David Kipping

Hmm.

nearby stars and found no convincing examples of what looked like a Dyson sphere star.

And then Jason Wright and his team extended this, I think using WISE, which is another infrared satellite, to look around galaxies.

So could an entire galaxy have been converted into Dyson spheres?

or a significant fraction of the galaxy, which is basically the Kardashev type three, right?

This is when you've basically mastered the entire galactic pool of resources.

And again, out of a hundred thousand nearby galaxies, there appears to be no compelling examples of what looks like a Dyson galaxy, if you wanna call it that.

So that by no means proves that they don't exist or don't happen, but it seems like it's an unusual behavior

for a civilization to get to that stage of development and start harvesting the entire stellar output.

Unusually, yes.

Yeah.

I mean, it's a whole new window to the universe, not just in terms of astrophysics, but potentially for technosciences as well.

I have to say with the warp drives, I am skeptical that warp drives are possible because you have a fundamental problem with relativity.

You can either really have relativity, faster-than-light travel, or causality.

You can only choose two of those three things.

You really can't have all three in a coherent universe.

If you have all three, you basically end up with the possibility of these kind of temporal paradoxes and time loops and grandfather paradoxes.

Well, can't there be pockets of causality, something like that?

Like where there's like pockets of consistent causality?

You could design it in that way.