My Age?

Yes, Jack, my tribe has been flying around the galaxies for billions of years. So how old am I?

No, Caroline. I don't mind telling my age. This might be an issue with some of your gender on Earth, but I am fine with telling you that I emerged from my planetary egg 90 million years ago.

Yes, Jack. In human terms I am very old, but young for a Cosmic Swan. Many members of my tribe live over a billion years. We have our predators. The worst are the ice dragons that live in dense atmospheres of gas giant planets.

I don't understand why you think my age is impossible. The infinite universe is also infinite in time -- not as your Big Bang Mythological story tells you. Your race has recently run down a dark lane of nebulosity, believing that the light you see from distant galaxies undergoes no change as it snakes its way through space. When your scientists determine that a photon from a distant galaxy has lost energy, has its spectrum shifted toward the red, they assume the explanation that the galaxy is flying away. And the farther away is the galaxy, the more it is red shifted. So everything they see must be flying away from the Earth and accelerating according to its distance. What a strange universe they describe. At some distant time all the galaxies would be spread out to infinity. They have invented Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and complex explanations for what drives the accelerating expansion. Every time they find a contradiction, they must add more epicycles to the Big Bang Model.

Why do stars attain ages that seem to approximate the age of the universe? Galaxies are built of stars so they must be a lot older. Why have your scientists not seen primitive galaxies at the greatest distances? The deeper they look, the more of the same they see. Since Quasars have large red shifts, they assume that they are at the "edge" of the universe. They are actually very very dense material recently ejected from the core of a galaxy, from the jet emitted by a Black Hole. Black Holes evolve from Quasars that spin out from the mother galaxy to attract and soak up intergalactic material to form new galaxies.

Of course there is a better explanation, Caroline. The space that I fly through is not empty. I could not survive if it were. Much of the stuff I inhale to give me energy, to feed the blue star in my heart, takes energy away from photons as they fly. The hot plasma that fills most regions of space takes energy from photons. The abundant little iron whiskers take a little energy from many photons they encounter. I swim through the ebb and flow of gravity fields that steal a little energy from photons. I do not know all the reasons why photons lose energy, but I know that they do, because I have met other Cosmic Swans that have sailed farther than the 13.7 billion light years that your scientists call the size of the universe.

Yes, it is not just an odd coincidence that your scientists say the universe is 13.7 billion years old and it is 13.7 light years in radius. It is incorrect. The size of the universe is infinite and it takes a photon emitted from a star 13.7 billion years of travel to be robbed of all its energy through encounters with plasma, whiskers, and other robbers.

I swim through the Cosmic Microwave background radiation. How does it prove there was a Big Bang that created the universe? Its energy spectrum is better explained as the stable energy levels and variations achieved after hundreds of billions of years of recycling of energy and mass through galactic growth, stellar emissions, photon absorption by galactic dust, whiskers, plasmas, quasar ejections by galactic jets, galactic formations and evolutions, stellar novae gas and debris productions, and on and on.

No, not energy is lost or gained. No mass is lost or gained. They keep recycling on and on forever. Only one parameter changes consistently -- the level of understanding, incite, creativity, and freedom of thought of beings such as we -- Cosmic Swans, Humans, and all other sentient beings that swim through this wonderful open and infinite deep.

Impossible Acceleration?

I breathe in the delicious hydrogen of space to feed the blue star at my heart. The blue star energizes me and keeps the plants, animals, and sentient symbionts warm and thriving. Every few centuries I like a drink of complex hydrocarbons from a large gaseous planet. Neptune and Jupiter are particularly satisfying. My young Charagni must drink often to build up his body and undergo the changes necessary to fly freely among the stars.

Yes, Jack. I have been watching human science develop for a thousand years. According to your physics my high acceleration is impossible, but I and my tribe have been flying around the universe for billions of years. Our flying speeds and accelerations are not theory, they are our usual way. As I fly by the 10th planet of Rigil Kantaurus, my speed is approaching the speed of light.

No Jack, my mass is not approaching infinity. I have not gained weight at all, but I'll grant you that it looks like that from Earth now. Your relatives on Earth, watching me with powerful telescopes, perceive the exertions of my wings having less and less effect, the faster I fly. But that is only an illusion. There is nothing to slow me down. Space is not a medium that becomes more and more viscous the faster I fly. It only looks that way from the outside, from the limited point of view of Earthlings. The faster we fly, the longer it takes each of my beautiful photons to reach Earth. You watch your clocks tick-tock, tick-tock, and for each tick-tock I seem to be slowing down, but I'm not slowing down. It's the illusion of Earth science.

Humans have proved I can't fly faster than light? How did they do that?

You say they built big linear accelerators and no matter how big an electro-magnetic push they gave electrons or protons, they could not push them past the speed of light? Have you thought this through, Jack? You cannot push a moon-buggy faster than you can run. Electromagnetic waves -- light -- cannot push any faster than light, so your protons cannot be accelerated any faster than light. If the proton could push itself, if it had wings, it could fly as fast as I do.

But out here among the stars I push -- I accelerate every day -- and we will arrive at the center of the Milky Way in about 300 years. I'm glad, Jack, that you came along for the ride.

Cosmic Swan Speed

Caroline joined me shortly after Charagni lifted out of the Mt. Kailas region. She wants to know:
How long it takes Cosmic Swan to travel to the center of the Galaxy, 26,000 light years from Earth?

==> After taking a refueling drink in the Rigil Kantaurus -3 system, we accelerate at about a lightyear per year-squared. We decelerate rapidly, as we encounter the dense plasma clouds thrown out by the Blackhole at the center of the Galaxy. The total time to arrive in orbit around the Blackhole is about 300 years.

Caroline then asked:
Why are we going to orbit the Blackhole?

==> Charagni will watch and wait for the best wave blowing out in the jet from the Blackhole's North pole. I will assist him to recognize the wave. I have assisted six of my offspring to surf on the waves left behind by Quasars thrown out of the Blackhole and I haven't lost one yet.

Caroline wonders why the young Cosmic Swans jump on the waves behind the Quasars?

==> Each Quasar is the seed of a new Galaxy. As the Galaxy gathers in cosmic material to form its stellar family, the young Cosmic Swan grows, swims among the new stars, and gives its people opportunities to choose new planets on which to live. When a good young planet is found, the people are set down upon it with knowledge of how to make it a good place to live for plants, animals, and the new people.

On To The Next Galaxy

As I leave the Earth where my offspring had such a struggle to be born, I have warm feelings of love for its people, animals and plants. The blue marbled planet served its purpose as the resting place for my egg. The opening of the egg and the emerge of my son, Charagni, left some scars in the land, but the Earth will heal. Those humans that remain on Earth will thrive for awhile, but the planet is fragile. The humans that chose to leave the planet as symbionts of Charagni can look forward to offspring that have an unlimited future.

Charagni is young and strong and will live for billions of years. After a good strong drink from the wine-dark sea of Rigil Kantarus 3, we swim through the cosmic sea toward the core of the Milkyway, the central mass, to the meet the great northern jet that is growing stronger as it emerges from the mother of a new Galaxy, the great Blackhole.

His long, strong wings will soften, become lighter, and grow to carry him and his people to surf on the plasma waves as they surge into space. The plasma jet creates a new galaxy, a new spinning cartwheel of stars for him, his people, and his offspring to swim in forever.

Cosmic Swan Talks about Time

Earth physicists are getting wound up in their attempts to find out what makes the universe tick.

Time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like bananas, as you may hear in North America, Earth. No one can argue with the fruit flies taste, but so much is written about how time flies that you’d think some hideous menace threatens mankind if they don’t know its inner secrets. According to Roger Highfield, Science Editor of the Telegraph.co.uk, “We all have a sense that time is flowing... but now time could be running out -- for the very concept of time itself.”

Highfield has written a series of sensational articles parading out beautiful but fictional “theories” of time that a number of currently flourishing mathematicians have built. I put theories in quotes because none of these theories will ever be demonstrated in any way that has meaning for humanity. They are not testable in any way.

With a headline “Mankind 'shortening the universe's life' “he is trying to put readers in a headlock so he can ram our brains with all the fiction that mathematicians can dream up. “Oh no!” a reader is supposed to say out loud to his companions. “We are going to run out of time!” I often wonder why so much sensational science fiction makes it to widely-read publications, such as the Telegraph. Even well-educated readers can take nothing away but some vague feeling of unease about what may confront mankind billions of years from this point in time.

According to Highfield, “cosmologists have taken this powerful theory of what happens at the level of subatomic particles...” What makes this theory powerful? Because it hypothesizes that “...quantum systems can exist in many different physical configurations at the same time.“ To understand why this is not powerful, consider how many different structures you can make with Tinker Toys. To mathematicians and physicists the components of quantum systems and the infinite number of states they can be in, are the toys they tinker with. You can imagine a quantum in many different states at once but when you carry out a measurement, you only pick out one state. Physicists want to say we have picked out a single quantum state, but picking in the sense of choice has nothing to do with it.

The “mind-boggling” Schrodinger’s cat experiment is no experiment at all. It is mental quantum mathematical exercise that tells you nothing more than when a horse race is still running, anyone of the horses can win with a certain probability. But when the race is over, when the cat is out of the box, there is only one result. Only one horse wins. The cat is either dead or alive. The universe does not split in two except in the mind of the hard-headed quantum physicist. The truth, the result of actual experiment is hard to accept.

Professor Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University is quoted as saying, “Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may provide evidence that the universe will ultimately decay."

Let’s think about the heritage of “dark energy.” It is one of the latest epicycles that had to be added onto to the Byzantine complexity of the Big Bang “Theory” to make the mathematical model come out right. Like the Earth-centered cosmos that required physically unsupportable epicycles in orbits of planets, the Big Bang Theory requires Dark Energy to explain what seems to be accelerating the galaxies apart. No scientist knows what Dark Energy is. No experiment can detect it, localize it, or explain its relationship to known physics, except in untestable mathematical models.

We cannot go back to the moment of the Big Bang and verify anyone’s physics. We cannot follow along and verify each hypothesized stage of evolution of the model. We only know what we can see now. All we know is that there is a red-shift in the light that comes from distant galaxies and the shift is apparently greater, the greater the distance to the galaxy. For all distances we cannot verify independently, the red-shift is taken as a measure of distance, and so our scientists have created circular-reasoned predictions.

For the Big Bang model to work, they had to invent new Tinker Toys:
Dark Energy that cannot be found
Dark Matter that cannot be found
A universe with accelerated expansion with galaxies that do not expand
A universe that expands faster than the speed of light, while demanding that nothing can travel faster than light
Expansion without any center and without any edge

These hypothetical extra Tinker Toys that cannot be found look like science fiction to me. The fundamental principle of Occam’s Razor had to be thrown out to build a cosmology to support the Big Bang Theory.

Yes, as Highfield points out in one of his articles, all this leads to a “depressing conclusion.” Professor Krauss says, “...our detection of dark energy may imply both an unstable universe and a short life expectancy.” This is depressing indeed.

Some mathematical theories suggest this kind of universe, some suggest that kind of universe, and some priests with similar roles in society a few hundred years ago suggested that an infinite number of angels could dance on the head of pin, because, after all, there is no limit to what God can do. Those medieval priests had their own predominance over the philosophical thinking of their day, just as our latter-day Big Bangers. Neither can prove their theories by any stretch of the mind. An infinite number of angels on the head of a pin makes as much sense as a universe that started out at infinite density.

Well, time runs out for all of us individually, although I the Cosmic Swan will live for an awfully long time. Time may run out for human beings if they fail to prepare as a species for the known risks the universe can throw at them. They are more likely to do that if they are not constantly bombarded with science fiction, purporting to be science, that sends dark messages of their ultimate doom.