I don't know when he wrote the last paper, maybe 15 years ago or before that.
And, you know, I've seen a week ago, I've seen a turtle that is 150 years old.
But we should think of alien civilizations that could have existed for millions or billions of years before us,
And then, you know, about 150 years ago, Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher said, God is dead.
And I think it's much more natural to expect that things better than us existed for billions of years,
They banned his book until the 19th century. I was in Poland where they celebrated just a year ago when they celebrated 350 years to the birth of Nicolás Copernicus.
Elon Musk is not the most accomplished space entrepreneur since the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago. He sent out the Tesla roadster car, I said, dummy payload on the Falcon Heavy from 2018 and just on January 2nd this year, 2025.
There was another case that OmoMo was discovered by a telescope in Hawaii on October 19th, 2017, and then in September 2020, about three years later, they discovered another object.
Three years earlier when OmoMo was spotted and it also showed the emotion consistent with a push by reflecting sunlight.
Most of the civilizations that predated us by billions of years may not be around anymore.
Well, I've seen it over the past two years because when we went to the expedition, there were a number of scientists who said, we don't believe the US government.
I mean, it could take years to build the Empire-style building, but then terrorists will just bump into it with an airplane. That's it.
So we are talking 20 years from now, it will cost more than 10 billion dollars and the goal of that observatory to find microbes in the, you know, by, by detecting the composition of atmospheres of planets around other stars.
But, you know, the existence of exoplanets, planets outside the solar system was considered speculative when I started doing astrophysics about 40 years ago.
And for, you know, 40 years, not much time was allocated on telescopes to looking for such planets.
Now you might say, well, eventually it was discovered, yeah, but it took 40 years.
And so just arguing that something like us existed billions of years ago, you know, is an ordinary claim.
It's not extraordinary. And I say billions of years ago because most stars from billions of years before the sun, the sun formed only in the last one third of cosmic history.
You need to... Given the fact that, for example, in the context of dark matter, we searched for 50 years, didn't...
So one thing led to another and I ended up being offered a position at Harvard University at Junior Faculty position, five years after that.
And then three years later I was tenured because Cornell University offered me a tenured appointment.
And also the cell phone would have served a very important role because Moses went for 40 years in the desert before he got to the close to the promised land.
And so just think about it, what if we had a thousand years and a million years or maybe a billion years of science, how far can we go?
Even just another hundred years because it seems really exponential at this point.
And so billions of years are passing in the rest of the universe, in your accelerating frame, which is just accelerating at 1G, you know, it's nothing.
You will actually cross billions of light years.
Okay, that includes the story of the Vatican, you know, in 1992, they admitted that Galileo Galilei was right. And that was, you know, 350 years after he died.
And I got funding for both. And there is another observatory perhaps within the next two years that will be built in Indiana.
The recombination of electrons in protons, 400,000 years after the Big Bang,
He's not practicing science. He, you know, he's, I don't know when he wrote the last paper, maybe 15 years ago or before that.
Now another thing that we tried for 70 years is detecting radio signals from other civilizations, which is similar.
It's just that we transmitted radio signals for a hundred years. So there aren't many planets, many stars out to a hundred light years.
But, you know, if there is anything out there, I wouldn't be surprised within a few thousand years someone would come to visit us.
If they have a fast enough technology, if they are using chemical proportions, rockets like we use, they would get here within millions of years, which is again a very short time compared to the billions of years that characterize the...
Yeah, no, I think there is a fundamental problem with quantum mechanics, which we don't understand as still, a hundred years after it was discovered, and that is...
So I mean, there are people claiming to work on it for 50 years in context of string theory, but they don't give a specific theory that makes predictions that can be tested experimentally.