Advanced Physics Opens New Doors
I don’t believe that UFOs are necessarily alien spacecraft. Recent advances in physics – string theory and its derivative, “M Theory” – have raised the possibility that all dimensions are symmetrical, even time. If these new theories about the structure of space and time are true, time travel is not just possible but inevitable. General relativity, the theory Einstein invented to explain the structure of our universe 90 years ago – currently under assault from a number of different directions – does not rule out time travel, either.
Most physicists refuse to speculate about the implications of time travel because they have more immediate problems to solve. The subject is filled with paradoxes and apparent contradictions. These paradoxes might be resolved by experiment, but so far no one has the technology to experimentally investigate time travel hypotheses. Time travel remains a neglected scientific subject, just like UFOs.
Hmmm… I wonder if that is a coincidence?
Time Travelers from the Future?
The hypothesis that UFOs are mostly time travelers from the future resonates deeply with me. It answers several of the most fundamental questions better than the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis that has dominated UFOlogy for the last 60 years.
One of the most irksome questions about UFOs has always been “Why are they here?” If UFOs are actually vehicles operated by alien beings from alien worlds, why are they interested in us? Are they studying us in order to invade? Apparently not. Or are they just studying us the way we study primitive cultures on the island of New Guinea – not to invade or exploit, but just to study and learn? If so, why don’t they just ‘fess up? We could process that, couldn’t we?
The answer to that last question may be obvious. Our fear levels are way too high, and our species is way too aggressive. The discovery of an alien species that had come all the way across interstellar space just to study us would trigger a kind of panic reaction in much of the human race, I suspect. Many would not accept that the notion that extraterrestrials had good intentions. Paranoid thinking would assert itself quickly, and people would demand that the aliens be confronted and expelled. Or crucified, like the Portuguese priests who tried to bring Catholicism to Japan in the early 1600s.
We don’t know why the supposed “aliens” don’t interact more openly. In fact, we don’t know anything about the origins of the creatures inside the UFOs. We don’t even know if there are creatures inside most UFOs.
And this is where the empiricists’ interpretation of the UFO phenomenon breaks down. In spite of all the data, the thousands of cases, the multiple witnesses, the videos, and the photographs, UFOlogists have never been able to construct a coherent theory for where UFOs are from, or why they’re here. We can make assumptions – extraterrestrials, time travelers, travelers from other dimensions, angels, demons, or another intelligent species that evolved on Earth, to name the six most popular, in approximate order of popularity – but we have no convincing evidence to support any of them, except for a tiny bit of questionable evidence concerning extraterrestrials. So the empiricists are stuck in the same situation Darwin found himself in after he returned from the Voyage of the Beagle: lots of data, but no theory.
Darwin thought about his theory of evolution for more than 20 years, then published. He held back because he knew the scientific establishment of the time would severely criticize his work, and the Church would denounce it. In fact, it was not until Alfred Russel Wallace came to much the same conclusion that Darwin finally summoned the courage to publish On the Origin of the Species. He was severely criticized by other scientists, even ridiculed, and he was denounced by the Church, just as he expected, but his theory slowly won acceptance in the minds of scientists. Today it is accepted by almost everyone except Christian conservatives.
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