The "Wow! signal" of the terrestrial genetic code
Vladimir I. shCherbak, Maxim A. Makukov

TL;DR
This paper presents evidence that the terrestrial genetic code contains a highly ordered, artificial-like pattern that could serve as an intelligent signature, suggesting potential extraterrestrial origin or intentional seeding.
Contribution
It demonstrates that the genetic code exhibits precise arithmetical and ideographical patterns indicative of an informational signal, which is unlikely to be produced by natural stochastic processes.
Findings
The genetic code shows systematic algebraic patterns.
Patterns are consistent with artificial or intelligent origin.
The code's structure is optimized for information storage with embedded signals.
Abstract
It has been repeatedly proposed to expand the scope for SETI, and one of the suggested alternatives to radio is the biological media. Genomic DNA is already used on Earth to store non-biological information. Though smaller in capacity, but stronger in noise immunity is the genetic code. The code is a flexible mapping between codons and amino acids, and this flexibility allows modifying the code artificially. But once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales. Thus, it represents a reliable storage for an intelligent signature, if that conforms to biological and thermodynamic requirements. As the actual scenario for the origin of terrestrial life is far from being settled, the proposal that it might have been seeded intentionally cannot be ruled out. A statistically strong signal in the genetic code is then a testable consequence of such scenario. Here we show…
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