Financial Times
Jun 14, 2022 - 6 min
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Alien communication could utilize quantum physics, so we need a new way to listen. Most searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (or SETI) look for alien structures within electromagnetic radiation. But this assumes that potential alien information is floating past us in representations built using classical physics. However, Caleb Scharf questions what happens if cosmic communication is sent in wholly different and mindboggling forms.