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Mr. Phelps lived at a time when the universe was about 12 billion years old. He was a member of a primate species called "human", which occupied a small, warm water planet in the inner solar system of a typical yellow star, exactly where you would have expected such beings to have evolved.
For life forms like humans to develop, two generations of stars had to live, die, and produce the right kinds of elements needed to make living organisms - a process that took something more than 10 billion years from the big bang. One should not be surprised, then, to learn that Mr. Phelps' species was the very first in the Milky Way galaxy to develop radio astronomy. In Mr. Phelps' time, the universe was too young to hum with the music of life as it does today.
While Mr. Phelps suspected this to be true, he nevertheless devoted his primative computer to the search for other radio civilizations. Since he knew this was almost certainly futile, however, Mr. Phelps sought to connect with life and intelligence in the cosmos by spiritual means, on the theory that life everywhere was part of an undivided whole. While some scientifically-inclined humans derided him for these efforts, those who reflected upon quantum-connectedness understood. |
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