Voyage of the Stars

Confusion aside, normal research work still needs to be done with confusion.

Regarding the first contact process between two civilizations, humans have already had various ready-made procedures and plans. After all, humans have come into contact with many alien civilizations, but this form of signal is the first time that humans have received it.

Before stepping onto the fourth-level civilization level, it was all electromagnetic wave signals, which humans were very familiar with.

It takes a long time for the first contact with other civilizations to be able to understand each other's meaning, and it is not fast with experience in this regard. In fact, in the contact between different civilizations, if you want to understand each other's meaning, you need a long time to understand each other, or both parties are willing to reveal their own language information.

After all, it is possible that the two civilizations are not carbon-based intelligent life creatures, and their understanding of the universe is different, and the language logic is even more different.

So it is not that humans can easily understand the meaning of unknown signals after having experience in contact with aliens. As for the existence of the Galactic Axis Alliance and the Awakener, they can directly let humans understand their meaning, and it seems that there is no need to communicate with each other for a long time, but that is probably only a sixth-level civilization like them. Humans now have to follow the normal communication process honestly.

Therefore, after entering the working state, scientists immediately turned their attention to the information fed back from humans' own tachyon receiving devices, which was the characteristic information of the tachyons sent by the other party. Generally, humans want to know what their tachyon detection has detected, and they all look at it this way.

But the results disappointed the scientists. These sent tachyons did not seem to carry specific information, but rather seemed to be emitted without any processing.

"How could this be? Could it be that the signal source was not caused by a certain civilization?"

Seeing this situation, some scientific researchers were also puzzled, but he soon realized that he was a little stupid, because there are no naturally generated tachyons in nature, and the sound source of tachyons must be related to the grand unified force field.

"Why is that!"

While some scientists were puzzled, Zhao Youqin, a scientist in the field of communications, expressed his thoughts: "Could it be a simple 0 and 1 signal?"

As soon as this was said, everyone was stunned. It seemed that it was really possible. In fact, everyone realized this aspect at the beginning, but they all reached the fourth level of civilization and tachyons, so they did not continue to think about it.

Now that Zhao Youqin had raised it again, they thought about it seriously and looked at the content displayed in the signal receiver, and they couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

But there were also action-oriented scientists who didn't fall into deep thought, that is, Zhao Youqin. While other scientists were still thinking about something, he walked directly to a workbench in front of him, raised his hand and clicked some, and then waved his hands in the refreshed holographic screen.

Time is tight, and there is no time to delay.

As he moved, modular programs that he had called out from the database appeared one by one in the holographic screen, and then he saw that he imported all these modular programs to let the "Light of the Milky Way" help with the calculation.

On-site programming is definitely unrealistic. Although Zhao Youqin can do it, he doesn't have so much time for him to do this, but he doesn't need to do it, because the human data center has the corresponding application modules. He only needs to select what he needs, and then do the export and import work.

What he is doing now is to edit the signal received by the tachyon signal receiver, and then let the "Light of the Milky Way" associate the tachyons that appear in the signal at regular intervals with time, compile a simple digital code, and then use 1 and 0 to replace the time when the signal is received and the time when the signal is not received.

After only two breaths, the "Light of the Milky Way" completed its work, and then people saw a series of 0s and 1s on the holographic screen, eh? There is also 2

The appearance of a bunch of 2s made scientists including Zhao Youqin a little confused, but before they could ask, they heard the voice of the "Light of the Milky Way" in their office.

"Gentlemen, when I was sorting out the data, I found that the program edited according to the instructions of Academician Zhao Youqin did not match the information sent from the tachyon detector. Judging from the length of time interval and whether the signal was received, our signal receiver received not two but three signals. Therefore, I made corresponding adjustments according to the actual situation. I used 2 to represent the third signal form, so 2 appeared."

The Light of the Milky Way is a comprehensive strong artificial intelligence on the Tianqin, and it is also the most powerful artificial intelligence of mankind. Obviously, it is very smart.

"Show me the receiver's signal and time-related parameters." Zhao Youqin said immediately without hesitation. He said to the Light of the Milky Way.

"Okay!"

Before he finished speaking, the calculation was completed first, and a series of values ​​based on the length of time interval and whether the signal was received immediately appeared on the holographic screen.

Scientists and researchers looked at it and found that it was not two signals but three.

It’s not that scientists missed it before, but the transmission of tachyons is far faster than the speed of light, and it is almost real-time within its effective transmission range. Therefore, the signal intervals received by human receivers are actually very dense, and the presence and absence of the signal are only separated by a very short time, and it is still within the recognizable error set by humans, so this situation occurs.

But after Tianhe Light accessed and read it, it discovered that the so-called things within the error actually had significantly different rules, so it intelligently divided them.

So what is in front of everyone now is a string of values ​​​​such as 01201201200001112211000012.

Of course, everyone knows that a numerical string in this form may not be the real character of the signal emission source, but is just localized by humans, but this does not affect it, just like replacing it with -1, 0, 1 or ABC, Human beings only need to know that it is three different signals.

When seeing such numbers, the first thought that comes to scientists' minds is: ternary!

They took a few more glances and realized that it was indeed a ternary signal, because in the signal group received by humans, the time intervals were clearly divided into three sections. There were no accidents and it was very accurate. It was definitely not caused by errors. .

But what does this series of numbers mean?

Whether it is binary or ternary, humans are extremely familiar with it, but it is impossible for humans to bring it into their own system coding and then translate it according to their own language system. After all, it is a signal of an unknown civilization.

In other words, the signal source did not send its own dictionary at all, and it was actually impossible to send it, because the so-called dictionary also requires communication between two civilizations before it can be sent, and it is impossible to understand if it is sent unilaterally.