Aliens ‘use stars to communicate’

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Aliens might be using the stars to send secret signals to each other, according to a scientist at Imperial College London. In a paper entitled “Perhaps they are everywhere”, he says aliens might have evolved to use quantum physics differently from us. He speculates that aliens may use physics to “hide their photonic entanglement” from us, which would explain why we have never discovered them.

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