Earth Date - November 30, 2016

 

Dark matter is an attempt to explain an apparent lack of matter/abundance of gravity in the observable universe. This is important because the fate of the universe depends on the amount of matter/gravity it contains, and other factors like density and whatnot. Based on what we know of gravity and how it affects objects there appears to be more of it than we expect, a lot more. So far we've been attempting to explain the extra gravity as a function of nature, invisible dark matter, previously unknown properties of gravity, that sort of thing. I think we should consider the possibility that the extra gravity in the universe could be artificial. I have no proof at this point, but here's the basic argument...

At this point in time we have early versions of:

  • artificial intelligence (AI)
  • 3D printers (3DP)
  • quantum entanglement (QE)
  • drones
What if at some time in the next few hundred years we were to combine these concepts into a device that was intelligent (AI) and could make copies of itself (3DP). The copies would all be networked together (QE) so that no matter where in the universe a device was located it would always be in touch with all the other devices. They would also need some basic motility, nothing fancy like "warp drives" but at least enough to get around in space. Time is not an issue, there's plenty of time for them to save the universe.

If we were to launch a cloud of these devices into space with orders to disperse and multiply, given a hundred million years or so they could occupy most if not all of the Milky Way galaxy, and given billions of years they could have spread to nearby galaxies and beyond. Because they are all entangled (QE) they could act together to affect wholescale changes across vast regions of space. For example: if they have a solution for gravity they could change the gravitational profile of the space they occupy...

If we can consider doing something like this in the relatively near future, isn't it at least a possibility that other worlds have already done something similar, or approached the problem in their own way, and that systems of some kind may be running all over the universe and may have been running for billions of years? It would only require one world and a few hundred million years to install one of these systems in each galaxy, so they could be fairly common. If you add noise cancelling headphones to the list above it can also explain why we haven't heard any alien signals. It would be trivial for a system like this to intercept noise from radio active regions, either to protect younger worlds or as an energy source or for peace and quiet if, as I suspect, the universe is lousy with life. Regions of space that are currently believed to contain higher concentrations of dark matter could just be running more aggressive or efficient systems, or badly designed ones...

If a system is already running in the Milky Way Galaxy there would be no need for us to create another one, but if I was designing one of these systems I would know with a high level of certainty that we would not be around to reap the rewards, so I'd make sure it had a port of some kind that other worlds could attach to and learn what the system knows. I'd also make sure they had to reach a certain level of understanding before they could find it or figure out how to connect to it. A system like this could contain invaluable information about the galaxy and the universe. And just finding it would mean that we are definitely not alone in the universe and never have been.

If you find them let me know...

 

 

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