(ORDO NEWS) — A group of researchers suggested that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could use black holes as quantum computers.
As detailed in the paper , which has not yet been peer-reviewed, a group of German and Georgian researchers suggest that researchers are misinterpreting signals during the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI).
“Currently, we are mainly looking for radio messages, and there have been several attempts to scan the sky to look for so-called candidates for Dyson spheres – megastructures built around stars,” said Gia Dvali, a theoretical physicist at the Institute of Physics.
Max Planck and Zaza Osmanov, professor of physics at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia. “On the other hand, the SETI problem is so complex that every possible channel needs to be explored.”
The scientists propose instead to look for technosignatures coming from potential megastructures built around other celestial objects, including pulsars, white dwarfs and black holes.
To pinpoint a new place to look for extraterrestrial life, the researchers suggest looking for large-scale quantum computing that would allow aliens to process data at amazing speeds perhaps run games at the highest settings, or maybe just mine cryptocurrency.
And as it turns out, black holes can be a great place to do it.
“No matter how advanced a civilization is or how different their particle composition and chemistry is from ours, we are united by the laws of quantum physics and gravity,” said Dvali and Osmanov. “These laws tell us that the most efficient carriers of quantum information are black holes.”
The idea is based on a concept put forward by astrophysicist Roger Penrose, who suggested in the 1980s that black holes could be an almost limitless source of energy.
According to the researchers, small artificially created black holes can act as capacitors for quantum information.
What’s more, the researchers suggest that the IceCube neutrino observatory in Antarctica could technically detect the technosignatures of such black hole quantum computers due to the special kind of radiation they emit.
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