The Journey

The Journey

There has been a lot of discussion regarding Space Travel.  At speeds we are currently able to travel it would take generations of travelers living a multitude of lifetimes to travel to the nearest Star System with a sun and an earth like planet we could colonize.  One of the latest theories in space travel involves creating a warp drive like in Star Trek. This would entail using a power source that would be capable of develop enough energy to establish a bubble that could isolate a ship from the rest of the universe and recognizing the origin and the destination of a journey making a very quick trip possible. Are you as confused as I am?

Other theorists have entertained the wormhole idea.  I like this idea simply because it invites a new math.  In order to travel from point A to point B in a wormhole you must establish a transmitter/receiver like anchor at both ends of the wormhole in order to stabilize it and keep it open.   If we could make small leaps through worm holes for a number of distances, maybe we could eventually find another Earth like planet.  Of course this would require different and equally challenging develpments.  So we just need to keep learning new ways to think and operate. This is a good thing because eventually one person’s idea will lead to someone else getting a new idea and so on.  If we all continue to share ideas eventually we will find the answers we'er looking for.  

I am fascinated by all of this.  I also find the intellectual growth of our species to be a real puzzle. With all the thought and technology to help us out, why aren’t we able to expand the amount of our brain we use?  We have all this potential in our heads but we only use a small part of it. 

I have to wonder if the ways we choose to teach our children limits their potential for learning.  And our children are the most important thing in our lives, yet we allow them to be slaughtered generation after generation to feed the hunger for power and wealth.  As long as this is the case how can we develop as a species?  I have thought about the need to embrace the differences of our fellow human beings rather than to allow them to separate us and pit us against each other. 

There must be a singular creative force in the universe. But I think it is a collective formula of energy and mater, when brought together over a period of time, gives opportunity for the beginning of life.  Life can grow on this physical level to unimaginable levels.  But the opportunities to become self-aware are not so plentiful.  

Understanding the size of the universe and the probable number of class M planets like Earth I know there are millions of self-aware lives out in our universe. © Copyright Charles Hawkins 2013

Among the thousands upon thousands of intelligent life forms in our universe there has to be a few thousand that are a millennia ahead of us in development. What if their learning process is uninhibited?  What if they have a universal respect and affection for each other?  It kind of makes you wonder where we went wrong.  It has been suggested that during our early years of development we were interfered.  This could account for some of our conflicting emotional anomalies. And what if we viewed these interlopers as GODS. What if, in an effort to control our development we were given foundations that would direct us to worship them and war against each other?  If it were the case, this would explain why every religion claims their way is the only way.  Maybe these visitors were in a conflict with each other.  In any case faith needs no proof.  So faith must be self-fulfilling.  It ultimately makes me want to ask the question.  When the GODS eventually return, and they will, will we be taken into their fold or will we be subjugated to slavery and abuse?  I don’t know. But I do know this. They will be back.   

© Copyright Charles Hawkins 2013