Buckle up, we are going to Alpha Centauri! AI just plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri. The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star by the end of 2029, using a trajectory discovered by AI. The spacecraft will carry at least one kilogram of cargo, including artistic and scientific payloads, messages, and a copy of the Golden Record, the gold-plated disc of Earth’s sounds and images that NASA attached to its two Voyager probes in 1977 as a message to any civilization that might find them. After the Fermi team struggled to find a workable route, they ran it through an AI system called Get Physics Done. It is open-source software that takes a physics research question, breaks it into smaller tasks, and decides which simulations to run. A week later, the AI found a novel trajectory. It combined well-known orbital maneuvers in a way the Fermi team had not considered, according to the paper below, which has not been peer-reviewed. It suggested the spacecraft could first slow down so its orbit swings closer to the sun than Mercury. On each close pass, it would fire its engine so the solar panels get four times the light. A burst of thrust delivered at high speed would buy more energy than the same burst anywhere else. Because the engine would run only near the sun, the solar panels could stay small and the spacecraft light. The Fermi project is not just an interstellar mission driven by engineering ambition. It is also a quest to answer one of the oldest open questions in physics. In 1950, Enrico Fermi posed a puzzle: the galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, most of them far older than our sun. Even a civilization traveling slowly between stars could spread across the whole galaxy in a few million years, which pales next to the age of the galaxy. If intelligent life exists somewhere, we should have seen signs of it by now. Somewhere out there, another civilization is asking the same question. We are sending an answer. The worst of us think it is an invitation to raid us; that very ambition is what the Fermi Filter filters out. The best of us get through because we see more. And this is the result. A galactic message in a bottle saying… “YOU ARE NOT ALONE, WE ARE HERE” Paper: fermiexplorer.github.io/PSI.…