by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: October 19, 2008   Last Updated: June 06, 2009

Exo-archeology is a dormant science yet is does have it good points. The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence project was established in 1984. Today it has 150 scientists looking for extra-terrestrial life forms and artifacts. It is important not to be biased about what form extra-terrestrial life may take.

In popular culture people are far too willing to make summary judgments and close down an investigation. Science fiction writers such as Jules Verne, Frank Herbert and Ray Bradbury have provided ideas for many to consider about green men 'out there'. The potential forms of Green Men, Men in Black, Bin-creatures of Planet Alpha-Beta and even of the Universe itself cannot be conclusively known right now, a priori. Let's not bias our judgments about what we should be looking for, and instead leave the inductive reasoning parameters set to 'maximum imaginable'.

Humanity as a 'civilized' being is merely 7000 years old and for most of that period the science was crude compared with today. In 7000 years ordinary people would believe that the science of today is crude. Imagine being limited by quantum-cosmological topology and inabilities to overcome quantum determinism at the material level of four dimensions!

Science fiction writers of course can postulate innumerable novel shapes of extra-terrestrial civilization few of which need to resemble anything found upon the Earth. Early astronomers have of course been deceived by the patterns in observable fields that resemble man-made constructions; anthropomorphic anticipation criteria in observations are natural enough when one hasn't much of an idea about what sort of things an extra terrestrial civilization might build.

The 13.3 billion year old Universe had an origin out of nothing or next to nothing at a singularity of infinitely small size. The math theories that model the Universe break down at that scale very often and where the Universe came from before that is left to additional speculation. There are many people that have thought about what existed before the nothing at the beginning of the Universe for millennia.

The philosopher Plato wrestled with the issue about forms, and the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus became an emanation theorist positing in what way The One issued the Universe essential from nothing-matter was believed to be the lowest form of things, and evil was a wicked illusion. Some modern cosmologists posit the entire Universe could have been created by intelligent life forms

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