Intelligence might not be a good long term survival strategy. I base this on the fact that we have not been visited by aliens from neighboring solar systems in our galaxy. Vertabrates in general are not nearly as successfull as our invertebrate relatives.Bacteria are on the highly succesfull end .
Until physics can unify quantum mechanics (micro) with general relativity, gravity (macro) . our understanding of reality (universe) will be limited.Our minds (consciousness) are within this universe not outside it, therefore it is an asymptotic endeavor. "Ignorance more frequently begets...
Maybe there are forces (outside of our universe)that are causing the accelarating expansion of our universe.The physics of these external forces could be totally different from our universe.Not bieng able to dirrectly observe outside our universe it will be tough to come up with a theory for...
Human population reached 1 bil. in 1830 .It doubled to 2 bil. by 1930. now its over 6 bil.Its growth is exponential. The earth is about 4.5 bil. years old . Humans didnt evolve till only about a million years ago. In that mllion years there were many ups and downs mostly ups in population...