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formalism aimed at using an increasing number of instruments by controlling a maximum number of parameters, sterilizing laborato- ries and ridding them of the chaos of life, i.e., stripping reality of what is real! In quantum mechanics more than thirty parameters must be neutralized! Maybe the universe is really very complex after all. It is, but for different reasons than the belief in the universality of formal- ism. As we have seen, the difficulty is that the discrete notions of deter- minism and reproducibility hide behind the research of formalization. To shed new light on the categorical statement made by debunkers, for whom “the paranormal solely results from a willingness to believe in supernatural phenomena,” we could very well ask them why they believe taking the real out of reality makes it non-existent (the neutral- c . \ ization of parameters). First of all, either science clearly defines its own activities by draw- ing a dividing line between determinism and indeterminism, which would immediately usher in its downfall (leaving behind a society of engineers), or it agrees to abandon the idea of objectivity and separa- tion, of which formalism is an expression. Only then can another sci- ence emerge. This new science, a hybrid between determinism and indeterminism, between constraint and freedoms, must appreciate the variable degrees of freedom and of non-separation. The new science must give up its current status in favor of awareness. Philosophy and science still have a long way to go before they meet up, but eventually they will meet. That moment is approaching fast. It may even happen before you finish this book. We immediately see a seeming contradiction: freedom and unity versus constraint and separation. Can we be both free and united? Can we be constrained and separated at the same time? We will see that all of this is conceivable in the light of a new vision of time. While time is a common place for many of us, there are hardly any specialists in the matter. There is no universal definition of time. As Eti- wie: . re ee ee aeoa od enne Klein put it — a great time specialist who believes that physics abuses its power by speaking of what is real whereas it only has access to phenomena: “we are an inexorable part of time.”’ No observer, even if he is a scientist, can step out of time to evaluate this highly debated philosophical and scientific issue, as is space for that matter. In special cases, the observer (scientist) and the object observed (time) are not only inseparable, but the first completely depends on the second. Countless quasi truths are affirmed resolutely and never even justified. Are we condemned to remain both judge and jury? To live the perma- nent illusion of our beliefs? Even the question contains several biases. 102 The Science of Extraterrestrials: UFOs Explained at Last * Eric Julien