The Basement: Quantum Compilation | From Particle Colliders to Parallel Realities

Dr. Travis Taylor, who served as chief scientist of the UAP Task Force, tells a story about being in a Pentagon skiff briefing senior officials on anomalous data from Skinwalker Ranch when one of the men walked in carrying Taylor's own book — Alien Invasion, a textbook on how Earth might defend against extraterrestrial threats that Taylor co-wrote with an intelligence community mentor during a top-secret meeting on asymmetric warfare two years after 9/11. That meeting began when a three-star general suggested Americans needed to understand the enemy's perspective, and Taylor laughed out loud, explaining that Americans with X-boxes and $100 shoes would never understand people living in a completely different world — "the only way Americans would ever be on the low side of asymmetric war was if we were invaded by aliens." The general rolled his eyes. But the three-letter agency boss pulled Taylor aside afterward and asked what humanity would actually do. The answer was "we'd probably die." That led to a year of study, classified briefings, and eventually a published book — one that would later follow Taylor into a classified meeting about unexplained microwaves coming out of the ground in Utah.

The Universe as a Black Hole, the Brain as a Quantum Computer