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Researchers Working On Real-Life Version Of Starship Enterprise's Life-Form Scanner
For anyone who is fans of Star Trek, they will remember that the first thing the crew members of the Starship Enterprise would do when they visit a new planet, is scan for any life-forms. However, what if this was a real-life piece of technology that could actually look for signs of life? Well, this is what scientists have been working on in recent years and it's not as far away as many people think.
Life Detection
Many scientists have strived to discover if there's any intelligent, or even any life at all, on any distant exoplanets. While technology has changed massively over recent years, it's still very limited in terms of exploring other planets. Now though, they are now one step closer to this goal, all thanks to a new remote-sensing technique that relies on light spiraling in a particular direction and producing a fairly unmistakable signal. Still in its early stages, this method could one day be used on spacecraft or telescopes to determine if there are any living beings in the galaxy.
Organic Molecules
The new method of life detection, the ‘life scanner’ if you will, utilizes chains of organic molecules. They come in two arrangements - right, and left handed, which are like mirror-images of each other. Biology breaks this symmetry, which is the difference between biology and chemistry. Inorganic life-forms don’t impart this property to rays of light, whereas when light interacts with the biological chains, it becomes circularly polarised, meaning that its electromagnetic waves will travel in either clockwise or counterclockwise spirals.
Seeing spirals which signify biological life-form, as pretty much all carbon-based life is the same on the molecular level, on Earth, or not. Whereas if there is no biological life, the light won't react and there will be no spirals. Essentially, this is a life-form scanner, just like the one on the Starship Enterprise!
Researchers Working On Real-Life Version Of Starship Enterprise's Life-Form Scanner
For anyone who is fans of Star Trek, they will remember that the first thing the crew members of the Starship Enterprise would do when they visit a new planet, is scan for any life-forms. However, what if this was a real-life piece of technology that could actually look for signs of life? Well, this is what scientists have been working on in recent years and it's not as far away as many people think.
Life Detection
Many scientists have strived to discover if there's any intelligent, or even any life at all, on any distant exoplanets. While technology has changed massively over recent years, it's still very limited in terms of exploring other planets. Now though, they are now one step closer to this goal, all thanks to a new remote-sensing technique that relies on light spiraling in a particular direction and producing a fairly unmistakable signal. Still in its early stages, this method could one day be used on spacecraft or telescopes to determine if there are any living beings in the galaxy.
Organic Molecules
The new method of life detection, the ‘life scanner’ if you will, utilizes chains of organic molecules. They come in two arrangements - right, and left handed, which are like mirror-images of each other. Biology breaks this symmetry, which is the difference between biology and chemistry. Inorganic life-forms don’t impart this property to rays of light, whereas when light interacts with the biological chains, it becomes circularly polarised, meaning that its electromagnetic waves will travel in either clockwise or counterclockwise spirals.
Seeing spirals which signify biological life-form, as pretty much all carbon-based life is the same on the molecular level, on Earth, or not. Whereas if there is no biological life, the light won't react and there will be no spirals. Essentially, this is a life-form scanner, just like the one on the Starship Enterprise!
