cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14140744

It feels like one of the most unanswerable questions out there but one Harvard University professor believes that aliens could well exist - and if they do then their technology would have a seismic effect on humanity.

Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American astrophysicist, has been dubbed the “alien hunter” for his work on trying to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. He has now claimed in a new documentary that aliens may be travelling through hidden dimensions created at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

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Last year, the professor claimed that the universe and others may have been created in a lab by aliens because they have godlike intelligence. He discovered fragments at the bottom of the ocean that he said might be interstellar, which he said could prove the existence of aliens and provide insight into their technological capabilities.

He has previously been criticised for alleging that extraterrestrials exist but said that he feels it’s “arrogant of us to think that we are alone, that we don’t have a neighbour out there.” Professor Loeb referenced the “tens of billions of planets” in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and the “hundreds of billions of galaxies like the Milky Way in the observable volume of the universe” that could contain civilisations and life forms like ours.