Another possibility is that the aliens are made of atoms, but are very small. E.g. bacterium-sized.
One can pack a surprisingly large amount of intelligence into a bacterium-sized body, especially if it’s computronium. And if they’re swarm-based entities, the amount of intelligence they could have is basically unlimited.
The bacterium-sized aliens could have all the properties you described, including the ability to sustain horrendous accelerations. And their swarms could behave like UAPs.
Additionally, they could also explain “nanobacteria”.
A single gram of soil can harbour up to 10^10 bacterial cells. It means, if the bacterium-sized aliens exist, they don’t have to build Dyson spheres to achieve an Avogadro number of individuals. Their civilization could be vast, and ubiquitous across the universe, while being completely invisible to our telescopes (because we have to use microscopes instead).
Their size could also allow them to survive and flourish in a galaxy monitored by hostile aliens: they could have an advanced technological civilization of 10^23 individuals, without emitting anything noticeable at 0.5 light years.
Maybe our slow, inefficient, macroscopic life is an anomaly. And the advanced aliens view us in the same way as we would view the massive storms of Jupiter that somehow turned out to be sentient.
I actually wrote about the idea of alien nanorobots in solar system in my UAP and Global Catastrophic Risks. One variant is that alien nanorobots are something like interstellar grey goo or technological remnants of now defunct civilization. You may remember S.Lem “Invinsible” novel which explored this idea.
But what you suggesting here is more similar to Lem’s “Solaris”, which superintelligent ocean becomes interstellar. And the main difficulty here is to explain behavior, not technology: why the hell “ghost rockets”?? Superintelligent civilization could hide itself effectively on microlevel and will be never observed. Why it creates large objects which behave as if they animals similar to dolphins in intelligence?
Thanks for the link! Haven’t encountered the article before. After skimming through it, and reading the nanobots part, I conclude that it is very comprehensive. I don’t think I can add anything on the topic that you haven’t already thought about.
this ML paper indicates that an artificial intelligence could be driven by a single objective—seeking novelty, and it will be sufficient to make it smarter over time (and perhaps even smart than humans).
Maybe UAPs are similar: their prime motivation is to seek novelty, because it’s how they gained intelligence in the first place.
It’s also the reason why they love to interact with humans in ridiculous ways: humans are generating a lot of novelty this way. Moreover, they could be much smarter than humans, and still be doing it (compare: humans love to play with their pets).
Humanity is their addictive TikTok app, and UFO enthusiasts are their funny cats.
Another possibility is that the aliens are made of atoms, but are very small. E.g. bacterium-sized.
One can pack a surprisingly large amount of intelligence into a bacterium-sized body, especially if it’s computronium. And if they’re swarm-based entities, the amount of intelligence they could have is basically unlimited.
The bacterium-sized aliens could have all the properties you described, including the ability to sustain horrendous accelerations. And their swarms could behave like UAPs.
Additionally, they could also explain “nanobacteria”.
A single gram of soil can harbour up to 10^10 bacterial cells. It means, if the bacterium-sized aliens exist, they don’t have to build Dyson spheres to achieve an Avogadro number of individuals. Their civilization could be vast, and ubiquitous across the universe, while being completely invisible to our telescopes (because we have to use microscopes instead).
Their size could also allow them to survive and flourish in a galaxy monitored by hostile aliens: they could have an advanced technological civilization of 10^23 individuals, without emitting anything noticeable at 0.5 light years.
Maybe our slow, inefficient, macroscopic life is an anomaly. And the advanced aliens view us in the same way as we would view the massive storms of Jupiter that somehow turned out to be sentient.
Some relevant fiction:
the “Micro Ducks from Outer Space” episode of DuckTales
“Prey” by Michael Crichton
I actually wrote about the idea of alien nanorobots in solar system in my UAP and Global Catastrophic Risks. One variant is that alien nanorobots are something like interstellar grey goo or technological remnants of now defunct civilization. You may remember S.Lem “Invinsible” novel which explored this idea.
But what you suggesting here is more similar to Lem’s “Solaris”, which superintelligent ocean becomes interstellar. And the main difficulty here is to explain behavior, not technology: why the hell “ghost rockets”?? Superintelligent civilization could hide itself effectively on microlevel and will be never observed. Why it creates large objects which behave as if they animals similar to dolphins in intelligence?
Thanks for the link! Haven’t encountered the article before. After skimming through it, and reading the nanobots part, I conclude that it is very comprehensive. I don’t think I can add anything on the topic that you haven’t already thought about.
Thanks for reading! Btw, there is a new interesting blog on the topic https://entaus.blogspot.com/2022/05/of-matter-of-mind-and-matter-ufos-and.html?m=1
Thanks!
Regarding the ridiculous behavior of UAP:
this ML paper indicates that an artificial intelligence could be driven by a single objective—seeking novelty, and it will be sufficient to make it smarter over time (and perhaps even smart than humans).
Maybe UAPs are similar: their prime motivation is to seek novelty, because it’s how they gained intelligence in the first place.
It’s also the reason why they love to interact with humans in ridiculous ways: humans are generating a lot of novelty this way. Moreover, they could be much smarter than humans, and still be doing it (compare: humans love to play with their pets).
Humanity is their addictive TikTok app, and UFO enthusiasts are their funny cats.
Thanks for link. Novelty seeking seems to be a convergent goal: cats also seek novelty and children do so.