Harvard professor says it is possible that our universe was created in a laboratory
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A Harvard professor has an interesting theory about how our universe was formed: in a laboratory, by a “superior class of life forms.” Best-selling author and former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University, Abraham (Avi) Loeb recently published an article in Scientific American in which he credits the creation of the universe to an advanced technological civilization.
Loeb also coined the controversial phrase “I look for intelligent life in space because it’s hard to find on Earth,” in an interview with BBC News World last month. The interview was to promote his new book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Outside the Earth”. In the book, Loeb discusses his controversial and polemical ideas about the mysterious object Oumuamua, which he claims is either a probe sent by an alien civilization or the remains of some artifact created by extraterrestrials.
If his theory about the formation of the universe by a higher civilization is correct, “the origin story would unify the religious idea of a creator with the secular idea of quantum gravity,” he says.
“Since our universe has a flat geometry with zero net energy, an advanced civilization could have developed a technology that created a baby universe out of nothing through a quantum tunnel,” Loeb wrote in the article. Creators of the universe would belong to class A civilizations
One of the most interesting ideas postulated in the text is about the civilization classification system. Loeb said that as a low-level technological civilization, humans are class C (or a civilization dependent on its host star).
According to this classification, if and when our technology progresses to the point where we become independent of the Sun, we will be in class B. If we can create our own baby universes in a laboratory (as our “possible creators” would have done), we will be in class A.
According to the Futurism website, Loeb states that there are a number of things standing in our way there – the biggest obstacle being our inability to create a “large enough density of dark energy within a small region.”
“However, if and when we get there, we will be able to join our theoretical creators in class A,” the controversial scientist hopes.
Considering his previous ideas that alien civilizations exist (such as the one responsible for ‘Oumuamua), it seems we are not alone in the quest for this “class progression.”
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