Did the creator of the universe give a hidden message to the universe for intelligent life? If so, scientists have yet to find it.
A new study has found that the search for a message on “the most cosmic, cosmic microwave background (CMB) of all billboards” “has failed. CMB is the oldest light in the universe, visible in all space. Its Microwaves Has been traveling since the first Atom A fog of protons and electrons formed which immediately filled the universe The Big Bang. They create a background radiation pattern across the sky. Physicists who have long studied CMB are looking for features that can provide clues about the formation of the universe. Michael Hippke, a Self-described “gentleman scientist” Associated with the Soneberg Observatory in Germany, he went to find traces of a creator in the background radiation. But, either way, he didn’t get one.
A beacon in the whole universe
Putting aside all the hidden assumptions in question – that there is a cosmic creator, that the creators of the universe want to know about them, that the cosmic creator gives insights into the minds of future intelligent beings and can therefore predict the future – CMB would be a good place to hide the message. “If you’re trying to target cultures at our current level of development,” said Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist who was not involved in Hipk’s published work. arXiv Database on November 29th. (This paper has not been peer reviewed.)
If I were a creator and I wanted to … [a] The message that says ‘Hi guys, I created the universe. And welcome. ‘And I want people to do a little bit of work for it, I can make it this kind of subtle-yet-universally observable thing.
Yoni Brande, University of Kansas
“There may be different media on which you will encode the message,” Loeb said. CMB is a good option because we have been able to detect it since the first good microwave study of the sky in 1964, say gravitational waves, which require more technical equipment and we only discovered in February, 2016. “It all depends on what level of intelligence you want to approach. It’s almost like writing different sections of a newspaper for a different audience.”
Another advantage for the cosmic creator to hide the message in the CMB is that the CMB is now visible from almost anywhere in space, said Yoni Brand of the University of Kansas Astrophysicist, who was not involved. Paper. (Exceptions may be in the center of a very dense cluster of stars or dust.)
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“If I were the creator and I wanted to delay the slam-dunk evidence, the message would be, ‘Hi guys, I created the universe. And you’re welcome.’ And I want people to do a little bit of work for it, I’ll make it this kind of subtle-yet-universally observable thing, “Brande said.
In that case, humanity has reached that level of subtlety quite recently.
Hippak was not the first researcher to speculate about the presence of the message in the CMB. Reg Steven Hsu of Reagan University and Anthony Zee of the University of California, Santa Barbara wrote an idea in the journal Letters of Modern Physics a In 2006. But they had very little CMB data to work with.
(They also wrote in the paper: “Our work does not in any way support the intelligent design movement, but asks and tries to answer, a complete scientific question of what the medium and message might be if there really was a message.” . “)
An incomplete messenger
If you are a creator looking for a “cosmic billboard” on which to declare yourself in your subjects, there are disadvantages as well as advantages of CMB. Hippak wrote in the study. For example, CMB will go beyond recognition in about 100 billion years after the Big Bang, Brand said. (Right now we are at 1.8..8 billion.) It is good at a time when the universe will still make new stars and intelligent cultures can evolve. Brand said, it would be a bit strange, to write a message for creation, but erase it before the emergence of subsequent denizens.
Perhaps more importantly, the CMB probably does not look the same from every point in space. Most likely, microwave radiation is a completely random “freeze” in the sky. But there are a few cold spots and hot spots that physicists believe are signatures of early irregularities in the universe that later led to the formation of galaxies. And that cool and cozy pattern will probably look different from different points of space.
Hipp did not find any message in the image of the CMB around him, but in his “power spectrum”, looking around for a graph of the various energy release levels under CMB radiation. It is at least possible, Hippk wrote, that the power spectrum would be consistent throughout the universe (although most researchers believe this is not possible). And even if it weren’t, the creator would have set up a CMB to deliver one message to one part of space and one message to a different part of space.
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But using CMB to send us a message is a big issue.
“The real problem I have in the microwave background is … what we see in the sky is a two-dimensional surface around us,” Loeb said.
It’s a view of that ancient moment Space time When the universe became clear that it was special to our space neighborhood. At its center is the inner surface of a sphere with a radius of 13.8 billion light years and Earth. That field is made up of all points in space, with 13.8 billion light-years Earth As they looked towards the moment after the Big Bang when the universe became transparent. A viewer in another galaxy will see a sphere of radius of 13.8 billion light years centered on itself, which at one moment of time looked like all distant points. As different as the two viewers are, their opinions about CMB will be as different.
There is no point in saying that God can be found in a code written in a cosmic microwave background, rather than saying that ethics can be achieved through the study of chemistry.
Avigail Helppern, Hadar Institute
“The problem is, if I’m moving away from Earth, in the center of a galaxy or a coma cluster. [321 million light-years from Earth] Or else if there’s too much distance somewhere, then the two-dimensional surface around that point is a separate field, “Loeb said. The field always revolves around the observer. “
That’s important, Loeb said, because it means CMB isn’t really a billboard for the universe. It is the billboard of our special place in the universe. Sending consistent messages to the entire universe is not just one big thing, but the creation of billions of trillions of billboards. The structure of the universe is possible in such a way that there were one or more messages in the CMB power spectrum at different points in space. But, it is a different project undertaken by the creator than the relatively simple one initially suggested by the paper. (Loeb also notes that there are many expert cosmologists out there studying CMB all the time looking for patterns, and it’s surprising if the hippocampus found a pattern on a lark where all those scientists failed.)
That, too, is the case, Brande said, that there is no special reason to find a message in physics as opposed to any other science. Why wouldn’t the message of the universe be included in cell parts, or DNA, or in a periodic table?
When they see CMB as the best example of a subtle, universal thing, Brande said, “My dad would probably say something different because he’s a geologist. Like, ‘Why not do something with the physical chemistry of how planets are formed?’ Can see? ‘But I think there is basically enough difference in what is easily seen by each other [besides physics] Around us [to rule it out]”
If there is a message there really comes
Both Loeb and Brande said that despite their questions about the idea of the paper, there was nothing wrong with the scientist investigating such questions. It’s an interesting way of constructing some basic physical questions, Brande said. And Loeb asked, “Who hurt to see?”
No one can speak for the complete diversity of religious sentiment on any subject, but Avigail Helpperne, a rabbinical student at Hadar Institute in New York, said that whatever the scientific merits of the project, it does not work as theology.
“The central problem … is that it basically misunderstands who or what ‘God’ is.” “This implicit goal … it seems to be trying to prove the existence of God, but it is a class error to think that scientific evidence has anything to say about whether God exists.”
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In other words, a creator who has written his own physical evidence for himself on a cosmic billboard would not be understandable because he has faith in God.
“There is no point in understanding that God can get more information than can be obtained from the study of ethics in a code written in a cosmic microwave background. Chemistry“He said.” Those who seek to find God in the universe will do better to get a divine image reflected on the faces of those around them. “
Religion is not the only framework for imagining the Creator. Some physicists, Loeb pointed out, imagine a kind of Prosaic theology where our universe could be a laboratory experiment in some higher order universe.
If Loab were our creator, he said, a sign of his own existence that he would have left us, we would have the ability to create another universe within ourselves.
Right now, that’s impossible, he said. But, one day, when the components that make up our universe are better understood, researchers will develop another universe in the laboratory, guessing in the laboratory. If that happens, he said, it would make sense to understand the higher order as the type of Creator’s message: Just as you have the ability to create the universe, so your universe has been created.
Hippak, as part of it, did not receive a sensible message in the universe. But they were able to convert the CMB power spectrum into binary code – basic enough that it would be valid for most intelligent cultures, the brand said:
1110101110111010101111111101010111100000010110100101101001010010111011100111110101100110110011101000010110000111100001100011100101101000101000101011010010100001111100011100111110111100010001001100011100101101110010010100010100111000100101001010000111011001010100110101100101100010001101100100100111010110110010101001100101100100101111010100011111111010011011000101111010101001001110011011010101101000011000010110101110011001110001010010011100111111010100011010000000011010110010001011010100000111100000010110101000001111000
“We can conclude that there is no clear message in the CMB sky,” Hipke wrote. Has come, but we have failed to understand it. “
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