Earthlings have a chance to find out what the brothers in mind are discussing in their blogs, and to connect to the intergalactic network themselves
Knots around us
In the photo: The Cepheid star blinks due to the fact that it slightly swells and contracts.
Highly developed civilizations, undoubtedly existing in the vast expanses of the Universe, have long ago created a network like our Internet. And with its help they communicate with each other. Maybe not as crowded as we are. But the intergalactic "web" at least allows you to exchange some important information.
This, frankly, a fantastic conclusion was reached by the famous astrophysicist, expert in cosmic radiation, high-energy physics and neutrinos, Professor John Lerned from the University of Hawaii at Honolulu. "Aftar zhzhot" - usually say in such cases, members of the earthly Internet community. In the sense of lying. Maybe. But his arguments were published by the most authoritative scientific journal Nature.
The scientist assures that he discovered the nodes of the intergalactic network. Many are visible even from the Earth - about 500 pieces located in the region of the Milky Way. And to the nearest - "only" 431 light years. Anyone can take a look at it. This is the famous North Star - a landmark for all sailors and travelers.
Someone there is winking
The North Star belongs to a class of strange and mysterious objects in the Universe - the so-called Cepheids. They are stars - giants and supergiants. They shine much brighter than the Sun - hundreds and thousands of times. Discernible from an unimaginable distance of 60 million light years. Such beacons.
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The Polar Star Internet site is located exactly in the North.
The strange thing about Cepheids is that they pulsate. Their brilliance changes with a certain pattern. And very much. At least the changes can be caught. Simply put, these stars blink, and at different intervals - sometimes very quickly. And then they increase, then decrease in size. Something is going on inside them. And perhaps, according to John Learned, not by itself. And under the influence of outside interference. That is, aliens.
Terrestrial astronomers, of course, are aware of the amazing behavior of Cepheids. Moreover, they constantly monitor them, using them as reference points to determine the distances to other stars and galaxies. Probably, and highly developed civilizations at first did the same, until they figured out, like a Hawaiian professor, that pulsating stars would be useful for something else. Or have already come in handy. To transmit intelligent signals.
“We have been observing Cepheids for over a hundred years,” the professor says. - There is accurate data on the change in gloss. Analyzing them for intelligence is only a matter of time. Given the capabilities of today's computers, it will take no more than two months.
- Nice proposal, - supported his colleague Seth Shostak, chief astronomer of the SETI Institute in California (USA), who is looking for extraterrestrial civilizations. By the way, he has no doubts that they - civilizations - will definitely be discovered in the next 20 years.
“An interesting idea that can be tested,” says renowned physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey (USA). “Someone should look at the archives for these stars and see if there are any specific brightness variations.
A prick in the heart of a star
How can you interfere with the behavior of the colossal red-hot ball? And make it flash with, say, binary? Lerned knows a way that will help "load" useful information into the Cepheid, accessible to the perception of smart brothers in mind.
The professor and his colleagues believe that it is possible to quickly enhance or reduce the glow of a pulsating star by irradiating it with a beam of neutrino-elementary particles that do not know obstacles and are able to penetrate into the very depths of the Cepheid.
- A beam of neutrinos will affect the thermonuclear reaction inside the star and accelerate the increase in its brightness, says the scientist. - By manipulating the power and duration of exposure, information can be encoded. The Cepheid will react like a human heart in response to an electrical discharge. Will change the "heart rate", which will differ from the natural.
Brothers in mind, you e-mail
Where can I get neutrinos? Lerned knows it too. He developed a kind of emitter based on a sapphire target. If you send a beam of protons accelerated in an accelerator at it, then as a result, as a result of collisions, neutrinos will be obtained. It will be necessary to measure them in the necessary portions and send them to the nearest Cepheid. For example, to the same Pole Star. And it will broadcast the "downloaded" information. Let's say the coordinates of the Earth. Brothers in mind will see this galactic e-mail, will be delighted and will fly to us.
According to the professor's estimate, the technology he proposed would allow the Cepheids to transmit data at a rate of about 200 bits per year. Not enough. But our, terrestrial Internet did not immediately reach the current fantastic speeds.
Tomorrow you will learn that the closest Cepheid to us - the North Star - mysteriously changed the order of its pulsation. Does the intergalactic Internet still work?
We will also tell you about how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, which everyone is so afraid of, will make it possible to get in touch with aliens.