Bounded Rationality the Encryption

Kenneth Moore

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The year is 2025, a gathering of distinguished scientists convene to celebrate the last-gasp signals of our old, but fabled space probe Voyager 1. On its last legs, all remaining energy is doomed to run out, with the party on earth about to shut down communication, for good.
Suddenly, in a very last-minute radio transmission, Voyager 1 signals mysterious activity interrupting its supposedly uneventful flightpath... External interference? A malfunction? Or was it something more? A struggle to find a plausible explanation ensues, with suppressed information slowly slipping through the cracks… whilst unbeknownst to mankind, whatever it was, had already set a course for Earth.
As a chain of events unfolds, mankind's ability to produce a cohesive response is unwittingly corrupted, with only then, the true challenge beginning to emerge- is mankind, in fact, its own worst enemy? Learning that sometimes, only through silence can we begin to listen.
The author of this book aspired to stay truthful to the bounds of scientific knowledge – weaving various technical aspects and dynamics into the fabric of both books – creating a realistic and compelling sci-fi story, within the authentic laws of the universe as we know it today.

…Unravelling the mystery, with the world descending into certain madness, the saga continues in the next book, The Encounter.

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• Kenneth Moore
• Fiction

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• Publié par: Xlibris NZ
• Date de parution: 01 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664107892
• Langue: English

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BOUNDED RATIONALITY THE ENCRYPTION
Humanity’s Death Wish Comes Close to Fulfilment
Kenneth Moore

Copyright © 2022 by Kenneth Moore.
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2022912524
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CONTENTS
Introduction
 
Chapter 1Deep in interstellar space
Chapter 2Conference Room, Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas
A FEW MONTHS LATER
Chapter 3Spring Valley Hospital, Las Vegas
Chapter 4Office of Las Vegas Sun Newspaper
TWO YEARS LATER
Chapter 5Origins Of The Unidentified Starship
Chapter 6Observatory, Atacama Desert, North Chile
Chapter 7La Moneda Palace, Santiago, Chile
Chapter 8The Vatican
Chapter 9Central Africa
Chapter 10Central Africa
Chapter 11Observatory, Atacama Desert, North Chile
Chapter 12Office of Las Vegas Sun Newspaper
Chapter 13Somewhere in the Western Australia Outback
Chapter 14Place: Arnhem Land
Chapter 15Place: Spatial Corroboree
Chapter 16President’s Oval Office, White House
Chapter 17The Gathering

For my family,
immediate and distant.
Writing a book is harder than I thought and more rewarding than I could have ever imagined.
I must express all the gratitude and acknowledgement to all friends and family for their wise counsel and, above all, to my dear Trisha for her encouragement, which has made this book a reality.
INTRODUCTION
The concepts of science fiction form the basis for this book. What is science fiction? Indeed, it is difficult to define briefly, but according to Wikipedia, the most appropriate description is
Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. It is similar to, but differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story , its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation).
Thanks to our exposure to an abundance of cocktails of films and books that have come into existence since records began, we know the main characteristics with which we are familiar. These usually consist of myths operating outside the realm of the known laws of physics and the principles of nature. By these definitions, Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest , would have to be classified as science fiction, amongst many other classics like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels . These can also be regarded as some of the true forerunners of science fiction. Even comics and films littered with superheroes are indeed labelled as science fiction as part of pure escapism. Bearing this in mind, it is necessary to clarify views even further by shifting our mindset into a different sphere of science fiction that involves primarily technology and scientific reasoning. It is safe to say the introduction of scientific awakening during the Age of Reason (or Age of Enlightenment) of the 17 th and 18 th centuries has revolutionised the public’s concept of science and technology.
This has pushed the scientific barriers by questing for rationality and truth of information, much to the discomfort of many religious beliefs. Nevertheless, it is caused by the public’s general awareness and understanding of scientific discoveries somewhat ‘superficially’ that leads to the foundation of machine-originated stories in the late 19 th century, as characterised by H G Wells’ Time Machine and The War of the Worlds , along with Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea . It is interesting that even though they captured the public imagination, these stories are usually littered with various fictional elements that cannot be explained scientifically and are implausible. Many known laws of physics have been either bent or broken completely.
Fortunately, some degree of suspension of belief is often facilitated by the public or reader’s minds to the fictional imaginations to set them into a form of escapism. In other words, ‘Anything for a good story, do not let facts spoil it’. If we are to pause and consider the truer meaning of suspension of belief, it would probably better be described, with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, as suspension of intelligence! Nevertheless, for the sake of promoting fallacy, but in a humorous manner, we can highlight the strange occurrences where existing laws have become bizarrely unaccountable! We can examine this fallacy with one of H G Wells’ classic novels, beginning with The War of the Worlds , where the aliens invaded the world and started single-mindedly the process of eliminating the human population globally. All form of resistance thrown up by humans proved to be futile, and consequently, all people were starting to despair, knowing there was a very remote chance of salvaging mankind but were saved unexpectedly at the last minute by simple single-celled organisms, which had managed to ravage the alien’s immunisation system, decimating them. That is the story in a nutshell. However, what is really intriguing from the outset is the notion gleaned from this novel, that the aliens do possess an enormous engineering intelligence far superior to humans in terms of technology. This is evidenced from their invincible tripod machines, but somehow, they managed to overlook the universal dangers posed from exposure to another world’s microscopic organisms, which had a completely different DNA. How was it possible that with all the intelligence they possessed, they could have overlooked this obvious fact? Perhaps it was because of their type of intelligence, possibly the psyche side of their mindset, that confined their thought processes to that specific structural machinery technology, rather than the biological or medical issues with which we are familiar? Naturally, there is bound to be some interesting debate on how this aspect can be addressed constructively within modern literature. The judges are out on this matter. Likewise, as seen in many films and books, it is very common to see many encounters between the human and alien species happening as matter of fact and casually with barely any reference made to immense nightmares ever present, with the attendant risks and dangers of biological contamination to the environment.
Moving on to fallacy no. 2, repeated consistently across the broad spectrum of books and films involving space travel is the significance of gravity. It is often laughable to see many people walking about in small spacecraft travelling through space as though gravity was ever present in ‘normal’ earthly levels. People tried to justify it by emphasising there could be some form of ‘gravity plate’ fitted to the floors as popularised with spaceships in the TV series Star Trek . Unfortunately, to achieve the effect of the concept of the gravity plate, the device must be compressed tremendously and colossally into some kind of super-dense material that is equivalent to Earth’s mass and weight! Even if, with such a supposedly advanced form of engineering, they could create it and have it fitted in the floors, then in theory, people should be able to walk underneath the floor parallel to people walking on top!
Now shift attention to fallacy no. 3, which is speed and distance. As is known from Einstein’s famous theory of general relativity, where nothing can go faster than the speed of light, it is absurd to see many spaceships travelling at extreme speeds, faster than light (FTL), for great distances and yet manage to hold communication in real time with Earth. Have they found a means to transfer signals faster than radio waves, breaking all known laws of physics? Doubtful. Above all, this is an extremely hard problem to resolve for two primary reasons: (1) the enormous energy required to drive far and fast and (2) the vast amount of time it takes to get anywhere in galactic terms, even at high speed. Perhaps with hindsight, it is one of the reasons that, so far, with no hard evidence to show otherwise, we have never been visited by aliens—ever. (Uncorroborated sightings of UFOs don’t count). So the formula E=mc 2 does remain supreme and factual. It is intended to stick to this throughout the book to keep the narrative in it as close to known scientific facts as possible.
Then if we are to confine our concept of travel to the realm of standard physics, then travel will require extremely long voyages, much longer than a human lifetime. Bearing this in our mind, there are four possible