Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable f
Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.By Caleb ScharfIllustration by Tianhua MaoPerhaps Arthur C. Clarke was being uncharacteristically unambitious. He once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced technology is going to be indistinguishable from magic. If you dropped in on a bunch of Paleolithic farmers with your iPhone and a pair of sneakers, you’d undoubtedly seem pretty magical. But the contrast is only middling: The farmers would still recognize you as basically like them, and before long they’d be taking selfies. But what if life has moved so far on that it doesn’t just appear magical, but appears like physics?Continue Reading -- source link
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