💎 An alternate interpretation for its provenance and meaning integrating exobiology
💎 An alternate interpretation for its provenance and meaning integrating exobiology
The Wow! Signal was a strong narrow-band radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeared to come from the Sagittarius constellation's direction and bore the expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin.
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Clic here to advanced documentation and scientifics publications about the Wow! Signal.
The two regions of space in the constellation Sagittarius from where the Wow! Signal may have originated. The ambiguity is due to how the telescope was designed. For clarity, the widths (right ascension) of the red bands have been exaggerated.
Credits : Philip Terry Graham - Own work, based on work by Benjamin CrowellÂ
Plot of signal-to-noise ratio of the Wow! Signal vs time.
Credits : Maxrossomachin - Own work
The Wow! Signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection.
Credits : Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO) — https://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htmÂ
✨What if it would be a mean of exchanging basic informations ? — Bridging the view
Expressed in late 2022
âž Preliminary note :Â
As far as we entered the 21th century, Humans communications in space are moving toward laser-based exchanges (see here), slowly leaving radio-frequency-based communications apart. Hence, and temporally speaking, the window of a radio-frequency-based exchange between two relatively close intelligent species is probabilistic very low if we considers the following parameters :
The probability of intelligent life appearance in the Universe (see the Drake's equation)
The probability of two intelligent species being relatively close in the Universe
The probability of two intelligent species being relatively close in the Universe sharing a common technological brick (here, space radio-frequency-based communications). Indeed, considering physical limitations described by the General and Special Relativity and the path at which technological progression happens (here on Earth, we moved from horse carriages to Mach X planes, see Mach speed) — such an occurrence is very unlikely.
âž Parallelizing :
Plot of signal-to-noise ratio of the Wow! Signal vs time.
Credits : Maxrossomachin - Own work
The water molecule has this basic geometric structure (see here for more).
âž Considerations :
There, we can visually appreciate a strange correlation between the two pictures (nonetheless mass, density, distances and fundamental forces ratios remain to be explored) — between the core spike of the Wow! Signal and its two following artefacts — and the Oxygen atom and its two Hydrogen associations.
âž Furthermore, let's quote this part from the mentioned Wikipedia page (Wow! Signal frequency measurement) :
John Kraus, the director of the observatory, gave a value of 1420.3556 MHz in a 1994 summary written for Carl Sagan.[8] However, Ehman in 1998 gave a value of 1420.4556±0.005 MHz.[12] This is (50±5 kHz) above the hydrogen line value of 1420.4058 MHz (with no red-shift or blue-shift). If due to blue-shift, it would correspond to the source moving about 10 km/s (6.2 mi/s) towards Earth. This band of frequency is precisely the one for which some astronomers consider it possible to receive a message sent by an extraterrestrial entity, due to its capacity to pass through interstellar dust, to spread throughout the universe, and therefore to be received by an interlocutor.
âž Speaking of exobiology, what would it mean if this would be its core meaning ?
Position : It would indicate a position in the Universe (from where the Wow! Signal has been emitted) — see the first picture.
Life : It would indicate that there was water (H2O), hence carbonated and intelligent lifeforms (capable of sending the Wow! Signal) at time of emission.
Technology : It would indicate that this intelligent species knew atomic chemistry at the moment they emitted the Wow! Signal.
âž Special note :
Concerning the first point of the list, it should be considered that the information about the position could have been sent from an object (like a spaceship or a probe) if we accept that the Wow! Signal is originating from a intelligent species.
🔠More about mass ratio between the signal's curve and the H2o molecule
âž Definitions :
Atomic mass (u) : the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units. It is approximately equivalent to the number of protons and neutrons in the atom (the mass number) — or to the average number allowing for the relative abundances of different isotopes. You can see more about this subject here.
Periodic table with mass (clic here for more), also called Mendeleïev table.Â
âž Hydrogen atomic mass : 1.008 u
âž Oxygen atomic mass : 15.999 u
âž Direct 1:1 ratio : 15.999 / 1.008 or 15.872 or approximately 16 / 1
Through the data from the graph : accounting "white space" (see right) as "1" * — we will count code height from exclusively 1 to 32 (or the number of binary units for 2^5) — or a optimization problem where we add "1" (see the enclosure problem). Hence :
We have 32 code height for the spike.
We have 2 code height  for the two following waves.
This means that we got a ratio of 32 /2 or 16 / 1 (fraction reduction) which perfectly match our direct 16 / 1 ratio listed above with this accessible data.
* Let alone the visible scale could be the result of a possible translation issue from a programmer view or even a binary translation particularity.
" A proof and a gift from above that will always be something worth of continuing the fight for Life to spread still. For you are not alone anymore. As the Universes is a playground, please know that two hills away there are some other kids to play with, and that shinning rocks from Earth don't even worth their company. For life, intelligent life, is the most precious and most beautiful gift the Universe could give you... A friend, a lover.
Don't think we don't see your silly games. And don't even dream about telling us that you didn't know.
Why ? I got DEW burns on my body and scars from your lies. You know what I am talking about ?
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