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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Not a monkey, but lots of physicists have had bad answers to these in the past IMO because the answers aren't just from a series of calculations.
Physicists like good, solid predictions. We don't care about calculations except when they help to predict a result. If a cartoon provides an accurate prediction, we'll use a cartoon.
Math is a tool of physics, not the goal. We didn't choose the tool, we use every god damn fucking thing that we can fashion into a tool and nudge physics to see if it helps. When the nudging stops working, we beat at physics with it anyway for years and years (I'm looking at you, string hypothesists).
Eventually we look for something else that helps.
Many, many, ... , many physics students wish that math wasn't a part of it at all.
Originally Posted by wufwugy
We haven't been enslaved by aliens because an intra-galactic dominating lifeform would have to be so advanced that it has no incentive to enslave humans. It would have no incentive to even come near Earth. It would likely just be a network of machines that get all energy and material from a small amount of sources: a sun, asteroids, or even just quantum factories (probably quantum factories)
The other reason is that the sheer magnitude of spacetime and energy needs combined with the relative youth of all possible life determines that there just aren't any intra-galactic empires possible
... so you're saying you think we HAVEN'T been enslaved by aliens?
How shall we test this hypothesis?
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I think it is technically possible, but in order to get past the magnitude of the task, the aliens would have to basically be God. You don't hit a bullseye across a galaxy. And even if you could, you don't want to. When you're that advanced, you don't think it's a good idea to spread obsolete seed to a potential host candidate that will arrive in like a hundred thousand years
This actually makes some interesting points.
If you weren't interested in time scales or targeting any particular planet, you could certainly send out your interstellar jiz missiles en masse.
(Pardon my French)
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