University Researchers May Have Found Advanced Extra-terrestrial Civilizations In Their Recent Study

Highly advanced extraterrestrials are like taxis, you spend ages sitting tight for one and just as right when you're not paying much attention, 234 immediately come along right past you. Or at least, that is the thing that two astronomers from the Laval University in Quebec are proposing.

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Ermanno Borra and his graduate understudy Eric Trottier have studied more than 2.5 million stars and planets for pulses of light discharged at standard interims and found it in 234 stars comparative in size to our Sun. The research team suggests that alien civilizations are the cause of those pulses.

The specialists used the Fourier Transform (FT) of the light range as their method of determining the sources. The FT is a numerical instrument that enables us to work out where the segments of a signal originate from. To put things in simpler terms, let's say that if the light is a milkshake, by utilizing the FT you get the recipe for it.

The FT investigation has discovered periodic modulated components which, as per the researchers, are caused by the super fast light pulses (not more than a trillionth of a second) created by Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI). In the paper, accessible from the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, they have ruled out other explanations that may somehow explain the phenomenon in mundane fashion, for example, instrumental impacts, rotation of particles, quick stellar pulsations, and various forms of chemistry.

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These ultra fast pulses can only be produced by extraordinarily powerful lasers, similar to the one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Strikingly, in past publications, Borra has expressed that this range of astronomy is the least investigated, which brings up the issue on why these supposed technologically advanced races would all choose to communicate in such a complicated and energy-consuming manner.

The specialists concede that in spite of the fact that they believe aliens are the most likely explanation, this is yet to be fully confirmed and studied upon more carefully since a more mundane and prosaic explanation may turn up sooner or later.

The Stephen Hawking-backed venture Breakthrough Listen will lead follow-up observations of these 234 stars, however, the group at UC Berkeley, where the science program is based, urge the public to be skeptical about the matter as well as any matters concerning advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.

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The Breakthrough Listen team said in a statement that “The one in 10,000 objects with unusual spectra seen by Borra and Trottier are certainly worthy of additional study. However, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is too early to unequivocally attribute these purported signals to the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations.”