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Hi there! I've been working on a sci-fi script for the last 22 years and have now completed it. In it I came across all kinds of problems affecting over 27 different scientific fields. One of which was about finding traces of ET life... I found a way through studying Anthropology, since to understand ET, we first needs to understand what defines us.
Anyhow, finding traces of technologically advance ET, was one of the main problem I had to tackle. Here I hope to be able to share what my ideas with other minds. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI is a passive way of detecting ET existence. Its as good as it can get. But I believe that knowing what to look for instead, could make an active approach to finding ET's much more efficient.
For instance, before looking for advance Life, we must define our specie. In Anthropology, our specie has been one that rise from trading ideas. In this respect, we are a trade based specie. Otherwise, we would still be inside our cave, trying to start a fire and not living in skyscrapers like 1/5 of the world civilized population.
Knowing this, other advance forms would have scale up that traits of theirs to the scale of the stars.
So if I make a scenario based on this premised that other such intelligent life's have arisen on other worlds, we can easily expect the arising of a trade based intelligence like ours. Knowing this, we can extrapolate that it might be easier to detect trading network activities from a space-ready Alien species than finding a possible planet they could live on.
Assuming that the Universe can’t be controlled (like Life on Earth), it is believable that all space-ready species will seek trading partners, mostly because space is deadly, and even more so as you master higher energy forms, like antimatter or other exotic sources. Because of that danger, and because of the time scale of events taking place at galactic levels (that can outspan the existence of an entire specie evolution tree on a planet), the pressure to find other more advance trading partners with exchanging technologies and other space knowledge’s will be extremely high.
For this, we can therefore expect that those before us would have noticed that early needs for a specie first venturing towards space. With this in mind, we could expect that they will make themselves see by those new space ready civilizations, as to gain more trading partners connecting to their trading networks…
If so, it is logical to think that the earliest space-ready civilization has spread a while ago already, considering the vast age of our Universe. Therefore, knowing this we can assume that the first ones, may have solved more problems that we will have to face, and that they would have developed means to travel fast, and far. So to achieve this, they would have to find a way to travel across the Universe. But knowing that a lot of energy is needed to accomplish quick travel across space, they would need to establish vast energy sources along their networks, since, in space, pure, usable energy is extremely scarce and it gets even more so as distance increase. So to become efficient they would have to find ways to travel, communicates and trade the fastest way possible (allowed by the laws of our current known Universe). If so, then the following hypothesis might represent the answer found by the first ones to trade, to be seen from a far and to organize, power and travel across the cosmos.
Our intelligence trait being based on trades in order to find new ways to survive and adapt to different and ever changing environments, we have become what we are today, a global trading race.
So taking into account that other intelligences exists (since we have intelligent animals here but who hardly trade ideas spanning over generations to increase their odds of survival over time), we must look at space using this prismatic view. Because how an advance trade based intelligence would manage to travel and trade with other advanced trade based life in the Universe? Current knowledge’s in sciences suggest that they might use worm holes, but not any kinds of wormholes. Using this, and hypothesizing that the first ones were so advance that they could setup a network of wormholes; they will need the other trade based intelligence to easily find those too, as to reach them.
For a trading network to always works, they will need a worm hole to remain permanently open. To do this efficiently, we can surmise that they will need a very dense object acting as a paper weight on the space-time fabric to keep the worm hole as stretch as possible to create a geodetic fabric so distorted that widening a crack in it would be made easier (using exotic energy).
After finding their paper weight, they will also need to easily locate each nodes of the network from a far, so they will a Galactic light house that will also show the orientation of the wormhole.
Also taking into account that they will also travel throughout the worm hole to their final destination, they will require an identification method to know which wormholes bring them where.
Knowing all those requirements, we can now try to figure out what celestial objects could fit all those roles at once for the creation of a Universal trading networks. It happens that Pulsars are hyper dense celestial objects that unleash astronomical energy radio sources, so powerful that they can act as beacons of light in the Universe, and so precise in their pulse rate, that our atomic clocks seems outdated. Besides each of them have their own unique x-ray pulse frequency.
So it might be possible of detecting such Pulsar frequency trough a geodetic crack or a fully open worm hole. Helping them to infer their destination location(s) either from inside the wormhole, after having detected the destination pulsar with the help of a planet based radio telescope. Finally, in order to open a worm hole, they will need a powerful energy source (when returning at least), and the Pulsar have been known to show power fluctuations that cannot be explained by their believed natural composition…
So in essence, what I am trying to say here, is that Pulsar's that do not have gas clouds (many do not have), might happen to be wormholes gateways that paves a paths across several advance alien trade based civilizations.
So far, we have detected about 2000 Pulsars, but a fraction only with an explosion cloud, which may indicates that trade based intelligence could amount to the hundreds. A number quite realistic considering the astronomical number of planets existing in our Galaxy and the potential of Life arising on a fraction of them.
If we keep looking for planets or systems around the closest Pulsars, we may either find evidences of trades (anomalous energetic spikes fluctuations observes in some of them, might show just that, since they still remain unexplained), or find inhabited planets in the closest solar systems surrounding them.
All in all, this hypothesis makes senses for me, since it realistic to think that only space ready civilizations will really understand that new environment and see the evidences that others have pave the way before them. Creating astronomical highways connecting those who are ready to trade among the stars. |
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