Speculation, Musings, & Insanity

I like to think. Some say I think too much. One day, I saw a documentary about a dozen or so of the thousands of documented world wide UFO sightings. This being a widespread unexplained phenomena, I naturally started trying to reason out what it could be.

Perhaps 95% of UFO sightings are able to be explained away by examining weather phenomena, aircraft flight patterns, FAA records, electrostatic discharges igniting methane, or by various other means which sometimes border on ludicrous themselves. After exhausting all possible explanations, there remains 5% of sightings which simply can't be explained at all. In some of those cases, hundreds of witnesses see the exact same thing from various angles. In many unexplained cases, there are even reports of contact with alien beings.

What amazes me is that all the sightings of alien beings worldwide basically group them into two categories. There are dark gray taller aliens and smaller light gray or pinkish gray aliens. Even more strange and difficult for me to believe, these alien beings basically all look like US!!

Yes, their skin is a different color/texture and they usually have one less finger, but that's about it. What are the odds that "IF" life exists on another planet a million light years away from us, it would end up with 1 head mounted on a neck, 2 arms, 2 legs, hips, knees, ankles, elbows, shoulders, 2 eyes, a nose between the eyes with 2 nostrils, a single mouth below the nose? I mean come on. One of these aliens could be your really skinny, big-headed, cousin Jimbo with a fluorescent-light tan and big black contact lenses. Isn't that odd to anyone else?

Scientists also say that it would be nearly impossible for beings from even the nearest inhabitable star systems to travel the vast distances required in order to visit us. The ships would need to travel at near the speed of light. Physics tells us that as you near the speed of light, mass increases quickly toward infinity. In order to move a near infinite amount of mass, it would require a near infinite amount of energy, which you can't generate without infinite fuel. That's one BIG gas tank to tote across the galaxy. With all of those infinites in the equation, you can see why they believe it is virtually impossible.

More recently, it has been speculated that a ship could create a localized distortion or bubble in space and sit inside that bubble while the bubble moves near the speed of light. In theory, this could work, because a space distortion could be created in a way which would effectively have no mass. We have an idea of how this could be accomplished theoretically, but doing it is well beyond our technology and resource level. It would require planetary scale commitment of resources and star-sized amounts of energy in order to build the type of equipment needed to create that bubble. More importantly, (in my mind) it doesn't explain why the aliens basically look like us.

In my thinking, I came up with another possible explanation. What if these light and dark colored aliens are actually just humans from our own distant future? We already know humans have evolved over the last 10 thousand years of human history. We can see it by examining the remains of people who lived back then. We've changed gradually in a number of ways. We're taller. Our jaws and teeth are different. Our brains have gotten bigger. Now imagine those changes projected forward maybe 100 thousand years or more into our future. Then, factor in changes in our environment which might affect our future evolution.

What if in the future our eyes had to evolve into huge black pupils because we screwed up our atmosphere so bad that we had to start living underground in bunkers breathing manufactured oxygen? What if we became so addicted to technology that we basically stopped doing anything physical? Or what if we had to leave the planet and live in zero gravity orbit? Our bodies would evolve into skinny little things barely able to support the weight of our own heads.

Perhaps in the future our brains grew and evolved where we could communicate telepathically? Or maybe we communicate solely through a neurological link to our technology? What if natural food doesn't exist in the future because people take up all available land space? What if we all live on manufactured food we drink through a tube? After thousands of years, our mouths would become tiny slits from lack of use. In fact, if all of these changes happened, we would look exactly like the "aliens" everyone keeps seeing.

So, what if rather than traveling through space, these "aliens" are future humans who traveled through time? Is that even possible? The answer is yes in theory. In fact, Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicts mathematically that it is possible. Difficult, yes, but possible. Again, we don't have the technology to do it now, but we might in the future. As I see it, time travel would require a control over gravity which we don't currently have, but who is to say we wouldn't have it one day? In fact, I would say that travel through time is probably about the same difficulty as traveling vast distances through space. So it seems like an equally probable explanation for the identity of these ships and beings we keep seeing.

In fact, the ability to control gravity would open up both possibilities. Gravity is what warps space and time. As further evidence for my theory of time-traveling human "aliens" most of the features of alien ship sightings support a gravity-based drive system. Being able to manipulate gravity at will would eliminate propellers, jets, rockets, or any other type of noisy drive system, making the ships virtually silent. Manipulating gravity would allow you to negate the effects of inertia, allowing ships that could make right turns instantly. Fine control of gravity would allow invisibility effects, allowing the ship to bend light around the hull.

All in all, if we're looking for an explanation for the zillions of alien and ship sightings over the course of thousands of years of human history (modern "aliens" are even drawn on the walls in ancient Egyptian temples), my money is on these "aliens" being future humans who are trying to keep a low profile while visiting us in the here and now. They just aren't doing a very good job of staying hidden. Even that fact seems profoundly human, when you think about it.

Labels: Aliens, Physics, Time Travel, UFOs