I don't think we'll really understand how the universe works until we crack dark matter and dimensions.
Probably one of the best videos I've ever seen
Ah yes posted this in the space thread a while back. Superbly done and they have a follow up as well
I've said this before elsewhere but I guess given the context of this thread, worth posting here too.
We humans genuinely are not ready as a collective to accept super intelligent beings from another part of the universe. We simply would not be compatible in our current state of evolution. Assuming they are out there, and have been observing us for some time, they know the score and are slowly seeing how we react to the notion of them existing.
On one hand big thinkers like Stephen Hawking say we should be wary of sending out navigational signals that can be traced back to us, and he references what happened to new lands discovered by ancient explorers, how the natives were occupied/enslaved and the lands stolen from them.
Personally I think this is the wrong outlook. Any beings capable of intergalactic travel are at the very least a Type 2 civilisation on the Kardashev scale. By that basis alone we know one thing with some high-confidence, that they are a species that are in near complete unity with each other and live in some kind of utopia because politics, currency and industry are a thing of the past. Being type-2 means they have harnessed the full energy potential of their entire solar system and they are ready to become (if not already are) intergalactic moving their technology onto a galactic scale. To manipulate gravity means they have cracked dark energy and dark matter, they can pull energy from the fabric of space-time as they see fit and this kind of behaviour is what's being observed in these objects the Pentagon are soon to publish their report on.
That kind of civilisation has evolved beyond any form of conflict of occupation of a lower power species, they become observers of other civilisations and only once those civilisations are ready will they introduce themselves formally. To have that kind of technology means nobody in that civilisation ever needs to work to live, they have access to unlimited energy, if they were anything like we humans are now they would have eradicated themselves very quickly.
This is how I feel is the only way any civilisation, humans included, will ultimately evolve. And as such this also means no religion, no faiths, a civilisation of pure mathematics because this is the fundamental language of the entire universe that we know.