The Indian term maya refers to the illusion that a person falls into and which obscures the true nature of things. Computers are replacing reality with us today – and I’m not talking about social bubbles or games, but about digitally calculating image and sound. We literally see and listen to what is not!
We created computers to allow us to see what we cannot see. Superstructure of deep space? The horizon of a black hole? Without computers, it would be very difficult to visualize such a thing, not everyone is Stephen Hawking, who supposedly imagined such things in his own mind. Mortals can’t imagine that – so we have to come to terms with simulations like falling into a black hole in a 360 video.
At the same time, we learned to fill in the holes in the data – for example, by approximation. It’s simple, we have data, something doesn’t fit in it, it is ruled out as a remote value and the rest is replaced by a curve that is more elegant, more understandable, but potentially incorrect. Not every hole in the data is a hole in the data – and not through each of them can a board be laid and that hole declared non-existent.
We could describe this as a remote value, for example Wow! Signal of 1977. This is a well-known case, which took place at the Big Ear Observatory of Ohio State University, which was watching a radio broadcast from the constellation Sagittarius, and which recorded an anomaly lasting 72 August 1977. It was an atypically strong signal in the band narrower than 10 kHz, which has not been repeated – and to this day there are debates about whether it was a natural phenomenon, extraterrestrial transmission or some mischief caused by human activity.
By Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO) http://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htm. Public Domain, Link
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