For anyone interested, Stanislaw Lem touched on this same theme in his short story ‘The New Cosmogony’ that is included in his ‘A Perfect Vacuum’ collection. T

For anyone interested, Stanislaw Lem touched on this same theme in his short story ‘The New Cosmogony’ that is included in his ‘A Perfect Vacuum’ collection. The idea being that perhaps a sufficiently advanced alien entity could change the laws of physics in our corner of the universe, thus putting a sort physical speed limit on us and preventing us from probing outside of our own region of space.