Paper · S7738
Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails
Lingam and Loeb consider whether some fast radio bursts could be artificial propulsion beams. The paper presents conditional models and possible tests, explicitly treating the artificial explanation as more speculative than astrophysical alternatives.
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A specialist read all seven supplied text pages, 26,661 normalized characters, and viewed all seven native layouts: 14 numbered equations, six content footnotes, acknowledgment and 51 reference entries; there are no figures or tables. Root reviewed the complete final analytical report and evidence and independently verified pins, without root primary reading. The official v2 submission is 27 February 2017; the native draft is dated 28 February.
Complete supplied v2 text and native layouts; model unreplicated
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- Artificial origin remains a speculative hypothesis, with natural alternatives and a broadband design challenge. Conditional power, size and emitting-civilization bounds reuse assumed inputs and are not a detected civilization, measured population or independent statistical test. Dispersion, efficiency, relativistic approximation, selection, duty-cycle and calibration questions remain unreplicated.
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Manasvi Lingam, Abraham Loeb. Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails. February 27, 2017. BioParity S7738. https://bioparity.io/sources/S7738Record data (JSON)