Re: Ancient History. TerraHertz on Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:16 pm

TerraHertz on Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:16 pm

You know that 'proof' is something that comes in a range of strengths, right?
All the way from "I made it up", over to absolute mathematical proofs of theorems (which are still, effectively "I made it up", since we cannot _really_ know if the Laws of Logic and Mathematics are intrinsic to the nature of this universe.)

Anyway, not asking for 'proof' in the sense you might think, but rather an exposition of your development of these ideas. How did you arrive at them? For each component, you must have some experience or thinking that led you to it? If the ideas are worth anything, so is the reasoning behind them.

Once again I've ended up writing on this, when it's late at night and I'm out of time. But to attempt to cut out the teasing, briefly: I think I may have solved the Fermi Paradox. As in, found a solution that satisfies the requirement for 'universality', ie acts every time, in every case, and derives from funadamental aspects of reality that should be active in all possible scenarios. It isn't similar to any of the many existing Fermi Paradox solution candidates, which all fail the 'universality' requirement.

One of my background projects is trying to write it up. In two forms- one is an attempt at a fairly formal paper (underway), the other is to be a SF tragi-comic novel, based on the core ideas, but with extensions and explorations. I'd like to publish them simultaneously, someday. Your 'multiple interstellar origins of present day humans' is something that at first struck me as incompatible with my theory, but on reflection, it's compatible in quite a surprising way.
I'll discuss in more detail with you privately. Once I've explained my idea and its implications, I'd ask if I may incorporate your ideas within the novel. *Not* making fun of them, but as part of a grand history of humanity. As fiction... 'maybe', ie the reader will be left wondering if it really is.

I have to be a bit careful about telling people 'the theory'. Not for secrecy, but because if you accept it as potentially true, it's really, really, really depressing & terrifying. I tend to deliberately explore paths of reasoning that are frightening - I figure that's where the interesting new finds may lie. This one... yes. It's pretty cool, apart from the 'knife through the heart of your worldview' bit.
But I haven't yet been able to decide for sure whether I _should_ publish it. It's my experience that very few are comfortable with it. Comes with it's very own cognitive bias; one that isn't on the Wiki list, because it's so strong virtually no one sees it at all.

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