Opening the Star Gate

by Gary S. Bekkum

I created Starstream Research for two primary reasons. The first was to monitor the scientific world for developments that might someday lead to radical changes for humanity. The second was to provide a means of alerting those interested in such developments by creating Space Time Threat Assessment Reports.

Recently I received information from a well-placed source about efforts to develop a mind-reading machine for use in the war on terror, utilizing fMRI, or functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Research into the use of fMRI technology for counter-terrorism represents real-world efforts to access the thoughts and emotions of human beings. In the future fMRI mind-reading machines may screen airline passengers prior to their departure as a means of detecting hostile thoughts.

Shortly after learning of the fMRI research, I was contacted by a young scientist from Iran, trained in nuclear physics. He was excited to alert me to his theoretical work in generating what physicists call exotic negative energy, a prerequisite for the generation of spacetime wormholes, similar to the fictional depiction in the film "Contact." The vision that guides this young man is the ever-shrinking material world, where distance looses all meaning, leading to the conversion of what was once impossible into reality. He is confident that someday the human race will access wormholes through spacetime to touch distant worlds.

Both of these stories are important, and strangely enough, may be related to each other. The unification of physics, biology, and information sciences point to a future world in which our minds are networked together more intimately than any of us can presently imagine. We are already seeing the result of crude efforts in this direction thanks to the invention of the world wide web, a network that now links human beings into virtual societies. We can imagine that someday soon we may see the integration of communication technology into our biology, but even this radical and very real possibility pales next to the ultimate unification of information, mind and matter, which is limited only by the constraints placed by the laws of physics. An on-going failure in the physics community to theoretically explain the fundamental nature and unification of spacetime and energy, coupled to mysteries like invisible dark matter and dark energy, leaves that pathway open to the imagination.

The five year anniversary of 9/11 marks the point of departure of our innocence. We can no longer take comfort in the fairy-tale dreams of American dominance over the sources of evil in this world. As we face great unknowns in the 21st Century, as technology moves humanity into a world where Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees gives us only a fifty percent chance of survival, we need to remain vigilant and prepared for what lies ahead. The legacy that we create today may come to haunt us, as our descendants inherit technological power that strains our imaginary vision and consequences that taunt us in our dreams.

Dreams of futures that might come to pass are the source and inspiration of human creativity. As we struggle to awaken from our slumber we will find that some nightmares are real, some hopes do fall into the dust, and sometimes the world shakes and sends us into the unknown, to face the unknowable. The Star Gate opens before us, and we have looked inside.

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