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Originally Posted by JayUtah
Inflation, SuperString, Mbrane theories are all minority opinions?
Yes, when applied to the question of alien visitation. You have cited exactly one paper on the subject. You claimed that "our best" experts established this finding. Pointing to the general topics the authors allude to does not create support for their specific findings.
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Fine Jay, as I said, my stating "reality is ... " was quite wrong.
Let me concede:
A handful of scientists have put forth that our best astro / physics arguably predict Earth should/could have been visited by now. It starts with Fermi's calcuations and diffusion modeling, followed by Olum's
Conflict Between Anthropic Reasoning and Observation and Gato-Rivera's
Brane Worlds, Subanthropic principle and Undetectability Conjecture coupled with "Inflation Theory Implications for ET Visitation."
While they may be astr / physicists you might not accept their notions of Inflation, Superstring, Mbrane, multiverse etc cosmologies as our "best" physics and astrophysics,
especially when it comes to the ETH.
Your choice.
As for me, I've come to accept these cosmologies even while we really have no idea what's going on. I accept the "magical" nature of hypothetical ETi tech. A couple hundred years ago going to the moon was quite the "magical" notion, no?
I also accept the basic argument by scale, the possibility of far older and more advanced civilizations. I accept the copernican principle, more and more supported IMO with advances in astrobiology (chemicals and ingredients for Life are everywhere, let alone the processes).
What does any of this mean?
Nothing, we don't know.
It remains the ETHypothesis, indeed.