It doesn’t seem to me like realistic sci-fi? Say we get furthest 14B years point, then 1% difference gives 140M years, usually it is pretty little for minds to appear, at evolution iirc works as exponent for time, so 140M is much, much less than usual time.
Though, if somehow it increases speed of evolution very significantly, then it may work. In theory, starting evolution of predictable lifeforms can be a way to do it. Maybe even better that what I had in the head, because evolution can by itself arrive into more ordered states. I just don’t really know what can work here. And whether it will be effective. What I had in my head is that maybe you can somehow smoothen the homogenize the material by right radiation, and then apply a pattern which structures it… I thought that for ASI which works at speeds of transistors and diamondoid nanobots, even one second can be billions of pattern tries on just one mm^2 of surface, and for whole planet’s surface it probably can form needed nano structures in maybe less than a day. So it will be saving time even for 1 lightyear distance. I certainly didn’t think it would need something even remotely on orders of magnitude of time when life is forming.
I’d imagine that the life-spreading part of the signal would be kind of secondary, intended for places that are very far away. Places that are closer and don’t have civilizations can be colonized with ships. And places that have civilizations would be taken over by the other part of the signal.
It doesn’t seem to me like realistic sci-fi? Say we get furthest 14B years point, then 1% difference gives 140M years, usually it is pretty little for minds to appear, at evolution iirc works as exponent for time, so 140M is much, much less than usual time.
Though, if somehow it increases speed of evolution very significantly, then it may work. In theory, starting evolution of predictable lifeforms can be a way to do it. Maybe even better that what I had in the head, because evolution can by itself arrive into more ordered states. I just don’t really know what can work here. And whether it will be effective. What I had in my head is that maybe you can somehow smoothen the homogenize the material by right radiation, and then apply a pattern which structures it… I thought that for ASI which works at speeds of transistors and diamondoid nanobots, even one second can be billions of pattern tries on just one mm^2 of surface, and for whole planet’s surface it probably can form needed nano structures in maybe less than a day. So it will be saving time even for 1 lightyear distance. I certainly didn’t think it would need something even remotely on orders of magnitude of time when life is forming.
I’d imagine that the life-spreading part of the signal would be kind of secondary, intended for places that are very far away. Places that are closer and don’t have civilizations can be colonized with ships. And places that have civilizations would be taken over by the other part of the signal.