Language, which is not so mysterious, is actually the way intelligent beings communicate.

Any form of communication requires a medium.

The medium through which humans communicate with sound is air.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, if life is nurtured on planets with atmospheres, then these lives will gradually evolve the ability to communicate with sound.

Every form of communication is related to the physical senses of living beings.

In addition to being able to communicate with voice, humans can also use body language, and the sensory organ used by body language is the eye, which transmits information through vision.

If an organism evolves an organ that emits electromagnetic waves, there will also be a faster way of communicating.

No matter what method of communication is used, as long as you want to record the information, it will inevitably produce words.

The electronic information department of the Academy of Military Sciences spent three days finding out all the information recorded in the meteorite microbial genes and giving a more detailed report.

"From the perspective of base coding analysis, the information left by the meteorite civilization should be based on words......

While looking at the analysis report, Lu Xiuwen explained to the students of the military scientific research class: "The words left by the meteorite civilization in the microbial gene code are about 20,000 words, or words.

"Among them, there are more than 2,000 independent words or words that are not repeated. Judging from this characteristic, the repetition rate of the script of the meteorite civilization is not high, and it does not belong to the English alphabet script. ”

"How can you tell it's not alphabet?" Niu Dazhi asked curiously.

"Isn't that simple? If it's a letter, there are only 26, how can there be 2,000 non-repeating words? Even if the meteorite civilization has a lot of letters, there are 100 letters, that is, 100 independent and non-repeating letters, it will not be 2,000. Unless this civilization has a hole in its brain and makes 2,000 letters. Eve explained.

"Well, it's great not to have English." Niu Dazhi immediately applauded.

Eve clutched her forehead, looking like she couldn't save it.

"If it's 2,000 letters, with such a huge alphabet library, a single letter should have a separate meaning, which is actually no different from a single word. The reason why a single letter in English has no meaning is because the alphabet library is so small that it takes multiple letters to convey meaning. Lu Xiuwen added.

In addition to the professors of the Institute of Biology, there were also several professors of cosmic sociology.

In the study of alien civilizations, Lang Tongguang is more professional.

He took out a piece of information, sent it to a few people in front of him, and explained: "Actually, after getting the analysis report of the Academy of Military Sciences on the information left by the meteorite civilization, I immediately made a text comparison with several colleagues.

"This is the one-word statistics we made with several Chinese character papers, and because the analysis of meteorite civilization information shows that there are a total of 20,000 words.

"Therefore, we selected a few papers of about 20,000 words for statistics, and the result was that the number of independent and non-repeated words in the paper was between 1,000 and 1,400.

"English papers are not considered for the time being, there are only 26 independent letters that are not repeated, and 36 digits with Arabic numerals, which have no reference value.

"We did more than 100 copies of the Chinese character literature, and the results were between 1,000 and 1,400, with an average of 1,200 words.

"The sample is sufficient, so it can be determined that the literature written in Chinese characters has an average of 1,200 independent words that are not repeated at a length of 20,000 words.

"There is a gap between this and the 2,000 non-repetitive independent words of the meteorite civilization. However, the gap is less than twice that of the extraterrestrial script, and this gap is actually not big in the study of extraterrestrial characters.

Therefore, judging from the number of independent words that appear, the script used by the meteorite civilization has similar characteristics to Chinese characters.

"It can be preliminarily determined that the text library of the meteorite civilization should be larger than Chinese characters, and the number of characters commonly used by them is also more than that of Chinese characters.

"Based on the characteristics of these words, it will be much easier to decipher."

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment and asked, "How long will it take to decipher the meaning of this information?" ”

"This is not yet certain, because there is no basic point, it is very difficult to decipher it by exhaustive method. What's more, what is even more difficult is that there is no standard answer even for exhaustive methods, and even if the result is deciphered, it is impossible to determine whether the deciphered result is correct, which is the most difficult part. Lang Tongguang explained.

"There's no better way?" Fang Yuan felt that the technical means of the Academy of Military Sciences should not be like this.

"Of course, there is a way, you can guess and determine a part of the text first......"

Lang Tongguang then explained: "For example, through analysis, we can basically determine that the meteorite civilization is all scripts, and there are many characteristics similar to Chinese characters.

"Well, we can take it a step further. What is the meaning of the most repeated words in the documents left by the meteorite civilization?

"For example, in Chinese character literature, the most repeated character is generally the word 'of', and the second is the word 'is'.

"Then, we can continue to guess whether there is such a word as 'of' in the text of the meteorite civilization.

"If there is, the word that is repeated the most is not the 'of' or the word with a similar meaning.

Of course, this is just speculation, because the Chinese word '的 is a particle and has no meaning in itself.

"We are not sure that there are such meaningless particles in the language of meteorite civilizations.

"So, this guessing process needs to be verified to determine if it's correct."

Lu Xiuwen took over and said: "Indeed, it is indeed difficult to study extraterrestrial characters. It's not like oracle, which can also guess the meaning of words by their shape.

"Now we have a string of codes without meaning, and it is really difficult to guess the meaning of the text through the characteristics of the code."

Fang Yuan nodded while thinking about it, "Indeed, however, you can also guess what information the meteorite civilization may leave behind, and then code and decipher."

"For example, when a meteorite civilization is destroyed, the information that it wants to leave most should be introduced at the beginning of the article. And then it should also talk about the reason for the demise of civilization, which was destroyed by a higher civilization? Or destroyed in a cosmic catastrophe.

"It should be easier to speculate on the content of the information and then decipher the text, right?"

Lang Tongguang nodded in agreement: "This idea is right, but it still needs a supercomputer to decipher, the advantage of the human brain is imagination, but in terms of computing power, the computer is more advantageous." ”

"It shouldn't take too long, a week or two, and you should be able to get results." Lu Xiuwen said.