MONDAY, MAY 30, 2011 science - interstellar travel - piggy backing around the universe

MONDAY, MAY 30, 2011

science - interstellar travel - piggy backing around the universe

we concentrate, as a scientific race, far too much on the application of our vast intelligence to power us across the universe.

But we're puny.

And we'll never succeed to cross the vast interstellar distances like this, it'll just all take too long to 'get up to speed', cruise through space for millennia, then 'decelerate at the other end'.

So, Mike, what should we be doing?

We should invest some observational tech on looking for the BIG STUFF, the universal carrier pigeons that are already spanning the universe. We need to raise our mathematical-navel-gaze up the Planck Length where they think answers may lie and concentrate on the MACROSCOPIC UNIVERSE so that we can take advantage of the natural phenomena that are already active in intergalactic travel.

In the same way that a tick hitches a ride on the flank of a wildebeest, covering far more distance as a PARASITE than it ever could crawling through the enormous stalks of the grass lands.

I suspect there are VAST intergalactic entities surfing through space, large as galactic clusters, physical anomalies that allow SMALL STUFF like us to 'hitch a ride through space on the back of them'. You might want to call it 'extra dimensions' but you don't necessarily have to, it's just A VERY BIG THING that could carry something very small on its moving surface. A turtle in a gulf stream. A barnacle on a whale.

Think about the way the entire universe condenses out of its intergalactic super structure. Get something BIG (and mobile) to give you a hand across freezing cold river, you know, rather than trying to swim across yourself.