Profile: henri

Personal background
Well, what is there to tell about myself? Compared to the immensity of space, I am but a little chunk of matter. Which brings me to an interesting thought. Since the quantities of matter and antimatter are supposed to be in balance, it's not unlikely that there's an anti-Henri walking around somewhere on an anti-earth. That'd mean there's two of us out there. Weird as it sounds, that makes me feel better about myself.There's this other weird theory that's been haunting my brain for a long time now. It strikes me that solar systems are a lot like atoms. They have a core and particles rotating around them. The earth is one of those particles. We have energy on earth. Electrons also are electrically charged. Now what if our solar system is an atom in the body of some huge life form? It would explain the big bang (conception) and the expansion of the universe (growth of a child). The expansion is finite, according to many scientists. Well, when a body is fully grown, it seizes to expand too. Solar systems form and eventually fade out. Body cells form and die too. If we're not walking on a proton, then at least we should examine these similarities. One never knows what we might learn about the cosmos by studying ourselves. Who knows in what strange fractal we are living?Anyway, I don't want to sound too weird today. I just woke up and didn't have coffee yet. I suppose I've just displayed my morning mood, which is not the best of my moods. After the coffee sinks in, I will probably turn into a rather nice guy again.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Given the fact that there's billions of solar systems out there, the chance that there are other planets which support some kind of life is so immense that it would seem ignorant to assume our planet is the only one that actually contains life forms.However, the chance of the other life forms having a similar perception of intelligence as we do is a lot smaller, but not zero. So it is good to keep a listening ear aimed at the sky in case someone out there tries to communicate with us in the manner we try to communicate with them.If both we and other life forms decide to just listen to the sky, then none of us will hear something. One needs to make sound in order for others to be able to hear us. So instead of relying on the other life forms to take the initiative, we should send some kind of message out ourselves.First thing that comes to mind is sending out primal numbers. It is said that math is a universal language that all intelligent species should be able do speak, even though we never were able to check that. But then again, the chance of other species understanding spoken messages is even smaller. So why not just use the primal numbers and hope for the best.Given the speed of sound, it will take a LONG time until our messages will reach any solar system. Light signals would be there faster and their origin is easier located. But then again, light needs to be directed at something and we don't know where to aim at. Plus, once light hits some space debris, all life forms in the shadow of the obstacle would not receive our message.We could of course just send light signals to the closest 10 solar systems and send sound signals in all directions. In case one of the light signals is received, interpreted and answered, our grandchildren might be receiving this answer.One thing is for sure, if we don't send messages or listen to find them, we will never be establishing contact. This is why I think SETI is a great initiative and vital should we ever want to find extra terrestrial intelligence.
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