About simple and complex

Today I did simple things and thought about difficult ones. September 14 2024 turned out to be a warm day, the temperature in the morning was 20 degrees Celsius and rose to 24 degrees by lunchtime.

I walked to my garden in the morning and brought back several kilograms of fruit worth 10 HBD. Next week I will eat these fruits, treat my family and put these 10 HBD into staking. I could buy Polish industrial apples now for $1 per kilogram. But why? I have my own apples that grow on their own without much care.

And in the first photo is my first watermelon this season. I cut it into halves and it was sweet and juicy. I took half of the watermelon to my neighbors and treated them to it. No one grows watermelons near me. Not every year they can ripen to full maturity. And now I have several fruits lying around, the ripening period of which should be somewhere in early October.

These are my tomatoes, I only picked one plate today. Let the rest hang on the bushes until next week. I take only those fruits and vegetables that I need in the near future.

For me, a garden is very simple. I put a minimum of thought and effort into growing organic products. In my garden I spend more time relaxing leisurely than working. I like to mow the grass there, barbecue and lie on a sun lounger.

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I think about difficult things when I open a book. For example, this book was published in 1991. This book is called "The Discovery of the Universe." It was written by a scientist physicist.

I first read this book during my school years, when I was 15 years old. I really enjoyed reading science fiction and non-fiction. At that time, I did not yet have the Internet, and books and movies revealed to me a picture of this world. At that time, this book cost as much as half a kilo of boiled sausage, but sausage was not always sold in our city and I read this book :)

It was a Soviet scientist who wrote this book at the age of 45 and passed on his knowledge to me. He passed on some of knowledge to a 15-year-old teenager. Now I have opened this book again at 48 years old, I am again interested in reading on this topic. And I wonder what thoughts this book will give me now.

In this book, the author reflects on how man understood the world around him in ancient times and centuries of scientific and technological progress. And the author reflects on the possibility of contact between our civilization and other civilizations of our Galaxy.

I'm in no hurry to write this post, I have nowhere to rush tonight. I am writing this post and reading a book at the same time. Chapter 10...

In 1991, not a single exoplanet had yet been discovered, but the author is already thinking about the number of planetary systems in our Galaxy and about the permissible habitable zone of different planetary systems. The author understands that we can detect radio signals in space only from civilizations older than ours (more developed). And he asks the same question as Enrico Fermi - "Where is everyone?" Why don’t we hear other space civilizations on the radio? He dismisses the possibility that all civilizations will perish as extremely unlikely (I agree with him).

Why is space silent?

The author suggests that with the development of technology, more advanced civilizations do not use radio signals to communicate over interstellar distances. And indeed, how can two star systems communicate when they are hundreds and thousands of light years away? The time of arrival of the signal can be the lifetime of tens and hundreds of generations of intelligent creatures.

I thought about this too. But then how do advanced civilizations keep in touch with each other? Could it be something faster than radio signals at the speed of light?

You will say that nothing in our material universe can travel faster than the speed of light. But if there are laws of the Universe that we have not yet discovered. If there are other measurements and methods of contact. And then we will send “boats across the ocean from Europe to North America” but advanced civilizations will calmly talk on the Internet in real time with each other. Sometimes I think that the fastest way to communicate might be to connect to some base that is everywhere, something not from the material world. Mental access to another dimension (if, of course, thought and consciousness are capable of this). But unfortunately, all those who lived before us did not write down interesting data about the Universe for us when they were in touch with the “other world”. All this is very interesting. I hope we do not live in some matrix created by another civilization, as Elon Musk spoke about.

And so I sit in the light of the night lamp, drink a second mug of black tea with milk and think. How interesting the world around us is and how short human life is and how (probably) endless is the human thought captured in the Hive blockchain :) The time for AI will come and it will know everything about all of us, everything that we have left in digital fingerprints on this planet. It will be superintelligence. Yes, we are people, we will be different, probably the people of the future will be very different from modern people.

I look forward to your comments at the bottom of this post. It's okay if the comment is written 1000 years later, believe me, I will be pleased :)