It’s so weird how people
expect to
contact aliens.
We have acknowledged
that they might not
speak the same
language. We have
acknowledged that they
may not have language.
But for some
reason, we seem to think
that science
and maths is universal.
Is it?
sight isn’t universal,
and without
sight, the written formula
is pretty
hard to comprehend.
Numbers are
another interesting
factor about this. We have sets of ten right?
Possibly because we
have 10 fingers and for some reason, a long
time ago, it was convenient
to count like this and this is what became.
We had numbers grouped
in tens. So if maths is universal, and we
can supposedly contact
aliens using numbers if language fails, what
makes us so sure that
they will have numbers? And numbers that look
the same as ours?
Numbers that have the same value. If aliens have 27 fingers for instance,
they might have 27 different numbers of
counting. Making
all our formulas quite different. As well as
numbers, the coherence
of them would also differ. Our symbols
may not match their
symbols. Why would they? If our languages are different, isn’t
maths just another language? We say that it is
universal, but we have
to know the rules of the ‘universe’ before
we can understand the
language. If a language does not involve
speech, we need to know
this before we try and understand it right?