[Brilliant]

Well, that's a new twist to creation science... The universe was created by an advanced civilization?

[Frank T]

Well, that's a new twist to creation science... The universe was created by an advanced civilization?

[generally]

IIRC, there was a Star Trek episode about some type of message coded in our genes (in the introns) from our "creators". This article reminds me of that.

[generally]

Of course, that just begs the question, who created the advanced civilization?

[Junior]

Ping.

[tgambill]

No, actually they are left overs from an overdose of LSD in their young days......it comes from being an effected youth and maybe being bullied in grade school...:)))

[Right Wing Professor]

I see the message ! It's so clear! It says

A..L...L...space...Y...O...U...R...space...B...A...S...E...space...A...R...E...space...B...E...L...O...N...G.........

[The Red Zone]

Because different regions of the universe are so far apart that they are not causally connected, only a cosmos Creator could place a message in the CMB that all civilizations could detect.

Makes sense if this Creator didn't have any idea who was going to be watching, if anybody, so spreads it all over the place.

[phantomworker]

Renowned cosmologists such as Andre Linde (Stanford University) and Alan Guth (MIT) have speculated that an advanced civilization could, in principle, cook up a new universe in a lab by concentrating huge quantities of energy into a tiny volume of space.

If it wasn't coming from Stanford and MIT....

[fat city]

I'm betting the message says, "Don't look up here- the joke is in your hand".

[Lurking Libertarian]

TG,
If I am not mistaken, you have suggested a theory like this, so I am pinging you to this thread.

[Turbopilot]

It would certainly settle the question of religion if it turned out God sent us a space email from the beginning of time. We know we're in trouble if the message is formatted for OSX :-p

[Hebrews 11:6]

"...what may be known about God is plain to [men], because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." Romans 1:19-20

Thus, it's not that God isn't readily seen. It's whether one really wants to see Him.

[Pontiac]

to encode a binary message in the subtle hot and cold spots of the CMB. As the authors note, the CMB is a "giant billboard on the sky" visible to all civilizations in all galaxies. Because different regions of the universe are so far apart that they are not causally connected, only a cosmos Creator could place a message in the CMB that all civilizations could detect.

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is leftover radiation from the Big Bang redshifted (stretched) by the universe's expansion into the microwave region of the spectrum.

Given my admittedly limited understanding of cosmology I may not be able to understand this concept completely.

However I will have to say that this theory has some problems at least from my level of understanding.

Space is from a general understanding 3 dimensional (some theories say space has 16 or more dimensions). A binary code would under any circumstances I can envision would be in two dimensions.

Due to the continuous expansion of the universe any message written in the CMB would have a limited lifespan of readability.

Any message written in the CMB would appear differently from different points in the cosmos and so would have to be written with a particular planet and a particular point in the history of the universe in mind from the beginning.

[RightWhale]

encode a binary message

Why binary?

[EternalVigilance]

'God's calling card' is everywhere.

"The heavens declare the glory of God!"

[Doctor Stochastic]

I'll be impressed if the results tell whether the Euler-Mascheroni constant is rational or not. That would be a real feather to stick in their cap.

[onedoug]

'Doesn't diminish my faith in God one wit.

[woofie]

I found this message: " Al Gore Lost"

[kalee]

ping

[F.J. Mitchell]

Not a problem. I still place my trust in the one who created the universe as well as that advanced society.