November 2006 Lawrence Freeman: EARTH AS POLLEN

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

EARTH AS POLLEN

WHAT IF EARTH IS ONLY POLLEN?
All life is competitive and each species strives to propagate itself, no matter the expense to others. All else is idealistic nonsense.
What if this universe (and it is posited that there are many universes, each with the same raison d’etre), can be analogized to a fertile field where there are many forms of life competing for success in the stakes of life?
The statitistics
1) The number of galaxies. An estimated 50 billion galaxies are visible with modern telescopes and the total number in the universe must surely exceed this number by a huge factor, but we will be conservative and simply double it. That's 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe.
2) The number of stars in an average galaxy. As many as hundreds of billions in each galaxy.
Lets call it just 100 billion.
That's 100,000,000,000 stars per galaxy.
3) The number of stars in the universe.
So the total number of stars in the universe is roughly 100 billion x 100 billion.
That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, 10 thousand, billion, billion. Properly known as 10 sextillion. And that's a very conservative estimate.
4) The number of stars that have planetary systems. The original extra-solar system planet hunting technology dictated that a star needed to be to close to us for a planet to be detected, usually by the stars 'wobble'. Better technology that allows us to measure the dimming of a stars brightness when a planet crosses its disk has now revolutionized planet hunting and new planets are being discovered at an ever increasing rate. Most cosmologists believe that planetary formation around a star is quite common place. For the sake of argument let us say it's not and rate it at only one in a million and only one planet in each system, as we want a conservative estimate, not an exaggerated one. That calculation results in: 10,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe. Ten million, billion, as a conservative estimate.
5) The number planets capable of supporting life. Let's assume that this is very rare among planets and rate it at only one in a million. Simple division results in:
10,000,000,000 planets in the universe capable of producing life. Ten billion!

What if each of the planets was not an end in itself, but only a beginning? What if the planets, as we call them, were no more than pollen dust, spores looking for a place to take root and grow. Pollen containing the basic building blocks, the chemicals for all life, only seeking a chance to produce all the competing life possibilities, with the reality that only one of the competitive species would eventually triumph, and flower!
Flower? What does that mean in cosmological terms? The species has to burst forth, seeking competition outside its seed. It germinates and sends forth tendrils. In our case, space flight where we begin to voyage to the adjoining pollen spores, and take them over, trying to spread our form of life in competition with other forms, may the best species win.
Once that species has taken over the galaxy, what’s next? Obviously we move onto the next level of competition against other galaxies, and once having triumphed, onto the (world) series, against other universes.
And who is the champion of this inter-universal competition? I would have thought that was obvious – God.
Makes us pretty insignificant. Makes our religions somewhat ridiculous and pretentious, like an ant praying to the human that is about to step on him.

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