If cats can be simultaneously dead and alive, can space aliens exist and not exist at the same time? It might sound like the kind of thing you’d ask while sitting around a campfire with two kinds of smoke lingering in the air, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an important question. At the center of our capacity for scientific inquiry lies a simple query: are we alone in the universe? For millennia we’ve gazed at the skies with a binary perspective. Either they’re out there and we haven’t found them, or all life in the universe is confined to…
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