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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
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.
I just find myself scratching my head at concepts like Fermi Paradox. I don't think it's a paradox at all yet it appears to be one if there are only a handful of considerations.
... so you're saying you think we HAVEN'T been enslaved by aliens?
How shall we test this hypothesis?
I think we test it by defining it and collecting data. If we can't distinguish between enslavement and freedom, then we have not defined it. If we can distinguish them, then we can figure the data accordingly.
I feel like doing so would give ample evidence that we are not enslaved by aliens. This isn't to say that we're not a part of some unknown greater mechanic, but that's not the same as being enslaved by aliens. Even something as strange as our thoughts being their energy should be testable. But even then it's not testable as long as the definition is to test an unknown
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)
If humans used every bit of raw material the solar system has to offer, sending out trilions of vessels, wouldn't that be virtually nothing in the scope of the galaxy? We'd just be spreading seed to empty space
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