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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 21:28:22 GMT -6
Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory, speaks about 3 types of Extraterrestrial Civilizations.
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Post by lois on Sept 12, 2013 19:49:39 GMT -6
Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory, speaks about 3 types of Extraterrestrial Civilizations. Thank you Cliff. I been trying to find this to post for a very long time. So where does that leave us? Will we make it?
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Post by lois on Sept 12, 2013 19:59:01 GMT -6
Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory, speaks about 3 types of Extraterrestrial Civilizations. Thank you Cliff. I been trying to find this to post for a very long time. So where does that leave us? Will we make it?
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Post by bewildered on Sept 13, 2013 12:09:42 GMT -6
If Hollywood represents the future Type I culture, then I'll volunteer for a one-way mission to, say, the Large Magellanic Cloud. No thanks. Interesting stuff by Dr. Kaku. He's a brilliant physicist, though I think his views on hypothetical alien cultures should be taken with a grain of salt. His projections are sprinkled with a dose of anthropocentrism (see definition here), which you'll find extant throughout all human cultures to some degree (meaning most of us are "guilty" of it), some more than others. I disagree with his characterization of the fictional Federation of "Star Trek" fame: they don't harness power directly from stars, they use anti-matter derived from "dilithium crystals" to power their starships and warp drives. C'mon, Dr. Kaku, surely you recall all of the issues with anti-matter containment that plagued Engineering in Voyager. The anthropocentrism inherent in his conjecture might be seen in his characterization of Type I, II, and III civilizations. Each of them operates on a human paradigm of production, or to couch that differently, how we think an advanced civilization would harness power. There are billions upon billions of stars, and billions upon billions of worlds orbiting those stars. We ourselves know of a variety of potential energy sources such as cold fusion, but would a species different from us think according to a paradigm virtually identical to our own? The likelihood of that plummets the moment you leave Earth, and keeps growing slimmer and slimmer the farther you move away from us. Consider dark matter, the mysterious substance that is thought to constitute 26.8% of the mass of the "known" universe, and dark energy, which holds the lion's share of mass at 68.3%. Dark energy is hypothesized to be the force behind the expansion of the universe. Who's to say that a hypothetical type 3 alien civilization wouldn't tap into dark energy? According to our own paradigm, it's the most plentiful source of energy in the universe. It's everywhere.
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