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Comment by pwaai | Hacker News Reader

what if our universe is expanding because there are other bubbles of universes that pull in all directions?

what if Buddha was right in that there are thousand fold universe systems each with their own unique civilizations?

If there are blackholes older than the universe itself, what if that suggested the universe was cyclical and that we may be in some gazillion-th iteration?

what if big bang was just a universe eventually being consumed by a monstrous blackhole that collapses itself?

What about the strange UFO occurences that pentagon acknowledged, are we getting visits from aliens within our universe or from another universe? Have they figured out how to travel between multi-verse, that is if you believe in it?

No proof, no way to find these answers but it really makes me wonder, especially when particles behave strangely like being coupled regardless of distance...but how could Buddha have known that blackholes existed?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/6o8zmg/the_buddha...

Anyways, just some things to ponder and gawk about...

>What about the strange UFO occurences that pentagon acknowledged, are we getting visits from aliens within our universe or from another universe?

The Pentagon has never acknowledged the existence of extraterrestrial craft, or of UFOs as being anything but hoaxes and misidentified, mundane phenomena.

>but how could Buddha have known that blackholes existed?

He didn't, any more than the Norse knew that wormholes existed when describing the Bifrost bridge or the World Tree. Reading modern scientific meaning into ancient religious ideas is a common way to attempt to validate religion, but doing so does a disservice both to the religion and to science.

The Buddha may have had many insights, but none of them involved the relationship between spacetime and gravity.

The US government hasn't acknowledge the existence of aliens, but in 2016 the CIA admitted to funding programs because they suspected the existence of aliens. It is very hard to find a good source to link though due to terrible SNR when you google "cia aliens"

The government also studied remote viewing, and the Air Force had its own UFO project called Operation Blue Book, and of course there was MKULTRA looking into mind control, but just because something is studied doesn't mean it exists, or gives practical results.

Sundevil (remote viewing) and Blue Book (UFOs) were '60s projects. AATIP and the UAP footage has been confirmed by the Pentagon itself, and even Raytheon's official site talks up the use of their ATFLIRs in recording the footage:

https://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/uap_atflir

We don't know if the footage is aliens, but we do know that the footage is real.

I agree, but remember our science today will look like Norse mythology in 1000 years too.

Like Newton's Principia (from 1684) looks like Norse mythology? It is still a valid model except for a few minor errors, and almost halfway to 1000 years. Better yet might be Greek mathematics, e.g. Euclid's Elements which is more than 2300 years old now. The language is different of course, but the content itself reads a lot like a good proof-oriented geometry textbook.

Maybe I'm factoring in our accelerating rate of advancement.

But you are not factoring in the ongoing effort of preserving information?

> no way to find these answers

Yes there are. Answering such questions is why physicists are searching so hard for a unified micro/macro theory. Black holes are both quantum mechanical (at their singularities) and relativistic.

> how could Buddha have known that blackholes existed?

He didn’t.

https://accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.046.than.h...

Doesn't look like a description of black hole, honestly.

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