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| Personal background |
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I was born and (mostly) grew up in the midwest, but had some experiences in other parts of the country before finishing High School and College in California. I was a computer wizard in college, and after many years in the corporate world, lost some of that drive and most of the tools to create everything myself with a computer.
Now, I would like to see something new developed with the help of a large array of computers, or supercomputers.
An interactive simulation of the universe.
A computer "game" if you will that would allow the player to explore/traverse the universe at speeds that can only be imagined, and view the galaxies, groups, supergroups, etc from any vantage point. And all the known features and objects in the universe would be accurately depicted in their known locations.
What a profound experience that would be! Imagine the spectral shift of faster than light travel! What frequencies would become visible to us in forward travel, and what would disappear from our rear view? Or we can just cheat and use worm holes, but that avoids the relativistic anomalies.
For extra fun and enlightenment, a clock could be on board which reports what time (month, year) it is on earth, given the relativistic effects of our simulated travel.
We might need a time travel feature so we can return to earth where and when we left off. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The ability to utilize the lost cycles of personal computers is awesome. When I was in college (in the old days of computers), I imagined background programs to calculate using symbolic division, but didn't have the bandwidth. My compiler project wouldn't fit in memory.
Now, by harnessing all the extra computer power, we can analyse information/noise from space and attempt to detect intelligable patterns. We have at least some reason to hope we can detect another civilization.
Of course, we may watch from a million light years away as it grows on its own, a million years ago, and then maybe fades out 1,000 years from now (999,000 years ago), before we can make contact.
But knowning we are not the only life in the universe will be a profound piece of information. |
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