Tag: Position-Paper

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Quantum SETI: Why First Contact Is a Measurement Problem

Quantum SETI: Why First Contact Is a Measurement Problem

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A speculative framework that reframes the Fermi Paradox as a quantum measurement problem, arguing that civilizations occupy orthogonal sectors of Hilbert space and that passive detection via photons is structurally suppressed by decoherence, many-particle amplitude collapse, and quantum error correction cloaking — leaving physical interstellar probes as the only viable first-contact channel.