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Originally Posted by Abelian Sea  I am for it, and do so regularly. For example:
manipulating matter on the molecular level:
I breath in O2 molecules and ruthlessly crush them together with other elements to make new molecules during cellular respiration.
I digest food, heedlessly breaking up complex molecules into simpler molecules.
I heat things in microwaves, causing countless chemical changes.
I utilize an internal combustion engine in my automobile.
manipulating matter on a higher than molecular level
I move objects regularly every day.
I enjoy being alive.
Also, pretty much every one of my business and leisure activities requires the manipulation of matter.
...I imagine you're getting at something a lot more specific than "manipulation of matter." Spit it out, already. |
Your point of view is well taken. I believe there is a single force, rather than the four forces that physicist refer to gravitational, electromagnetic, the weak, and the strong, responsible for the creation of matter and all things living and nonliving. This force is present throughout the universe, what happens when and if we encounter a world similar to that of earth with "alien" creatures living on it? Do we colonize the new world and coexist with the "alien" life forms or leave the life forms as they exist as stated in the
prime directive in
Star Trek? If we try to coexist with the "aliens" surely humans will be affected in some way, just as a criminal does not leave a crime scene without influencing it. What is the truth? Are people able to handle the realization that there are other living life forms in the universe?