Cosmology Evolution Spirit and Aliens

By Richard Soller

In our own universe of universes change has continued for some 13.7 billion years. During this time countless other worlds similar to our own have been spawned. These worlds have also evolved and may have hosted living beings for billions of years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483675510

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Copyright © 2013 by Richard Soller.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

The Cosmos

Evolution of Species

Introduction

Consciousness

Free Will

Conscience

Conclusion

Introduction

A Tiny Moon

The Red Planet

Earth

Panspermia

What is Life?

Extent of the Universe

S E T I

Where are the Aliens?

Speculation

INTRODUCTION

In our own universe of universes change has continued for some 13.7 billion years. During this time countless other worlds similar to our own have been spawned. These worlds have also evolved and may have hosted living beings for billions of years.

THE COSMOS

In 1920 two prominent physicists, Harlow Shapley and Heber Doust Curtis, engaged in a well publicized debate about the nature of the universe. Shapley was a professor from the Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory and Curtis was from the Lick Observatory. Both had unlimited credentials and credibility and yet they disagreed on a most fundamental issue—

Was the galaxy we live in the only galaxy in existence?

The debate lasted for two days and was at times heated and intense. Neither side convinced the other of their own point of view and very little was accomplished. Most observers felt that Shapley had carried the debate because of his somewhat superior debating skills even though he had taken the fallacious position that there was the only one galaxy in existence and that it was surrounded by empty space.

So it was just 90 years ago.

Within a decade of the Curtis/Shapley debate, Edwin Hubble gained the telescopic capabilities to look deeper into space than ever before. He discovered that there were countless galaxies besides our own and that these galaxies were actually moving away from each other. With this revelation Hubble had settled the Curtis/Shapley debate and proven that ours was not the only galaxy in existence.

In just a few more years another serious debate began about whether our universe had an actual beginning. Georges Lemaitre, a Roman Catholic priest and scientist, introduced the idea of a day without yesterday. He suggested that the universe had begun as a primeval atom or cosmic egg which then evolved and expanded outward to become the universe we have today.

Lemaitre’s notion of this primeval atom was addressed by many scientists including Albert Einstein, the originator of the Theory of Relativity. Professor Einstein considered Lemaitre’s physics to be abominable, which was a surprising opinion coming from the most notable physicist and mathematician of the twentieth century. Einstein did acknowledge however, that Lemaitre’s math was in fact correct.

Another well known physicist who opposed Lemaitre’s notion of the primeval atom was Fred Hoyle, famous for the steady state hypothesis, the belief that the universe had no beginning and no end. Professor Hoyle was also recognized for his explanation of stellar nucleosynthesis, the source of energy in the sun.

The steady state hypothesis was in stark contrast to Lemaitre’s primeval atom beginning and Professor Hoyle mockingly described Lemaitre’s primeval atom as an absurd Big Bang. Before long however, evidence in support of the primeval atom began to accumulate.

Then, in 1965, a most powerful confirmation of the Big Bang came to light. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were developing microwave radio astronomy receivers for Bell Labs when they discovered a background of microwave radiation which had actually originated at the beginning of our universe. This cosmic microwave background (CMB, as it came to be known) provided evidence for the primeval atom beginning and discredited Fred Hoyle’s steady state version of the universe.

Within a few more years (1980) Professor Alan Guth introduced the inflationary Big Bang theory, later known as the inflationary Hot Big Bang theory, a modified version of the original theory. Professor Guth’s inflationary theory says that almost immediately after the Big Bang a brief period of faster than light exponential expansion of the universe occurred. This exponential expansion resulted in the universe doubling in size 10 to the 50th power of times almost instantaneously. The inflationary Hot Big Bang theory of Professor Guth also solved what was known as the horizon problem and the flatness problem.

The horizon problem questioned why the universe is of uniform temperature even though parts of it were presumably out of causal contact. The inflationary" theory says however, that the whole universe started out in causal contact and therefore at uniform temperature before inflation. Then when exponential inflation occurred, every part of the universe (being at uniform temperature) sped away from every other part at greater than light speed keeping the temperature it had when it left causal contact.

Inflation also solved the flatness problem by the same mechanism, namely that our visible universe is so small compared to the inflated universe that the visible universe appears flat to us.

Since the 1980’s the inflationary version of the Big Bang has gradually come to be almost mainstream physics even though some of its implications, namely that of multiple universes (also known as the multi verse), sound like science fiction.

Proof of these multiple universes is being sought at the present time. To find this proof the cosmic microwave background is being examined to look for characteristic ripples which would indicate a previous collision between ours and another universe. If such ripples are found, the CMB will once again provide evidence to move cosmology forward with great strides.

As profound as it is, the Big Bang theory describes only the behavior of Lemaitre’s primeval atom. It doesn’t describe how the primeval atom actually came into existence. For this explanation we have to go into the incredibly small world of quantum reality.

First let us say that quantum physics is often said to be strange. It has also been said that if you think you understand quantum physics… well… you don’t!

Nevertheless, quantum mechanics is mathematically the most well proven theory in physics.

As part of Guth’s inflationary hot Big Bang theory it is stated that our universe is and was a mere quantum fluctuation, one of many random occurrences if you will, in a very much larger scenario. Allow me to say the words a very much larger scenario once again.

There are three general