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The origin and nature of the universe have always been the focus of human attention, people speculate about the way the universe was born, speculate on the way the universe ended, explore the boundaries of the universe, and human exploration is endless.
However, recently, a news item that has sparked great controversy says that Avi Loeb, a scientist at Harvard University in the United States, believes that the earth and the universe may be a giant model created by advanced civilizations in the laboratory.
Avi Loeb also believes that the earth and the universe are the products of the "advanced civilization laboratory", and all kinds of cosmic energy particles are like game resources, and the advanced civilization has super scientific and technological capabilities and can create baby universes.
Avi Loeb defines this type of civilization that can create a baby universe as an "A-class civilization", while human civilization is currently only at level 0.7.
This new theory also immediately raises various ethical and philosophical questions, which are hotly debated.
So what exactly is Avi Loeb's "Advanced Civilization Laboratory" say?
1. Are the Earth and the Universe the Products of Advanced Civilization Laboratories?
Avi Loeb is a young and promising scientist with the tireless spirit of a scholar.
His research focuses on black holes and cosmology, and in 2009, he co-authored several physics papers with fellow physicist Professor Stephen Hawking.
In his latest research, he proposes a new view of the universe.
In his view, the earth and the universe were not created by the Big Bang, but were "created" by advanced civilizations in a "laboratory".
Moreover, not only the earth, but also the galaxies, stars, planets, and various celestial bodies in the entire universe are controlled by advanced civilizations, as if they live in a giant "cosmic laboratory".
Avi Loeb's theory of "Advanced Civilization Laboratory" originated from his thinking about the "unscientific" aspects of the earth and the universe.
For example, he said, everything on Earth seems to be arranged "like a game", whether it is the Earth's climate, the life on Earth, or the planets and galaxies created by the Big Bang explosion, all showing a certain "game" pattern.
Life on Earth can adapt to its environment through continuous evolution, and the planets in the universe have a simple and regular mode of operation.
Even the physical phenomena in the universe, as well as the formation of the universe and planets, show a certain "regularity".
Avi Loeb argues that if the universe was only produced by the Big Bang, then the "regularity" between them seems excessive, even "intentional".
Therefore, he believes that the earth and the universe are like a "laboratory", and this laboratory is like a "game" controlled by an advanced civilization.
He defines civilizations capable of creating baby universes as "A-class civilizations", while human civilizations are currently only at level 0.7.
A-level civilizations have extremely strong scientific and technological capabilities and can easily control everything in the universe, while human civilizations have not yet controlled the universe and are at level 0.7.
Avi Loeb argues that advanced civilizations predate human civilizations by about 100 billion years, and that the technological differences between civilizations of magnitude 0.3 and 0.7 are far beyond imagination.
As a civilization at level 0.7, human civilization can't even imagine how powerful the advanced civilization is in terms of scientific and technological capabilities, so their idea of establishing a space laboratory is even more of a "super advanced civilization" to a "super civilization".
The so-called "super-advanced civilization" does not really exist, but is a structural concept in scientific research.
2. Ethical and philosophical issues raised by new theories.
Avi Loeb's new theory raises great ethical and philosophical questions, not only because of his "distrust" of the creation of the universe, but also because his theory seems to have "distrust" of human civilization itself.
In his opinion, this "cosmic laboratory" was created by advanced civilizations, so everything is a game resource of an advanced civilization, so human civilization itself is a game resource.
This seems to deny the meaning of human existence, so what is the meaning of human existence?
Is the world in which humans live real?
What is the significance of the development of humanity itself?
Where is the future of human civilization headed?
In addition, Avi Loeb's theory also seems to deny that everything in the universe is real.
He believes that everything is the "game resource" of advanced civilizations, so everything in the universe, even the laws of the universe itself, is not real.
So, what is the point of human exploration of the universe?
The laws in the universe are set by higher intelligent beings, so what laws should humans abide by?
How should we explore the universe?
Avi Loeb argues that this series of philosophical questions arises from the lack of human knowledge of itself.
However, it is this lack of self-awareness that prompts human beings to constantly explore and think, and push human beings forward.
3. Exploring extraterrestrial life.
Human exploration of extraterrestrial life has never stopped since ancient times.
Whether it is religion or mythology, there are descriptions and longings for extraterrestrial life, but from a scientific point of view, the exploration of extraterrestrial life began in the 16th century.
At that time, due to the rapid development of human technology, astrology gradually became a popular subject at that time.
It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that Einstein's theory of relativity and the wave-particle duality of light gradually triggered human thinking about the universe, which made extraterrestrial life once again a topic of concern.
Since then, human exploration of extraterrestrial life has never stopped, and scientists have continued to try through various efforts.
In the 60s of the 20th century, the American "Voyager 1" probe began the exploration of outer space, and then discovered the Kármán moon Neptune in 1979, at this time, mankind has a deeper understanding of the exploration of outer space.
In 1989, Fermillab detected extraterrestrial dark matter signals, which was the first time scientists experimentally detected extraterrestrial life signals.
In 2001, the U.S. Voyager 2 began its exploration of outer space, and then, in 2013, the U.S. Gigaspectrum series of probes finally detected traces of extraterrestrial life after eight years of exploration.
In 2015, the Hubble Telescope looked at the edge of the universe and discovered the exchange of matter between extragalaxies, which is likely to be traces of extraterrestrial life.
In 2018, the U.S. "Voyager 3" also detected signals of extraterrestrial life, and this series of discoveries undoubtedly provides a major breakthrough for human exploration of extraterrestrial life.
In addition, humans have carried out the longest distance ever explored by sending Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 into the outer solar system, but to this day, there are doubts about the existence of extraterrestrial life.
But this does not prevent the exploration of extraterrestrial life.
epilogue
There are many theories about the origin of the universe, among which the Big Bang theory is the most widely accepted, which holds that the universe was created by a super-large primordial nuclear explosion 13.8 billion years ago.
This theory is also supported by Hubble's Law, which states that the universe is constantly expanding, and that it is expanding faster and faster.
However, with the development of science and technology, people's understanding of the universe is also deepening, and new views and theories may emerge to provide new explanations for the origin of the universe and the nature of the universe.