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Originally Posted by A.DIM
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While [my authors] may be astr / physicists you might not accept their notions of Inflation, Superstring, Mbrane, multiverse etc cosmologies...
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I accept the "magical" nature of hypothetical ETi tech.
I do not. Your authors may be physicists in other capacities, but to ignore the hard, concrete problems of physics in order to chase after esoteric subjects and attempt to connect them to UFO sightings is not "our best physics."
Simply assuming that some unknown agent has exactly the properties you need in order to make some hypothesis true is quite clearly the antithesis of science. It may have a place in front of an audience accustomed to speculation. But it is not physics.
A couple hundred years ago going to the moon was quite the "magical" notion, no?
So was spinning straw into gold, which proposition remains impossible. Just because
some such propositions have come true does not mean all will, or that any can.
Your authors simply assume that aliens must be able to visit Earth, therefore we should expect them and that we should consider visitation a possible explanation for otherwise unexplained phenomena.
That's not science.