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Sabine Hossenfelder

Sabine Hossenfelder
 Physicist: �Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany 
 Blog: BackReaction at backreaction.blogspot.com 
 Twitter: @skdh
 Author: Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray 
 (Basic Books: 2018)��
How will humanity first discover ET Life?
 
 Best guess: Technosignatures�
 
 Quite plausibly the reason we haven�t yet picked up 
 ET signals is that we have not developed the necessary technology. 
 How can we make progress? We need to better understand the 
 foundations of physics. If there is any way to send information 
 faster than the speed of light, that�s what advanced civilizations 
 are using. Too many physicists currently believe that Einstein has 
 proved superluminal signaling is impossible or that, if it was possible, 
 it would somehow wreck the universe. Both are incorrect. 
 There is no particular reason why faster than light signaling 
 should be impossible. But if we believe it is impossible, 
 we�re not going to find those aliens. Indeed, I am afraid the 
 belief that the speed of light is an absolute limit is the 
 biggest mistake in human history, ever.