In just a few days, deciphering the seemingly regular flare signal is already one of the major projects of the Global Council.

Each interception of radio bands contains countless pieces of information, and in fact, the space field obtains various radio signals released from countless celestial bodies in the universe every year.

These radio signals are natural and are naturally emitted by the movement of celestial bodies.

There is no law to speak of in the content, and even if there is a law, it is a natural law, and there is no trace of man-made.

But the sun's anomalous activity in the past few days has caused countless scientists to focus on each band, and whether it makes sense to combine with each other.

The decipherment of the signals of solar radiation is almost from scratch, and scientists have quickly tried to decipher all the methods in human history, and it is meaningless.

However, scientists are not discouraged, and they do not think that this is just ordinary astronomical data.

They feel that the reason why they can't be solved is because of the huge generation gap with extraterrestrial civilizations, because theoretically, the differences between aliens and earthlings are likely to transcend the 'gate' or even the 'boundary'.

Their cultures, habits, and ways of communicating must be very different.

"Stop! The flare is over! There hasn't been another flare in three hours!"

After one hundred and twenty-three flares in a row, the sun calmed down, and the magnetic field interference on Earth disappeared one after another.

Countless scientists excitedly recorded the last flare in its entirety, naming it as the tail number.

The entire period of communication began with the first anomalous outbreak five days ago, and has been up to 123 flares so far.

I think that this paragraph is a complete set of information to convey, and the meaning of the star player is all in it.

Weird start, weird process, weird stop.

The man-made traces of Chiguo have made countless scientists fall into a state of excitement.

The message of a different civilization is of great significance to humanity, which means that humanity is not alone.

"Compared with the scientific community's capture of radiation spectra and radio signals of many stars in the galaxy over the past 100 years, our own solar signals still have obvious traces of man-made at least this time. ”

"That's right, let's start with the frequency, detailing the duration of each flare, the total amount of energy it releases, and the time between flares. ”

"No, no, no, I don't think it's a good idea, there must be a huge generation gap between us and the bulleters, the time units between each other must be very different, and the time and interval we record are definitely not mathematically meaningful. ”

Even the culture of the bulleters is not known, and neither are the scientific units.

Without the ability to define the other party's weights and measures, these signals cannot be mathematically meaningful, no matter how humans convert them.

In the midst of the dispute, the Global Council approves, appoints resources, and allows any point of view to work on the ground.

Don't look at this information dissemination from the eyes of earthlings, even if it's a ridiculous idea, try the effect.

As a result, the Council set up dozens of special scientific teams to decipher the work, using dozens of methods and angles to decipher the work.

One of the most bizarre methods is known as 'heart-to-heart fellowship'.

That is, the rhythm of the entire communication is recorded, and then the rhythm is simulated with all possible instruments on the earth, trying to feel the 'thoughts and feelings' in it.

The group believes that it is impossible for human technology to decipher this kind of information, and since the bulleter also has such a thing, perhaps we can understand the mind of the bulleter.

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

They don't think that humans can decipher the details and that it would be nice to know the 'central idea' of the message.

If you can feel friendly or malicious in the rhythm, it's a major breakthrough.

It's a pity that the earthlings don't seem to be the 'bosom friends' of the star bombers.

So far, the scientific research team has used more than 300 kinds of musical instruments or things that can be considered musical instruments to simulate that rhythm.

The answer is......

"There's no artistic sense at all! The musicality is so bad that even if I were an idiot, I would never have 'invented' this rhythm!" commented one scientist.

The scientific team was disappointed that if the rhythm was meaningless, then the direction could be wrong.

But soon they were patient.

"It's so uncomfortable that Uranus sounds better than it. The scientist said.

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

Each planet in the solar system has its own unique sounds, which are rejected by space, but can still be received by the Earth through electromagnetic waves, and can be transformed to reproduce the sounds of other planets' atmospheres on Earth.

Those voices here have heard them, or they are terrifying, or ethereal, or bursting and restless, or cold as ghosts.

The sounds of nature, which often do not conform to the rhythm of music, sound to have a certain meaning, and human beings can always subjectively give some special value to this.

But what about the message of the flare, when its rhythm is simulated into sound, it is terrible, first of all devoid of natural beauty, neither frightening, nor pleasant, neither restless nor peaceful.

You can't describe it in any emotional words, and this terrible rhythm seems to be a kind of art, because it seems that no one can appreciate it.

"Bad that no one can create is an art in itself. ”

Unfortunately, we can't grasp the meaning. ”

"Every rhythm point of the star player seems to avoid beauty, and what does it mean to be able to do this?"

"Is this rhythm good or bad?"

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

"If you think about it, is this information conveyed to us by playing the star of our sun?"

"Let's assume first that this is a message to us, so can we assume that the star player thinks that the receiver must understand the meaning of the message?

One scientist said: "Yes, the groups are basically holding this assumption now, because if this information is not intended for us to understand, then our decipherment is meaningless and there is no way to succeed." We don't know the culture of the bullet or the recipient, and this message is impossible for us to decipher. ”

Another scientist said, "That's it, so we have to understand this message in the context of our own culture, we have to make it possible for us to understand it, right? It's just that we don't know from what angle the bulleter made this information from now, and this angle must be something common to all life in the universe. ”

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

The earth is at least one of the objects of transmission!

The Global Council approaches from a myriad of perspectives, and each panel selects a topic with its own specific assumptions.

The assumption of the 'mind' group is that the star player chooses beauty.

For example, the earth sends electromagnetic waves to the universe dozens of times to assert its existence, and these electromagnetic waves are full of the unique culture of the earthlings, and often accompanied by a specific melody that conforms to the beauty of the earthlings.

The Starbearer may have been the extraterrestrial civilization they had received, and at this moment they had replied in a way they couldn't understand.

The group's assessment is whether the reply is good or bad.

"I have a terrible conclusion, and this reply, to a large extent, is malicious. One scientist muttered.

"Why do you say that?" asked.

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

However, others said: "It's too biased, you can't think that people are malicious just because it's ugly, right? If it's really malicious to the extreme, why don't you just attack us." You know, disturbing sunspots has a huge destructive power on our network, but in fact, this incident has an unknown power that has spared our network. ”

Although the group wants to evaluate good and evil, it is actually biased towards the good intentions of the bullet star.

But the scientist shook his head and said, "No, the malice I mean is not offensive malice, but the star bomber belongs to the 'camp' of malice towards us." I believe that this message was compiled by the Bulletist according to his own culture, just like the message we send to the universe, with its own language greetings and musical rhythms. ”

"But the musicianship of the star seems to bypass all of our aesthetics, thus telling us that he is culturally astonishingly different from us. When the two civilizations are far apart culturally and have completely different feelings about beauty, their basic values must be in rebellion! There is no basis for any exchange and common development between the two civilizations. ”

"You know what I mean? Beauty is one of the uniqueness of life, life feels beauty, but stones don't. Feeling is the biggest difference between our 'carbon' and the 'carbon' of stone. The beauty of the Marble is contrary to ours, which means that it is contrary to our basic psychological feelings, which is equivalent to telling humanity: 'There is no basis for peaceful coexistence between us'. ”

The others exclaimed, "Why did He tell us?"

The scientist said, "No, not to tell us, but to make a declaration, an announcement." This is one of the meanings of objectively passive expression in communication, and it is of the same nature as electromagnetic waves when we ask ourselves if we are lonely. ”

"Using this method, the star bomber is likely to send messages to many stars, and the higher civilizations may be able to parse the details, while the lower civilizations can only 'experience' from the surface. ”

The way of this experience is that the recipient himself judges which kind of aesthetic camp he belongs to. ”

Everyone was shocked: "I understand what you mean, you mean that in all kinds of life in the universe, beauty is naturally divided into two camps, namely 'natural beauty' and 'anti-natural beauty'. Beings that belong to the same aesthetic sense naturally possess the basic conditions for peaceful coexistence to a certain extent. ”

The scientist nodded, "That's it, there are beings who think that nature is beautiful, so they position all unnatural things as ugly." But is there really only one feeling in life? Perhaps there is a type of life that naturally judges that nature is ugly, and then everything that is unnatural is beautiful. ”

"This does not prevent the development of science and technology, technology is natural, and art is unnatural beauty, the two are naturally contradictory, and this sense of contradiction itself is 'unnatural beauty', and those who like unnatural beauty will pursue this sense of rebellion, seeking coexistence between science and culture. The two will develop together, and then form a social structure that we cannot understand at all. ”

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

It is to express one's position to all the civilizations in a heavenly region: our cultural form is unnatural.

Civilizations that are as unnatural as the Marble will understand this message and think it is too beautiful. Because of the proximity of values, this type of civilization has the qualifications to decipher it.

But a civilization of a natural genre like the earth can only realize from this rebellious feeling that the other party and I are not 'all the way'. As for its details, there is no way to decipher them, as even the most basic values are different.

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

The scientist said: "Maybe that's not what the star bomber meant, there may be something else, but that's not what we earthlings are qualified to know." At least this message objectively expresses what I mean. That is, there are beings in the universe that are completely different from us human beings and have no basis for coexistence to speak of. ”

"In the past, the broadcasts of our major astronomical observatories to the universe to find other life forms actually unconsciously expressed this meaning, and if our broadcasts were more technical and spread farther and were received by other lifeforms, they would also express a meaning: I am from the genre of natural beauty. ”

This is one of the general rules of the universe, and all forms of communication in the form of broadcasting are equivalent to passively expressing one's own position. Whether others understand the real content or not, they will know what the sender's social foundation is. Is it the natural beauty faction, or the natural ugliness faction?"

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