
Aliens Do Exist
And they live among us!
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Virtual Voice
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Chris Lawrence

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In the case of the Butterfly Effect, the flapping of a Butterfly’s small wings, through interconnectedness between the different spheres of physical existence and through randomness, can for example sometimes translate into more severe weather than might have occurred or been imagined otherwise, had it not flapped its wings.
This Butterfly Effect was noticed to exist in large deterministic non-linear weather models, where divergent and dramatically different outcomes could result from extremely small changes in the initial assumptions.
This Butterfly Effect is but one example of Chaos Theory. Chaos Theory has a much longer history than the Butterfly Effect example cited above. Its roots may be found in the 19th Century amongst the works of French mathematician Jules Henri Poincare. He was the first person to identify chaos in deterministic systems, thereby laying the foundation upon which others built.
Later works by Edward Norton Lorenz led him to more fully describe such chaotic systems, and thusly to be called ‘the father of Chaos Theory.’
While relatively new at the time, Chaos Theory was of sufficient interest to Michael Crichton that he included mention of it in his Jurassic Park novels. He did so presumably after reading the works of American science historian James Gleick and French mathematician Ivar Ekeland on the subject.
In this science fiction novel and under Chaos Theory, should the Butterfly flap its wings one way, then Earth would be more advanced and become the first to discover some so-called alien life far out in the cosmos. However, should that proverbial Butterfly flap its wings the other way, then that alien race might become the more advanced of the two and discover life here on Earth first.
Regardless of who makes First Contact, whether there or on Earth first, it is almost certain that we will someday meet.
The theories of convergent development and parallel evolution (parallel universes with parallel cultural developments) suggests that we will be somewhat alike -- to the extent of our innate curiosity and extreme desire for new knowledge.
The rest is left to be discovered in the pasts, presents, and futures of both races.
Each race will be a product of its unique environment through Darwinian evolution and survival of the fittest.
The ‘winner’ will represent the ultimate dominion of the active offense over the reactive defense as a survival strategy for winning in any evolutionary environment.
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