Uncovering the Secret Conversations in the Night Sky You Didn't Know About

When we look up at the night sky, we may be inadvertently listening in on an alien conversation. At least that's according to Imperial College London quantum physicist Terry Rudolph, who recently published pre-print studies speculating that an evolved extraterrestrial society may modify the light coming off stars to communicate across large distances, much like a series of interstellar smoke signals. He hypothesized that an advanced society could manipulate the light emitted by stars and utilise it to communicate with other planets over vast distances, with his paper Perhaps They're Everywhere. Humans on Earth may simply continue to gaze at the stars, unaware of their starlight Morse code, until our scientists and physicists can decipher what each twinkle pattern of the star implies.