It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilisation - a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilisation would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.