Swarms of reproducing alien probes could be spotted by the huge radio telescope

New research has revealed that the world’s largest radio telescope, located in China, could potentially spot self-replicating probes launched by a distant intelligent alien civilization, should they exist. These probes, also known as von Neumann probes after the scientist who first proposed their existence, have been posited as the most efficient way for intelligent life to explore the wider Universe. As of yet, no evidence of such a self-replicating swarm of extraterrestrial robots has ever been discovered, of course. Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, researcher Dr. Zaza Osmanov calculates that if such swarms exist, China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) could have a chance of glimpsing them. “The reason why von Neumann probes are very efficient in exploring the universe can be briefly explained in the following way: since they replicate, their number increases exponentially and therefore, the swarm of robots expands very rapidly,” Osmanov told Newsweek. “I would characterize von Neumann Probes like a swarm of bees, but unlike normal bees replicating so rapidly that in a very short time (in cosmic scales) they can cover the whole nebula or even a galaxy.” In a paper accepted for publication in the Serbian Astronomical Journal Osmanov considers probes from… Read full this story

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