I received an email from Mia Holland, editor a German public broadcasting outletWho checks Tiktok videos for its sincerity and taking measures against the spread of misleading information and fake news on social media.
Mia stated: “I am currently working on the Tiktok video regarding Exoplanet Proxima B. videothat it He said This light blossom of Proxima B appears to be beating regularly and thus may indicate a technological civilization. We know that Proxima b It is in the area suitable for housing and the planet is subject to manipulation from the host star, Near Centaur. But whether the interpretation of the “light pulses” presented by the Creative Tiktok is correct, it is still unclear. Since you searched on this planet, we are confident that you are the right person to contact a set of questions. “
Here are Mia’s questions and my answers under each of them:
1. What kind of outer planets is Proxima B and how the Earth resembles?
Proxima B is a shake planet with a somewhat larger block (at least 7 %) of blocks. It is located in the area suitable for the nearest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri. This means that if Proxima B has an atmosphere, it may have liquid water on its surface, which may enable the chemistry of life as knowledge. The star is faint than the sun with a 640 factor, and the planet is 20 times closer to Earth to the sun, with an orbital period of 11.2 days instead of a year.
If there are smart creatures on Proxima B, they celebrate their birthdays every 1.6 weeks. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star with 12 % of the sun’s mass. It could have been stripped of its frequent flares and winds of the Proxima b atmosphere and sterilization of the planet. It is unclear whether the dwarf stars, which are more abundant than the sun, can take care of life on the planets near them. We live next to a rare calm star like the sun, perhaps for a good reason.
2. Is it true that “firm glow, faint” can be seen on Proxima B, which “beats regularly”, as the Creator claims in the video?
It is known that Proxima Centauri is repeatedly tightened. A recent study with a large millimeter group of Atacama (ALMA) Proxima Centauri was found to illuminate short periods of time up to seconds and as long as years.
As with the sun, these torches are likely to be accompanied by columns of hot gas that can collide with the planet, Proxima B, and light it periodically. In addition, surface terrain and spatial changes can also be adjusted to reflect the light of stars from the surface of the planet and provide contrast in the short term. The best spectral data can be explained by the WEBB telescope and the ground telescope of the noticeable variation in the glow of Proxima B.
3. Can the stellar torches be interpreted asking the Creator to the beating light on Proxima B?
It is more likely that the pulses of natural origin, as flares of Proxima Center, adjusts the stellar winds that affect the planet on time domains. The interaction depends on whether the planet has a magnet like Earth. We don’t know if Proxima B has an atmosphere or magnetic field.
About five years ago, I wrote a paper With the summer trainee, Elisa Tabor, on the susceptibility of city lamps from Proxima B. However, the possible natural interpretations of the discovered change must be considered first.
4. Proxima B is located in the area suitable for housing. How possible is the complex life on Earth there?
We don’t know if Proxima B hosts a complex life at this time. We must ask for better evidence to discover it. Science is work under progress. We gain new knowledge by collecting our telescope evidence, not on the basis of opinions or guesses.
5. Is it safe to say that the complex life on Proxima B is impossible?
Sophisticated life on Proxima B is possible. We will probably send a probe that will land on Proxima B to find out. With the current chemical payment, the investigation can reach Proxima B in 50,000 years and informs us if there is life there. The task requires patience because the time range is similar to the elapsed time since humans left Africa.
If we have developed a faster payment in the next 50,000 from the next millennium, we can send investigations that would outperform the elderly and get there early. The information about the results of the investigations will take 4.25 years to get to us at the speed of light. The sensor must be equipped with artificial intelligence and act independently because it takes 8.5 years for a round -trip journey dialogue with the maximum light.
The lack of evidence of complex life is not evidence of the lack of a complex life on Proxima B. Complex forms of life may come and go accidentally, permeated by disasters, such as giant glow from the host star, the effect of the asteroid or an excellent explosion.
The idea of ​​fluctuations about zero signal stretches on a wider scale. In another email message, she was asked: “Is the concept of zero a suitable representation of” nothingness “, or does zero bear more importance than just the absence of the quantity? Is it possible to define” nothing “unintentionally without entering a form of existence?”
She explained that in quantum mechanics or statistical physics, zero can determine the typical condition of the amount that fluctuates. For example, the discharge in quantum mechanics can be zero energy density but it fluctuates and makes virtual molecules that appear and disappear. These particles can be fulfilled in the presence of an electric field, which leads to the phenomena of vacuums, create an electron-bouzrone pair, or CASIMIR effect between the panels.
In the same way, the complex life could have been achieved in an accidentally several times on each planet outside the planets, where the most common condition was a rock free of technological signals.
