Are we alone in the universe? This is a question that has been asked for generations, not only by scientists but by society in general. New information gathered from radio waves collected from outer space over the past 15 years could finally shed some additional light on the subject. Since 2001, telescopes on earth have been picking up radio waves in millisecond bursts known as blitzars (or Fast Radio Bursts) from space and no one has truly been able to explain what they are or even where they originated from in the universe. A new study, however, illustrates that the radio waves we have received (10 in total) all line up in an odd mathematical way that is probably too strange to be a coincidence and our known physics can’t explain.
Scientists have used a system of dispersion measures to determine the distance that these radio waves came from. Essentially, the higher the dispersion, the further in space it originated from. The shocking results claim that all ten radio bursts analyzed have origination points lining up as a multiple of one single number – 187.5. What does this mean? Well, nothing official but from a scientific standpoint it does open up a world of possibilities and some great discussion points about what may be happening outside of our galaxy. One theory is that the radio waves came from equally spaced intervals across the solar system, a second argues that the blitzars came from within our own Milky Way galaxy sent with some sort of delay which helped to create the strange pattern recently discovered by scientists.
This doesn’t prove alien life exists, but radio waves in a pattern like this could very well come from some sort of alien technology. No stars or space systems that we know of send out signals in such patterns. The future of space exploration is endless and studying what happens beyond our planet is only getting more interesting. Something we don’t yet understand or even know of its existence, sent these radio waves our way – what we find out next is anyone’s guess.
