00:04Do aliens exist? It's the age-old question that we still have no answer to, even after peering deep into
00:10the cosmos.
00:11But if there were other advanced civilizations many times more advanced than even our own,
00:15scientists have now come up with a theory that they might be using these as quantum computers.
00:20And it might actually explain why we still have yet to interact with any of them.
00:22The SETI project, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, has been an ongoing effort to find aliens since the
00:2960s.
00:30But rather than looking for little grey men waving back at us from deep space, these endeavors have been aimed
00:34at finding technosignatures,
00:36or signs of their advanced technology.
00:38These would include radio signals or things like Dyson spheres,
00:41megastructures that are built around stars meant to harness their basically limitless power.
00:45This new paper suggests a slightly different technosignature detection, looking for signs of mass quantum computing,
00:51with their researchers writing, quote,
00:53No matter how advanced a civilization is, or how different is their particle composition and chemistry from ours,
00:58we are unified by laws of quantum physics and gravity.
01:01And since black holes are the most efficient stores of quantum information,
01:05detecting alien tech around one might be the best place to start looking.
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