UFO (2018)

Regina Pugh: Female Astrophysicist

Quotes 

• Franklin Ahls : I'm not an astrophysicist so thank you for coming. I just want to ask you a few questions about the Fine-Structure Constant. I'm told that you could shed some light on it, how it could be used as a benchmark for determining intelligence or pinpointing a location in space.

  Female Astrophysicist : Using the FSC to determine intelligence is fairly straightforward, but using it to pinpoint a location in space is problematic. Say the FSC is different in different parts of space, which there's essentially no evidence of. If the FSC did depend on things like local density, and if two places, way far apart from each other had the same local density, they might also have the same FSC. And if you gave that number to someone, how would they know which place to go?

  Franklin Ahls : But if we had more than one, couldn't we use them the same way we use pulsars to pinpoint locations? Over a much greater distance, obviously?

  Female Astrophysicist : The idea that it's different in different parts of space isn't really the focus of research now.

  Franklin Ahls : You know, I have a room full of scientists who haven't been able to explain anything to me.