big brain explosion

Chapter 210 Speculation on 'Lan Dan Qin'
In just a few days, deciphering the seemingly regular flare signals has become one of the major projects of the Global Council.

Each section of the radio wave band contains countless information. In fact, the aerospace field receives various radio signals released from countless celestial bodies in the universe every year.

These radio signals are natural and are emitted as a matter of course due to the movement of celestial bodies.

There is no law in the content, even if there is a law, it is a natural law, and there is no artificial trace.

However, the abnormal activity of the sun in the past few days has caused countless scientists to focus on whether each band and its combination with each other are meaningful.

Deciphering the signal emitted by the sun almost started from scratch. Scientists quickly tried all the deciphering methods in human history, which was meaningless.

But scientists are not discouraged, nor do they think this is just ordinary astronomical data.

They feel that the reason why they cannot be deciphered is due to the huge generation gap with extraterrestrial civilizations, because in theory, the difference between aliens and earthlings is likely to go beyond the 'gate' or even the 'boundary'.

There must be huge differences in their cultures, habits, and ways of communicating.

"Stop it! The flare is over! There has been no flare for three hours!"

After 120 consecutive flares, the sun fell into a calm state, and the magnetic field disturbance on the earth gradually disappeared.

Countless scientists excitedly recorded the last flare in its entirety and designated it as the tail number.

That is to say, the entire communication started from the first abnormal eruption five days ago, and now has a total of 120 and three flares.

I think this paragraph is a complete set of information conveyed, and the meaning that the bomber wants to express is all contained in it.

Starts weirdly, progresses weirdly, stops weirdly.

The man-made traces of Chiguoguo have caused countless scientists to fall into a state of excitement.

Message from other civilizations, this is of great significance to human beings, it means that human beings are not alone.

"Compared to the capture of radiation spectra and radio signals of many stars in the Milky Way by the scientific community in the past 100 years, our own solar signals at least have obvious man-made traces this time."

"That's right, we still need to start with the frequency, and summarize in detail the duration of each flare, the total amount of energy it releases, and the interval between flares."

"No, no, I don't think this is a good way. There must be a huge generation gap between us and the star bombers, and the time units between us must be very different. The duration and interval we record must not be mathematical. above meaning."

They don't even know the culture of the star bombers, nor do the scientific units.

Without the ability to define the weight and measure of the other party, no matter how humans convert these signals, it is impossible to have mathematical meaning.

In disputes, the Global Council approves, apportions resources, and allows any point of view to work together.

Don't look at this information dissemination with the eyes of people on earth, even if it is an absurd idea, you have to try the effect.

As a result, the council set up dozens of scientific teams dedicated to deciphering, using dozens of methods and angles to decipher.

Among them, one of the most bizarre methods is recognized as 'heart-to-heart communication'.

That is to record the rhythm of the entire communication, and then use all possible musical instruments on the earth to simulate the rhythm, trying to feel the "thought and emotion" in it.

This group believes that it is impossible for human technology to decipher this kind of information. Since the star bombers also have such things as rhythm, maybe we can understand the mind of the star bombers from it.

Such a concept is simply quite mysterious.They believe that all the rhythms of human beings have emotional sustenance, and aliens may be the same.

They don't think that humans can decipher the detailed content, and it would be good to know the 'central idea' of this piece of information.

If you can feel friendly or malicious from the rhythm, that is also a major breakthrough.

It's a pity that the people on earth don't seem to be the "confidantes" of the star bombers.

So far, the scientific research team has simulated that rhythm with more than 300 musical instruments or what could be called musical instruments,
The answer is...

"No artistry at all! The musicality is downright bad! There's no way I'd be able to 'invent' this rhythm even if I were an idiot!" commented one scientist.

The science team was disappointed, and if the rhythm doesn't make sense, the direction might be wrong.

But soon they will be patient.

"This rhythm is too uncomfortable, and the sound of Uranus is better than it." The scientist said.

In fact, every planet, even the sun has its own voice, because gas elements are the most abundant elements in the universe, and often planets will have atmospheres.

Every planet in the solar system has its own unique sound. Although these sounds are rejected by space, they can still be received by the earth through electromagnetic waves. After transformation, the sounds in the atmospheres of other planets can be reproduced on the earth.

Everyone in this room has heard those voices, either scary and weird, or ethereal like heaven, or explosive and restless, or cold like a ghost.

The sounds of nature often do not conform to the melody, but they all sound meaningful, and human beings can always give some extra value to them subjectively.

But what about the flare information?After simulating its rhythm into sound, it is extremely bad. First of all, it has no natural beauty, neither frightening nor pleasant, neither restless nor peaceful.

Everyone can't describe it with any emotional vocabulary. This extremely bad rhythm seems to be regarded as a kind of art, because it seems that no one can appreciate it.

"Nothing that anyone can create is an art in itself."

"Unfortunately, we can't understand the deep meaning of it."

"Every rhythm point of the star bomber seems to avoid the aesthetic feeling. What does it mean to be able to do this?"

"Is this rhythm benevolent or malicious?"

One scientist asks a question, and soon another scientist proposes a possible answer.

"Think about it, everyone, bombing our sun, is this information conveyed to us?"

"We first assume that this is a message to us, so can it be assumed that the bomber believes that the recipient must understand the meaning of this message? Otherwise, why send the message?"

A scientist said: "Yes, the major groups now basically hold this assumption, because if this piece of information is not intended for us to understand, then our deciphering is meaningless and there is no possibility of success. We neither Knowing the culture of the bomber and the culture of the recipient, this information is simply impossible for us to decipher."

Another scientist said: "That's it, so we must combine our own culture to understand this piece of information. It must be possible for us to understand it? Otherwise, the transmission of information is meaningless. It’s meaningful. It’s just that we still don’t know from what angle the star bombers produced this piece of information, and this angle of entry must be something shared by all life in the universe.”

This is a logical inference.First of all, the source of the signal is the sun, so this piece of information is most likely transmitted to the earth.

Earth is at least one of the transfer objects!

The Global Council approached from a myriad of angles, and the topics selected by each group had their own specific assumptions.

The premise of the "mind" group is that the bomber chose beauty.

For example, the earth sends electromagnetic waves to the universe dozens of times to declare its own existence. These electromagnetic waves contain the unique culture of the earth people, and often have a specific melody in line with the beauty of the earth people.

The star bombers might be the received extraterrestrial civilization, and they responded in a way they couldn't understand at this moment.

What the team needs to judge is whether the reply is good or bad.

"I have come to a bad conclusion. This kind of reply is largely malicious." A scientist said in a low voice.

"Why do you say that?" asked someone else.

"Because this rhythm perfectly avoids the beauty of human beings, and even every node is challenging the limit of human appreciation." The scientist said.

However, others said: "It's too biased. You can't think that people are malicious just because they are ugly, right? If they are really malicious to the extreme, why don't they just attack us directly. You know, disturbing the sunspots will have a huge impact on our network. Destructive power, but in fact, this incident has unknown power, which made our network survived."

Although the group wanted to assess good and evil, in fact they were biased towards the theory of good intentions.

But the scientist shook his head and said: "No, the maliciousness I mean is not aggressive maliciousness, but that the star bombers belong to the 'camp' that is malicious to us. I think this piece of information is the star bombers according to their own What culture compiles, just as we send messages to the universe, comes with its own language greetings and musical rhythms."

"However, the sense of music of the star bomber seems to bypass all our aesthetics, which is equivalent to telling us that there is an astonishingly large cultural difference between him and us. When two civilizations are far apart in culture, how do they feel about beauty? When they completely deviate from each other, the basic values ​​must be violated! There is no basis for any communication and common development between these two civilizations."

"Do you understand what I mean? Beauty is one of the uniqueness of life. Life can feel beauty, but stones can't. Feeling is the biggest difference between our 'carbon' and the 'carbon' of stones. The beauty of the star bomber runs counter to us, which means that he runs counter to our basic psychological feelings, which is equivalent to telling human beings: 'There is no basis for peaceful coexistence between us'."

The bystanders asked in surprise, "If that's the case, why did He tell us?"

The scientist said: "No, it's not telling us, but a declaration, an announcement. This is one of the objectively passive expressions in communication, and it is of the same nature as the electromagnetic waves that we ask ourselves if we are alone."

"Using this method, the star bombers are likely to send messages to many stars. Higher civilizations may be able to analyze the detailed content, while lower civilizations can only 'experience' from the surface."

"The way to experience this is that the recipient judges for himself which aesthetic camp he belongs to."

Everyone was surprised and said: "I understand what you mean. You mean that among all kinds of life in the universe, the sense of beauty is naturally divided into two camps, namely 'natural beauty' and 'anti-natural beauty'. Life belonging to the same sense of beauty, It naturally has the basic conditions for peaceful coexistence to a certain extent."

The scientist nodded and said, "That's it. Some beings think that nature is beautiful, so they define all unnatural things as ugly. But does life really only have this kind of feeling? Maybe there is a kind of life that judges nature naturally." is ugly, then everything unnatural is beautiful."

"This does not hinder the development of science and technology. Technology is natural, while art is unnatural beauty. The two are naturally rebellious. This sense of rebellion itself is 'unnatural beauty'. Those who like unnatural beauty will pursue this sense of rebellion. , to seek coexistence between science and culture. The two will develop together, and then form a social structure that is completely beyond our comprehension."

The scientist's point is that this is a cosmic manifesto, at least on a scale.

It is to express one's position to all civilizations in a sky area: our cultural form is unnatural.

Civilizations as unnatural as the star bombers will understand this message and think it is too beautiful.Because the values ​​are close, this type of civilization is qualified to decipher it.

But civilizations of the natural style like the earth can only realize from this rebellious feeling: the other party and I are not "people along the way".As for its detailed content, because even the most basic values ​​are different, there is no way to decipher it.

To some extent, this can be regarded as natural information isolation, and the understanding of beauty determines the basic values ​​of life. .

The scientist said: "Perhaps the star bombers didn't mean this, and there may be other content, but that is not what we earth people are qualified to know. At least this information objectively expresses what I said. That is, there are and We humans are completely alienated from life without any basis for coexistence."

"The broadcasts of our major observatories looking for other life in the universe in the past actually expressed this meaning unknowingly. If our broadcast has higher technical content, spreads farther and is received by other life, it also expresses the same meaning. One meaning: I am of the natural beauty genre.”

"This is one of the general principles of the universe. All broadcast forms of communication are equivalent to passively expressing one's own position. No matter whether others understand the real content or not, they will know how aesthetic the sender's social foundation is. It is the natural beauty school , or the Natural Ugly School?"

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(End of this chapter)