THE universal language of, well, the universe, is art, and to say hello, aliens have apparently already sent us their artwork. The work will be exhibited at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California, from 30 July.
“Aliens have already sent us their artwork, and it is to be exhibited in a museumâ€Thank artist Jonathon Keats for this. He was the first to consider that aliens will not send us Pythagoras's theorem or mathematical symbols. "If I were ET trying to communicate with beings elsewhere in the universe...I'd try to express something about myself in the most universal language I could imagine: I'd send art," he writes.
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Of course according to some, a reasoned critique of this 'new paradigm' wouldn't be right. So how do we respond to so-called new ideas if they cannot be criticized for lack of scientific content?
Space/Science » in reply to Oh no, not the dreaded anti-science words of doom!
Here's another new paradigm line of alien inquiry
The whole thread (24 posts)
- Has SETI Been Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Mostly)?
- Look under the lampost
- They're looking for radio signals.
- re: Has SETI Been Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Mostly)?
- You got detailed SETI plans? Then let's hear them. I would be genuinely interested in the details
- faith based, not science based
- Further papers on the subject
- You got detailed SETI plans? Then let's hear them. I would be genuinely interested in the details
- Unwarranted criticism