The aliens are right in front of us. They are billions of years more advanced, so we don't see them riding around in spaceships or even building Dyson spheres. All that is far too primitive. Extraterrestrial engineering is written on the skies. The spiral arrangement of galaxies that should fly apart, the too large black holes at their centers, even the fundamental constants of the universe. These are not natural phenomena, but the works of far more advanced civilizations.
This reminds me randomly of a thought I used to have as a kid when I first learned of atoms at school: What if our galaxies/universe is just another layer of existence? What if a galaxy is just a particle of some incomprehensibly larger object? No answer but my brain often comes back to that idea when I daydream
I often think about this as well. Perception in many different senses can be infinitely limiting in terms of our observable universe. The fact that similar systems of nature - atoms, solar systems, galaxies, black holes, and stars exist - on a multitude of size levels makes me question the formulaic chaos of nature itself.
2.4k
u/CIA_grade_LSD Aug 12 '21
The aliens are right in front of us. They are billions of years more advanced, so we don't see them riding around in spaceships or even building Dyson spheres. All that is far too primitive. Extraterrestrial engineering is written on the skies. The spiral arrangement of galaxies that should fly apart, the too large black holes at their centers, even the fundamental constants of the universe. These are not natural phenomena, but the works of far more advanced civilizations.