{"id":183217,"date":"2024-02-20T23:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/nasa-sponsored-researcher-suggests-it-might-be-possible-to-change-the-laws-of-physics"},"modified":"2024-02-20T23:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T05:22:43","slug":"nasa-sponsored-researcher-suggests-it-might-be-possible-to-change-the-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/nasa-sponsored-researcher-suggests-it-might-be-possible-to-change-the-laws-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"NASA Sponsored Researcher Suggests It Might Be Possible to Change the Laws of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-sponsored-researcher-suggests-it-might-be-possible-to-change-the-laws-of-physics3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an extremely <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/galaxy-brain\" class=\"\">cosmic\u2013<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/galaxy-brain\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> take, University of Rochester astrophysics professor Adam Frank suggests that a civilization could advance so much that it could eventually tinker with the fundamental laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mind-bending proposition that ventures far beyond the conventional framework of scientific understanding, a reminder that perhaps we should dare to think outside the box \u2014 especially as we continue our search for extraterrestrial civilizations.<\/p>\n<p>If a civilization were to be able to change the laws of physics, \u201cthe very nature of energy itself, with established rules like energy conservation, would be subject to revision within the scope of engineering,\u201d Frank, who is part of the NASA-sponsored Categorizing Atmospheric Technosignatures program, wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/13-8\/advanced-civilization-change-laws-physics\/\" class=\"\">essay for <em>Big Think<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an extremely cosmic\u2013brain take, University of Rochester astrophysics professor Adam Frank suggests that a civilization could advance so much that it could eventually tinker with the fundamental laws of physics. It\u2019s a mind-bending proposition that ventures far beyond the conventional framework of scientific understanding, a reminder that perhaps we should dare to think outside [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}