arXiv:1104.4362physics.gen-ph
Black Holes: Attractors for Intelligence?
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Abstract
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has so far been unsuccessful and needs additional methods. We introduce a two-dimensional metric for civilization development, using the Kardashev scale of energy increase and the Barrow scale of inward manipulation. To support Barrow's scale limit, we contend with energetic, societal, scientific, computational, and philosophical arguments that black holes are attractors for intelligence. An application of the two-dimensional metric leads to a simple, consistent and observable hypothesis to test the existence of very advanced civilizations. We suggest that some already observed X-Ray binaries may be unnoticed advanced civilizations, of type KII-Bomega. The appendix provides an argumentative map of the paper's main thesis. KEYWORDS: SETI, black holes, Kardashev scale, Barrow scale, star lifting, XRB
Blackhole starlifting makes more sense to me than Dyson spheres (see section on star lifting): https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4362 > Importantly, researchers have concluded that a thin accretion disk around a rotating black hole is the most efficient power source in the universe , a…
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