The Future of Physics

I'm not like completely pessimistic that there are other ways of doing it. I think maybe we could push ourselves really hard to kind of think outside the box. Well, if the aliens do arrive and they don't just like fry us from space, you think we should send the philosophers first or the physicists? A basic question is how could they teach us what they know? How could we possibly understand the science of a super advanced race? It's sort of like if you gave Galileo a laptop, where would you even go to explain to him how it works and what you could do with it?