Chapter 741 Characteristic of Characters

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Language, not so mysterious, is actually the way intelligent life uses to communicate.

Any form of communication requires a medium.

The medium through which humans communicate with sound is air.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, if there is life on a planet with an atmosphere, then these lives will gradually evolve the ability to communicate with sound.

Every form of communication is related to the physical senses of living beings.

In addition to communicating with voice, human beings can also use body language, and the sensory organs used in body language are eyes, which transmit information through vision.

If a living thing evolves an organ that emits electromagnetic waves, then a faster way of communication will also appear.

No matter what method is used to communicate, as long as you want to record the information, you will inevitably produce words.

The electronic information department of the Academy of Military Sciences spent three days finding out all the information recorded in the meteorite microbial genes and gave a more detailed report.

"From the base code analysis, the information left by the meteorite civilization should be based on words..."

While looking at the analysis report, Lu Xiuwen explained to the students in the military scientific research class: "The meteorite civilization left about 20,000 characters or words in the microbial gene code.

"There are more than 2,000 independent words or words that are not repeated. Judging from this feature, the text of the meteorite civilization does not have a high repetition rate, and it does not belong to the English alphabet."

"How do you know it's not written in letters?" Niu Dazhi asked curiously.

"Isn't this simple? If it is an alphabet, there are only 26. How can there be 2,000 non-repeating words? Even if the meteorite civilization has a lot of letters, there are 100 letters, that is 100 independent and non-repeating letters. It will be 2,000. Unless this civilization has a brain hole, it can produce 2,000 letters." Eve spread her hands and explained.

"Okay, it's great without English." Niu Dazhi immediately applauded.

Eve covered her forehead, showing an expression that could not be saved.

"If there are 2,000 letters, with such a huge library of letters, a single letter should have a separate meaning,

This is actually no different from a single word. The reason why a single letter in English does not have meaning is because the alphabet library is too small and requires multiple letters to express meaning. "Lu Xiuwen added.

In addition to the professors from the Institute of Biology, there were also several professors of cosmic sociology present.

In the study of alien civilization, Lang Tongguang is more professional.

He took out a document, sent it to the people in front of him, and explained: "Actually, after receiving the analysis report of the Academy of Military Science on the information left by the meteorite civilization, several colleagues and I immediately made a text comparison.

"This is the single-character statistics we made with several Chinese character papers. As shown in the analysis of meteorite civilization information, there are a total of 20,000 characters.

"So, we selected a few papers with about 20,000 words for statistics, and the result is that the number of independent and non-repetitive words in the papers is between 1,000 and 1,400.

"English papers are not considered for the time being. There are only 26 independent letters that do not repeat, and there are 36 numbers with Arabic numerals, which have no reference value.

"We have done more than a hundred Chinese character literature counts, and the results are all between 1,000 and 1,400, with an average of 1,200 words.

"The sample is sufficient, so it can be basically confirmed that the documents written in Chinese characters have an average of 1,200 non-repetitive independent words in a length of 20,000 characters.

"There is a gap between this and the 2,000 non-repeating independent words of the meteorite civilization. However, the gap is less than twice. This gap is actually not that big in the study of alien characters.

"Therefore, judging from the number of independent characters that appear, the characters used by the meteorite civilization have similar characteristics to Chinese characters.

"It can be preliminarily determined that the text library of the meteorite civilization should be larger than Chinese characters, and the number of characters they commonly use is also more than Chinese characters.

"Based on these text features, it will be much easier to decipher."

After thinking for a moment, Fang Yuan asked: "How long will it take to decipher the meaning of these messages?"

"This can't be determined yet. Since there is no basic point, it is very difficult to use the exhaustive method to decipher. What's more difficult is that even with the exhaustive method, there is no standard answer. It is impossible to determine whether the result of deciphering is correct, which is the most difficult part." Lang Tongguang explained.

"Is there no better way?" Fang Yuan felt that the technical means of the Academy of Military Sciences should not be able to do this.

"Of course there is a way. You can determine a part of the text through guessing..."

Lang Tongguang went on to explain: "For example, through analysis, we can basically confirm that meteorite civilization is all characters, which have many characteristics similar to Chinese characters.

"Then, we can go a step further and guess. In the literature left by the meteorite civilization, what does the most repeated word mean?

"For example, in Chinese literature, the most repeated word is usually the word 'de', and the second word is the word 'is'.

"Then, we can continue to speculate whether there are words like 'de' in the text of the meteorite civilization.

"If there is, is the word that is repeated the most is 'of', or a word with a similar meaning.

"Of course, this is just speculation, because the Chinese word '的' is a particle and has no meaning in itself.

"We are still not sure that there are such meaningless particles in the language of the meteorite civilization.

"So, the process of guessing needs to be verified to determine whether it is correct."

Lu Xiuwen took over the topic and said: "Indeed, the research on alien writing is indeed quite difficult. It is not like oracle bone inscriptions. Oracle bone inscriptions can also guess the meaning through the shape of the characters.

"What we are facing now is a string of meaningless codes. It is really difficult to guess the meaning of the text through the characteristics of the codes."

Fang Yuan nodded while thinking: "Indeed, but you can also guess what information the meteorite civilization might leave, and then decipher the code.

"For example, when the meteorite civilization is destroyed, the most wanted information is to introduce their civilization first. Then it should also tell the reason for the civilization's demise. Was it destroyed by a higher civilization? Or was it destroyed by a natural disaster in the universe.

"It should be easier to guess the content of the message first, and then decipher the text?"

Lang Tongguang nodded in agreement and said: "This idea is correct, but it still requires a supercomputer to decipher. The advantage of the human brain is imagination, but in terms of computing power, computers still have the advantage."

"It shouldn't take too long, and the results should be available in a week or two," Lu Xiuwen said.