Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
19-11-2017
I-Team: Former military intelligence officer pursues supernatural phenomena
I-Team: Former military intelligence officer pursues supernatural phenomena
By: George Knapp
LAS VEGAS - Travel the world to exotic lands, commune with witchdoctors, psychics, and seers, and maybe chase down a few UFOs and mutilated cattle along the way. How does that sound for a job?
Former military intelligence officer Dr. John Alexander has spent a lifetime pursuing what many would call paranormal or supernatural phenomena while at the same time, still working as a defense consultant.
For Alexander, it's all in a day's work.
A picturesque ranch in northeastern Utah has emerged as one of the most intense paranormal hotspots on earth.
When Las Vegas billionaire and space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow first saw the property in the mid-1990s, Dr. John Alexander was with him.
Bigelow installed a team of scientists and investigators from his National Institute for Discovery Science on the property, and over the next several years, the team witnessed and documented dozens of high strangeness events, including daylight animal mutilations and night-time encounters with an unknown intelligence. Alexander gave it a name.
"Precognitive sentient phenomena. Something else is in control," he said.
The study of Skinwalker Ranch continued for years though the mystery only intensified. Getting scientists to consider so-called paranormal activity was a victory of sorts, and is one of Alexander's lifelong goals.
"Part of my agenda is to assist in making it viable for serious scientists to research these things without ruining their reputation, livelihood, or career," Alexander said.
The walls of his Las Vegas home are packed with photos and mementos from exotic adventures he and wife Victoria have taken in pursuit of hidden realms and alternate realities. Hanging with gorillas in Rwanda, diving with whales in Tonga, advising the military in Afghanistan, communing with an African healer or Amazonian shaman one day, dining with renowned physicists Edward Teller and Hal Puthoff the next.
The topics he has investigated are castigated, in part, because of what they might mean to our concept of reality.
"Part of what we're discussing here is frightening to people because if these things are real, then their belief systems are in jeopardy.
For example, near death experiences. Alexander first learned about them as a Green Beret commander during the Vietnam conflict when a fellow special forces soldier essentially died in combat but returned to his body.
Alexander later earned a doctorate studying near death experiences as reported all over the world. He's surprised there isn't more interest among scientists and others.
"The continuation of consciousness beyond death ought to be of interest to 100 percent of the population, I mean, so if you want relevance, it would be that."
While in the military, he worked with the army's psychic spy program, the remote viewers whose exploits were characterized in the movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats." He also briefed Pentagon bigwigs on unknown aerial objects, UFOs, and later befriended psychic Uri Geller, whose ability to bend spoons with his mind was confirmed in lab studies sponsored by the CIA. Some of the mangled cutlery are now family keepsakes. In "Reality Denied," a new book about his unusual exploits, Alexander argues that these seemingly unrelated weird subjects might share a common link -- consciousness.
"A lot of the mistakes made in these fields is they tend to stovepipe, delineate, talk about UFOs, near death experiences, psychokinesis, ghosts, whatever it is, and look at them in separation and I think we need to step back and look at them in totality," he said.
The first requisite for pursuing these topics, he says? A thick skin.
Scientist assures that it is possible to physically travel to the past
Scientist assures that it is possible to physically travel to the past
Back to the future, Terminator, The Philadelphia experiment , The end of the countdown and, of course, The time machine. All these films focus on the possibility of moving through time, both forward and backward. But in the digital world we find many other stories, which involve time travel. And why not? It is one of the most mysterious concepts that man has invented. Travels in the time. But is it a possibility?
For according to the astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, within the realms of Einstein’s General Relativity, a person can travel through a wormhole and go back in time.
It is possible to travel to the past
In a publication for the American magazine Forbes entitled “How to travel back in time could be physically possible,” Ethan Siegel of Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, explains that, by using the laws of theoretical physics, we could technically build elaborate wormholes that could send humans back to the past.
As Spiegel points out, space-time tissue experiences constant positive and negative fluctuations. Theoretically, a strong positive fluctuation and a powerful negative fluctuation could be connected to form a quantum wormhole. The wormhole can be converted into a passageway that can transport particles from one point in spacetime to another. But this only works if the wormhole gets to resist enough for that time travel to happen.
But creating a wormhole big enough to take a person from the present to the past will not be easy, says Spiegel. So far, the search for the negative energy particles has not been successful.
“While every known particle in our Universe has positive energy and a positive or zero mass, it is eminently possible to have negative mass / energy particles within the framework of General Relativity,” writes the astrophysicist. “Of course, we have not discovered any yet, but according to all the rules of theoretical physics, there is nothing that forbids it.”
So, to travel through time we would need to apply the laws of special relativity . When traveling at speeds close to the speed of light, a phenomenon called temporary dilation occurs. This means that as the person increases their movement through space, their movement through time will decrease.
For example, if you traveled to a star that was 40 light-years away at speeds close to that of light, you can get there in one year and take a year to return. But, according to Spiegel, when you have returned to Earth, 82 years will have passed.
“This is the standard way in which time travel works physically: it takes you to the future, with the amount of forward travel in time that depends solely on your movement through space,”Siegel explains.
But your quantum theory of the wormhole changes that and avoids the “grandfather paradox” , that is, the notion that you can change the course of your life through time travel backing up in time and killing your grandfather. The first time this theory was postulated was in the novel by René Barjavel titled “Le Voyageur imprudent (1943)” . In essence, Barjavel explains that a person can not travel back in time to kill his own grandfather before having children. Because if he kills his grandfather before he has children, then his son would not be born, nor the father, and finally the person. So, if that person was never born, how could he have gone back in time to kill your grandfather?
“Even if the wormhole was created before your parents were conceived, there is no way you exist at the other end of the wormhole early enough to return and find your grandfather before that critical moment ,” he says. Spiegel.
However, this is not the first time that scientists have theorized somewhat viable ways of traveling through time. Astronomer Frank J. Tipler invented a device, called a Tipler cylinder, where you roll the matter into a long, dense cylinder. Tipler theorized that when matter is rotated at a few billion revolutions per minute, a spacecraft that orbits the cylinder could be locked in a “closed curve, similar to time” that would facilitate time travel.
In addition, scientists have spent years behind making travel possible over time. Moreover, in 2014 Robert Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson, from the Technological University of Michigan, began to look for weather travelers on the Internet . They believed that, if a person learned to travel in time in the future, and if he passed through our timeline, he should have left some kind of “trace on the network” . For “the hunt of time travelers on the Internet,” Nemiroff and Wilson devised three ingenious search schemes. It seems that the scientific community is taking time trips very seriously, possibly because what awaits us in the future is not pleasant at all. It’s a posibility.
Do you agree with Spiegel’s theory? Is it possible to travel to the past? And the future? Do not hesitate to comment below.
Herinner je je de film ‘I, Robot’ nog, waarin Will Smith het opneemt tegen een maatschappij vol robotten? Wel, als we het laatste filmpje van Boston Dynamics zien, is die tijd niet meer heel veraf. Hun exemplaar, genaamd Atlas, kan intussen beter turnen dan de gemiddelde mens (inclusief salto). Cool, maar nutteloos? Blijkbaar niet, want Atlas moet op termijn ingezet worden tijdens zoek- en reddingsacties. En daarbij is wat gymnastiek best handig.
TwitterEen impressie van hoe Asgardia eruit moet gaan zien. Voorlopig bestaat het alleen nog maar op papier.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETAsgardia – de allereerste natie in de ruimte – heeft deze week een satelliet gelanceerd en daarmee bracht ze voor het eerst een object in een baan om de aarde. Het bevat digitale data van 18.000 van haar inwoners, een voorstelling van de vlag, het wapenschild en de grondwet.
Het was Russisch wetenschapper Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli (53) die Asgardia stichtte in oktober 2016. De onafhankelijke natie werd genoemd naar de plaats waar volgens de Noorse mythologie de goden wonen. Ze telt intussen meer dan 133.000 inwoners uit meer dan 200 landen en daar zijn ook 881 Belgen bij. Iedereen die meerderjarig is, een e-mailadres heeft en de grondwet aanvaardt (die deze zomer werd goedgekeurd), kan het staatsburgerschap aanvragen.
Doel is volgens Ashurbeyli om een vredevolle samenleving te stichten in de ruimte, los van afkomst, taal, huidskleur, religie, geslacht of leeftijd. Maar ook om de toegang tot ruimtetechnologie makkelijker te maken en de aarde te beschermen voor bedreigingen vanuit de ruimte, zoals asteroïden en ruimtepuin dat door de mens werd gecreëerd.
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Hoewel de inwoners nu dus nog op aarde wonen, heeft de lancering van de Asgardia-1 de natie weer een stapje dichter bij haar ultieme doel gebracht: in de ruimte wonen. De satelliet – die de grootte van een brood heeft – werd meegenomen door een cargoschip van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA met als bestemming het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Ergens in de komende weken zal het toestel daar uitgepakt worden door de zes astronauten die daar momenteel verblijven.
Ruimtereis
Daarna kan hij zijn eigen ruimtereis beginnen in een baan om de aarde. Het tuig zal tussen de 5 en 18 maanden rondcirkelen - de normale levensduur van zo’n satelliet - waarna het zal opbranden. Het is dus eerder een symbolische tocht, maar daarmee houdt Ashurbeyli zich wel aan een belofte die hij maakte bij de oprichting van Asgardia: om de inwoners aan de hand van hun data dit jaar al een eerste keer de ruimte in te brengen. “Ik had een lancering beloofd. Die is er gekomen”, zegt hij.
FacebookDr. Igor Ashurbeyli (centraal).
Ashurbeyli is overigens niet de eerste de beste. De raketwetenschapper en bedrijfsleider – die het project naar verluidt ook zelf financiert voor een niet nader bepaalde som – is een zwaargewicht in de wetenschapsindustrie. Hij richtte onder meer het Aerospace International Research Center op in Wenen en is de voorzitter van het Comité voor Wetenschap en Ruimte van UNESCO.
Vlucht
Het team achter de nieuwe natie hoopt op termijn bewoonbare platformen te creëren in een lage baan om de aarde, een eerste op ongeveer dezelfde hoogte als het ISS. De eerste vlucht daarheen met mensen aan boord wordt verwacht over 8 jaar. In afwachting daarvan zullen wel nog andere satellieten worden gelanceerd, maar wanneer precies is nog niet duidelijk.
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Een van de ambitieuze plannen van Asgardia is om lid te worden van de Verenigde Naties. Daarvoor moet de VN Veiligheidsraad eerst de natie erkennen. Criteria zijn onder meer een permanente populatie hebben, een vast grondgebied, een regering en de mogelijkheid om relaties te onderhouden met andere naties. Andere naties moeten het land ook erkennen als dusdanig. Vervolgens moet het lidmaatschap nog worden goedgekeurd door twee derde van de leden van de VN.
Regering
Bedoeling is dat Asgardia een democratisch verkozen regering krijgt en ook alle andere gangbare overheidsinstellingen, zoals een Openbaar Ministerie. De departementen zullen voorlopig worden geleid door de verkozenen in de landen waar ze nu wonen. De administratieve zetel is Wenen. Nog tot 29 maart kunnen inwoners zich kandidaat stellen voor een zitje in het parlement. Na de verkiezingen zullen de overheidsinstellingen gevormd worden.
We haven’t reached Black Friday yet but fans of Doc Brown, Mr. Peabody and Doctor Who may have have already received the present they’ve wanted since they were kids.
“But thanks to some very interesting properties of space and time in Einstein’s General Relativity, traveling back in time may be possible after all.”
In a recent post on his Forbes blog, Starts with a Bang, theoretical astrophysicist and science writer Ethan Siegel lays out the parts and the plans for traveling backwards in time. Siegel claims this ‘time machine’ abides by Einstein’s general theory of relativity and will not destroy the universe as we know it. Yes! Tell us how to build one, Professor Siegel, so we can all go back change the answer on the test that kept us from getting into Harvard. Or one questionable election vote.
“The place to start is with the physical idea of a wormhole.”
Sigh. You skipped right over that part about Dr. Siegel being a “theoretical” physicist, didn’t you? Wormholes can exist theoretically – we just haven’t found one yet. Siegel starts with the accepted idea that positive/negative energy fluctuations can create a curve space wormhole that a particle could travel through from one point in spacetime to another. Who cares about particles, Dr. Siegel? We want to transport ourselves and possibly a cool-looking but poor-performing sports car back in time.
“If we want to scale that up, however, to allow something like a human being through, that’s going to take some work. While every known particle in our Universe has positive energy and either positive or zero mass, it’s eminently possible to have negative mass/energy particles in the framework of General Relativity. Sure, we haven’t discovered any yet, but according to all the rules of theoretical physics, there’s nothing forbidding it.”
With that assumption in mind, Siegel proposes a sort of reverse wormhole. Instead of the conventional “travel 40 light years out at nearly the speed of light, come back and you’ve aged 2 years while everyone else is 82 years older,” he proposes a wormhole with one fixed end and one that moves around at nearly the speed of light. The wormhole is created, you wait a year and then enter the end that has been in motion. When you come out at the fixed end, it’s 40 years prior. That means if you entered this wormhole today, you could travel back to 1978 …
I’m right again!
… provided someone in 1977 had created this wormhole. So Dr. Siegel’s time machine wormhole is dependent on a previous Dr. Siegel-type with his theoretical physics knowledge and more. What if that person was your grandfather? Could you go back in time to meet him and prevent your own birth?
“Satisfyingly, we discover that this form of time travel also forbids the grandfather paradox! Even if the wormhole were created before your parents were conceived, there’s no way for you to exist at the other end of the wormhole early enough to go back and find your grandfather prior to that critical moment. The best you can do is to put your newborn father and mother on a ship to catch the other end of the wormhole, have them live, age, conceive you, and then send yourself back through the wormhole. You’ll be able to meet your grandfather when he’s still very young — perhaps even younger than you are now — but it will still, by necessity, occur at a moment in time after your parents were born.”
So Dr. Seigel is satisfied that he’ll never be able to prevent his own birth, but are we satisfied that we’ll ever be able to travel back in time through one of these strange theoretical (for now) wormholes?
The idea of traveling back in time has long fascinated humans, such as in Back To The Future's Delorean DMC-12. After decades of research, we may have hit upon a solution that's physically possible.
It's one of the greatest tropes in movies, literature, and television shows: the idea that we could travel back in time to alter the past. From the time turner in Harry Potter to Back To The Future to Groundhog Day, traveling back in time provides us with the possibility of righting wrongs in our own past. To most people, it's an idea that's relegated to the realm of fiction, as every law of physics indicates that motion forward through time is an absolute necessity. Philosophically, there's also a famous paradox that seems to indicate the absurdity of such a possibility: if traveling backwards through time were possible, you'd be able to go back and kill your grandfather before your parents were ever conceived, rendering your own existence impossible. For a long time, there seemed to be no way to go back. But thanks to some very interesting properties of space and time in Einstein's General Relativity, traveling back in time may be possible after all.
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An illustration of the early Universe as consisting of quantum foam, where quantum fluctuations are large, varied, and important on the smallest of scales. Positive and negative energy fluctuations can create minuscule, quantum wormholes.
The place to start is with the physical idea of a wormhole. In our known Universe, we have tiny, minuscule quantum fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime on the smallest of scales. These include energy fluctuations in both the positive and negative directions, often very close by one another. A very strong, dense, positive energy fluctuation would create curved space in one particular fashion, while a strong, dense, negative energy fluctuation would curve space in exactly the opposite fashion. If you connected these two curvature regions together, you could — for a brief instant — arrive at the notion of a quantum wormhole. If the wormhole lasted for long enough, you could even potentially transport a particle through it, allowing it to instantly disappear from one location in spacetime and reappear in another.
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Exact mathematical plot of a Lorentzian wormhole. If one end of a wormhole is built out of positive mass/energy, while the other is built of negative mass/energy, the wormhole can become traversible.
If we want to scale that up, however, to allow something like a human being through, that's going to take some work. While every known particle in our Universe has positive energy and either positive or zero mass, it's eminently possible to have negative mass/energy particles in the framework of General Relativity. Sure, we haven't discovered any yet, but according to all the rules of theoretical physics, there's nothing forbidding it.
If this negative mass/energy matter exists, then creating both a supermassive black hole and the negative mass/energy counterpart to it, while then connecting them, should allow for a traversible wormhole. No matter how far apart you took these two connected objects from one another, if they had enough mass/energy — of both the positive and negative kind — this instantaneous connection would remain. All of that is great for instantaneous travel through space. But what about time? Here's where the laws of special relativity come in.
A "light clock" will appear to run different for observers moving at different relative speeds, but this is due to the constancy of the speed of light. Einstein's law of special relativity governs how these time and distance transformations take place, but it means that the stationary and the moving parties age at different rates.
If you travel close to the speed of light, you experience a phenomenon known as time dilation. Your motion through space and your motion through time are related by the speed of light: the greater your motion through space, the less your motion through time. Imagine you had a destination that was 40 light years away, and you were able to travel at incredibly high speeds: over 99.9% the speed of light. If you got into a spaceship and traveled very close to the speed of light towards that star, then stopped, turned around, and returned back to Earth, you'd find something odd.
Due to time dilation and length contraction, you might reach your destination in only a year, and then come back in just another year. But back on Earth, 82 years would have passed. Everyone you know would have aged tremendously. This is the standard way time travel physically works: it takes you into the future, with the amount of travel forward in time dependent only on your motion through space.
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Is time travel possible? With a large enough wormhole, such as one created by a supermassive black hole connected to its negative mass/energy counterpart, it just might be.
But if you construct a wormhole like we just described, the story changes. Imaging one end of the wormhole remains close to motionless, such as remaining close to Earth, while the other one goes off on a relativistic journey close to the speed of light. You then enter the rapidly-moving end of the wormhole after it's been in motion for perhaps a year. What happens?
Well, a year isn't the same for everyone, particularly if they're moving through time and space differently! If we talk about the same speeds as we did earlier, the "in motion" end of the wormhole would have aged 40 years, but the "at rest" end would only have aged by 1 year. Step into the relativistic end of the wormhole, and you arrive back on Earth only one year after the wormhole was created, while you yourself may have had 40 years of time to pass.
Moving close to the speed of light will cause time to pass appreciably differently for the traveler versus the person who remains in a constant frame of reference.
If, 40 years ago, someone had created such a pair of entangled wormholes and sent them off on this journey, it would be possible to step into one of them today, in 2017, and wind up back in time at the mouth of the other one... back in 1978. The only issue is that you yourself couldn't also have been at that location back in 1978; you needed to be with the other end of the wormhole, or traveling through space to try and catch up with it.
NASA / Digital art by Les Bossinas (Cortez III Service Corp.), 1998
Warp travel, as envisioned for NASA. If you created a wormhole between two points in space, with one mouth moving relativistically relative to the other, observers at either traversible end would have aged by vastly different amounts.
Satisfyingly, we discover that this form of time travel also forbids the grandfather paradox! Even if the wormhole were created before your parents were conceived, there's no way for you to exist at the other end of the wormhole early enough to go back and find your grandfather prior to that critical moment. The best you can do is to put your newborn father and mother on a ship to catch the other end of the wormhole, have them live, age, conceive you, and then send yourself back through the wormhole. You'll be able to meet your grandfather when he's still very young — perhaps even younger than you are now — but it will still, by necessity, occur at a moment in time after your parents were born.
A great many unusual things become possible in the Universe if negative mass/energy is real, abundant, and controllable, but traveling backwards in time might be the wildest one we've ever imagined. Owing to the oddities of both special and general relativity, time travel to the past might not be forbidden after all!
Astrophysicist and author Ethan Siegel is the founder and primary writer of Starts With A Bang! His books, Treknologyand Beyond The Galaxy, are available wherever books are sold.
Tijdreizen is echt fysiek mogelijk. Astrofysicus legt in dit stuk uit hoe het werkt
Tijdreizen is echt fysiek mogelijk. Astrofysicus legt in dit stuk uit hoe het werkt
Tijdreizen is niet onmogelijk, zo zegt een astrofysicus. Onder bepaalde omstandigheden kunnen wormgaten bestaan, die mensen naar verschillende tijdperken kunnen brengen.
“De wetten van de theoretische natuurkunde verbieden het niet,” schrijft Ethan Siegel van Lewis & Clark College voor Forbes.
Terug in de tijd reizen hangt samen met materie die een negatieve massa heeft.
Lichtsnelheid
Als je twee supermassieve zwarte gaten maakt, één met een negatieve massa/energie en één met een positieve massa/energie, kun je ze met elkaar verbinden en ontstaat er een wormgat waar je doorheen kunt reizen, schrijft Siegel.
Het maakt dan niet uit hoe ver de objecten van elkaar staan. Als ze over genoeg massa/energie beschikken blijft de verbinding bestaan.
De ene kant van het wormgat zou nagenoeg bewegingloos zijn terwijl de andere kant zich met bijna de lichtsnelheid voortbeweegt.
Terug in de tijd
Een persoon die zo’n tunnel binnengaat zou in theorie terug in de tijd reizen.
Siegel geeft als voorbeeld een bestemming op 40 lichtjaar van de aarde. Na een jaar zou het bewegende deel van het wormgat 40 jaar ouder zijn geworden, terwijl aan de andere kant slechts een jaar is verstreken.
Andere uiteinde
“Als iemand 40 jaar geleden een dergelijk paar verstrengelde wormgaten had gemaakt en iemand erin was gestapt, zou het mogelijk zijn om vandaag de dag, in 2017, in één van de twee te stappen en uit te komen in 1978,” schrijft hij.
“Je kunt alleen niet in 1978 op die locatie zijn geweest, maar je moet je aan het andere uiteinde van het wormgat hebben bevonden, of in de ruimte om het bij te houden,” aldus Siegel.
Inspired by the crop circle phenomenon, the 2002 movie Signsdraws broadly from the UFO mythos and, in one of its more comical scenes, has three of its characters huddled together in tinfoil hats, wracked by paranoia. Beyond such cliché, however, M. Night Shyamalan’s film exhibits a deeper—perhaps subconscious—awareness of the UFO phenomenon and of the effects of its mass-mediation in the post-modern world.
In the film, a Pennsylvanian farming family—headed by old-fashioned priest and widower Reverend Graham Hess (Mel Gibson)—is thrown into turmoil when a crop formation appears overnight in their corn field. From TV news coverage we learn that hundreds of similar crop ‘signs’ have appeared suddenly and simultaneously around the world, baffling experts. Graham is quietly concerned and seeks to distance his family from the inexplicable events unfolding around them by refusing them access to the media circus now spoon-feeding the hungry masses. “See, this is why we’re not watching TV,” says Graham, “people get obsessed.” For Graham, despite the undeniable physical reality of the sign in his corn field, and his own gut instinct that something strange is afoot, it is only through their mediation by TV news reports that the bizarre events can assume a sense of the ‘real.’
Discussing Jean Baudrillard’s notions of hyperreality, John Storey notes that, “Representation does not stand at one remove from reality, to conceal or distort it, it is reality”; implicitly aware of this, Graham opts to sever his own access to media imagery, leaving him free to interpret the outside events as he chooses and to continue to inhabit his own secure, albeit emotionally stagnant, reality. It is only when Graham catches a glimpse of an alien in his corn field one night that he submits to his family’s desire to be mediated (“Okay, let’s turn on the TV”). It is Graham’s submission to television that plants him firmly in the “present age” to which Feuerbach refers in The Essence of Christianity: an age “which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence…” For Graham, the grieving widower and priest faced with an incomprehensible threat to his family, now, more than ever, “Illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”
The reality of the situation is unpalatable for Graham, so he opts to filter it through the lens of television.
As the family watch live footage of numerous UFOs over Mexico City, Graham’s brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) quips: “the nerds were right”—a reference to the generic UFO believers he had mocked in an earlier scene. Shyamalan’s decision to have the alien craft arrive over Mexico City was inspired by the real-life mass-sightings of UFOs over this same locale during the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 when hundreds of people witnessed what appeared to be a number of hovering, metallic, disc-shaped objects. Signs again draws from the UFO mythos during a scene in which Merrill reacts with horror as the TV news runs grainy, daylight footage of an alien prowling the backstreets of Paso Fundo, Brazil. This is an oblique reference the famous “Varginha incident” of 1996 in which three teenage girls claimed to have been traumatized by a daylight encounter with an unearthly entity in the Brazilian city of Varginha.
M. Night Shyamalan directs Abigail Breslin.
Several scenes later, the whole family has succumbed entirely to the mystical power of their television as they stare passively at the numerous “lights” now hovering over Washington DC and over hundreds of cities worldwide. Such is the magnetism of their TV screen that, rather than driving to the nearest city in an attempt to see the lights for themselves, or even simply stepping outside to glance up at the sky, the family considers it more natural to watch the events on television and, most importantly, to record them. “We have to tape this,” urges Graham’s son, Morgan, “this is very important… the history of the world’s future is on the TV right now,” telling his younger sister Bo (Abigail Breslin), “We need to record this so you can show your children this tape and say you were there.” Clearly, the Hess family understand, as theorist John Fiske does, that the postmodern media do not simply provide, “secondary representations of reality; they affect and produce the reality that they mediate,” and that, “all events that ‘matter’ are media events.”
Glued to the screen.
As the saucer-shaped lights twinkle overhead, the anchorman informs viewers that “This image has not been adjusted or enhanced in anyway. What you’re seeing is real. It’s unbelievable.” Later in the film, Graham asks himself, “Is this really happening?” Such dialogue points to an awareness on Shayamalan’s part that the literal existence of UFOs is difficult to accept, not because of what UFOs might represent (otherworldly intelligences), but because of how the phenomenon has been mediated (i.e. ridiculed) for over sixty years. Shayamalan’s concerns along these lines are expressed subtly in his decision to confine his UFOs and aliens securely to his characters’ TV screen as objects of media scrutiny for all but a few seconds of the film’s total running time.
“What you’re seeing is real. It’s unbelievable.”
The extent to which the family’s perception of UFOs has been historically mediated is also effectively illustrated through their inability to envisage what horrors might be unfolding beyond the four corners of their TV screen. When both their television and radio cease to function as a result of the unseen invasion outside, in the total absence of media to guide their perceptions, the Hess family are lost, as demonstrated when a terrified Merrill asks: “What’s going on out there?” A question to which Graham can only respond: “I can’t even imagine.” Indeed, in an earlier scene, when Merrill does attempt to make use of his imagination, he can’t help but fall back on iconographic imagery conjured by classic UFOlogical fiction, describing the scenes on TV as being “like War of the Worlds.”
During the film’s climax in which an alien intruder holds Morgan hostage in the Hess family’s living room, Shyamalan again chooses to objectify the aliens through television—this time quite literally. When Graham finally sees the alien up close it is in the form of a reflection in his TV screen, and, again, when the creature is defeated and lies dying on the floor, we see only its reflection in the glass of the television. Are aliens real, or do they exist purely as media constructs? In Signs, Shayamalan seems to answer the question with a question: “in today’s hyperreal society, does it even matter?”
One of several shots in ‘Signs’ in which the image of the alien is distorted quite literally through the televisual medium.
Signs is an anomaly in the UFO subgenre. Consciously or not, it engages with the UFO subject through the intellectual framework of spectatorship and hyperreality. As a meditation on UFOs as a media abstraction (viewed most comfortably through the filter of television), the film serves as a reflection of popular attitudes towards the phenomenon today, demonstrating that, when it comes to UFOs, even Hollywood in its mass-mediation of the phenomenon is acutely aware that there is no longer a clear distinction between a ‘real’ event and its media representation.
There are serious questions being pondered and actions being taken by our top minds these days and there’s no reason why the thought process shouldn’t be open to all humans, especially since the end result could potentially put all humans in danger of being destroyed by aliens … especially aliens who don’t like techno-pop music. The questions? Would you broadcast radio signals at a planet that may contain alien life? If you say yes, would you send music or words? If you chose music, what songs would you send? Space Oddity? Rocket Man? The 1812 Overture? Space Cowboy?
GeekWire reports that a group of scientists and artists calling themselves Sónar Calling GJ273b didn’t bother to ask us before transmitting signals on three successive days, Oct. 16-18, from the EISCAT radio antenna in Tromsø, Norway. The transmissions were aimed at GJ273b, a planet twice the mass of Earth, orbiting GJ273 or Luyten’s Star, a red dwarf in the constellation Canis Major. GJ273b is in a habitable zone orbit and could harbor life, so it’s a prime target for messaging extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) according to METI International, a co-sponsor of Sónar Calling GJ273b.
Can’t they already hear this?
The other sponsors are the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, Spain, and the Sónar music festival in Barcelona. So the inhabitants of GJ273b will someday be tapping their toes (or whatever appendages they’ve developed) to flamenco, opera, Spanish jazz and classical guitar songs – right?
“We will turn the EISCAT transmitter into a musical instrument, sending basic melodies by transmitting pulses at a series of different radio frequencies that maintain the same sort of intervals between one another that we see in the intervals between musical notes.”
What is that … polka? (Sorry, polka fans). Do we want them to like us or hate us? Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, says those “pulses” were composed especially for this project by people like sound artist Holly Herndon, French composer Jean-Michel Jarre and the experimental electronic-music duo Matmos.
That might not be too bad … except the Sónar Calling pieces are only 10 seconds long and transmitted as binary code at two frequencies, 929.0 MHz and 930.2 MHz. The signal will also contain some sort of ‘cosmic clock’ to help ETs figure out our concept of time … which will help them know when to clap to the music.
People like Stephen Hawking think METI is a bad idea, but this musical cat is out of the bag, man, so we should have some input into what’s being sent to other life forms. This could be an exercise that brings us all together. Then again, have you ever been involved in picking out music for a DJ to play at a wedding?
Would aliens request Freebird?
What could possibly go wrong? It’s worth a shot. My vote is for some New Orleans jazz like When the Saints Go Marching In. Even aliens should like that. And if they don’t, they can play it at our funeral after they destroy Earth.
What music would you send to an extraterrestrial civilization?
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Fast Moving Meteor-Like Object from Space Captured by ISS Astronaut
Fast Moving Meteor-Like Object from Space Captured by ISS Astronaut
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured a meteor-like object slam into Earth’s atmosphere and burning up over the Atlantic Ocean on November 5, 2017 from the International Space Station.
The space object, traveling at roughly 24 miles per second (40km/s), was sighted over the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of South Africa.
Several lightning flashes were also recorded by Nespoli as the Space Station flew from the southern Atlantic Ocean over to Kazakhstan.
Does Astronaut’s Visor Reflection Shows A Mysterious Figure On The Moon?
Does Astronaut’s Visor Reflection Shows A Mysterious Figure On The Moon?
Many people believe that the Apollo moon landings were one of the biggest hoaxes in human history. They believe that NASA has created this hoax. They actually never traveled to the moon and that everything was staged and filmed here on earth.
Personally I believe that the moon landings were real but if you look at a particular moon landing image showing one of the astronauts and you look at a close-up view of the astronaut’s helmet then in the visor reflection you see a mysterious figure that doesn’t really look like an astronaut.
Now conspiracy theorists suggest that the mysterious figure could be a member of the film crew who has filmed the so-called moon landing here on earth.
Rather than a member of the film crew maybe the strange figure in the visor reflection is just the second astronaut with his camera strapped to his chest of his astronaut’s space suit aimed towards the first astronaut as seen in the image or the image was taken from a steady, tripod-mounted camera using the camera timer before taking the image?
Maybe but then again, if you compare the astronaut in his astronaut’s space suit with the strange figure as seen in the visor reflection then indeed the figure doesn’t really look like an astronaut but more like a person sitting on a square-like box.
Image above: Left - astronaut in space suit, Middle – figure in visor reflection, Right – same figure “sitting on a square-like box” but in negative image.
Here is the original NASA link and decide for yourself whether the figure in the visor reflection is the second astronaut, a member of the film crew on earth or something else.
Eyewitness Illustrations of UFOs From Declassified Drawings
Eyewitness Illustrations of UFOs From Declassified Drawings
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the British Government had a UFO desk and telephone hotline that collected around 11,000 cryptic sightings between 1962 and 2009 from across the UK. The formerly classified files have been made accessible to the public. Among reports on UFOs and mysterious lights are drawings that attempt to describe the sightings.
Book author David Clarke said that sketches of UFOs might appear naïve or worthless if viewed from a purely aesthetic viewpoint. However, they are uniquely valuable historical documents in their own right and give light on how popular culture of the age and events imprinted on the imaginations of the people.
Among the most exciting drawings on declassified witness reports are the elementary school children’s crude crayon on construction paper drawings. The children claimed to have witnessed a flying saucer in 1977 altogether. Another notable illustration is a beautiful painting of bright white object spotted above a roof in Harborne in 1975.
The drawings depict the incredible diversity of movement, colours, and shape of the UFOs, ranging from soaring discs to dark triangular ships, and large hovering eggs. Each sketch and painting is with a personal account.
The MoD desk may be closed for good, but the visual record of these personal experiences will remain the evidence of a widespread, mysterious event.
Police Receives A Lot of Reports On The Strange Fireball From Anxious Germans
Police Receives A Lot of Reports On The Strange Fireball From Anxious Germans
A bizarre fireball in a dramatic appearance was observed speeding through the sky over Germany. Citizens in Italy and Switzerland had also seen the UFO getting brighter and giving out the blue and green light. German police speculated that it was a celestial body.
The UFO sighting video shows the bright aerial thing speeding over the town of Hoeschen, sparking speculations about aliens. It then faded into the distance.
The fireball resulted in the number of calls received by the police. A police spokesman said that they could not tell what the bright light was.
Christian Hoppe, German air traffic control spokesman, said they could not tell anything other than saying that it was not an aircraft.
Anxious witnesses took to Twitter to share their thoughts about what they had observed.
Aliens spacecraft, a meteor, or a crashing Chinese space stations are just among the possibilities being put forward on the social media.
Most witnesses of the UFO came from the German states of Saarland, Baden-Wuerttemberg, as well as the southern part of Hesse. However, the same UFO was also spotted in Switzerland and Italy, particularly on the other side of the Alps at Lake Garda.
Villagers Worry About Mysterious Lights In The Sky Staying In A Formation
Villagers Worry About Mysterious Lights In The Sky Staying In A Formation
Rumours of an alien invasion started to spread after seven lights that stayed in one formation as if linked appeared in the sky above the village of Novogradovka in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. The bizarre sights raised suspicions of UFO invasion or visitation. One social media user went as far as likening the flying shapes to a variation of the Starfleet insignia utilised in the Star Trek television shows and movies.
Ivan Rusev, who posted the footage online, claimed that the objects just appeared suddenly in the sky and remained visible for about 12-15 minutes.
There have been reports that the lights were used as targets for Ukrainian marines for their training, but no details were released, including what they were made of.
Residents were worried about the incident, but an army spokesman came out to assure them that there was no reason for any concern.
However, social media users aired out their views. One user posted that those UFOs came to claim what is theirs while another said that it looks like something is bound to happen.
Another witness added that it appears like massive fireballs making a formation at high altitude and wondered why do those things appear now, what triggers them and why no reports on them before.
EN EXCLUSIVITE pour OVNIS-DIRECT par Philippe SOLAL, Professeur Agrégé de Philosophie
I. Le matérialisme des neurosciences
Le titre de cet article reprend celui d’une conférence Tedx (Whitechapel), donnée le 12 janvier 2013 par l’écrivain britannique Graham Hancock, conférence intitulée « La guerre de la conscience » (« The War on Consciousness »), entendue comme une guerre contre la conscience. Le propos qui y est développé est admirable, il touche du doigt la nouvelle interprétation du phénomène OVNI que je développe avec les auteurs de l’ouvrage Ovnis et Conscience, et comme on pouvait s’y attendre, la vidéo de cette intervention fut ensuite bannie de la chaine des Tedx, car jugée bien trop subversive par rapport à la science officielle matérialiste.
C’est désormais sur le terrain des neurosciences que va se jouer l’avenir de la recherche ufologique et non plus sur celui de la physique. Les physiciens étaient autrefois au premier plan dans le débat permettant de savoir si les évolutions aériennes des OVNIS pouvaient donner lieu à une explication d’ordre physique, et ce débat incluait la cosmologie et la structure globale de l’univers. Les sceptiques ne peuvent plus trop faire confiance à la physique pour défendre leur position depuis que celle-ci a révélé toute l’étrangeté du monde quantique et sa propension à nous faire dangereusement penché du côté de la conscience. Le radeau n’est pas assez solide. Désormais, c’est le terrain des neurosciences et des sciences cognitives que ceux-ci investissent pour contester l’existence même de la conscience et en stigmatiser les errements par le recours à un réductionnisme massif. Cap, toute voile levée, vers le cerveau.
On nous explique désormais que tous les témoignages d’OVNIS reposent sur un mécanisme cérébral qui génère des faux souvenirs dans le présent. Les rencontres rapprochées ? Des hallucinations liées aux paralysies du sommeil, vu que, comme chacun sait, c’est vers 6h du matin que les RR3 se produisent le plus fréquemment et que c’est aussi à cette heure que se produisent en majorité de telles paralysies. Les NDE ? Une molécule dans le cerveau dont l’excitation, selon des conditions spécifiques, produit une vision hallucinatoire, toujours identique, avec tunnel, lumière blanche etc. On pourrait même, parait-il, en provoquer sur commande !
Mais il y a plus : la conscience n’existe pas. Les neurosciences nous disent que tout est cérébral, matériel. Grâce aux IRM et autres moyens technologiques dont la science s’est dotée, on a expliqué ce qu’est la conscience : un « espace de travail global », comme l’écrit Stanislas Dehaene dans son ouvrage très remarqué, Le Code de la conscience. Celui-ci a pu distinguer par résonance magnétique fonctionnelle les territoires du cortex cérébral mobilisés par un traitement conscient et non conscient de l’information. Quand, nous dit-il, le sujet traite un stimulus visuel, un mot, de façon non consciente, seules quelques aires, essentiellement postérieures, « s'allument ». Au contraire, quand il y a accès à l'espace conscient, les territoires corticaux mis en activité sont beaucoup plus vastes et incluent en priorité le cortex frontal.
Les travaux de Stanislas Dahaene sont d’une remarquable précision et il faudrait être sot pour ne pas en saluer la valeur. Ils se situent dans la cadre de l’approche matérialiste de la conscience comme l’ont fait avant lui Jean-Pierre Changeux (L’homme neuronal) ou plus récemment François Anceau (Vers une étude objective de la conscience) et bien d’autres avec eux. Là où se situe la contestation, de nature philosophique, concerne les conclusions auxquelles aboutissent leurs travaux respectifs : le réductionnisme de la conscience à des fonctions cérébrales, c’est-à-dire la naturalisation de la conscience. On confond ici la perception consciente et la conscience, le traitement de l’information par le cerveau (qu’il soit global, séquentiel ou hyper-parallèle) et la saisie conjointe du monde extérieur et de sa propre identité par la conscience. La conscience est une connaissance immédiate irréductible à toute modélisation à partir des concepts issus de l’univers de l’intelligence artificielle, car elle transcende toute description en termes de schéma fonctionnel.
Stanislas Dehaene, dans la vidéo suivante, se réfère de manière très pertinente, à Descartes et à sa théorie des animaux-machines :
Pour Descartes, les animaux n’ont pas de conscience, ce sont des machines, semblables en tous points à des automates, dont les actions et réactions comportementales obéissent à un mécanisme. Mais Descartes rejette ce réductionnisme pour l’homme, qu’il dote d’une conscience non réductible au mécanisme et à la matière. La conscience appartient à une autre « substance » que la matière et qu’il nomme l’âme. Descartes s’appuie sur la « flexibilité » constitutive de la capacité de verbalisation de l’homme, autrement dit sur le langage et la pensée libre qu’il révèle, irréductible au nécessitarisme d’un pur mécanisme. Or Dehaene, ici, nous annonce triomphalement que cette flexibilité dans la verbalisation est enfin « réduite » par les neurosciences, grâce à un repérage précis des mécanismes qui interviennent dans la verbalisation humaine, et aux aires cérébrales sollicitées par elles. Avec un sourire béat, il nous annonce que nous sommes, nous aussi, des animaux-machines, des machines, et qu’enfin le dernier territoire non encore annexé par le matérialisme scientifique, l’est enfin. Quelle victoire !
Nous ne sommes plus seulement des « machines désirantes » (comme l’écrivait Gilles Deleuze) mais aussi désormais des « machines pensantes », des ordinateurs sur pattes mais faits de chair et de sang. Nous sommes désormais « de la viande » comme le dit Graham Hancock dans la vidéo donnée plus haut. Exit la spiritualité, fini le Bouddhisme, terminé la transcendance. Les NDE ? Des Hallucinations. Les expériences shamaniques ? Un dérèglement du cerveau. La vie de l’esprit ? Une computation, etc.
Philippe Guillemant a tout à fait raison d’écrire que cette voie nous conduit tout droit au transhumanisme, forme d’étape ultime de l’asservissement de l’homme par le matérialisme scientifique qui règne en maître et sans partage depuis la fin du XIXe siècle. Ce matérialisme est à la Connaissance ce que le matérialisme dialectique fut à l’action et à la politique : un totalitarisme et une source d’oppression. Il a « désenchanté » le monde, en le vidant de toute spiritualité, de tout sens, de toute liberté.
J’ose à peine imaginer la tête d’un Stanislas Dehaene, couvert d’honneurs et de toutes les distinctions officielles qu’on peut imaginer depuis 1999, si on lui signalait que certains essaient de réenchanter le monde à partir de l’étude du phénomène OVNI. Il se gondolerait de rire, avec toute la suffisance qui est celle de la science matérialiste officielle, oublieuse du fait que ses principaux pères fondateurs, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, étaient tous dualistes et donc spiritualistes.
II. Les trois axes
Désormais c’est sur le terrain des neurosciences que la recherche ufologique doit se développer, si tant est qu’il y ait eu jusqu’à présent une recherche ufologique digne de ce nom, je veux dire, une recherche doté d’un cadre théorique cohérent capable de produire des modèles d’explication précis. La physique de l’information et de la conscience n’est qu’une promesse, mais elle pourrait en fournir un, le plus puissant et, à mes yeux, le plus satisfaisant jamais proposé. Si la conscience était « naturalisée » et annexée par le matérialisme scientifique, ce cadre tomberait de lui-même, et le psycho-réductionnisme des sceptiques deviendrait un neuro-réductionnisme. L’enjeu est là, et il nous permet de distinguer désormais trois axes bien différents en ce qui concerne la question des OVNIS :
1. L’axe exobiologique, qui rejette la réalité du phénomène OVNI et se concentre sur la recherche d’exoplanètes habitées et l’écoute de signaux intelligents (programme SETI). Cette recherche subit le fameux « paradoxe » de Fermi (silence radio sur toute la ligne) et, selon moi, ils vont pouvoir attendre longtemps un signal.
2. L’axe « ufologie interplanétaire » (aussi appelée « tôle et boulon ») qui repose sur une méconnaissance de l’étrangeté du phénomène et sur la variété de ses manifestations (polymorphisme). Cette méconnaissance est due au phénomène lui-même qui, comme l’écrivait Carl Jung, entretient un « mythe moderne », celui du vaisseau spatial venant nous visiter d’outre-espace. Cette voie est bouchée car elle tombe « dans le panneau » du simulacre, qui sollicite et flatte notre rêve de conquête spatiale par la technologie.
3. L’axe d’une ufologie spiritualiste, qui est celui que je défends, dans la lignée d’auteurs comme Keel ou Aimé Michel, qui avaient compris, sans être eux-mêmes compris car trop en avance, que le phénomène nous met devant les yeux nos propres fantasmes (monstres, cryptides) et nos propres rêves (merveilleuses soucoupes, êtres angéliques, etc.). Ces auteurs avaient compris que nous poursuivons nos propres chimères mais que derrière ce théâtre d’ombres, se révèle un univers des consciences, une noosphère, l’univers réel, où toute communication et toute matérialisation utilise le canal de la conscience et le jeu sur l’information. On comprend pourquoi il devient dès lors stratégique pour les sceptiques de couper court aux recherches sur la conscience en affirmant que seule la matière existe et que la conscience n’existe pas.
III. Conclusion
Pour terminer je voudrais revenir sur ces deux personnalités : Hancock et Dehaene. L’un parle de notre liberté, l’autre formalise notre asservissement. Le premier est banni des TedX, le second est couvert d’honneurs. La statue de la connaissance humaine, qui a la tête a l’envers, aura décidément bien du mal à être remise à l’endroit. Et pourtant, quand nous serons des milliers, des millions à dire et à penser comme Graham Hancock, dans la vidéo signalée en ce début de cet article, nous commencerons à mettre fin à l'imposture du matérialisme scientifique et un palier de conscience aura été franchi.
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Scientists have just sent out a message an Alien world
Scientists have just sent out a message an Alien world
Scientists have just sent out a message towards two potentially habitable worlds, and experts hope Aliens will reply.
Astronomers have just sent out a message to TWO potentially habitable alien worlds located 12 light years away. If those two planets are home to an alien civilization, the aliens could respond and the answer would arrive back to earth by 2042.
Another effort in contacting aliens has been made by scientists who have just beamed a message to two planets that according to data, may be capable of sustaining life as we know it.
The message was sent out to GJ273, a red dwarf star located around 12 light years from Earth.
Scientists chose GJ273 as it is believed to be home to two potentially habitable worlds, and is located relatively close to Earth.
The message is part of a project called Sónar Calling, led by the Sónar organization, who sought the help of METI International (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and The Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), as reported by IFLScience.
The GJ273 system.
Image Credit: Sonar Calling
In an interview with Space.com, Mr. Douglas Vakoch, president of METI, said:
‘It is a prototype for what I think we would most likely need to do 100 times, or 1,000 times, or 1 million times. To me, the big success of the project will come if, 25 years from now, there’s someone who remembers to look [for a response]. If we could accomplish that, that would be a radical shift of perspective.’
The message to ET carried a scientific and mathematical tutorial, and 33 short musical excerpts created by various artists from the Sonar music festival.
The message was beamed towards the stars in a binary code at two different radio frequencies on October 16, 17 and 18, using the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association radio antenna in Tromsø, Norway.
If aliens actually spot our message identify open, and decide to answer, we could receive it by 2042.
And while this may be a revolutionary era for humans, not everyone agrees this is such a good idea.
Professor Stephen Hawkins has heavily criticized scientists for sending out messages into space, saying that it was too risky as we don’t know whether or not aliens are friendly.
Professor Hawking is worried that if aliens see our message, they would be able to trace it back to Earth and may want to conquer and colonize our planet.
Speaking about the dangers of sending out our location in the universe, Professor Hawking compared the arrival of aliens to Earth to the arrival of Columbus in America:
“If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
But despite these warnings, Mr. Vakoch is convinced that sending a message to the stars, specifically the star GJ273, aka Luyten’s star, isn’t a risk for our civilization.
“It’s really hard to imagine a scenario in which a civilization around Luyten’s star could have the capacity to come to Earth and threaten us, and yet they’re not able to pick up our leakage radiation.”
Scientists are planning on sending out another message to aliens in April 2018, at different radio frequencies.
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Time travel ‘Technically possible’ says expert—but only if you are going back in time
Time travel ‘Technically possible’ says expert—but only if you are going back in time
‘…nothing is forbidding it’ in the laws of theoretical physics.” We would basically need to create a wormhole in such a way that one end of it remained almost entirely motionless, while its other end moves at speed almost equal to the speed of light.
Time travel has only been possible in science fiction books, and conspiracy theories. Both genres are filled with stories and theories on how to travel in time.
And despite the fact that time travel is a concept familiar to modern society, the truth is that tales of time travel can be traced back thousands of years back to ancient civilizations from Asia, to the Americas.
Despite the fact that we have made an incredible technological advancement in the last couple of decades, we have still been unable to explain and demonstrate how time travel would be possible.
Some scientists have argued it’s not.
However, we might be able to travel in time after all, according to an astrophysicist who says its theoretically possible, and there are no limitations.
The rules of theoretical physics have certain conditions that would allow for the creation of ‘wormholes’ which would eventually allow ‘humans’ to travel back to different areas.
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel of Lewis & Clark College wrote the Forbes blog Starts With A Bang:
“While we still haven’t discovered the conditions we need to travel back in time and find the necessary means by which we can create a large enough system for humans to do so, ‘nothing is forbidding it’ in the laws of theoretical physics.”
Is time travel possible?
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As explained by the expert, traveling backward in time would rely on the baffling equivalent to positive energy / positive or zero mass particles found across the cosmos, the negative mass/energy particles, which have long been theorized by experts but never yet identified.
“If this negative mass/energy matter is real, then building both a supermassive black hole and the negative mass/energy equivalent to it, while then connecting them, should make it possible for a traversable wormhole to become reality,” Siegel explains.
“No matter how far apart you took these to connected objects from one another, if they had enough mass/energy – of both the positive and the negative kind – this instantaneous connection would remain.”
The theory sounds just like science fiction.
We would need to build a wormhole in such a way that one end of it remained almost entirely motionless, while its other end moves at speed almost equal to the speed of light.
We would need to create an elaborate system of wormholes in order to travel back in time.
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A piece of cake, right?
If we were to create such a system, theoretically a person may be able to travel backward in time.
So how would we travel back in time, if we were to build such a complex system?
Dr. Siegel explains it in a scenario with a destination located 40 light years away.
After one year has passed, the fast-moving end of the wormhole would have gone through 40 years, while the other end would have only experienced a year go by.
“If 40 years ago, someone had created such a pair of entangled wormholes and sent them off on this journey, it would be possible to step into one of them today, in 2017, and wind up back in time at the mouth of the other one… back in 1978,” Siegel writes.
“The only issue is that you yourself couldn’t also have been at that location back in 1978; you needed to be with the other end of the wormhole, or traveling through space to try and catch up with it.”
Astronomers find the Milky Way has a ‘Twin’ Galaxy that looks just like our own
Astronomers find the Milky Way has a ‘Twin’ Galaxy that looks just like our own
Located 180 light years away, astronomers have spotted a supermassive spiral galaxy that seems to be the Milky Way galaxy’s twin. But, not only does this galaxy look like our own, it also has two satellite galaxies, just like the Milky Way. The discovery caught experts by surprise. They say such an arrangement is extremely rare.
Dubbed NCG 2718, the mystery galaxy not only looks like our galaxy, but it also contains a pair of orbiting galaxies that look just like the two satellite galaxies interacting with the Milky Way.
An extremely rare discovery
To understand more about the Milky Way’s twin galaxy, researchers will further study it hoping to learn more about it.
But as experts note, it’s an extremely rare discovery.
If we take a look at the Milky Way Galaxy and the two orbiting galaxies—the large and small Magellanic Clouds—we will notice how these two still have enough gas to spawn NEW stars, unlike many other galaxies which have run out of material.
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are located 160,00 and 200,000 light years away from Earth.
And this is precisely what caught experts by surprise. The arrangement of a giant spiral galaxy like the Milky Way and two orbiting satellite galaxies like the Large and Small Magellanic cloud is extremely rare.
This is why researchers from the Yonsei University wanted to see if they could spot the pattern anywhere else in the universe.
To their surprise, they did after going through images of around 20,000 smaller galaxies in hopes of spotting a similar cosmic layout.
Their search revealed that the massive spiral galaxy referred to as NGC 2718, located in the constellation Hydra eerily resembles the Milky Way Galaxy, and just as our galaxy, has two orbiting galaxies called UGC 4703 and UGC 4703B.
We show the SDSS r−band image of an area around NGC 2718 and its satellites with a field of view of Rain 90×50.
Experts wrote in their study: ‘Based on the comparison of physical and morphological properties with that of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC), we report that the UGC 4703 pair-NGC 2718 system is probably an LMC-SMC-MW analogue.’
This discovery follows a study from 2011 which found that galaxies with the layout resembling our own are extremely rare in the universe.
Speaking about the study in 2011, Dr. Philip James, a physicist at Liverpool John Moores University who led the study told New Scientist: ‘They have definitely found a better analogue than any of the cases we presented.’
A torus of plasma, viewed from above. The ring is created by a jet of water striking a crystal plate.
Credit: Mory Gharib/CaltechLike Magic, Only Better
Like Magic, Only Better
When it was first described in the 1920s by physicist Irvin Langmuir, plasma was said to be one of the fundamental states of matter, though not one that exists freely on Earth under normal circumstances. Plasma is made up of charged particles, ions and electrons, and does occur naturally as lightning; an occurrence that can be contained in man-made objects like florescent light bulbs and plasma-cutting torches.
Now, for the first time, engineers from the California Institute of Technology(Caltech) have been able to create a stable plasma ring without a container According to the Caltech press release, it’s “essentially capturing lightning in a bottle, but without the bottle.”
This remarkable feat was achieved using only a stream of water and a crystal plate, made from either quartz and lithium niobate. The union of these tools induced a type of contact electrification known as the triboelectric effect.
The researchers blasted the crystal plate with an 85-micron-diameter jet of water (narrower than a human hair) from a specially designed nozzle. The water hit the crystal plate with a pressure of 632.7 kilograms of force per centimeter (9,000 pounds per square inch), generating an impact velocity of around 305 meters per second (1,000 feet per second) — as fast as a bullet from a handgun.
Plasma was formed as a result of the creation of an electric charge when the water hit the crystal surface. The flow of electrons from the point of contact ionizes the molecules and atoms in the gas area surrounding the water’s surface, forming a donut-shaped glowing plasma that’s dozens of microns in diameter.
Energy Storage Potential
The researchers were able to sustain the ring-shaped plasma as long as the water stream kept firing at the crystal. They also realized that the smoother the surface was, the clearer the plasma ring would be.
“We were told by some colleagues this wasn’t even possible. But we can create a stable ring and maintain it for as long as we want, no vacuum or magnetic field or anything,” Francisco Pereira, a Caltech visiting fellow originally from the Marine Technology Research Institute in Italy, said in the press release. Pereira is a co-author of the study published in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, together with Caltech’s Morteza Gharib.
The illustration depicts how the ring is created, in profile. At the shear region, the flow of water induces the triboelectric effect in the crystal, building an electrical charge that flows through the water to its surface.
Credit: Mory Gharib/Caltech
Gharib’s team also noticed another peculiar phenomenon: the plasma ring emitted distinct radio frequencies, as evidenced by the high levels of static the engineers’ mobile phones picked up during the experiment. “That’s never been seen before. We think it’s because of the piezo properties of the materials that we used in our experiments,” Pereira explained.
As remarkable as the achievement is, the team’s plasma ring doesn’t yet have any immediate commercial application — though Gharib did suggest one possibility: energy storage.
He explained that generating plasma without the help of any powerful electromagnetic fields or vacuum hints that it may be possible to use plasma structures to store energy. If that proves to be the case, it would an exciting discovery for those hard at work developing alternative energy methods. It would be yet another option for experts who have been devoting their time and resources to finding (or developing) a better battery for the energy storage needs of today — and the future.
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