Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 718 Ternary Signal

No matter how confused you are, normal research work still needs to be done with the doubts in mind.

Regarding the process of the first contact between two civilizations, humans already have various ready-made procedures and plans. After all, humans have come into contact with many alien civilizations, but this is the first time that humans have received this type of signal.

Before reaching the fourth level of civilization, all we use are electromagnetic wave signals, which humans are very familiar with.

It takes a long time for different civilizations to understand each other after their first contact, and it is not quick with experience. In fact, when different civilizations come into contact, it takes a long time for them to understand each other, or both sides are willing to reveal their language information.

After all, it is possible that the two civilizations are not carbon-based intelligent life forms, have different perspectives on the universe, and their language logic is even more different.

So it doesn't mean that humans can easily understand the meaning of unknown signals just because they have had experience with aliens. As for beings like the Galactic Axis Alliance and the Awakeners, they can directly let humans understand their meaning, and it seems that there is no need for long-term communication with each other, but that is probably something that only a sixth-level civilization like them can do. Humans now have to follow the normal communication process honestly.

Therefore, after entering the working state, scientists immediately turned their attention to the information fed back from humans' own tachyon receiving devices, which is the characteristic information of the tachyons sent by the other party. Generally, humans want to know what their tachyon detection has detected, and they all look at it this way.

But the results disappointed the scientists. The tachyons sent out did not seem to carry any specific information. Instead, they seemed to be emitted without any processing.

"How could this happen? Could it be that the source of the signal is not from some civilization?"

Seeing this situation, some scientific researchers were also confused, but they soon realized that they were a little naive, because there are no naturally generated tachyons in nature, and the source of the tachyon sound must be related to the grand unified force field.

"Why is that?"

While some scientists were puzzled, Zhao Youqin, a scientist in the field of communications, expressed his thoughts: "Could it be a simple 0 and 1 signal?"

When these words were spoken, everyone was stunned. It seemed really possible. In fact, everyone realized this aspect at the beginning, but they had all reached the fourth level of civilization and were about to die, so they did not continue to think about it.

Now hearing Zhao Youqin bring it up again, they began to think seriously and looked at the contents displayed on the signal receiver, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

But there was also a scientist who did not fall into deep thought, that is Zhao Youqin. While other scientists were still thinking about something, he walked directly to a workbench in front of him, raised his hand and clicked something, and then waved his hands in the refreshed holographic screen.

Time is running out and we can't delay any longer.

As he moved, modular programs that he had retrieved from the database appeared on the holographic screen one by one. He then imported these modular programs into the 'Light of the Milky Way' to help with the calculations.

On-site programming is definitely not realistic. Although Zhao Youqin knows how to do it, he doesn't have enough time to do it. However, he doesn't need to do it because the human data center has the corresponding application modules. He only needs to select what he needs and then do the export and import work. His current operation is to edit the signal received by the tachyon signal receiver, and then let the "Light of the Milky Way" associate the tachyons that appear in the signal at regular intervals with time, compile a simple digital code, and then use 1 and 0 to replace the time when the signal is received and the time when the signal is not received.

After just two breaths, the 'Light of the Sky River' completed its work, and then people saw a series of 0s and 1s on the holographic screen. Uh? There are also 2
The appearance of a bunch of 2s made scientists including Zhao Youqin a little confused, but before they could ask, they heard the sound of "Light of the Milky Way" coming from the office where they were.

"Gentlemen, when I was sorting out the data, I found that the program edited according to the instructions of Academician Zhao Youqin did not match the information sent from the tachyon detector. Judging from the time interval and whether or not a signal was received, our signal receiver received not two but three signals. Therefore, I made corresponding adjustments according to the actual situation. I used 2 to represent the third signal form, and 2 appeared."

The Light of the Milky Way is a comprehensive strong artificial intelligence on the Tianqin, and it is also the most powerful artificial intelligence of mankind. Obviously, it is very intelligent.

"Show me the receiver's signal and time-related parameters." Zhao Youqin said without hesitation. He was talking to Tianhezhiguang.

"Ok!"

Before he finished speaking, the calculation was completed. Immediately, a series of values ​​based on the length of time intervals and whether or not a signal was received appeared on the holographic screen.

Many scientists and researchers looked carefully and found that there were not two signals but three.

It’s not that scientists missed it before, but the transmission of tachyons is far faster than the speed of light, and it is almost real-time within its effective transmission range. Therefore, the signal intervals received by human receivers are actually very dense, and the presence and absence of the signal are only separated by a very short time, and it is still within the recognizable error set by humans, so this situation occurs.

But after the Light of the Sky River was connected and read, it found that the so-called things within the error range actually had other obviously different rules, so it intelligently divided them out.

Therefore, what is now in front of everyone is a series of values ​​such as 01201201200001112211000012.

Of course, everyone knows that this kind of numerical string may not be the real characters of the signal source, but it is localized by humans. However, this does not affect it. For example, it is the same as using -1, 0, 1 or ABC instead. Humans just need to know that they are three different signals.

When scientists see numbers like this, the first thought that comes to their minds is: ternary!
They took a closer look and found that it was indeed a ternary signal, because the time intervals in the signal group received by humans were clearly divided into three sections. There were no surprises and it was very accurate, and it was definitely not caused by errors.

But what does this series of numbers represent?

Whether it is binary or ternary, humans are extremely familiar with it. However, it is impossible for humans to incorporate it into their own system encoding and then translate it according to their own language system. After all, it is a signal from an unknown civilization.

In other words, the signal source did not send its own dictionary at all, and in fact it could not send it, because the so-called dictionary can only be sent after communication between two civilizations. It is impossible to understand it if it is sent unilaterally.

(End of this chapter)