Twilight of the Gods: The Mayan Calendar and the Return of the Extraterrestrials (27 page)

Einstein (that very patent clerk) held to the maxim that "if there is a solution to this problem, then I will find it."7 Problems have always existed; you can find them everywhere and-depending on the current state of knowledge-many of those who consider themselves to be "rational" happily declaim, "Impossible!" Others, on the other hand, start looking for solutions. This is no coincidence. In the depths of our subconscious-call it our soul, if you will-we realize that their is a solution somewhere for every "impossibility." It's down to the "memes" or "universal consciousness" that I mentioned briefly in Chapter 1. (More about this later.)

arp Drives?

In November 2007, the British Interplanetary Society organized a symposium in London on the subject of the warp drive. This is a theoretical propulsion unit that would allow faster-than-light travel. The basic mathematical framework for the warp drive was worked out as early as 1994. Warp speed is reached by bending (or "warping") the space-time continuum. These "curvatures in space" were predicted by Einstein; now their existence has been proven. (Huge heavenly bodies bend light, for instance.) At the London symposium a number of "rational" mathematicians and astrophysicists talked about the expansion of the universe, about gravitational fields in the vacuum of space, and about the possibility of leaping from one "bubble" to another without losing time.' The warp drive, the scientists agreed, would exploit our knowledge of mass, space-time, and quantum physics without contravening any of the fundamental laws of physics.9

Laymen may scratch their heads and cry, "Impossible!" But the fact that nothing is impossible is even alluded to by the God of the Old Testament: "This is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs" (Genesis 11:6).

As early as 1984, Professor Michael Papagiannis, an astronomer at Boston University, postulated that the proliferation of a species within our Milky Way could be possible. And all this without any "warp drive," which wasn't even a subject of discussion back then. According to Papagiannis: "At a velocity of 2 percent of light speed, which is possible with the help of nuclear fusion, a spaceship will cover a distance of ten light years in about 500 years.""'

After this, the space colonists would need around another 500 years to industrialize a planet. That's quite plausible. After all, we needed just 200 hundred years to progress from horse-drawn carriages to moon rockets, and from the abacus to the super-computer-and we had to invent everything from scratch. Our theoretical interstellar colonists wouldn't have to start from point "zero," because all the plans and fabrication methods would already be available to them. The space travelers would not need to discover how to extract raw materials from the earth, smelt steel, produce plastics, or generate electricity. After a stop of 500 years, they could move on-either using the old mother ship, or in a new one of their own construction. Again they would be in transit for 500 years, and so on. Papagiannis noted: "This means that each wave of colonization takes 1,000 years to cover roughly 10 light years (500 years traveling and 500 years of establishment and growth). That corresponds to a speed of one light year per century.""

olonies in Space

In other words, we could colonize the entire Milky Way in 10 million years, and the only "expense" would be the initial starship. All of this without any warp drive.

Since Papagiannis made these claims in 1983, his calculations have been updated several times. Astronomer Ian Crawford from University College in London suggests a proliferation rate of 10 percent of light speed and a period of 400 years between setting up a new colony and the next phase: "In this way, the wave of colonization moves on at a rate of 0.02 light years per year. Seeing as the Milky Way has a diameter of approximately 100,000 light years, it will take around five million years to completely colonize it."12

Five million years corresponds to just 0.05 percent of the age of the Milky Way. Are we human beings ourselves offshoots of an extraterrestrial colony without even knowing it? "Impossible!" cry the evolutionists. (How many times is that now?) It can be demonstrated conclusively that we evolved on the Earth. No contradiction, answer the problem solvers. The human race can have arisen on the Earth via the usual evolutionary routes-absolutely. But, sometime over the course of the last few thousands years, there was a targeted, artificial mutation introduced by just those ETs that are worshipped as "gods"-as was recorded in the ancient texts. This doesn't contradict evolution-rather it complements it with the creation of a (symbolic) Adam and Eve. But there are other ways of looking at it.

Just imagine that you are sitting in an airplane that is spiraling around the Earth. The aircraft is packed full with the seeds of oak trees. Every hour you open the window and throw out a handful of seeds. Of course, you realize that a large portion of the seeds will be lost in the oceans. (After all, two thirds of the Earth's surface is covered in water.) Some of them will land on sand-deserts such as Sahara, Nevada, Gobi, or Baluchistan. Yet more land on stone, and others land somewhere in the ice of the Arctic or Antarctic. Only a small proportion of the seeds that are scattered have a chance of landing on suitable terrain and then not being eaten by some rodent. That small proportion soon begins to sprout, though, and finally you have a fully grown oak tree. Maybe it will have a few mutations, but it will still be ostensibly an oak tree, because the important genetic information is already contained in the seed.

anspermia Explains It All!

Now transfer this model to the entire universe. The idea comes from the Swedish Nobel prize-winner Savante Arrhenius (1859-1927). Arrhenius was a professor of physics at the University of Stockholm and was way ahead of his time. Somewhere, way out there in the universeso Arrhenius theorized-the very first intelligences began to develop a

long, long time ago. (The question as to how this first life form arose is as unanswerable as the question "how long is a piece of string?") This first intelligent race-let's call it Number 1-was interested in proliferating its own species throughout the universe. There are plenty of reasons for this. Just like a virus, Number 1 sends out billions upon billions of its own germ seeds out into the cosmos just as randomly as our seeds from the airplane. Number 1 knows that the majority of its building blocks for life will end up burning up in a sun, rain down on an unsuitable planet, or end up coming to naught for some other reason. Some of these building blocks will clatter down onto planets that are similar to Number 1's home planet. Thus sprouts the seed of life and, soon after, the evolution process kicks in.

In science, this theory is known as panspermia and is one logical explanation of how intelligence may spread throughout the universewithout a warp drive, without any faster-than-light speeds, and without any colonies sent out on generation starships.

uilding Blocks From "Out There"

The origin of life on Earth is truly a puzzle and cannot be simply explained by the existence of a "primeval soup" or some "niche hypothesis." I have spent the last 30 years writing about the subject.13 In that period more than 600 scientific publications have been published on the subject of the origin of life and the general tenor is always the same. What we ought to remember is that "evolution" and the "origin of life" really should be treated separately. Evolution is the biological transformation of species (Darwin). The origin of life, on the other hand, happens before evolution. This is all about chemical building blocks and the physics behind it.

Professor Bruno Vollmert, a macrobiologist and former director of the Polymer Institute at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, notes: "Seeing as the macromolecular preconditions are not fulfilled, the NeoDarwinism prevalent today is untenable as a scientific hypothesis."14

Sir Fred Hoyle, for many years professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, is of the same opinion:

In pre-Copernican times, the Earth was wrongly considered to be the geometric and physical center of the universe. These days, even respectable scientists still regard the Earth as the biological center of the universe. An almost unbelievable repetition of the same earlier mistake.... The only possible explanation for evolution is if the genetic material (necessary for the origin of life) came from somewhere outside of our system, in other words from somewhere completely different.'s

Together with mathematical genius Professor Wickramasinghe from Cardiff University, Wales, Sir Fred Hoyle published a book called Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe. The two academics' findings can be summed up in the following statement: "There was never any home development stage here on Earth. Life had already developed to a relatively high information content before the Earth was even there. By the time we received life, all of the basic biological questions had already been answered. 1116

It goes on like this; I know the treatises. Even the dyed-in-the-wool supporters of the birth of life on Earth, like Dr. David Horn, professor of anthropology at Colorado State University, admit today that my books have given them serious cause for thought. Even Professor Horn now agrees: "Life arrived here from outer space.""

Why do we keep twisting and turning, and trying to reject this sensible and scientifically provable standpoint? The thought that we are not the "apotheosis of creation" or the "pinnacle of evolution" really goes against the grain for some people. We like to think of ourselves as the best thing in the galaxy-pure egocentricity, I'd like to add. The Earth was never a closed system. We were and still are unequivocally bound to the universe-a fact, by the way, that is an intrinsic part of many of our holy books: "And God made man in his image." (Genesis 27). But what do we care about holy books?

he Church and ETs