Aug 16, 2023 02:54 AM
Harvard Professor says godlike aliens may be creating universes in labs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolog...r-AA1fjhbo
EXCERPTS: In a new interview, perpetually provocative Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb posited both that super-human aliens could be building "baby universes" in labs and that his haters are just "jealous."
When discussing his work and theories in a chat with Fox News, Loeb showed his tendency toward imaginative, deeply speculative theories of extraterrestrial life.
"You can imagine that the superhuman civilization that understands how to unify quantum mechanics and gravity might actually be able to create a baby universe in the laboratory," he told the news outlet, "a quality that we assign to God in religious texts."
This kind of statement is par for the course for Loeb. In fact, a recent New York Times article focused not on the astronomer himself, but on the way he's — ahem — alienated his peers with his headline-grabbing claims about what he believes are interstellar interlopers and crashed spaceships at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
[...] To be fair, none of this theorizing about potential alien life is particularly new. And it's no longer career-ending to be open about a belief in extraterrestrial life, as a growing number of academics, political and government officials, and everyday people can attest...
[...] But as Arizona State University astrophysicist Steve Desch told the NYT, folks do indeed seem to be "sick of hearing about Avi Loeb’s wild claims" — or at least, are sick of the way he's characterized himself as a modern-day Galileo, punished by the capital-E establishment for his quest for a truth that goes against the official grain... (MORE - missing details)
https://youtu.be/h0PjP_TE1Cw
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolog...r-AA1fjhbo
EXCERPTS: In a new interview, perpetually provocative Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb posited both that super-human aliens could be building "baby universes" in labs and that his haters are just "jealous."
When discussing his work and theories in a chat with Fox News, Loeb showed his tendency toward imaginative, deeply speculative theories of extraterrestrial life.
"You can imagine that the superhuman civilization that understands how to unify quantum mechanics and gravity might actually be able to create a baby universe in the laboratory," he told the news outlet, "a quality that we assign to God in religious texts."
This kind of statement is par for the course for Loeb. In fact, a recent New York Times article focused not on the astronomer himself, but on the way he's — ahem — alienated his peers with his headline-grabbing claims about what he believes are interstellar interlopers and crashed spaceships at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
[...] To be fair, none of this theorizing about potential alien life is particularly new. And it's no longer career-ending to be open about a belief in extraterrestrial life, as a growing number of academics, political and government officials, and everyday people can attest...
[...] But as Arizona State University astrophysicist Steve Desch told the NYT, folks do indeed seem to be "sick of hearing about Avi Loeb’s wild claims" — or at least, are sick of the way he's characterized himself as a modern-day Galileo, punished by the capital-E establishment for his quest for a truth that goes against the official grain... (MORE - missing details)
https://youtu.be/h0PjP_TE1Cw