I am always astounded by scientists now who think something is impossible because human science and engineering have a limited grasp on a subject.
This has been a point of conversation around the ol' campfire with me as well.
Say what you will about Bob Lazar, I'm not bringing him up to talk about what his story is, but rather a side point that really resonated with me.
He made an analogy in one of his interviews or podcasts or talks or something, somewhere, where he talked about a theoretical instance of being able to send a nuclear bomb back in time to the 1500's.
So even the smartest of theorizers, the most skilled engineers in the entire world would take a look at this device and eventually someone would figure out a way to start taking it apart, piece by piece.
Thing is, no one at this time even had any idea about the actuality, of the existence, of things like radiation. Atomic-level theory didn't even exist as a human thought or concept at this point.
So they'd take it apart, and if it didn't just detonate and explode, wiping out a city - which in and of itself would be considered something on the level of God's Punishment if not just plain ol witchcraft and sorcery - even if it didn't explode, it would leak radiation, and affect the people working on it, near it, in the same city block as it. People would get "sick," with an "illness" that we've never witnessed before. Radiation burns, boils, internal system shut downs, all without apparent provocation and causation.
It, too, would be witchcraft. It would be other-worldly, divine. There would be no other way to cognitively put the pieces of what was happening, together.
So - by that line of thought, that's not so much a way of looking back and laughing at their naivete but recognizing that we are the barbaric 1500's to someone, something, else. Their technologies, breakthroughs, levels of understanding of the materials around them, are simply on a different level. They're dealing with what we wouldn't even grasp.
And that is what I believe to be entirely plausible, should any of it be actual enough in the end anyways.
This has been a point of conversation around the ol' campfire with me as well.
Say what you will about Bob Lazar, I'm not bringing him up to talk about what his story is, but rather a side point that really resonated with me.
He made an analogy in one of his interviews or podcasts or talks or something, somewhere, where he talked about a theoretical instance of being able to send a nuclear bomb back in time to the 1500's.
So even the smartest of theorizers, the most skilled engineers in the entire world would take a look at this device and eventually someone would figure out a way to start taking it apart, piece by piece.
Thing is, no one at this time even had any idea about the actuality, of the existence, of things like radiation. Atomic-level theory didn't even exist as a human thought or concept at this point.
So they'd take it apart, and if it didn't just detonate and explode, wiping out a city - which in and of itself would be considered something on the level of God's Punishment if not just plain ol witchcraft and sorcery - even if it didn't explode, it would leak radiation, and affect the people working on it, near it, in the same city block as it. People would get "sick," with an "illness" that we've never witnessed before. Radiation burns, boils, internal system shut downs, all without apparent provocation and causation.
It, too, would be witchcraft. It would be other-worldly, divine. There would be no other way to cognitively put the pieces of what was happening, together.
So - by that line of thought, that's not so much a way of looking back and laughing at their naivete but recognizing that we are the barbaric 1500's to someone, something, else. Their technologies, breakthroughs, levels of understanding of the materials around them, are simply on a different level. They're dealing with what we wouldn't even grasp.
And that is what I believe to be entirely plausible, should any of it be actual enough in the end anyways.