somewhat similar to a computer model would be what Creationists believe (no facts just belief) based upon on the literal truth of the Bible.  Where supposedly God created the Heaven and Earth in six days, I suppose it could be argued that since the Bible does not fully defined the length of a day those six days could have encompassed four billion years which is roughly the age of the Earth.  Humans have only been around for the last 200,000 years and in the last 6000 years civilisation started.

Creationists have fallen out of fashion in many religious circles over the last decade and have been replaced with a new philosophy called Intelligent Design whereby they do not believe in the literal truth of the Bible however they still maintain their belief despite all evidence to contrary:

“certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."

It is somewhat curious that Intelligent Design has evolved from Creationism by a process of natural selection.

What are the chances to discovering the real truth in my life time probably very unlikely unless someone invents a Interstellar drive or an Ant-Man suit which allows us to find the sign which says:

Abandon all hope all that enter here.
And an exit sign that says: Yeah! Right!

Theories of Dark Stuff

The basic scientific method is as follows:

1. Develop a theory based upon existing data and other current theories
2. Make observations
3. Think about it, why is this happening
4. Come up with a Hypotheses – causes
5. Test your hypothesis with experiments
6. Update your theory and start the whole process over again

Science has this problem with the universe, when looking out into the universe there appears to be an awful lot of stuff we cannot see not for lack of trying I might add.  We are using every method possible to see stuff in universe and yet our universe has parts missing.  I expect the box it came in says somewhere on the back: May contain small dark parts (do not give to small children).

27% of the observable universe is missing so to fix their theory of Everything scientists have come up with a bodge factor called: Dark Matter which is supposedly composed of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) however despite different methods of detection none have been found so far.

In the 1990s after observations of the universe showed it to be expanding at an increasing rate a new form of energy was hypothesized to exist called: Dark Energy which apparently is the cause of the expansion.  All evidence is so far is indirect and completely over my head regarding the actual science.

Dark Flow first appeared in 2008 showing that galaxy clusters had a peculiar velocity and they are flowing in a common direction towards the Centaurus and Hydra constellations which is also towards the Great Attractor.  Is the Great Attractor the source of the Dark Flow and do we really have to name the velocity Dark something?  How about Spooky velocity instead, oh yes that has been used already.

In 2014 scientists claimed that the universe is missing eighty percent of its light to fix this glaring issue they came up with Dark Light which is created by decaying Dark Matter that matter nobody can currently find.  See article here: 80% Light Missing

Four universal bodge factors to make their theory of Everything work.  The problem with applying the scientific method step five is that it all too far away making it extremely difficult do testable experiments.  There are however quite few scientists out there that have alternate theories regarding the Dark stuff.

If we look down at the quantum level we have a problem seeing particles because basically they are really small and we have to use instruments like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to detect anything useful and even then certain particles are quite elusive particularly anything dark or Higgs like.

Surely with all this dark stuff in universe we can persuade it to make an appearance by creating the conditions that it cannot say no to.  The LHC is probably one method although so far it has failed to yield results, please correct me if I am wrong.

I find it annoying that whenever something is missing in the universe it is immediately labelled Dark something, yes I understand why but it seems to lack imagination.  I'm currently missing a work polo shirt does that mean I should say Dark Forces have taken my shirt.  How about we described stuff the correct way.

• Dark Matter = Missing Matter
• Dark Energy = Expanding/Missing Energy
• Dark Flow =  Missing Flow
• Dark Light = Missing Light

 In fact lets just say: Missing!

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Update on my previous post: Smoke and Mirrors is Stranger than Fiction

My recent of understanding regarding quantum stuff has changed today as you could see in the above previous post, where I stated about observation of particles:

Atomic particles pop in and out of existence when we "observe" them or not...

Well that turns out to be a complete misunderstanding of the cat theory which is just a thought experiment and a common misconception of what a wave function is by us lay-persons.  A wave function is a mathematical description of a particle instead anything actually real.

I shall leave the previous post as is since it provides of evidence of the one true constant in the universe: Change.