From all I've read for this, it should not be possible for such a slow star to emit anything, ie against known physics of natural objects.
Why are they so quick to discard a technological origin?
Why are they so quick to discard a technological origin?
A sufficiently advanced society could cause any possible phenomena we ever observe, Occam's razor says you should look for other solutions first.
Something very interesting is going on here.
You're starting from an odd place if you're assuming that's the case. There's absolutely no reason to believe the laws of physics are different in this star's case compared to any other we've seen. It's an absurd leap to believe aliens are at work here rather than this being yet another case of our knowledge of physics being incomplete.
Agreed.
If we interpret Occam's razor as to "choose the simplest solution with the greatest explaining power," then the "solution" may be to admit that we have an inadequate understanding of how these things physically work.
This doesn't rule out the possibility of a technological origin, but I think Ben's point is that we should explore possiblities that generate more answers than questions first.
For the same reason that they haven't presented God as a serious option. It's not falsifiable, it being true would require a truly enormous amount of preconditions that are utterly unknown, and it's much more likely that something about our current understanding isn't correct.
If you say "aliens!" every time you see something that doesn't make sense, you'll be saying it a lot, but you will find it will actually be normal physics hiding behind a curtain.