> It is a conjecture or speculation; it is not a hypothesis, in the scientific sense, because without something more than "some way we don't understand", it mak

> It is a conjecture or speculation; it is not a hypothesis, in the scientific sense, because without something more than "some way we don't understand", it makes no falsifiable predictions of future observations. But it is falsifiable, for example we could falsify it by visiting the star and observing that there is no life in its solar system and no artificial satellites orbiting the star.