by Jake Anderson, November 5th, 2019
A new idea in physics, however, inverses this hypothetical to suggest that perhaps we, or our ancient ancestors, may have been (or still are) under a kind of surveillance by an alien civilization that uses robotic probes to keep tabs on the development of life on Earth.
While it may sound like a story right out of a science fiction novel, many physicists say it is completely possible that an advanced alien species would use co-orbitals—relatively nearby space objects that share a similar orbit around the sun—to study our planet and the life that has flourished on it for billions of years.
