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		kanzure on Nov 20, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indisti... > So what if some of the physics we study is actually not how the universe looked at the start? Could the speed of light have changed because of aliens weaponizing physics in past wars? Yeah I thought all those stars looked suspicious. http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/Starivo... http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/black-h... http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/The%20m... (starting at page 203, chapter 9) http://www.xenology.info/Xeno.htm previously on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252222 http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/seti-megastructures-jason-...

mirekrusin on Nov 20, 2016 [–]

It would be quite funny if it turned out that religious people were sorta right and our visible universe is just a cell in some other dimensions' creature butt, for example.

TeMPOraL on Nov 20, 2016 | [–]

Ultimately right, but for the very wrong reasons :). Happens sometimes. See e.g. Galileo.

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