Re:Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox
by tsimionescu on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:51PM
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> Is that accurate?
It is - we would have to be so wrong about how the universe works for that to be possible that it would be absolutely miraculous that we can even make a fire, not to mention a particle accelerator.
People tend to significantly underestimate how little room there is for us to be significantly wrong about such things and still have all the observations we've made. There are still major gaps in our understanding of the universe, to be sure, but they are nowhere near the level of allowing for beings which strip quarks from a nucleus.
It is - we would have to be so wrong about how the universe works for that to be possible that it would be absolutely miraculous that we can even make a fire, not to mention a particle accelerator.
People tend to significantly underestimate how little room there is for us to be significantly wrong about such things and still have all the observations we've made. There are still major gaps in our understanding of the universe, to be sure, but they are nowhere near the level of allowing for beings which strip quarks from a nucleus.