Cosmogonical Laugher—Imagined Aliens Might be able to Stop Imagined Expansion of the Universe

PSI Blog 20201214 Cosmogonical Laugher—Imagined Aliens Might be able to Stop Imagined Expansion of the Universe

 

Cheer up! Here is some cosmic comedy from MIT’s cellar. I can’t even imagine how anyone could get tax money to work on this latest absurdity:

 

“An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe

 

And Earth-bound astronomers should be able to tell if someone is out there doing it, a physicist says”

 

https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/an-advanced-civilization-could-resist-the-accelerating-expansion-of-the-universe-2145eee93751

 

The author comes up with a list of worries, including Covid, depression, and climate that might be of concern and writes:

 

“But one threat that is near the bottom of the list is the accelerating expansion of the universe. Indeed, it hasn’t been considered a clear threat at all until now.

 

Today that changes, at least a little, thanks to the work of Dan Hooper, a particle physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois… a new twist to the tale. His idea is [from old-time regressive Freeman Dyson] that an advanced civilization could build a sphere [around the Sun] that emits waste radiation in a specific direction. This radiation would accelerate the sphere — and the star it contains — in the opposite direction.

 

Over time, an advanced civilization could use this technique to gather stars as a source of energy and thereby keep them inside the cosmic horizon as the universe expands.”

 

So much for your cosmogonical sci-fi lesson for the day…