Researchers have proposed several explanations for @The Silence:
It is an ancient civilization observing humanity from a distance.
It is an automated network whose creators disappeared long ago.
It is a weapon designed to corrupt technology and intelligent life.
It is a communication system operating through dimensions humanity cannot perceive.
It is a containment mechanism built to imprison something else.
It is not arriving in the solar system, but awakening within it.
Its structures are fragments of a single distributed intelligence.
Resonants are unintended side effects of exposure.
Resonants are the intended result of contact.
No theory explains every recorded phenomenon. Evidence supporting one interpretation often contradicts another.