Speed of light, baby!

 

"...the only cold hard fact is the speed of light (as of right now) is it. The cosmic speed limit."

The Andromeda Galaxy. Our closest neighboring galaxy. Sure, would be nice to visit there some day as it is the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. It is a monster in size - about twice the size of ours. That would be about a trillion stars (many of which have planets). It is so big, and so close to us, on a dark clear night, you can see it with a naked eye. So, what is keeping us from going there? Figuring out how to build a spaceship which can travel the speed of light? Will that do the trick?

Many times, after watching Star Trek or Star Wars, we think going from here to there is a piece of cake. In reality, space is so very big, we can't comprehend it. Andromeda is our closest galaxy and is still a whopping 2.5 million light years away from us. Even if we had a spaceship which could make the magic physics speed limit of light speed, it would still take us 2.5 million years just to get there! Our closest star in our neighborhood would take four years to get there (traveling at the speed of light). 

What is the point of all this? Aliens. There is a growing number of scientists who believe in the Fermi Paradox. That means, if the speed of light is absolutely, positively the fastest a spaceship can travel, we are still stuck here in our own solar system. We can't travel to visit aliens, and they can't travel here to visit us. With the speed of light being 186,000 miles per second, the distance for light to travel one year would take more zeroes than my poor old laptop could type out. Plus, many scientists say to build a ship to travel light speed would about be impossible. Why? The size it would need to be just to carry all that fuel.

Then comes the question which begs to be asked. If getting to Earth is just about impossible from any distance, who or what are all these strange things in the sky? You know, UFOs or UAPs? Just this month, rumor has it one of our allies has a downed craft so large, the government of that country needed to build a structure around it just to keep it hidden. If that is true, where did it come from? How did it get here? 

More and more scientists are now thinking there might be something called interdimensional beings. To go down that path, one must first believe in the multiverse rather than just a plain old universe. Either that, or you would need to believe that space can be "warped" just like in the TV space shows. Both are just theories - the only cold hard fact is the speed of light (as of right now) is it. The cosmic speed limit.

That is tough love for many to accept, but with that speed limit, that is as fast as we can go. What is that going to mean for the Spielberg Disclosure movie coming out this summer? Stay tuned for June. We will all find out together.