time travel, parallel universes, and other useful illusions
We’ve been hearing a lot of curious statements by scientists this year, things about living in the Matrix, and reptiles on Mars. And here we have a recent study that considers the possibility of miniature alien probes.
A few months ago, it was all the rage: What began as an innocuous Facebook event, a joke, snowballed into a story of alien intrigue, government responses, and maybe one or two legal complaints along the way. ‘Storm Area 51’ became a kind of online phenomenon, its event page reaching over two million people, all …
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Usually, when you check your home security camera footage after a long day at the water park, you probably don’t see much. You might catch a few passing cars or a fallen tree branch. Maybe a raccoon eating all your cat food. But sometimes — sometimes you find an elf dancing in your driveway.
Last week, NASA unveiled the first ever image of a black hole. It looks like an orange donut, a mysterious eye in the dark vacuum of space. But the question has never been what does a black hole look like? The real question is how are aliens involved in all this?
Where are all the aliens? asks Russian theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin in his new paper, titled “‘First in, last out’ solution to the Fermi Paradox.” It’s a question we’ve long pondered, and perhaps one of the greatest — in a universe so vast, and with so many seemingly habitable planets, why have we yet to …
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Are we alone in the universe? Is no one else out there, exploring the vast expanse of space? Well, according to a new study, our apparent solitude might have something to do with the gravity on other planets. That is, some alien civilizations may not be able reach the stars at all.
They may already be dead or hidden, but a new study has arrived suggesting that intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations are likely to exist throughout the universe, extinct or otherwise.
