Finally, in the absence of this robust, unambiguous data for UAP exhibiting extreme movements, such as the Nimitz tic-tac, and in the absence of any technologically feasible concept for a physical warp drive, a drive that could really only possibly be constructed if we have a full and complete understanding of quantum gravity, in the absence of these two things, I am left with the current conclusion that such UAP will most likely be explicable by known objects or phenomena.
So again, ([looking offstage] 30 seconds here and I'm done, maybe 60 seconds) I hope that I've made it clear that my role here is not as a naysayer or as a curmudgeon, but as a scientist who, of course, supports the scientific study of anomalous phenomena. All scientists should do so. And I think you realize now that I'm not a scientifically conservative and risk-averse researcher. I published a paper about building a particle collider on the moon and I want to build a black hole factory circling the sun. I love the edges of science.
But I hope I've also outlined what I see as a few impediments to the goal of a broad global scientific UAP program. Some of the main conclusions or hypotheses that I often encounter within the UAP realm do not follow from the data and observations we in the broader scientific community have access to. And focusing the scope of UAP discussions on, say, as was discussed many times, aviation safety or defense security/advanced surveillance capabilities of governments around the world, that would be a major benefit.
So my two main recommendations, just to finish, are, ([looking at slide] where are we here?) that we need clear, repetitive visual and physical data. And number two, that warp drive research should be accelerated, which, as discussed, would be simply great for fundamental physics, irrespective of the applications to possible UAP research. So again, regarding that first one, there's very little to be done scientifically until it exists.
If a student comes to me and says, Dr. Beecham, I've discovered a new particle in Large Hadron Collider data, I would not call a press conference. I would ask them to show me what they found, and I would inspect their claims in detail for months along with thousands of my colleagues. And if they told me, no, I can't show you the detail, but I definitely saw it, then unfortunately, there's very little to be done, and the claim won't go anywhere.
And so now it's entirely possible that, for example, an ET visitation might happen tomorrow. That would, of course, be the most amazing thing that's ever happened in the history of humanity. But even if that happened, it would not negate what I'm saying here. We have to insist upon this kind of rigorous scientific attitude toward things, because otherwise we'll make mistakes. The history of science is filled with people who manage to delude themselves, because I don't know if you noticed this, we humans are exceptionally good at allowing self-delusion. We're very, very good at it.
And so I would like to think, ([looking offstage] yes, please, come, come). I would like to think that it would not take something as momentous and earth-shaking as an obvious ET visitation, or [gesturing offstage] a visitation from Mara here, to realize that the things that we have in common are much stronger than those things that people try to divide us with. But it might actually take this.
And so I would just leave you with the thought that I think that, for me, whether or not there is a kind of ET hypothesis to entertain, for me, we have to confront the possibility that we're completely alone in the universe, and we might have to confront the possibility that we, right here, have to take care of each other.
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