“Since our universe has a flat geometry with a zero net energy, an advanced civilization could have developed a technology that created a baby universe out of nothing through quantum tunneling,” Loeb writes in an op-ed published by Scientific American last year.

Let's string a bunch of gobbledygook together and pretend it makes sense.

Absolutely anything except for God created the universe, they seem to be saying - never considering that the "alien" they imagine IS God and the "lab" God's Word.

it sounds like abraham loeb is trying to prove god is dead

wonder why

Idiotic. "Yeah, things we can't comprehend, it's just bigger versions of us with all the same limited crap we've developed. Hurr, we figured it out, definitely."

coulda , shoulda , wouda; It's all fantasy until there is proof. dreaming it doesn't make it true.

Aliens = Demons.

Can't read this: --Paywall. Not going to "join" Popular Mechanics.

Edit:. Found it here: https://archive.ph/WHLQM