Comment on If humans can put cameras in the wild and animals will never know they're being watched. Then, an advanced alien civilization can just as well surveil us without any of us noticing.

• thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism? Can you imagine what an electronic device/chip would look to someone from far past? People thought humans couldn’t fly.

  Those “fundamental science” is just us making sense of the universe in a way we can observe it and even then we don’t know everything. Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism?

    No, I don’t think it’s comparable. We’ve figured out most of the big picture, not it’s mostly just filling in gaps here and there and making correction. I doubt there is an entire new force or field hiding that would allow completley undetectable communications from us. Maybe you could do something with neutrinos, we’re quite bad at detecting them for now.

    Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.

    Yeah, I’ve looked through an infred camera and seen pictures from x-ray telescopes. We can do that.

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    • Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lmao. I’ve heard that one before. Almost 200 year ago in fact.

      4gravitons.com/…/in-defense-of-lord-kelvin-michel….

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just called it a bit too early. But that’s mostly where we at now, technology is just catching up to theoretical physics. But I doubt we’ll get many more discoveries on the same society-changing level like electricity or radio waves were.

        But hey, it would be much more interesting if I’m wrong.

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