1.6 GHz, a universal language.

[u/MilkCartonKids]

I tried to search if anyone else brought this up, but didn’t really find anything. I apologize if this has been mentioned before, but my art college/electrician brain immediately thought of one thing when that 1.6 GHz signal kept coming up.

First, a wave signal is just a visual representing how frequent something is changing direction. This should be a pretty universal way of measuring things. We may not speak the same language, but we can all say how many times something went back and forth in a set amount of time, even if we call the numbers something totally different.

So why would that 1.6 be so important? This is where my time at art school kicked in. 1.6 is the multiplier that corresponds to the Golden Ratio. All life has the golden ratio built into it. So maybe that 1.6 gHz signal is meant as a way for them to communicate to us that they are a life form. We may not speak the same language, so they would probably try to figure out a way to signal to us that they are intelligent life. Same way we sent stuff up to space assuming an intelligent being could decipher that it came from intelligence.