Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.
When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.
Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.