Finally a thread that better defines the theory that I was trying to spew out in earlier threads. Extremely interesting and well thought out. Thanks guys - I again have a reason to slack off at work and ponder the deeper Tolkien musings. This is a topic to me that combines both physics and anthopology - and it may turn out that both are, by their very nature, unquantifiable. Or, at the very least, something that we are hundreds of years away from being able to comprehend and map out. In most cases of extrapolation - what we think we know now is so way off the mark, that reaching a deduction from the information we have now is really kind of futile.
I think that I tend to agree with the idea that the only thing that bridges the time/space gap between our reality and possible others is our aesthetics/imagination. There is a source of that spark. What is is, where it came from, and where does it lead to is the question. I also think that what we know from our own history only reaches back about 10,000 years, and we as a species go back much farther than that.
I hope this causes more action on this thread I love this subject and I dont want to see it die off. Play on playahs!
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