Monsignor Pope Ping!
I always find it fascinating when folks debate the existence of other intelligent life in the universe. This article provides a reminder about how long it might take for a signal to get to or come from the nearest star systems (if they are even systems).
We just sent signals out a few decades ago. We have at least a few hundred more years before intelligent life RIGHT NEXT DOOR might recognize it. Then it might be several hundred more years before we would receive a call back. Folks, that is a 1,000 year conversation after two exchanges. And that is to our CLOSEST POTENTIAL NEIGHBORS. Now consider the rest of our own Galaxy. Given the life of stars, planets and life on our own planet, a few million years of existence is reasonable for a species. We’ll say 10 million for the real hardy intelligent life.
Now, let’s say intelligent life started on another planet just a little older than ours. What would constitute just a little older? A few billion years? One billion? What if we started a little before them? I might take a few thousand years to find or get a signal from or to other intelligent life and that’s after we figure out where to look and when it was intelligent.
Finding other intelligent life is not a math problem. It’s a time and space problem.
It’s always fun to think about it thought.
One of the myriad of evidences of the truth of Scripture is the phrase in Revelation 13:8 that describes Christ as, “The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world,” meaning, among other things, outside of time and space.
Time is created when light is created (along with the other wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum); time and space are defined by the wave-speed and the mass of light—a concept that would have made no sense to any rational thinker of the time, nor any rational thinker before the 17th century (Ole Roemer) for time, or the 20th century (Einstein) for space. But the One who created time and space knew.
This is not a mystery. It is simple.
Einstein missed the variable that explains this.
Time is not just a function of the speed of light.
Time is a function of the operational frequency of consciousness divided by the speed of light.
When consciousness (the soul) is cleansed and thus the mass is reduced it allows for an increase in frequency. when the speed of consciousness exceeds the speed of light one automatically has the gift of prophesy.
This is also why time collapses when I meditate or pray as I am tuning to the higher frequency where the time distortion is greater.
Another endorsement of modern scientism by the “ancient and unchanging” church.