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CONCLUSION 205
A few more years and a few more space explorations from
now, our children will ask in wonderment why such theories
seemed so implausible to previous generations.
It is evident that all the theories and hypotheses that I have
formulated here are subject to further verification, and it is possible
that some will be proven inexact, as is
often the case in this
kind of exploration, touching on the outer limits of exact sciences.
But that seems to be of lesser importance to me, at least as
far as we are concerned now.
What is important is to launch and set in motion new ideas, so
that these can inspire subsequent generations to make their own
discoveries and formulate new theories.
In the past,
most men who came up with new thoughts and
concepts were dismissed as fools, provided they were lucky
enough not to be burned alive, as the Roman Catholic Church
did to Giordano Bruno in the year 1600, because he was so naive
as to believe that the universe was infinite
and that many other
worlds similar to ours existed, where the inhabitants could live in
peace because the Inquisition didn't exist there.
In our times the honest search for truth is less likely to lead to
violent death, but the risk still exists. There are quite a few
American UFO researchers who have complained about death
threats received either by phone or by mysterious visitors demanding
that they cease their activities. Some have actually died
under strange circumstances and all their collected materials
have disappeared without a trace. That could explain why we
vidll never know the complete truth about all the riddles of the
universe.