Chapter 1 - In the Beginning

 In the beginning, there was darkness and void.  Then came a big bang that changed everything.  Out of seemingly nothing, the stuff that made galaxies came spewing out, expanding, and forming stars and eventually planets.  

Supposedly, this happened around 14 billion years ago.  As many as 100 billion galaxies were created and each with about 100 billion stars.  Our own Milky Way galaxy has 100 billion stars.  If you multiply 100 billion stars times 100 billion galaxies you get 10 to the 22nd power.  All of these stars came from one explosion 14 billion years ago.  

Our own planet Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, which means there are billions of galaxies that are billions of years older than our planet.  So, the likelihood that we are the only intelligence beings in the universe is practically zero.  Assuming there are at least millions of planets with intelligent life, then we also have to assume that there are also a few million planets that are at least a billion years older than our planet and this means that there are many life forms who are a billion years more advanced than we are.

Just imagine how much we have advanced in the last 100 years.  Now imagine how much more we will be advanced another 100 years from now.  Next, imagine how advanced we will be 1,000 years from now.  In a thousand years will we have found the cure to all diseases?  Will we have found unlimited, free energy?  Would we have discovered how to stop aging and live for hundreds of years?   Will we be able to travel to other planets?  Just think about all the secrets of life we will discover in one thousand years.

Now - imagine what we will learn in 10,000 years or what about 100,000 years.  Will we have discovered what life itself is and how to create life?  Will we know how to travel to other galaxies instantaneously through frequencies?  Will we, that is, our consciousness, even need physical bodies?

Let's jump ahead to a million years from now.  It is impossible to even imagine how advanced we will be.  Will we be able to exist as pure consciousness and be as gods?  Would there be anything that we couldn't do?  

Ok, now imagine a billion years from now.  That is 1,000 million years.  How advanced would we be?  Impossible to imagine.  But as I said earlier, there is a very high likelihood that there are perhaps millions of civilizations that are a billion years older and more advanced than we are.  We cannot even imagine how advanced they are or what they know or what they can do.  It would be very difficult for us to even communicate with them.  They would be talking about concepts of life and science that we have no idea about.

Just imagine meeting someone from our past, say around the early 1880's.  We try to tell them about the Internet, but they don't even know about electricity.  They also have no knowledge of TV, radio, telephone, etc. so they would be completely baffled if we showed them a Smart phone.  If we tried to explain how it worked, they would not understand at all and would think we were god-like.  This would be the same if we exposed them to cars, trains, or airplanes.  Or, if we tried to explain modern medicine, such as our understanding of surgery, cellular structure, DNA, and other new medical advances.  

So, if we would have so much trouble communicating our knowledge to people from our own planet just 200 years ago, think about how difficult it would be for beings who are thousands, millions, or even a billion years more advanced to communicate with us or for us to understand them.  We would try to put their communication in terms that we can understand, but we would fail to fully understand them.