Study reveals reason aliens may be snatching stars & caging them in megastructures

[Cardinal]

https://www.rt.com/news/430473-alien...uctures-study/

Alien civilizations may be forced to capture stars and harness their energy using ginormous structures – all to keep themselves alive in the cold, ever-expanding vastness of universe, a Fermilab cosmologist believes.

Expansion of the universe, thought to be further accelerated by dark energy, is flinging matter apart, while galaxies are being pushed away from each other. This is a challenge alien technologies will have to deal with in order for them to survive, Dan Hooper, a senior Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory scientist, writes in a new study.
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The paper looks at the use of megastructures, popularly known as Dyson spheres, which may theoretically be built around stars to harvest their energy. But it goes further than that, arguing that the huge balls of gas will also have to be shifted in their course so as not to escape the energy-hungry aliens.

“In order to maximise its access to useable energy, a sufficiently advanced civilisation would chose to expand rapidly outward, build Dyson Spheres or similar structures around encountered stars, and use the energy that is harnessed to accelerate those stars away from the approaching horizon and toward the centre of the civilization,” Hooper, who is also a professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago, writes.

While the futuristic scenario may or may not be already playing out somewhere in the universe, the study suggested that “any sufficiently advanced civilization” which is faced with the problem of possible isolation, will be prompted to start hunting for available stars in order “to secure as many of them as possible” before it is too late to reach them and extract their energy.

“Over the next approximately 100 billion years, all stars residing beyond the Local Group will fall beyond the cosmic horizon and become not only unobservable, but entirely inaccessible, thus limiting how much energy could one day be extracted from them,” Hooper writes.

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Considering distances measured in billions of light years between us and the cosmic horizon, aliens could already be grabbing and moving stars, the study has admitted.

Hooper, however, remains skeptical that harvesting energy from stars can be something doable for humans at the present moment. But given that the human race will eventually reach the limit of our planet’s resources, the idea of fishing for stars to extract their energy may not seem so surreal in the future – unless some other race comes to snatch our Sun for their needs first.

[norman]

That's a Newtonian doomer talking, I guess.

I think linear space distances are only part of the picture.

"A scientifically advanced" race would probably not have to worry about such linear distances.

[Justplain]

I doubt energy is a problem for advanced et civilizations because we already know about zero point energy. The issue about vast distances is circumvented by electro-gravitics that erase mass which permits the traversing of long distances at unbelievable speeds. Regarding the 'burning out' of a fully expanded universe, a sufficiently advanced et civilization would likely be able to jump to another universe (which black holes may be gateways into), no?

In addition, studies on background radiation show patterns that indicate multiple big bangs in this universe. So likely that the fully expanded universe collapses on itself and does the big bang thingy all over again, via a process we yet are to comprehend.

[Joe from the Carolinas]

...and aliens may be more advanced than dyson spheres.