Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJanna Levin: belief
5 May 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
“Whether or not there are extra dimensions, or whether or not there’s life in another membrane, I think we know that even just in our galaxy, which is a very small part of the universe, 300 billion stars, something like that, a whole kind of variety of possibilities to be explored, by nature in the same way that we’re describing it.”
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- Janna Levin
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- belief
- Recorded
- 5 May 2025
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…So is it possible that there’s some kind of physics explanation why we haven’t seen the aliens? Like we said, membranes? I don’t think membranes is going to explain why we don’t see them in the Milky Way. I think that is just a problem we’re stuck with. Whether or not there are extra dimensions, or whether or not there’s life in another membrane, I think we know that even just in our galaxy, which is a very small part of the universe, 300 billion stars, something like that, a whole kind of variety of possibilities to be explored, by nature in the same way that we’re describing it. And I think you’re absolutely right. When life was kicked off, first sparked here on earth, it was voracious. It took a really long time though to get to multicellularity. I think that’s interesting. That’s weird.…
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