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用空间探测器探测银河系的计算分析:费米粒子的意义

A Computational Analysis of Galactic Exploration with Space Probes: Implications for the Fermi Paradox

Carlos Cotta, Álvaro Morales

摘要:

对费米悖论的时间解释表明,银河系的巨大规模减少了在一定时间窗口内与外星技术文明(ETC)建立联系的机会。这一论点是解决在这项工作的背景下,探索探测器,其传播速度可以比殖民波前。已经进行了大量的计算模拟,以建立勘探动态的数值模型。随后进行概率分析,以获得可能在没有与地球建立联系的情况下探索银河系的ETC数量的界限,这取决于它们使用的探测器数量,它们的寿命以及它们是否会在探索的系统上留下一些长期的印记。结果表明,如果探测器的寿命为5000万年,而接触证据持续了100万年,那么在给定的百万年内,不太可能有超过10^2-10^3个ETC正在探索银河系。如果接触证据持续1亿年,这个界限下降到~10,并且也显示出与探针的寿命成反比。这些结果被解释在费米悖论的光,并与非平稳天体生物学模型,其中一些ETC已逐渐出现在费米哈特时标兼容。

英文摘要:

Temporal explanations to the Fermi paradox state that the vast scale of the galaxy diminishes the chances of establishing contact with an extraterrestrial technological civilization (ETC) within a certain time window. This argument is tackled in this work in the context of exploration probes, whose propagation can be faster than that of a colonization wavefront. Extensive computational simulations have been done to build a numerical model of the dynamics of the exploration. A probabilistic analysis is subsequently conducted in order to obtain bounds on the number of ETCs that may be exploring the galaxy without establishing contact with Earth, depending on factors such as the number of probes they use, their lifetime and whether they leave some long-term imprint on explored systems or not. The results indicate that it is unlikely that more than ~10^2-10^3 ETCs are exploring the galaxy in a given Myr, if their probes have a lifetime of 50 Myr and contact evidence lasts for 1 Myr. This bound goes down to ~10 if contact evidence lasts for 100 Myr, and is also shown to be inversely proportional to the lifetime of probes. These results are interpreted in light of the Fermi paradox and are compatible with non-stationary astrobiological models in which a few ETCs have gradually appeared in the Fermi-Hart timescale.

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