Despite all that scientists now know, much of our universe still remains a mystery.
And according to a Columbia University astrophysicist, this could be because the physical laws of the cosmos are not as they seem.
Instead, the expert argues that our universe may be driven by the reassembled intelligence of an alien civilization – one so advanced that it transcribed itself into the quantum realm, allowing life to ‘disappear into ordinary physics.’
While the claims may seem radical, an intelligence that’s indistinguishable from the fabric of the universe would solve many of its greatest mysteries, Caleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University, writes in an article for Nautilus.
For one, it would explain why we have yet to find an intelligent civilization outside of Earth.
‘Perhaps hyper-advanced life isn’t just external,’ Scharf writes.
‘Perhaps it’s already all around. It is embedded in what we perceive to be physics itself, from the root behaviour of particles and fields to the phenomena of complexity and emergence.
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