Quote (Osirislives @ Fri, Dec 12 2008, 11:57pm)

dued hav u seen indpendence day, they hav aliens and alien ships in ther..

Quote (Vio-Lewis @ Fri, 12 Dec 2008, 15:37)

Yeah, I agree.  I mean, we used to think the earth was flat.  We might be making a similar mistake now without even realising it.  People are in denial because it is unthinkable that our current theories, that have been conceived over possibly hundreds of years, are completely wrong. 

We might well be on the right track, but nothing is yet certain.

Quote (Osirislives @ Fri, Dec 12 2008, 03:57pm)

dued hav u seen indpendence day, they hav aliens and alien ships in ther..

Quote (inkanddagger @ Mon, 12 Jan 2009, 10:41)

Humanity is 3 million years old and we just got to the moon 40 years ago.

sayin'

Quote (IcomeInPeace @ Fri, Dec 12 2008, 05:17pm)

To think our current science and knowledge of physics is at some pinnacle is very egocentric. Or perhaps more Earth-centric way of thinking. Human beings have a tendency to believe everything we do and achieve is somehow at the very precipice of knowledge. We haven't evolved much beyond "the Earth is the center of the Universe" way of thinking, if at all.

Most of our current "modern" everyday things we take for granted today, were essentially discovered or invented during the 19th century (1800s). Most of our electronics we use in 2008 were not developed until after WW II - and more aggressively after the 1960s.

Taking this very short time period of technological advancement into account. It's a little presumptuous to think that just because we humans can not travel between the stars in a timely manner, doesn't mean that a civilization many orders of magnitude more advanced than we haven't extrapolated the means to do so themselves.

Our current understanding of matter, spacial dimensions and energy are crude at best. Theories such as relativity only explain a certain aspects of a much broader range of things that we have no clue about as of yet.

I personally think that our current theories of what matter is, what the Cosmos is, what and how the various known forces work, among many yet undiscovered aspects of the Cosmos are woefully incomplete. String theory will probably prove to be a dead end as will many of our current theories that only describe very specific spheres of physics.

Here is something I wrote on space.com forums about matter and grappling with a more complete understanding of the Cosmos. By no means am I claiming to be correct, but if we can not think beyond 19th century theories, how do we expect to reach the stars?