After Death & Life in the universe

What happens after death?


The word people have applied most to one theory is "reincarnation" although traditionally in my opinion it is a word with very stupid meanings. We live again right after we die? We have lived as old kings and queens on earth before? Both rather wishful thinking.

Infinite time, infinite space... Eventually our consciousnesses will exist again?
I think so and surely it favours a high level of probability. I've often thought about how consciousness could be from genetics but that theory goes out the window because we all came from the same single strand of bacteria that started life on earth and if that could happen on earth then it could happen anywhere in the infinity of space and time just as my mind could exist again. They wouldn't be linked in any way naturally but I would be "conscious" again. Perhaps? I would again be a living, thinking being.

What if we just die and that's it, nothing happens? Well like I said above time really is INFINITE. It won't ever just "end". Ever. Even if the universe(s) all came to nothing and for an eternity nothing existed, eventually it would come to be again. Something does come of nothing. The science of nothing hasn't been explored too much but I can assure you we have never seen "nothing". Everywhere on earth is saturated with atoms. Everywhere in our visible sight in the universe is so. And there's a natural constant that seems to affect everything - gravity. I think the gravity of "nothing" is very high. I don't know what happens inside a black hole and don't know if they have anything to do with "nothing". I don't know if nothing ever has or ever will exist because something does come from nothing. A theory I consider is such insane levels of gravity (from nothing... Confusing, right?) that massive numbers of atoms are created. Perhaps like a... Big bang! Well I think scientists are very stupid to make such assumptions about the beginning of the universe when we're still relatively primitive but it's certainly a plausible theory. Back on-topic, time is infinite, there will always be something. I think since space and time are so infinite it would be arrogant to assume earth was the first (or last) planet to host life. Very stupid indeed. We've only discovered a handful of planets outside our own solar system, which just happened to support life. If ours can and we're not even a damn grain of sand then I'm pretty sure there are billions, perhaps trillions of planets with life out there. Where are they? Theoretical maximum speed of light = hundreds of thousands of years even for signals to travel between galaxies. And science has certainly detected some seemingly artificial signals. (http://socyberty.com/paranormal/alien-signal-detected-near-gliese-581g/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_source_SHGb02%2B14a and probably plenty more where those came from, that is the infinity of space. Radio source SHGb02+14a for example: "There are a number of puzzling features of this candidate, which have led to a large amount of skepticism. The source is located between the constellations Pisces and Aries, a direction in which no stars are observed within 1000 light years.") Those are just the few that happened just to be travelling in the right direction to reach earth. (Think of the infinite numbers between 0 and 1. Use that thought with 3d directions in space. You have infinite possible directions for a signal to go to. What are the chances of an alien planet with no clue we exist yet sending a signal that just happens to reach earth? Infinitessimal. Back on topic. Infinite time, (possibly) infinite life, infinite space (heck maybe even infinite universes). Probability of existing again: Pretty damn high.

I would be very interested to see comments on my theories and get into a discussion.

Power games

In 1954, three American researchers, Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin, designed a silicon solar cell capable of a six percent energy conversion efficiency with direct sunlight.

In episode one of Wonders of the solar system from the BBC, Professor Brian Cox said that in one day the sun emits about 400 million million million million watts every second. In his words, this is a million times the power consumption of the United States in a year.

It obviously doesn't require extremely rare or expensive materials to make solar panels. And they were making quite relatively efficient ones in the 1950s. Why is the whole world not now using all of this solar power that is aimed at our planet, going to waste? It's being aimed right at us yet we would sooner drill oil from the ground and dig up parts of our own planet for wasteful, polluting power.

I think it's because the various oil corporations in our world wouldn't want to lose all of their many trillions and trillions of dollars in income. And when you have that much money you can control pretty much anything, even for example certain governments. BP seems to have a huge monopoly on solar panel production at the moment and they will probably keep it all to themselves, selling it at vastly inflated prices (compared to the cost even to manufacture the panels) to the consumer. As opposed to people having solar panels on their own homes and making their own power without having to pay anything. That wouldn't be very much like capitalism, would it?

World Affairs

It is perfectly plausible that in the relative near future there could be a significant wars between countries with clashing ideologies, be those political or religious ideals, or the governments of a group of countries just deciding they want to expand their power base, perhaps even influenced by corporations. I don't think there's anything the UN, NATO or any armies could do to stop this (at least very well) if enough countries were joined in an attack. I just hope that if such events do unfold whoever ultimately benefits from the silly little power games of the human race however far in the future that may be will use it in a way which shows principle rather than in a selfish or oppressive way. I hope this little rock has a future where our species (or what we will evolve into) will progress...