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How much have you thought about what it might be like to talk to aliens?

Well biologists wonder about what form alien life might take

Link with speculate about how we might communicate with them and conspiracy theorists wonder whether aliens have already visited Earth and taken over our government

Physicists have long expressed confidence that they could most easily find common ground with aliens

Assuming that math and physics are universal not specific to Earth biology

Even more than that, physicists practically salivated the prospect of learning from aliens answers to big questions in physics

How to bend space and time or crack open black holes and play a laver pranks on navy pilots

But what would it actually be like to try to learn physics from aliens?

Could we even understand the cosmic secrets they might share with us?

Would they be so advanced?

It would be like shorting or explaining quantum mechanics to his cat

Do we actually share math and physics with every intelligent civilization out there?

Or would their minds be so alien? It would just be impossible

Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist and I can't wait to talk to the aliens and learn the secrets of the universe

There are so many things we don't understand about the universe and if aliens visit or manage to send us a message

It seems likely that they might have been working on these questions for thousands or millions or even billions of years

Imagine catapulting our understanding that far forward

We might learn about how quantum mechanics really works or what's inside a black hole or how the universe actually began

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