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A math nerd works to decode what he believes is an alien transmission.

It's calm and consistent. I happened to like it, but this definitely wouldn't be for everyone.

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• 2022-05-30

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• 0:00 -- Reading

  Hydrogen atoms emit light at specific energy levels.
  These energies are determiend by the Fine-Structure Constant.

  Fine-Structure Constant = 0.0072973525664(17)

  The FSC is a mysterious number that appears in many calculations
  of the most fundamental physics of our universe...

  ...but we have no idea where it comes from.

  The atmosphere, the stars, the air we breathe, even our shoelaces
  have an atomic makeup that include this enigmatic number.

  It is a mathematical concept that would be
  recognized anywhere in the universe.

  In 1974, Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, and several
  other scientists sent the Arecibo Message into space.

  It contained basic math and other information intended
  to establish contact with other life in the universe.

  They aimed it at the star cluster M13, and the world
  waited in anticipation for a response...

  ...but it would take 22,800 years for the message
  to reach someone in M13...

  ...unless they come to us first.

• e.g. maths like:

  • \(\alpha = \left( \frac{e}{q_\mathrm{P}} \right)^2 = \frac{e^2 c\mu_0}{2h} = \frac{1}{4 \pi \varepsilon_0} \frac{e^2}{\hbar c} = \frac{k_\text{e} e^2}{\hbar c} = \frac{e^2}{2\varepsilon_0 c h} = \frac{c \mu_0}{2 R_\text{K}} = \frac{e^2 Z_0}{2h} = \frac{e^2 Z_0}{4\pi \hbar} = \frac{Z_0}{2R_K}\)
  • α is 0.0072973525664(17) and 1/α is 137.035999139(31) and are taken from CODATA 2014 and are no longer accurate.
  • The Arecibo was not, in fact, intended to establish contact with other life in the universe.
  • Nobody would be waiting in anticipation for 22,800 years..
  • They'd have to receive it already well en route from M13 to here.
• 2:30 -- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport - 2017-10-17
• 4:00 -- University of Cincinnati
• 5:30 -- Triviality (mathematics)
• 6:15 -- Inflation?
• 6:45 -- Sexually transmitted infection

• 8:30 --

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • J. Edgar Hoover Building
• 9:30 -- Not accessible at any clearance level? Is that a thing?

• 12:15 --

  • Amazon
  • Drone
  • Amazon Kindle
• 13:30 -- He has the internet, and has looked other things up, but he's estimating arm's length? Maybe he could measure his own, or maybe there's some detective work which might better-estimate the length of the arm of the guy who reported it.
• 18:45 -- ATCAudioLive.com was never a website. (archive)
• 23:30 -- I could figure out who that is based on video of the various people, and very possibly from pictures alone.

• 24:00 --

  • 43fsc611angis7we.onion might have been valid at some point, but I can't check because that length of onion address is no or is no longer valid, if it ever was.
  • irc://onionirchubx2623.ion/TheirPlansAgainstUs is fictional because .ion is not valid.
  • Tor (network)
  • The War of the Worlds - (1898 book), by H. G. Wells
• 25:30 -- http://goo.gl/2qH9oo redirects to Fine-structure constant
• 28:15 -- For what it's worth, he's using Audacity.

• 2945 -- "Nonhomogeneous systems" is well outside of my wheelhouse. Maybe see:

  • Kernel (linear algebra)
  • The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges math204

• 30:30 --

  • Albert Einstein
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan
  • Bernhard Riemann
  • Niels Henrik Abel
  • Évariste Galois
• 33:45 -- Astrophysics
• 34:30 -- Pulsar - Pulsar-based navigation

• 35:15 --

  • Mobile phone signal
  • Verizon (mobile network)
  • AT&T
  • Sprint Corporation
  • T-Mobile US
• 36:30 -- Grey alien

• 37:45 --

  • Prime number
  • 9433 is a Prime quadruplet
  • See List of prime numbers
• 38:00 -- That's who he remind me of.. Alan Ruck from Ferris Bueller's Day Off - (1986 movie)
• 41:30 -- Arecibo message

42:45 --

** Manhattan Project
** Enigma machine - Cryptanalysis of the Enigma
** Kardashev scale

• 45:30 -- Benefactor
• 46:30 -- See Just how small are we?
• 48:15 -- God that woman has huge eyes.

• 48:30 --

  • General relativity
  • Apollo 11
  • Final examination
  • Red Bull

• 49:00 --

  • Death - Consciousness after death
  • God - Existence of God
  • Universe - Extraterrestrial intelligence
• 49:30 -- Dude, how about the importance of procreation getting laid?
• 53:45 -- She should be calling a cab.
• 54:45 -- See airport security for a rabbit hole.

• 1:01:30 --

  • Electric chair
  • Thomas Edison
  • Conspiracy theory

• 1:05:30 --

  • Telemetry
  • Wireless Medical Telemetry Service
• 1:06:00 -- They're part of a puzzle that you're supposed to fill in within the grid space that's empty.

• 1:07:00 --

  • Eugène Ehrhart - Ehrhart polynomial
  • Yitang Zhang - Number theory
  • Erwin Schrödinger
  • "Frolang"(?)
  • Stephen Smale
  • Is every single one of the mathematicians noted so far a male?
• 1:08:15 -- "leo sorvins"(?)
• 1:08:45 -- I don't know if "Ohio Statewide Satellite Communications Center" is fictional.

• 1:12:00 --

  • Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  • Structural engineering
  • Hydrogen line
• 1:16:30 -- So it wouldn't need to be any random person figuring things out but some random farmer.
• 1:21:00 -- Because it changes over time, it's a line.

• 1:21:45 -- .. and now the movie can start.

Last updated 2022-09-10 at 19:14:57