Yuri Miller Biography

The purpose of the project is to organize the collection, processing and free access to information about possible signals coming to Earth from the cosmos. Milner calls the ideologist of the project the famous physicist Stephen Hawking, and among his “scientific leaders” - Frank Drake and Jeff Marsi: the latter will be the coordinators of research - behind them will be the last word on the question of what equipment should be used, what observation methods should be.

Marsi confirmed to Vedomosti participation in this project, Drake has not yet responded to the letter. Business according to Milner, funds will be spent in three directions. Firstly, unique five-year agreements with operators of the two largest Green Bank Telescope radio telescope in the Western Virginia and Parkes Telescope in Australia, as well as with the Lick Observatory telescope in California, about their rental for “a significant part of the time for space observations, have already been concluded.

In the zone of priority attention - 1 million of the stars closest to the solar system, the central part of the Milky Way where the maximum concentration of stars is observed and the galaxies closest to the Milky Way. Another part of the funds will be invested in the processing and storage of incoming information that will be measured by petabytes; At the first stage, Milner promises to use the computer capacities of the Berkeley research center for this, and about 9 million computers united into a single Seti Home network for processing information.

These data will be posted on the Internet, and free access will be organized to them: all experts, scientific organizations, as well as amateur astronomers who wish to participate in the data analysis, will be able to do this. True, it will take 25 years to deliver this message and the same amount - they are in no hurry to finance such studies to receive an answer from m of the state, since these projects are highly risked and do not guarantee results, Milner says.

He himself also admits that the probability of getting some results in the foreseeable future is not very great. But if some signals are found, this will have a fundamental value, even though the time between sending and receiving a signal can be calculated by light decades. According to Milner, observations made using the Kepler telescope placed on a satellite launched into space in the city, if we proceed from the assumption accepted by the science that physical laws are the same everywhere in the universe, then the methods of communication between developed civilizations should be the same, he continues.

Participants of the project financed by the Milner will try to identify two types of signals - radio waves in a permeable range of MHz to 15 Hz or laser radiation for the earthly atmosphere. Theoretically, it can be assumed that there can be other signals, such as gravitational waves, but the existing technologies have not yet allowed to identify their existing technologies, Milner says.

Nevertheless, he promises to give grants to scientists to search for new methods of interstellar communications. Compared to previous searches of extraterrestrial life, the project financed by Milner will increase coverage more than once. In 10 light years or in 10 million light years? Nobody knows, ”says Marsy. Why is the universe from the end of the X the topic of searching for extraterrestrial civilizations was on the crest of scientific discussions, significant forces and means were spent on this, says a researcher at the State Astronomical Institute.

But the zero result was obtained, in fact, people encountered the "silence of the universe." This led to the emergence of natural skepticism in relation to such studies, and the American Institute Seti lost state funding, he continues. Since then, new promising ideas have not appeared in this area. However, astronomy is very actively developing, and perhaps it is worth investing not in itself the search for other civilizations, but in other astronomical projects.

And in the course of normal studies, other civilizations can be discovered, Popov believes. Humanity is searching for extraterrestrial civilizations from the X. In particular, in Yuri Milner, one of the creators of the Mail Internet holding. During the IPO group in November, Milner is the founder of large awards in the field of physics, medicine and mathematics.