Humanity has tried to establish contacts with the intelligent civilizations of our galaxy. Thus, the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, a mathematician, put forward an idea to cut clearings in a dense forest and plant them with wheat or rye 200 years ago. The result would be in a contrasting geometric figure of gigantic dimensions, consisting of a triangle and three squares, known as the «Pythagorean pants». This figure, according to Gauss, could have been observed from the Moon and even from Mars. Soon after, Joseph Johann von Littrow, an Austrian astronomer, came up with a suggestion about digging wide channels and filling them with water with kerosene: «If one burns them at night, they will turn into geometric shapes – for example, into triangles – that Martians will not accept for a natural phenomenon, but for a sign of an intelligent life on our planet». All these ideas were based on the human analyzers’ ability to perceive the world around them. But the fact that other civilization can treat fire differently than a human being does it was absolutely not taken into account.
As for our time, there was an attempt to establish contact with the extraterrestrial civilization by means of a message transmitted by the Arecibo radio telescope on a distance of 21,000 light-years to the outskirts of the Milky Way, but again without a presupposed analysis of the other civilizations’ perception possibilities, only on the basis of human ideas and relatively modest knowledge in Physics. In addition, the message represented a series of digital images, 1679 bits of information in each of them. Today, these pictures resemble the very first video games due their primitivism.
Prior to this, the US space agency NASA launched the interplanetary probes Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. Each device had a metal plate fixed to the case with a set of characters and images of the naked men and women. However, it is likely that such drawings will turn out to be incomprehensible to aliens as well as the images on the Nazca plateau remain a mystery to us.
In other case, a gold plate was placed inside the «Voyager» apparatus, which was launched outside the Pluto orbit, for the playback of which a special player is needed and which is unlikely to exist in the other life form. Therefore, contacts organized on the basis of human ideas will not bring success without the other life forms properties’ comprehensive studying, as far as possible.
Sebastian Rudolf Karl von Hoerner, a German astrophysicist, in his article «The Search for Signals from Other Civilizations» explained the silence of the Universe by the fact that the tools of mankind are still very imperfect with the costs of the search being completely negligible. Perhaps people will never be able to visit other star systems, so it is possible to start looking for other civilizations and try to contact them remotely, in the radio frequency band, by means of the SETI and METI projects. The term SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) refers to the international efforts aimed at extraterrestrial civilizations’ search. The SETI experiments are not aimed at the life’s search in the entire galaxy, but at finding out whether there is a civilization that uses a certain portion of the radio frequency band for communication using a radio telescope within 50 light-years distance from the Sun. Dozens of experiments have been conducted in order to search for signals in the radio frequency band as well as in the optical range within the last fifty years. However, they did not produce any results. Developed civilizations, and especially super-civilizations, are not likely to use radio communication, which is uneconomical and ineffective at large distances, and is also limited by the light barrier.
The lack of evidence of the highly developed civilizations’ existence in the Universe may confirm the erroneousness of our ideas about their nature. Any methods used by a person wanting to establish contacts with a highly developed civilization should not use the concepts conventions developed by a human civilization. In my opinion, the universal language of communication with all civilizations, regardless of their material form, should be based on the geometric shapes. Moreover, not on figures, but on fractal images created by means of these figures. Fractals are sometimes called the language of geometry. The letters of any alphabet carry no semantic meaning unless they are combined into words. In the same way, complex images expressing a certain meaning can be composed of the geometric shapes. As well as, for example, in the Chinese language, where symbols already express certain meaning, fractal geometry can be considered in the same way. There are two main groups of fractal languages: linear and non-linear. Both groups use an infinite number of algorithms and cover an infinite number of possible fractal images, most of which use a deterministic set of rules, similar to grammar rules. The linear fractals’ geometry is the most common form of fractal languages. Such fractals are usually formed starting with the initial figure, to which a certain basic pattern is being applied. Self-similarity is manifested at all levels of all deterministic fractals. Encoding by means of the fractal images is justified only if there is an effective method of an image hidden in fractal algorithms’ «extraction». Having mastered the language of fractals, one can describe any messages by means of images that use the language of traditional geometry. Aren’t crop circles an attempt of a highly developed civilization to leave a message by means of the fractal geometry language?
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