Loeb claims tiny spherules he and his team found were most likely a 'technological gadget with artificial intelligence.'
shortly afterward that "this composition is anomalous compared to human-made alloys, known asteroids, and familiar astrophysical sources."
In a later post, he wrote that "their discovery opens a new frontier in astronomy, where what lay outside the solar system is studied through a microscope rather than a telescope.", he went on to state that the fact IM1 "was made of materials tougher than even iron meteorites, and moving faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun, suggested potentially it could be a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget.
Desch went as far as saying that Loeb's comments constitute "a real breakdown of the peer review process and the scientific method, and it’s so demoralizing and tiring." Peter Brown, a meteor physicist at Western University in Ontario, concurred, suggesting that Loeb shouldn't make such bold proclamations during the early analysis phase — it's not uncommon for detected events to appear interstellar at first only to be chalked up to a measurement error.
Irrespective of Loeb's early assertions and the ongoing debate, the Harvard professor has sent spherule samples to Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Bruker Corporation in Germany for more in-depth analysis. Ultimately, much like those arguing against his claims, Loeb will hope it's the science that does the real talking.
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