A Nasa scientist proposes the idea of Alien civilizations throughout the Milky Way
Taking the new interstellar object is not a single alien sent here to the USAIS, humanity has never seen any signs of extraterrestrial life, let alone a great deal of intelligence – which is visible, it is amazing. With all the possible homes of possible civilizations, why don’t we see evidence of them?
You’ve probably heard of this term: The Fermi Paradox. And you’ve probably heard of more than a few solutions to it, too.
There is a famous zoo hypothesis, which thinks that advanced aliens know about our world but stay far away to appear naturally.
Or maybe you subscribe to the spookier ones like the Punser Worlds hypothesis, which holds that there might be some kind of technological innovation that no civilization is even sufficiently advanced to develop.
Or maybe the whole world is a kind of dark forest, with many alien civilizations, but very afraid to show for fear of extermination the most advanced and blood species.
But here’s the Popper Pooper. In a new peer-reviewed paper, astrophysicist Robin Corbet proposes a “Radical Mundanity” theory that takes these fantastical ideas back to virtual scifi. The Milky Way actually contains a certain number of civilizations, according to this hypothesis, it seemed Caretaker – But foreigners are not busy with cattle or busing. Instead, they are much less technologically advanced than we are, come down to the same limitations when trying to look at their fellow creatures, and eventually stop looking at the cosmos.
“The concept is very advanced, but not very advanced. It’s like having an iPhone 42 rather than an iPhone 17,” Corbet, a senior scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Flight Center, told the newspaper. “This sounds more realistic, naturally, because nothing too extreme is being proposed.”
This mundane idea explains why we don’t see any Technosignature, or technological evidence of far reaching. The aliens already have what it takes to build the massive infrastructure we could see with our telescopes, like the Dyson crowd that clings to a star to harvest its energy.
And while they have the technological power to go to other stars, maybe even with robotic antennas, it would be slow and expensive, just as it could be. And then, finding no other civilizations in the way, they decide it’s not worth the cost. Ditto for powering up the big beabing of clicking “We’re here!” login to cosmos.
“They don’t have fast-light, they don’t have machines based on dark energy or dark matter, or black holes,” Corbet said. Caretaker. “They are not introducing new laws of physics.”
It’s a strange reversal of one of our most cherished ideas of life in the cosmos. But not everyone is a fan. Michael Garrett, director of the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, said Caretaker He liked the “new idea,” but nothing else.
“It works very well for the human being like the whole cosmos,” Garrett said. “I find it hard to believe that every intelligent life will be so much like him.”
In fact, it is his own hypothesis, with detailed studies that have been accepted for publication internally Acta Astronauticait could not be more strongly opposed.
“I rely on the surprising interpretation of the Fermi Paradox: That is, biological civilizations are advancing so fast that they are penetrating beyond our own comprehension,” Garrett said. Caretaker. “I hope I’m right, but I wasn’t right. Nature always has some kind of surprise for us around the corner.”
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