Wow Signals using Hydrogen?

SergiusPaulus

SergiusPaulus

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Imagine if the signal was some way of using hydrogen to send a distress signal or other message?

The Wow! Signal was a strong, narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by astronomer Jerry R. Ehman at Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope. The signal lasted for 72 seconds and came from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, near the Chi Sagittarii star group. It stood out due to its intensity and the specific frequency (1420 MHz), which is the natural emission frequency of hydrogen, making it a key target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

Ehman famously circled the signal's data on a computer printout and wrote "Wow!" next to it, giving the event its name. Despite extensive follow-up searches, the signal was never detected again, and its origin remains unexplained. Possible explanations include natural astrophysical sources, human-made interference, or even an extraterrestrial transmission, though no definitive conclusion has been reached.
 
SergiusPaulus said:
Imagine if the signal was some way of using hydrogen to send a distress signal or other message?

The Wow! Signal was a strong, narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by astronomer Jerry R. Ehman at Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope. The signal lasted for 72 seconds and came from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, near the Chi Sagittarii star group. It stood out due to its intensity and the specific frequency (1420 MHz), which is the natural emission frequency of hydrogen, making it a key target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

Ehman famously circled the signal's data on a computer printout and wrote "Wow!" next to it, giving the event its name. Despite extensive follow-up searches, the signal was never detected again, and its origin remains unexplained. Possible explanations include natural astrophysical sources, human-made interference, or even an extraterrestrial transmission, though no definitive conclusion has been reached.
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Well... I'm more inclined to think that it was a comet. Firstly, they emit a large amount of hydrogen, which emits a signal at 1420 MHz. Secondly, astronomer Antonio Peiris confirmed that at that time and at that time two comets were flying by, Christensen and Y Gibbs. Thirdly, in 2016-2017, about 200 studies were conducted, during which it was confirmed that comet Christensen sends approximately the same signal at 1420 MHz.
 

I wonder if other civilizations and distant life forms, perhaps very different from us, also consider hydrogen to be an important building block of life. Both as the an important gas, but also as the smallest, most basic for of atom.

I mean, wouldn't other ET advanced civilizations have their own periodic table too? It's a pretty fascinating exercise, here. Think about it. It has to be pretty universal... I must certainly look somewhat like ours.

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Think about it. Unless they exist in some sort of weird fluid messed up type of reality where matter, forces and whatnots work in ways that are entirely unknowable and impossible to process for us... We have to believe they know the same atoms and elements as ours, right?

Thus the question: Is the hydrogen atom universal that's a reliable and universal way to communicate?
 
So long as beings are in this universe, their periodic tables will be similar to ours. The groupings may be a little different.

That's one thing that concerns me about dimensional travel. If the laws of physics are different and you're not protected, you could suddenly find yourself turning into a pile of goo... or even the subatomic particles that make atoms start breaking apart and you end up a whispy cloud of gas.
 

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