The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone In

What We Want Is Another Sample Of Life, Which Is Not On Our Tree Of Life At All. All Life That We've Studied So Far On Earth Belongs To The Same Tree. We Share Genes With Mushrooms And Oak Trees And Fish And Bacteria That Live In Volcanic Vents And So On That It's All The Same Life Descended From A Common Origin. What We Want Is A Second Tree Of Life. We Want Alien Life, Alien Not Necessarily In The Sense Of Having Come From Space, But Alien In The Sense Of Belonging To A Different Tree Altogether. That Is What We're Looking For, "life 2.0."

My Feeling Is That Scientific Method Has The Power To Account For And Interlink All Phenomena In The Universe, Including Its Origin, Using The Laws Of Nature. But That Still Leaves The Laws Unexplained.

Technology Is, In The Broadest Sense, Mind Or Intelligence Or Purpose Blending With Nature.

General Relativity Is The Cornerstone Of Cosmology And Astrophysics. It Has Also Provided The Conceptual Basis For String Theory And Other Attempts To Unify All The Forces Of Nature In Terms Of Geometrical Structures.

Man-made Computers Are Limited In Their Performance By Finite Processing Speed And Memory. So, Too, The Cosmic Computer Is Limited In Power By Its Age And The Finite Speed Of Light.