Adam Hibberd
For your appreciation, I reiterate my hypothesis as to the nature of ‘Oumuamua below:
What is ‘Oumuamua?
I have a pet theory, which I have been keeping very much to myself but I feel I now need to tell you. Do you want to hear it? It goes something like this….
For me, this is definitely NOT an altogether natural phenomenon but NOR is it some spacecraft developed by some now-ancient alien race.
Its path was such as to maximise its likelihood of observation by Earth telescopes. Not only this, it flashed like some sort of beacon to declare its presence to us.
But WHY would it want us to observe it exactly? Can you think of any reason? It seems its message was ‘I’m here, come and chase me!’ – and maybe this was precisely its purpose! But what on Earth would be the benefit to it of us chasing it?
Maybe a chase would NOT be so much in its interest but in OUR interest. My reasoning is that it would be the impetus for humanity to become a space-faring and for that matter an interstellar species.
Note also that (as Loeb himself pointed out) ‘Oumuamua was floating like a buoy in interstellar space just waiting for some star – and its associated system – to plough right into it. Scientists estimate that there are loads and loads of ‘Oumuamua-like objects floating around out there.
Now let us say these objects have some kind of nurseries in our Milky Way, and for that matter, throughout other galaxies, which are designed to create them and disperse them throughout their host galaxies.
Furthermore maybe like ‘Oumuamua possibly did, they all have a high Beta-value, in other words a high area to mass ratio. It turns out this would be IDEAL for distributing them around the galaxy and they would, through drag from molecular and dust clouds, become dispersed and float around the galaxy, in the precise manner ‘Oumuamua did.
My hypothesis is this: that the purpose of ‘Oumuamua – and for that matter other objects like it – is as a catalyst or seed to allow intelligent life to seek to expand across space by beckoning this intelligence to chase it.
But why is scientific expansion across space so important? Could the ultimate purpose be in some way to the Universe’s benefit?
There is more to say, but I shall leave it there. Just refer to my theory document to fill in the remaining story.