bonkers I know...

…but hear me out / indulge me.

I wrote recently about my understanding (or rather lack thereof) of theoretical physics and how therefore to my mind it was all made up.

But my mind has been changed.  Why?  Because during another of the long days I spend with only myself and a dog for company I started wondering again whether we are alone in the universe or are one of many intelligent civilisations in the cosmos.  If we are the latter, then it follows that we must then ponder what our cosmic partners look like and how they behave.

There is a strong belief among some scientific boffins that artificial intelligence has taken over more advanced planets than ours, with the robots becoming cleverer than their one-time programmer masters, and effectively reversing roles and taking over from any naturally evolved extra-terrestrial lifeform.  Think Terminator and you’re getting there.

But what if alien civilisations have become so advanced that they no longer exist in any tangible, touchable or recognisable form?  What if they have evolved to such an advanced state that their existence is on a purely spiritual level.

Is this as nuts as it sounds?

Looking back at the history of our planet, we sort of bumbled along for thousands of years, evolving slowly with the only real major breakthroughs to show for our time here on the Earth being fire and the wheel. 

Then, all of a sudden and from nowhere, we gathered real intellectual pace.  Taking to the skies and, within 70 years of that first primitive powered flight, riding rocket propelled spaceships to the moon and then developing a permanent manned station in near space.

How did this happen?  Luck?  Chance?

Or maybe some benevolent spiritual alien race with knowledge far, far beyond ours decided one day that it would start to drip feed that knowledge to us; selecting certain individuals to somehow inspire to make the absolutely huge, quantum even, leaps to where we are today.  Is that so unlikely to be insane?  Well, it’s no more “out there” than some of the other theories about our universe.

Anyway, it’s my theory.  And if you don’t like it, you can give me your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.