Like Fox Mulder, I want to believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life, and that it has visited our little blue marble near the outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. But the truth is, I can't seem to get more than halfway there. To begin with, consider how miraculous the emergence of intelligent life on Earth was in the first place—there were a lot of happy accidents involved: ice-bearing comets, meteor strikes, mass extinctions, and evolutionary serendipity paving the way. Not to mention our proximity to the sun, which is within the elusive "Goldilocks Zone." Yes, the actual building blocks of life—carbon, hydrogen, etc.—are abundant in the universe, but the conditions required for the emergence of intelligent life are not so much. And lastly, considering the minuscule time window of human history within a fifteen-billion-year-old universe, along with the vast scale of time and space separating heavenly bodies and the time required for their convergence, the odds of two intelligent species from different parts of the universe (or even the galaxy) overlapping are pretty slim.
While I have no doubt people have seen UFOs and UAPs among us, it's still a stretch for me to buy the possibility of interstellar travel across such vast distances. Considering our nearest galactic neighbor is 2.5 million light-years away, and the nearest star (Alpha Proxima) is 4.2 light-years away, and that light travels at 186,000 miles per SECOND, the math becomes problematic. To me, it seems more likely that these sightings are either covert man-made technologies beyond the realm of stealth, OR (and this one is way more fun) interdimensional travelers. As human beings, our perception of the universe is limited to three dimensions, whereas modern quantum physics tells us there are at least eleven dimensions. How limited are we in our perception? Consider that a tesseract (or hypercube) is the four-dimensional analog of a cube, and we can't even model one—in fact, it's hard to even visualize. But imagine a 3D cube rotating within another 3D cube, representing the fourth dimension. As a square becomes a cube by adding a third dimension, a tesseract extends this concept by adding a fourth dimension. I'm not even going to attempt to explain dimensions five through eleven. The point is, these dimensions are not "out there" someplace; they are here all around us. We simply have little if any capacity to discern them, in large part because of the quantum scale, which many physicists hypothesize exists beyond the Planck scale, which currently defines the limit of our subatomic perception. It's all here, right now, people, and quantum physics is bearing it out! So there's the possibility of what I call "invisible intelligence" to consider when we're talking about UAPs and UFOs.
Anyway, this week our Fresh Face in Hell will be Marc Hartzman, author of We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies. Marc and I are going to delve into all of this and much more, including UFO whistleblowers, remote viewers, covert skunkworks, and shaved monkeys. This episode promises to be fun, thought-provoking, and weird (in a good way), so tune in, friends! And remember to spread the word!!!
xoxo, Johnny
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