We Might Expect Intelligent Life And Technological Communities To Have Emerged In The Universe Billions Of Years Ago. Given That Human Society Is Only A Few Thousand Years Old, And That Human Technological Society Is Mere Centuries Old, The Nature Of A Community With Millions Or Even Billions Of Years Of Technological And Social Progress Cannot Even Be Imagined. ... What Would We Make Of A Billion-year-old Technological Community?

-Paul Davies

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We Might Expect Intelligent Life And Technological

Paul Davies

We Might Expect Intelligent Life And Technological Communities To Have Emerged In The Universe Billions Of Years Ago. Given That Human Society Is Only A Few Thousand Years Old, And That Human Technological Society Is Mere Centuries Old, The Nature Of A Community With Millions Or Even Billions Of Years Of Technological And Social Progress Cannot Even Be Imagined. ... What Would We Make Of A Billion-year-old Technological Community?

Topic

Science

Intelligent

Years

Cosmologists Have Attempted To Account For The Day-to-day Laws You Find In Textbooks In Terms Of Fundamental 'superlaws,' But The Superlaws Themselves Must Still Be Accepted As Brute Facts. So Maybe The Ultimate Laws Of Nature Will Always Be Off-limits To Science.

Law

Textbooks

Fundamentals