Aliens Contacting Us? Radio Waves from Space Reach Earth in Bizarre Mathematical Pattern
Ana Verayo | | Apr 06, 2015 06:56 AM EDT |
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Scientists believe mysterious bursts of energy beams from space apparently have mathematical patterns that could suggest alien intelligence and technology.
These beams called blitzars or fast radio bursts only last for a millisecond but they've been detected by telescopes beginning in 2001. The latest burst was detected in 2014 by the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.
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Since this time, there have been 10 incidents where scientists detected these frequencies. Apart from this, no further information can be derived from these mysterious signals such as their origins and the real meaning behind them.
A new study revealed these energy bursts are aligned in such a way that's not according to the laws of physics. Scientists are now investigating how these bursts traveled into deep space and reached the Earth with "dispersion measures".
This method involves examining radio waves that are scattered when they travel through space. The higher the dispersion measure, the farther the radiowaves originate from before hitting Earth.
In a bizarre coincidence, all the 10 energy bursts detected produced dispersion measures with multiples of a single number, which is 187.5. Scientists involved in the study claim that the chances of this occurring are 5 in 10,000.
This line up of multiples of 187.5 is apparently "very, very hard to explain", according to study lead author John Learned of the University of Hawaii in Manoa along with Michael Hippke of the Institute for Data Analysis in Germany.
Researchers now consider two theories behind this phenomenon. The first theory believes each of the bursts was transmitted in regularly spaced intervals from five sources at equally spaced distances from Earth.
Scientists also believe they originate somewhere closer to home such as the Milky Way galaxy but a delay is being applied to match the bizarre, mathematical pattern.
Scientists say it's remotely possible these energy bursts are being emitted by stars or stellar objects. Stars have been known to emit radio wave bursts but without any sort of regular pattern. It could also be an unknown theory in astrophysics scientists have yet to decipher could explain these bursts of radio waves from space.
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