Quantum entanglement, or The destiny rock - стр. 11
Ruthra waved his hand, then held his index finger up.
– That's me on the subject of other worlds. Looking ahead, I will say: and you will remember those optimal options that allowed only humans to have intelligence, if there are intelligent beings, according to my theory…
He put his finger up again, and afterward he said pathosily:
– They're just like us.
After a little silence, he continued:
– We're focusing on something else for now. When radio waves… or light waves, even reflections from mirrors… travel colossal distances, are transformed into a form we understand, recorded by us, and then, even after a long time, give us the same information we had at the beginning – we see nothing surprising in it. So why can't we record consciousness, then transmit it over a distance and…" he repeated his signature gesture, "inject it into a person. Into another human being. And I'll tell you this: not just another person on Earth, but another person altogether. Not an earthling.
The last word he said again stretched out.
– Here, of course, we should remind about cloning technology. It is possible to put your consciousness into your clone. You're going to say, "How so? And you'd be right. After all, you are your consciousness. And if someone has your consciousness, then they share your past. Yes. But the future is different for everyone. From the moment your consciousness enters the clone, it's a separate person. You either have to disconnect, let's say, the first body… or… you have a twin. There are thousands of twins. And they all have the same past and individual futures. It's another thing to find that body somewhere out there, far out in space.
Ruthra looked around the audience, paused for a moment.
– I don't see the ridiculousness.
The hall was not left in debt, almost everyone smiled.
– There is another technology for this. This product is based on logical thinking. And logical thinking is based on two facts – infinite time and infinite space. Yes, they are infinite. It is difficult for us to imagine it, because we try to imagine a huge distance, some grandiosely large time, and for infinity they turn out to be minuscule. Imagine if you have to walk the circumference of the equator. Now imagine that to the sun. How many stars are there in our galaxy? About 400 billion. Imagine that this is a beach and every planet on it is a grain of sand. How many grains of sand are there on our planet, even around one sea? Can you imagine a galaxy with billions of stars? How about billions of galaxies? If only in ours there are about 400 billion stars, each with planetary systems… Isn't there a possibility that the Earth will form? You'll say, maybe, yes. This is where we get to the Fermi paradox. As you know, it says, if they exist, where are they? That is, over millions, billions of years of development, they must have reached or surpassed the level of our civilization, and we must have seen traces of their activity. Some kind of spacecraft, some kind of radio conversations. Perhaps we don't see all these things because they haven't reached us yet. Not even radio waves. Think about it, even at the speed of light, radio waves take an extremely long time to propagate for human life, even a technical civilization. Well, let's say they sent a signal. Now let's do the math. Our galaxy is 100,000 years across. That's for radio waves to travel through it. They too, as we know, travel at the speed of light. If this civilization took the path of scientific development 10,000 years ago, even if they already invented radio 5,000 years ago, and they are 20,000 light years away, we don't yet know what will happen in 15,000 years on Earth. Catch a thought. Maybe we'll destroy ourselves and never hear them at all, even if the signal gets through. Or we might hear them in 15,000 years. Maybe our signal will reach habitable planets that are 30,000 light years away. Or maybe the habitable planet is in our neighboring galaxy, the Andromeda Nebula, which is 2 million light years away. In 2,000,000 years, we will hear from them… or they will hear from us. So the answer to the question of whether or not they are there is probably there. And I'll tell you, of course there are! It's logic that says they must be. This is the basis for the following paradox. The theory of many-worlds says that there can exist simultaneously many worlds, and absolutely identical, with identical properties, as if parallel, that is, some of them, it is assumed in this theory, are not parallel, not fantastic, really exact copies of ours.