我们与外星人共享物理定律吗？

I want—desperately—to meet an alien. That’s why I must, absolutely, be a skeptic. We cannot rely on our desires or in- tuition to guide us to the truth, because the universe is under no obligation to align with our hopes and dreams. On the contrary, the history of scientific dis- covery is filled with wonderful moments when the data confounded our expecta- tions and led to revolutions in under- standing. And so, my fervent impatience to meet aliens is what fuels my steadfast skepticism, reminding me to base con- clusions about their existence or their nature on data rather than intuition. …