The famous British theoretical physicist continues to frighten humanity with the horrors of contact with advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, the existence of which he does not doubt
“If aliens ever appear here, it can be compared to the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America. And then, for the Indians, everything somehow did not work out very well”- British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has been repeating this thesis for several years now. And every time people perceive his "revelation" with tremulous delight, actively share it with each other in social networks - they say, they won't frighten in vain.
- The desire to rob us is one of the reasons why you should not come into contact with alien races, - Hawking explains his position.
Stephen Hawking doesn't believe brothers in reason can be trusted
And the other day, the scientist developed disturbing thoughts. In his new television program, Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places, he announced that it is worth looking for brothers in reason, but with only one purpose, to know who to hide from.
“We need to find the aliens before they find us,” Hawking said. And thus he substantiated his participation in projects aimed at finding extraterrestrial life.
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As you know, the scientist participates in the large-scale project Breakthrough Listen (literally - Breakthrough in listening), which is funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. He intends to rent the largest radio telescopes, pay for the creation of new technology, the work of astronomers. And ten years to listen to our galaxy and another 100 neighboring - more than a million star systems in total. If the news comes from the thousand that is closest to us, then it will be possible to catch even a very weak signal - equivalent in power to the radiation of an aircraft radar.
Stephen Hawking is also involved in the $ 100 million Breakthrough Starshot project, which will build a miniature spacecraft and launch it to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. According to the plan, he will get there in about 20 years. Will fly under a sail, which will be pressed by the light of several thousand lasers.
Stars of the Alpha Centauri system, to which Hawking and Milner equip the starship
The starship will fly under sail
In the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over 4 light years away, an Earth-like planet was recently discovered. Scientists have not ruled out that life can exist on it.
However, Hawking in his program "flew" to another planet - Gliese 832c, which in his opinion is more suitable for the role of habitable.
Gliese 832c is larger than Earth and is 16 light years distant. According to Hawking, if brothers in mind live on it and at least use the radio, then we will definitely hear them. But you shouldn't let yourself know about yourself. Lushe to hide, even better to hide.
- I often look at the stars, - Stephen Hawking admits, - every time I think: and from there someone is looking at us …
Earth (right) and its more massive and larger "sister" Gliese 832c
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You can really hide
Hawking does not tell how you can hide the Earth from the greedy gaze of evil and aliens. It would seem that this is generally impossible. However, there is still a way.
Professor David Kipping from Columbia University in New York, in collaboration with his student Alex Teachey, figured out how to make the Earth invisible - or rather, hide it so that unscrupulous brothers in reason could not detect our planet with the technology they have. …
For example, we ourselves search for planets around other stars using orbiting telescopes such as NASA's Kepler telescope. He "looks out" for them through the so-called transit method. That is, it monitors whether the brightness of the star changes from time to time. And it changes - decreases for a short time when planets pass through the disk of the star. According to fluctuations in brightness, astronomers determine their presence and even the distance at which the planets are from their star. And the distance - comfortable or not - makes it possible to find out whether life is possible in this orbit.
Astrophysicists decided that the brothers in reason are likely to act in the same way - they direct their orbital telescopes to the Sun, operating on the basis of the transit method. So you can fool them. And to make it so that from the side it was not noticeable how the brightness of our star changes when the Earth passes through its disk. To do this, Kipping and Teachy propose to blind the aliens with a laser, sending impulses in their direction. The flares compensate for the natural drop in the sun's brightness. And brothers in mind will think that there is no Earth at all.
Scientists believe that a 30 megawatt laser working 10 hours a year will be enough to camouflage our planet.
Kipping and Teachy are from the shy camp - that is, those who are afraid of contacts with representatives of highly developed civilizations.
German scientists - Dr. Rene Heller and Professor Ralph Pudritz - recently figured out: how the Earth passes through the disk of the Sun is clearly visible from planetary systems that are about 3 thousand light years away. There are about 10 thousand of them. All of them will have to be blinded with a laser in the first place. And you can start with Gliese 832c, whose inhabitants Stephen Hawking is afraid of in the first place.
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At five o'clock on September 23, 2016, Yuri Milner, Stephen Hoging and Mark Zuckerberg, who joined them, told the MailOnline portal that they were starting to listen to a potentially habitable planet near the star Proxima Centra - it is the third in the Alpha Wentaurus system and the closest star to us. That is, they aim radio telescopes there in the hope of receiving signals. In fact, this is the start of the Breakthrough Listen project.
Vladimir LAGOVSKY
