Avi Loeb

He said, I'm proud of a paper that I wrote about supersymmetry.

And I said, but you are aware of the fact that the Large Hadron Collider did not find supersymmetry.

Aren't you worried that this is incorrect?

And he said, we just have to wait for the next accelerator because it may be just around the corner with the next accelerator.

Now I ask you, is there a difference between the Lubavitchers and him?

No difference.

Didn't you give a talk somewhat recently about the Messiah could be an alien intelligence?

Oh, that's another, yeah.

So one of the reasons that I'm really interested in finding siblings in our family in the Milky Way galaxy is because we can learn from them and they may be more accomplished than we are.

And I had a group of religious scholars, theologians that were led by the current president of the Templeton Foundation and they came to Harvard and

He asked me to address the question of whether finding extraterrestrials will change religious beliefs.

And I said, I don't think so, because I have two daughters.

And when the second one was born, it didn't take away the love that I have to the first one.

So imagining God as being able to attend to one child is very limiting.

If you really believe that God is all capable, then there must be many children in our family within the Milky Way galaxy, and we would not lose anything out of that.

And in fact, if we ever met a more accomplished sibling, the only thing that it can trigger is jealousy that they reached a higher level.

But we know that siblings have jealousy, but that's not a big deal.

It's good to find them because right now, if you look at textbooks about cosmology, the universe, and I wrote a few of them, they regard the universe as a lonely and cold place without any emotional connection to the universe.

But imagine that we have siblings out there that we can, in principle, visit because they visit us.

If we visit them, we will learn more about them.