Is there in the Universe a universal language?

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a scene from the movie “the Arrival”

Starting from the famous novel by Hg wells “war of the worlds”, has for over 100 years, humanity has considered the implications and conflicts that may arise as a result of first contact with potentially hostile views. Around the same time, we began to look for evidence that refutes our apparent galactic loneliness. The hope of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life remains a source of inspiration for many hunters of exoplanets, astrobiologists and researchers . But what happens when we find the answer to the question formulated by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi's “where is everybody?”. If we and the beings from another planet to understand each other?

The Famous theory of universal grammar of Noam Chomsky suggests that certain structures of language are universal and have a genetic and, hence, unique human basis. Create a method for decoding an unknown language without the use of Parallels with the languages of the Earth seems like an insurmountable obstacle. It is possible that alien language may be silent or not to have a written component, so these traditionally reliable methods would be useless if we introduced such an alien language.

However, the scientists — physicists, mathematicians and astronomers — tried to solve this problem, based on the assumption that mathematics and physics are kind of a universal language of the Universe. The SETI Institute, founded in 1984, whose main task is the search for extraterrestrial life, is actively cooperating with scientists and looking for signals from distant stars. So, the famous Arecibo message sent in direction of globular cluster M13 in 1974, contains encoded information about our , consisting mainly of simple and semisimple numbers. A radio signal with a duration of 169 seconds and reaches the destination in 25 thousand years. And the same will be required to deliver the response. However, we are still limited to the history of life on Earth, but because we believe that life in other galaxies at least a little similar to ours. But what if we're wrong?

this is the message of Arecibo

Diversity of life

In Addition to representatives on the Ground home to several million species of living beings. And all of them, not having a language in the usual sense, communicate with each other. In addition to the gestural and vocal communication, we can observe the communication through dance in honey bees, and communicate using infrasound, which is successfully practiced by elephants. The human ear is unable to recognize the animals send signals, meanwhile elephants are able to communicate while apart at a distance of 10 km. These examples clearly show our prejudiced for categorization as inhuman communication, and development of reliable methodology of translation for the new, non-human languages.

And what do you think could be the language of the intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations? Share your feedback with the participants and in the comments to this article

Math — the language of the Universe?

Any attempt to communicate with someone who uses a different language, it is necessary to bridge the gap between languages two interlocutors. For this reason, many scientists turn to mathematics as an unbiased method of communication. So, mathematician Dr. Hans Freudenthal attempted to develop a language for use in communicating with extraterrestrial beings who are not familiar with culture and language or the people of the Earth. Based on mathematics, linkos — an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica, which means cosmic language — teaches the basics of numbers, arithmetic, set theory and mathematical logic. But what if extraterrestrial civilizations different ideas ? For example, the piraha people in the North-West of Brazil there is no development of the meaning of the numbers, in addition to General concepts of small and large quantities. Thus, the assumption that an alien civilization understands the numbers, the math, physics and logic in the same way, can be a quick way to misunderstanding, instead of productive discussion.

In the Universe there are billions of galaxies

Combining linguistics and computer science known as computational linguistics, provides another variety of translation procedures, but also has similar weaknesses with math and physics. Whatever it was, humanity sends out radio signals into space at least 150 years, and this severely limits the number of potential extraterrestrial civilizations that might get the message. Anyway, all we can do today — wait for a response to continue. But at the same time to try to answer the question of what may be an alien language and can it will forever change us, if we will be able to master them?

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