What Is The Ultimate Cosmic Limit?

the civilization was

desperate they had tried everything

they'd built Galaxy spanning

observatories to capture every

wavelength of light pouring in from the

entire observable universe they'd

crafted ingenious devices to peer into

the microscopic then subatomic and then

Quantum

Realms they'd even explored and

colonized vast SES of the cosmos great

Ark ships traveling between galaxies

over time spans of billions of

years they were without question the

most powerful civilization the universe

had ever

seen but it was still not

enough for after Untold Millennia of

effort they had finally come to the

conclusion that their Universe was not

alone that there were infinitely many

more that what we see as the vast and

almost incomprehensible cause MOS is

just one tiny insignificant bubble

floating in an infinite

sea the existential dread of this

realization did not bother the

civilization by now far removed from

their genetic Origins they were used to

dealing with a giant cold uncaring

Universe the real problem was one of

measurement the presence of an infinite

Multiverse brought with it seemingly

insurmountable

difficulties difficulties in evaluating

problem

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s for example a relatively simple

question were they alone for the

observable universe this was fairly

straightforward they could work it out

by scanning every single star and every

single Galaxy but even though they had

figured out how to access the other

regions of the Multiverse their studies

had shown them that the rest of the

universes within the Multiverse were not

just numerous they were infinite and

this meant

that they couldn't measure

probabilities was their Universe common

or rare was their type of carbon based

life form 5% of those in the Multiverse

were 95% it was impossible to say if

there was an infinite number of

universes every percentage read zero in

their calculations how many intelligent

species inhabited the Multiverse an

infinite number but the Multiverse also

contained an infinite number of empty

universes any finite amount of

information they had gathered amounted

to zero despite their Millennia of

effort they literally knew

nothing their Journey had begun eons

before in their dim and distant past

taking their first cautious steps into

outer space by building far-flung probes

and Grand off-world

observatories they eventually developed

their own kardashev scale mastering all

the energy on their home planet then

their solar system Galaxy and

Beyond over the ages they had taken to

reshaping entire planets systems and

galaxies into powerful experiments and

exquisite Laboratories simultaneously

peering out into the cosmos and down

into the

microcosm but how far could they ever go

and how much could they ever discover

were their Cosmic barriers they could

never pass information hidden in the

darkness that they could never

reach what were the ultim

limits of the

universe in 2011 Nomads traveling the

Sahara desert found a literal piece of

Mars the meteorite named northwest

Africa 734 had a fascinating secret one

which many different news outlets

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gift it had all started with

patterns the creatures of the

civilization had noticed long ago that

there were certain special rhythms in

the world around them Seasons changed on

a predictable cycle dark clouds looming

on the horizon meant that a storm was

coming the appearance of special Stars

meant that it was time again for the

planting of crops and so they created

physical markers to signify these

important rhythms and developed rituals

to remind themselves of their

importance slowly agonizingly over the

course of centuries stretching into

Millennia they began to discover deeper

patterns they found laws that could

apply Across the Universe formulas that

governed physical processes regardless

of their location in space and time they

discovered the fundamental constituents

of of matter breaking down elements into

atoms atoms into particles and particles

into subparticles they mastered the

intricacies of gravity and quantum

mechanics diving deep into complex

mathematics that revealed how both tiny

particles and massive Galactic

superclusters behaved they deduced what

energized stars and super noi heartbeats

and hearing they learned it all they

became sophisticated and Powerful

wielding the secrets of the universe to

their design

they invented science and it was

beautiful but this was just the

beginning how far could they stretch

these ideas how long would it take to

reach kardashev type

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one Nikolai cardash didn't set out to

imagine the scales of possible alien

civil Iz ations instead he just wanted

to be an

astronomer born in 1932 in the Soviet

Union his parents were initially members

of the Communist party but were arrested

when he was just 5 years old he lived as

an orphan by the time his mother was

released he'd already graduated from

University at Moscow State University

cter shf focused on radio astronomy

which at the time was a new and exciting

field of research he was prolific in his

scientific career joining the the space

Research Institute and serving many

roles in the international astronomical

Union a transnational effort that helped

connect scientists despite the tensions

of the Cold War but his entrance into

public Consciousness came from a 1964

conference in Armenia where he presented

a now famous paper on communicating with

alien

civilizations to estimate a

civilization's ability to broadcast

radio Transmissions kardashev assumed

that more advanced civilizations would

be capable of harnessing greater and

greater amounts of energy drawing by

analogy a comparison to hunter gatherers

collecting by a campfire to modern

society splitting atoms for power

kardashev estimated that civilizations

more advanced than our own would go on

to capture the energy equivalent of an

entire star or even an entire galaxy