Fast Radio Wave Bursts: Is Life a Cosmic Fractal?

Abstract

Fast radio wave bursts (FRBs) are a mysterious looking phenomenon. They can occur periodically which has inspired the question whether communications by intelligent entities might be involved. Their duration is measured in milliseconds, the time scale of nerve pulses. The latest finding of the burst is from our own galaxy and supports the view that magnetars carrying huge magnetic fields are the source of the bursts. The emitted energy would be huge - the energy created by Sun during century in nuclear fusion assuming that the emission is isotropic - an assumption challenged by the TGD based model relying on the vision that Universe is filled with a network of nodes of magnetic flux tubes with nodes identifiable as flux tube tangles - kind of spaghettis. This picture suggests that the interpretation in terms of a neural network with a tree-like structure could make sense with few or even a single axon-like flux tube emanating from a given stellar object. This reduces the estimate for the emitted energy dramatically - to about 7.5 Planck masses. Assuming Nottale's hypothesis as a formula for the gravitational Planck constant ħ_gr and that the receivers of the bursts consists also of objects with mass of order Planck mass, one ends up to a model in which the FRBs correspond to the analogs of nerve pulse patterns from the magnetar along axon-like flux tube tube splitting to large number of tubes and covering an area of the order of the cross section of Sun. The ratio of the total energy to the energy of radio wave radiation is equal to the ratio ħ_gr /ħ as predicted.