Trevor Collins

So anyway, some speculate that the wow signal is an attempt at communication from an extraterrestrial force.

In 1959, Cornell University physicist Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi speculated that extraterrestrial civilizations would attempt to communicate via radio signals.

This is math, quick math, 18 years prior to the wow signal.

They hypothesized that these beings would do so specifically using the hydrogen line frequency.

So when the wow signal came through on that, people perked up.

They believe, again, I kind of mentioned this before, but they believe this because hydrogen, again, is one of the most common elements in the universe.

And it would almost create a universal language.

Like in Arrival, we don't fully understand maybe how aliens would communicate, but the laws of physics and the nature of our universe is relatively consistent or one could assume constant throughout space and time.

And so you will want to use these fundamental truths in order to communicate.

Hence, let's talk on the loudest, most common frequency, the hydrogen line.

I kind of learned something too.

I had no idea that this was a thing either.

And I was very aware of the wow signal.

It is fascinating.

And this is why, oh, space is so good.

If you're just about to start college, engineering's tough.

Get after it, man.

Like unpackage the mysteries of the universe.

Understand it from a fundamental level.

No matter what discipline of engineering you go into, you're on a road of learning for forever.