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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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Most remarkable UFO sightings in November 2017
Most remarkable UFO sightings in November 2017
Most remarkable UFO sightings in November 2017 by www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net.
November 2017; lights in the sky – Novogradovka in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine
Amazing UFO footage filmed over Del Mar, California 29-Nov-2017
Amazing UFO footage filmed over Del Mar, California 29-Nov-2017
Check out this interesting footage of a three unknown object making maneuvers over Del Mar in California. This happened on 29th November 2017.
Witness report:
Could be balloons, but with strong prejudice. Was very strange. At first I thought it looked like black balloons, and they did kind of move like that in the way that they ascended through the sky together. But there was also something weird about it… All three of them moved indipendintly backward, forward, and around each other. It felt strange.
All balloons I’ve seen in the sky seem to have a direct path and don’t wobble around like these did—but who knows. Just thought it was strange and wanted to send to you for your expertise.
Blowing in the stellar wind: Scientists reduce the chances of life on exoplanets in so-called habitable zones
Blowing in the stellar wind: Scientists reduce the chances of life on exoplanets in so-called habitable zones
byJohn Greenwald
Image of starlight on exoplanet, courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Is there life beyond Earth in the cosmos? Astronomers looking for signs have found that our Milky Way galaxy teems with exoplanets, some with conditions that could be right for extraterrestrial life. Such worlds orbit stars in so-called "habitable zones," regions where planets could hold liquid water that is necessary for life as we know it.
However, the question of habitability is highly complex. Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on—and thus potential habitability of—frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.
Impact of stellar wind
In two papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists develop models showing that the stellar wind—the constant outpouring of charged particles that sweep out into space—could severely deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, rendering them unable to host surface-based life as we know it.
"Traditional definition and climate models of the habitable zone consider only the surface temperature," Dong said. "But the stellar wind can significantly contribute to the long-term erosion and atmospheric loss of many exoplanets, so the climate models tell only part of the story."
To broaden the picture, the first paper looks at the timescale of atmospheric retention on Proxima Centauri b (PCb), which orbits the nearest star to our solar system, some 4 light years away. The second paper questions how long oceans could survive on "water worlds"—planets thought to have seas that could be hundreds of miles deep.
Two-fold effect
The research simulates the photo-chemical impact of starlight and the electromagnetic erosion of stellar wind on the atmosphere of the exoplanets. These effects are two-fold: The photons in starlight ionize the atoms and molecules in the atmosphere into charged particles, allowing pressure and electromagnetic forces from the stellar wind to sweep them into space. This process could cause severe atmospheric losses that would prevent the water that evaporates from exoplanets from raining back onto them, leaving the surface of the planet to dry up.
On Proxima Centauri b, the model indicates that high stellar wind pressure would cause the atmosphere to escape and prevent atmosphere from lasting long enough to give rise to surface-based life as we know it. "The evolution of life takes billions of years," Dong noted. "Our results indicate that PCb and similar exoplanets are generally not capable of supporting an atmosphere over sufficiently long timescales when the stellar wind pressure is high."
"It is only if the pressure is sufficiently low," he said, "and if the exoplanet has a reasonably strong magnetic shield like that of the Earth's magnetosphere, that the exoplanet can retain an atmosphere and has the potential for habitability."
Evolution of habitable zone
Complicating matters is the fact that the habitable zone circling red stars could evolve over time. So high stellar wind pressure early on could increase the rate of atmospheric escape. Thus, the atmosphere could have eroded too soon, even if the exoplanet was protected by a strong magnetic field like the magnetosphere surrounding Earth, Dong said. "In addition, such close-in planets could also be tidally locked like our moon, with one side always exposed to the star. The resultant weak global magnetic field and the constant bombardment of stellar wind would serve to intensify losses of atmosphere on the star-facing side."
Turning to water worlds, the researchers explored three different conditions for the stellar wind. These ranged from:
Winds that strike the Earth's magnetosphere today.
Ancient stellar winds flowing from young, Sun-like stars that were just a toddler-like 0.6 billion years old compared with the 4.6 billion year age of the Sun.
The impact on exoplanets of a massive stellar storm like the Carrington event, which knocked out telegraph service and produced auroras around the world in 1859.
The simulations illustrated that ancient stellar wind could cause the rate of atmospheric escape to be far greater than losses produced by the current solar wind that reaches the magnetosphere of Earth. Moreover, the rate of loss for Carrington-type events, which are thought to occur frequently in young Sun-like stars, was found to be greater still.
"Our analysis suggests that such space weather events may prove to be a key driver of atmospheric losses for exoplanets orbiting an active young Sun-like star," the authors write.
High probability of dried-up oceans
Given the increased activity of red stars and the close-in location of planets in habitable zones, these results indicate the high probability of dried-up surfaces on planets that orbit red stars that might once have held oceans that could give birth to life. The findings could also modify the famed Drake equation, which estimates the number of civilizations in the Milky Way, by lowering the estimate for the average number of planets per star that can support life.
Authors of the PCb paper note that predicting the habitability of planets located light years from Earth is of course filled with uncertainties. Future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA will launch in 2019 to peer into the early history of the universe, will therefore "be essential for getting more information on stellar winds and exoplanet atmospheres," the authors say, "thereby paving the way for more accurate estimations of stellar-wind induced atmospheric losses."
Scientists spot potentially habitable worlds with regularity. Recently, a newly discovered Earth-sized planet orbiting Ross 128, a red dwarf star that is smaller and cooler than the sun located some 11 light years from Earth, was cited as a water candidate. Scientists noted that the star appears to be quiescent and well-behaved, not throwing off flares and eruptions that could undo conditions favorable to life.
Collaborating with Dong on the PCb paper were physicists from Harvard University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Massachusetts.
More information:Chuanfei Dong et al. Is Proxima Centauri b Habitable? A Study of Atmospheric Loss, The Astrophysical Journal (2017). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa6438 https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04089
Chuanfei Dong et al. The Dehydration of Water Worlds via Atmospheric Losses, The Astrophysical Journal (2017). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa8a60 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01219
Blowing in the stellar wind: Scientists reduce the chances of life on exoplanets in so-called habitable zones
Blowing in the stellar wind: Scientists reduce the chances of life on exoplanets in so-called habitable zones
byJohn Greenwald
Image of starlight on exoplanet, courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Is there life beyond Earth in the cosmos? Astronomers looking for signs have found that our Milky Way galaxy teems with exoplanets, some with conditions that could be right for extraterrestrial life. Such worlds orbit stars in so-called "habitable zones," regions where planets could hold liquid water that is necessary for life as we know it.
However, the question of habitability is highly complex. Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on—and thus potential habitability of—frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.
Impact of stellar wind
In two papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists develop models showing that the stellar wind—the constant outpouring of charged particles that sweep out into space—could severely deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, rendering them unable to host surface-based life as we know it.
"Traditional definition and climate models of the habitable zone consider only the surface temperature," Dong said. "But the stellar wind can significantly contribute to the long-term erosion and atmospheric loss of many exoplanets, so the climate models tell only part of the story."
To broaden the picture, the first paper looks at the timescale of atmospheric retention on Proxima Centauri b (PCb), which orbits the nearest star to our solar system, some 4 light years away. The second paper questions how long oceans could survive on "water worlds"—planets thought to have seas that could be hundreds of miles deep.
Two-fold effect
The research simulates the photo-chemical impact of starlight and the electromagnetic erosion of stellar wind on the atmosphere of the exoplanets. These effects are two-fold: The photons in starlight ionize the atoms and molecules in the atmosphere into charged particles, allowing pressure and electromagnetic forces from the stellar wind to sweep them into space. This process could cause severe atmospheric losses that would prevent the water that evaporates from exoplanets from raining back onto them, leaving the surface of the planet to dry up.
On Proxima Centauri b, the model indicates that high stellar wind pressure would cause the atmosphere to escape and prevent atmosphere from lasting long enough to give rise to surface-based life as we know it. "The evolution of life takes billions of years," Dong noted. "Our results indicate that PCb and similar exoplanets are generally not capable of supporting an atmosphere over sufficiently long timescales when the stellar wind pressure is high."
"It is only if the pressure is sufficiently low," he said, "and if the exoplanet has a reasonably strong magnetic shield like that of the Earth's magnetosphere, that the exoplanet can retain an atmosphere and has the potential for habitability."
Evolution of habitable zone
Complicating matters is the fact that the habitable zone circling red stars could evolve over time. So high stellar wind pressure early on could increase the rate of atmospheric escape. Thus, the atmosphere could have eroded too soon, even if the exoplanet was protected by a strong magnetic field like the magnetosphere surrounding Earth, Dong said. "In addition, such close-in planets could also be tidally locked like our moon, with one side always exposed to the star. The resultant weak global magnetic field and the constant bombardment of stellar wind would serve to intensify losses of atmosphere on the star-facing side."
Turning to water worlds, the researchers explored three different conditions for the stellar wind. These ranged from:
Winds that strike the Earth's magnetosphere today.
Ancient stellar winds flowing from young, Sun-like stars that were just a toddler-like 0.6 billion years old compared with the 4.6 billion year age of the Sun.
The impact on exoplanets of a massive stellar storm like the Carrington event, which knocked out telegraph service and produced auroras around the world in 1859.
The simulations illustrated that ancient stellar wind could cause the rate of atmospheric escape to be far greater than losses produced by the current solar wind that reaches the magnetosphere of Earth. Moreover, the rate of loss for Carrington-type events, which are thought to occur frequently in young Sun-like stars, was found to be greater still.
"Our analysis suggests that such space weather events may prove to be a key driver of atmospheric losses for exoplanets orbiting an active young Sun-like star," the authors write.
High probability of dried-up oceans
Given the increased activity of red stars and the close-in location of planets in habitable zones, these results indicate the high probability of dried-up surfaces on planets that orbit red stars that might once have held oceans that could give birth to life. The findings could also modify the famed Drake equation, which estimates the number of civilizations in the Milky Way, by lowering the estimate for the average number of planets per star that can support life.
Authors of the PCb paper note that predicting the habitability of planets located light years from Earth is of course filled with uncertainties. Future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA will launch in 2019 to peer into the early history of the universe, will therefore "be essential for getting more information on stellar winds and exoplanet atmospheres," the authors say, "thereby paving the way for more accurate estimations of stellar-wind induced atmospheric losses."
Scientists spot potentially habitable worlds with regularity. Recently, a newly discovered Earth-sized planet orbiting Ross 128, a red dwarf star that is smaller and cooler than the sun located some 11 light years from Earth, was cited as a water candidate. Scientists noted that the star appears to be quiescent and well-behaved, not throwing off flares and eruptions that could undo conditions favorable to life.
Collaborating with Dong on the PCb paper were physicists from Harvard University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Massachusetts.
More information:Chuanfei Dong et al. Is Proxima Centauri b Habitable? A Study of Atmospheric Loss, The Astrophysical Journal (2017). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa6438 https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04089
Chuanfei Dong et al. The Dehydration of Water Worlds via Atmospheric Losses, The Astrophysical Journal (2017). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa8a60 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01219
Scientists reduce the chances of life on exoplanets in so-called habitable zones around red stars
Scientists reduce the chances of life on exoplanets in so-called habitable zones around red stars
PPPL and Princeton University astrophysicist Chuanfei Dong, shown here, and colleagues have thrown water on the theory that many exoplanets may be habitable.
Photo by Elle Starkman, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
John Greenwald, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Is there life beyond Earth in the cosmos? Astronomers looking for signs have found that our Milky Way galaxy teems with exoplanets, some with conditions that could be right for extraterrestrial life. Such worlds orbit stars in so-called “habitable zones,” regions where planets could hold liquid water that is necessary for life as we know it.
However, the question of habitability is highly complex. Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.
In two papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists develop models showing that the stellar wind — the constant outpouring of charged particles that sweep out into space — could severely deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, rendering them unable to host surface-based life as we know it.
“Traditional definition and climate models of the habitable zone consider only the surface temperature,” Dong said. “But the stellar wind can significantly contribute to the long-term erosion and atmospheric loss of many exoplanets, so the climate models tell only part of the story.”
The research simulates the photochemical impact of starlight and the electromagnetic erosion of stellar wind on the atmosphere of the exoplanets. These effects are twofold: The photons in starlight ionize the atoms and molecules in the atmosphere into charged particles, allowing pressure and electromagnetic forces from the stellar wind to sweep them into space. This process could cause severe atmospheric losses that would prevent the water that evaporates from exoplanets from raining back onto them, leaving the surface of the planet to dry up.
On Proxima Centauri b, the model indicates that high stellar wind pressure would cause the atmosphere to escape and prevent atmosphere from lasting long enough to give rise to surface-based life as we know it. “The evolution of life takes billions of years,” Dong noted. “Our results indicate that PCb and similar exoplanets are generally not capable of supporting an atmosphere over sufficiently long timescales when the stellar wind pressure is high.”
“It is only if the pressure is sufficiently low,” he said, “and if the exoplanet has a reasonably strong magnetic shield like that of the Earth’s magnetosphere, that the exoplanet can retain an atmosphere and has the potential for habitability.”
Complicating matters is the fact that the habitable zone circling red stars could evolve over time. So high stellar wind pressure early on could increase the rate of atmospheric escape. Thus, the atmosphere could have eroded too soon, even if the exoplanet was protected by a strong magnetic field like the magnetosphere surrounding Earth, Dong said. “In addition, such close-in planets could also be tidally locked like our moon, with one side always exposed to the star. The resultant weak global magnetic field and the constant bombardment of stellar wind would serve to intensify losses of atmosphere on the star-facing side.”
Turning to water worlds, the researchers explored three different conditions for the stellar wind. These ranged from:
• Winds that strike the Earth’s magnetosphere today.
• Ancient stellar winds flowing from young, sun-like stars that were just a toddler-like 0.6 billion years old compared with the 4.6 billion year age of the sun.
• The impact on exoplanets of a massive stellar storm like the Carrington event, which knocked out telegraph service and produced auroras around the world in 1859.
The simulations illustrated that ancient stellar wind could cause the rate of atmospheric escape to be far greater than losses produced by the current solar wind that reaches the magnetosphere of Earth. Moreover, the rate of loss for Carrington-type events, which are thought to occur frequently in young sun-like stars, was found to be greater still.
“Our analysis suggests that such space weather events may prove to be a key driver of atmospheric losses for exoplanets orbiting an active young sun-like star,” the authors write.
Given the increased activity of red stars and the close-in location of planets in habitable zones, these results indicate the high probability of dried-up surfaces on planets that orbit red stars that might once have held oceans that could give birth to life. The findings could also modify the famed Drake equation, which estimates the number of civilizations in the Milky Way, by lowering the estimate for the average number of planets per star that can support life.
Authors of the PCb paper note that predicting the habitability of planets located light years from Earth is filled with uncertainties. Future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA will launch in 2019 to peer into the early history of the universe, will therefore “be essential for getting more information on stellar winds and exoplanet atmospheres,” the authors say, “thereby paving the way for more accurate estimations of stellar-wind induced atmospheric losses.”
Scientists spot potentially habitable worlds with regularity. Recently, a newly discovered Earth-sized planet orbiting Ross 128, a red dwarf star that is smaller and cooler than the sun located some 11 light years from Earth, was cited as a water candidate. Scientists noted that the star appears to be quiescent and well-behaved, not throwing off flares and eruptions that could undo conditions favorable to life.
Collaborating with Dong on the PCb paper were physicists from Harvard University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Massachusetts. Support for the work came from a NASA Jack Eddy postdoctoral fellowship for Dong through the Princeton Center for Heliophysics, led by Professor Amitava Bhattacharjee, head of the PPPL Theory Department who serves as Dong’s postdoctoral adviser, and the Max Planck-Princeton Research Center for Plasma Physics, jointly financed by the DOE Office of Science and the National Science Foundation. Collaborating on the water world research were scientists from the University of Michigan, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Harvard University. The NASA Jack Eddy postdoctoral fellowship supported Dong.
PPPL, on Princeton University’s Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, New Jersey, is devoted to creating new knowledge about the physics of plasmas — ultra-hot, charged gases — and to developing practical solutions for the creation of fusion energy. The laboratory is managed by the University for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which is the largest single supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
When news of a newly-studied exoplanet with an atmosphere begins to make headlines it’s typically because the far-off world is potentially Earth-like, teasing the possibility of extraterrestrial life or even a potential future home for mankind. WASP-18b is not one of those kinds of exoplanets. In fact, it’s so incredibly hostile to what we know about life that researchers had a difficult time explaining its existence at all.
WASP-18b is an absolutely huge planet, with a mass on the order of 10 times that of Jupiter, and it’s also incredibly hot. The planet orbits its star at a very short distance, which isn’t entirely uncommon for exoplanets, but what makes the alien world so strange is that it has a thick atmosphere that left scientists scratching their heads.
After observing the planet several times, that data revealed that WASP-18b’s atmosphere is packed with poisonous carbon monoxide. That’s not just a rarity among known planets; it’s essentially unheard of. “The composition of WASP-18b defies all expectations,” Kyle Sheppard of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, lead author of the study explains. “We don’t know of any other extrasolar planet where carbon monoxide so completely dominates the upper atmosphere.”
The research, which was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, also reveals that the planet’s puzzling atmosphere is devoid of any water, and thereby oxygen. The combination of no water, no oxygen, incredible heat, and plenty of carbon monoxide means that WASP-18b isn’t the kind of place you’d want to spend a day, or even a few seconds.
The deadly conditions also suggests there’s really no conceivable way life as we know it could form or exist there. That’s just fine anyway, since the world is some 325 light-years away, so visiting it is out of the question.
That said, the discovery is important for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it totally rewrites what scientists thought they knew about how atmospheres form around planets. This particular example is obviously hostile to life, but might raise the possibility of certain exoplanets forming much friendlier atmospheres in ways we had not yet considered. Further research into WASP-18b is planned for later, and scientists hope to use the new James Webb Space Telescope to get an even better look at it.
That’s the question Enrico Fermi asked his co-workers at the at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950 as they pondered lunch and why, if there are billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy older than our Sun with a high probability of having planets similar to Earth, we’ve never had any contact (that they knew of) with other civilizations – advanced or lesser. The question lives on today as the famous Fermi Paradox.
“Redo the numbers, Enrico. They just found 72 more galaxies!”
If they were alive today, that might his friends’ response to the news that astronomers taking the deepest view of the universe ever have discovered at least 72 more galaxies. Even using conservative estimates, that’s a few trillion more stars and, if they average 8 planets like ours, many trillions more planets, of which a tiny but now larger percentage could hold life.
“Where is everybody?”
It’s not a puzzle … it’s a paradox.
Let’s take the easy answer first. In a press release this week, ESO astronomers announced that they pointed the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile at a small spot in space known as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). Located in the constellation Fornax, it was first observed by the Hubble Space Telescope from September 24, 2003, to January 16, 2004. That data allowed astronomers to look back 13 billion years and, combined with later observations using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), estimate that the small region contained about 10,000 galaxies.
Then came MUSE. It was installed on the VTL in 2014 and astronomers used it for about two years (137 hours of telescope time) to further study the HUDF and detect galaxies 100 times dimmer than before that emit Lyman-alpha radiation, an indication that they are extremely distant, young, low-mass galaxies. Seventy-two of these galaxies were counted, with some estimated to have existed just 800 million years after the Big Bang.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field
As always with discoveries like these, if there’s one Lyman-alpha emitting galaxy (or in this case, 72), there’s bound to be more, so analysis of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer will continue, along with planned observations using the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (after delays, it’s expected to be launched in June 2019) and the Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) which is still in the conceptual stage.
Back to Fermi’s Paradox. Does it increase the probability of other life forms in the universe? Yes. Does the fact that these newly-found galaxies are close to 13 billion years old mean the life forms will be older and more advanced than us? Older — definitely. More advanced – who knows? If they are, Enrico once again gets the last words:
A prolific UFO hunter claims he is planning to sue the US space agency to force it to bring an end to an alleged cover up over the existence of alien life.
Scott C Waring is one of a string of conspiracy theorists who are convinced intelligent aliens not only exist but are living here on Earth- they also insisted the aliens secretly working with the US authorities.
The so-called truth embargo was put in place after the alleged Roswell flying saucer crash of July 1947, the conspiracy theory claims.
And the alleged truth embargo is an agreement between all officials in the know never to release the truth to the public due to a fear it would bring about the end of religion and the rule of law and lead to anarchy.
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A UFO hunters has thrown down the gauntlet to NASA over aliens.
I am really close to using this site to go to court (public VS NASA) in an international fight to see if I can force NASA into announcing the truth (about aliens) to the world.
Scott C Waring
Mr Waring has claimed repeatedly on his website ufosightingsdaily.com that NASA is aware aliens exist and is at the heart of the cover up.
In a blog post which claims his website was under attack from the US authorities, he announced he was close to taking the legal action against NASA.
He said: "I am really close to using this site to go to court (public VS NASA) in an international fight to see if I can force NASA into announcing the truth (about aliens) to the world.
It is not clear from the post if he has filed any papers, or if he genuinely intends launching what would be an historic case.
NASA denies it has evidence of aliens or being involved in any cover ups.
The US space agency does not comment on individual conspiracy theory claims but has previously said it would be more than happy to announce if any evidence of alien life is found.
Howevever, it mainstains, so far, this has yet to happen.
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Researchers confirm age of Jesus Christ’s tomb
Researchers confirm age of Jesus Christ’s tomb
Archaeologists have finally discovered the age of the tomb of Jesus Christ.
According to various beliefs, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is believed to contain the final resting place of Jesus Christ.
The tomb has been desecrated over the years by violent attacks, natural disasters, and of course centuries of wear and tear. This has led to a number of reconstructions over the centuries, reason why modern scholars have had a tough time proving or disproving this is the tomb of Jesus Christ.
Now, to solve the mystery from a scientific point of view, researchers analyzed the original limestone surface of the tomb and a marble slab hoping to establish a time frame when the tomb was created.
As noted by the National Geographic, researchers believe the tomb dates back to around 345 CE.
“Obviously that date is spot-on for whatever Constantine did,” archaeologist Martin Biddle, who published a study on the tomb in 1999, told National Geographic. “That’s very remarkable.”
Led by experts from the National Technical University of Athens and to calculate the age of the materials of the tomb, a technique called “optically stimulated luminescence” (OSL) was used, which revealed when the material was exposed to light for the last time.
Image Credit: Oded Balilty, AP for National Geographic
While the study has failed to establish whether or not Jesus was actually buried there, the date obtained by experts is consistent with historical accounts that the tomb was found by the Romans and enshrined around 326 CE.
Curiously, this fits the time of Emperor Constantine, Rome’s first Christian emperor.
According to legend, Helena, the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine (reigned ca. 306-337), discovered the tomb of Jesus around the year 327.
Constantine legalized Christianity throughout the Roman Empire and supposedly became Christian little before dying.
The Romans would have protected the tomb by building a sanctuary on it, as well as a church.
The church was destroyed, renovated and rebuilt several times in the past 1,700 years.
Before this new research, the oldest piece of architectural evidence at the site was traced back to the time of the Crusades, which means it was only around 1,000 years old.
Despite the fact that there are many who doubt that Jesus Christ existed, there is enough historical evidence to support the fact that Jesus of Nazareth was a real man and not a mythological figure.
Thousands of historic and archeological sites along the southern US coast risk being engulfed by sea-level rise by the end of the century, scientists report.
The sites at risk from rising sea-levels. Image credits David G. Anderson et al., 2017, PLOS ONE.
Climate change isn’t putting just our future at risk — it’s also engendering out past, according to new research. More than 13,000 archaeological sites, historic buildings, and cultural landscapes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the southeastern United States are at risk from sea-level rise and could be submerged by 2100.
No ark for this flood
The team, led by David Anderson from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville drew on data from the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) to estimate the risk posed by sea-level rise on archaeological sites. DINAA is a platform that aggregates archeological and historical datasets compiled over the past century and from numerous sources. Its aim is to provide researchers and the public with a comprehensive view of when and where humans settled.
Based on position and elevation data, the team warns that over 13,000 sites in the southeast alone may find themselves topped with water for a mere 1 meter (3.28 ft) rise. This includes over 1,000 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places as having important cultural properties. But things could get much, much worse.
“These numbers increase substantially with each additional 1 m rise in sea level, with >32,000 archaeological sites and >2400 NRHP properties lost should a 5 m rise occur,” the authors warn.
“Many more unrecorded archaeological and historic sites will also be lost as large areas of the landscape are flooded. The displacement of millions of people due to rising seas will cause additional impacts where these populations resettle.”
Large linked data sets such as the DINAA, which can predict the potential impacts of phenomena across wide areas, are essential when developing procedures for sampling, triage, and mitigation efforts, the team explains. Therefore, they hold the key to planning and adaptation in the face of climate change, extreme weather events, and the displaced populations these will bring about — factors that could shape our civilization profoundly in the years to come.
“Sea level rise will thus result in the loss of much of the record of human habitation of the coastal margin in the Southeast,” the paper reads, “and the numbers indicate the magnitude of the impact on the archaeological record globally.”
The paper “Sea-level rise and archaeological site destruction: An example from the southeastern United States using DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology)” has been published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Shortly after Earth’s formation, the planet was barren of life. Then, proteins combined in just the right way, and life appeared. For billions of years, it was simple and uninteresting, oceans full of simple, single-celled organisms floating for millennia after millennia. Suddenly, life got a lot more interesting. Organisms became more complex, with more than one cell. And they got much bigger — 10,000 times bigger by volume, Nick Lane, professor of evolutionary chemistry at University College London, wrote in his 2015 book The Vital Question.
The importance of this step — of this sudden increase in size and complexity — cannot be overstated. Without it, complex life (like humans, for example) would not exist.
How exactly this step happened is one of the big questions in evolutionary biology. There are a number of theories about how, exactly, life got so much more complicated. One of the prevailing theories, from Lane himself, focuses on energy. Here’s the thinking: Cells need more energy to build more complex structures. To do that, according to Lane’s theory, single-celled organisms merged with bacteria we now know as mitochondria, which have an electrical charge and bring power to the cell. It’s possible, though unlikely, for the two bacteria to fit together, and even less probably that the two were able to survive and live symbiotically. This occurrence that made possible all other forms of complex life is rare, to be sure.
But in Lane’s opinion, it only happened once.
“It comes down to one merger between two cells that made one cell, then everything comes from that. You, me, the redwood tree or the hummingbird, a fungus, a piece of algae growing in a pond, every form of life we can see with our naked eyes and many that we can’t come from that single cell,” Nick said in an episode of the science podcast Radiolab on his work.
The debate around how life got much more complicated is important to understand the history of life on Earth, but it also could inform our search for life on other planets. If complex life is exceedingly rare, does that make it less likely for us to find intelligent life in the universe? Should we instead be looking for something much smaller and simpler? If the universe outside of Earth only populated by single-celled organisms? Because these specific conditions are so unlikely, might complex life only exist on our own planet?
Futurism got in touch with a few experts to ask if they agree with Lane’s theory, if they believe intelligent extraterrestrial life is possible, and to get their perspectives on whether we should somehow alter our search.
Mohamed Noor, a professor of biology at Duke University:
To the best of my knowledge, Lane’s version of what happened is likely true: Acquiring mitochondria happened [only] once, long ago in the ancestor of plants, fungi, and animals. It greatly facilitated the evolution of multicellular organisms.
However, it’s impossible to know how to assess the need for something like that in the context of life that is totally unrelated to life on Earth. All life on Earth has a single common ancestor. This ancestor (and all life we on Earth) was presumably carbon/water-based, replicated using nucleic acids, and lived in conditions that existed on ancient or modern Earth. If life arose on a much colder world, for example, many other [environmental] parameters may be totally different as well.
In such a case, life there may use liquid ammonia rather than water as a solvent. It may not use nucleic acids for heredity. But some aspects may be general to life —carbon may intrinsically make sense for life, given its abundance and ability to make long chains. A “cell membrane” of some sort to insulate that life from its environment also seems probable. Finally, there are other things we never think about. How “fast” does this life metabolize and interact? Are there generations occurring in the blink of an eye? Or single interactions over millennia, moving so slowly we wouldn’t even notice?
Honestly, I feel like we cannot have any estimate of the probability of life of any kind (intelligent or not) until we move from a sample size of 1 (related to life on Earth) to a sample size of at least 2 [that is, until we discover at least one more example of life in the universe].
Back to your question, any “life” needs a source of power, but mitochondria need not be the only solution to that problem, especially if life is starting with a completely different basis. Still, my best guess is that microbial-sized life is way more likely to exist than something as large as us on other worlds. If our desire is to “find life,” I speculate that we’re much better off closely examining acquired samples from Europa or other worlds than waiting to receive a radio signal.
Pierre Pontarotti, the director of research at the Mathematics Institute of Marseille, wrote:
The symbiosis between bacteria and eukaryotes has occurred many times during the evolution of life on Earth. For example, cyanobacteria [merged] with the ancestors of plant cells — the cyanobacteria became the chloroplast. Therefore, if organisms like bacteria and eukaryotes are present on another planet, the symbiosis should happen.
We, of course, have no information about the kind of life that exists on other planets. But because galaxies and planets have evolved many times during the history of the universe, why shouldn’t life do so as well?
John Rummel, senior scientist with the SETI Institute:
Given the many advantages offered by the symbiosis of the pre-eukaryote and the pre-mitochondrial bacterium, it is entirely possible that once was enough — given that free oxygen could have been present to fuel the combination. “Once” here may not refer to a single endosymbiotic event, of course.
We don’t know exactly where, and at what scale, eating pre-mitochondria became popular on Earth… The right biochemistry is the key to that being an advantageous thing to do, of course, so whether it is widespread in the cosmos is more a biochemical question than a natural-science one. [It has to be] just so… Without mitochondrial advantages, it might be a struggle to develop complex, anoxic biochemistries that could support the evolution of intelligence on a physically challenging world, but not impossible.
A supervolcano could kill millions of humans, pushing us back to a pre-civilization state, far sooner than scientists previously thought, according to a new report in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. But we shouldn’t worry. Something else will probably kill us first, seeing as the global climate is warming, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are thriving, and nuclear war is a greater threat than ever. Against that backdrop, the study suggests, a supervolcano wiping out most or all humans on Earth seems like a non-issue.
Still, it’s not impossible.
In the paper published Wednesday, the Bristol University team revised previous scientific estimates of how often catastrophic supervolcano eruptions occur. While prior research put world-changing eruptions at comfortably wide intervals, the new paper shrinks that timescale considerably. Previous estimates, made in 2004, said that super-eruptions occurred, on average, every 45,000 to 714,000 years, a time scale that Jonathan Rougier, Ph.D., a statistician and the study’s first author, says is “comfortably longer than our civilization.” His new work puts the updated range at 5,200 to 48,000 years, with the “best guess” value at 17,000 years.
This range gives us significantly less time to prepare for the next cataclysmic eruption, but Rougier isn’t bothered by it. “My view … is that we should not be worried about super-eruptions,” Rougier tells Inverse.
Toba Caldera in Sumatra, Indonesia, produced the largest volcanic eruption of the past 2 million years.
Rougier’s study represents a significant change in the estimated frequency of world-changing supervolcano eruptions. By studying geological records covering the past 100,000 years, he and his colleagues found that the two most recent supervolcano eruptions occurred 20 and 30 thousand years ago.
“On balance, we have been slightly lucky not to experience any super-eruptions since then,” reports Rougier. This would seem to suggest that it’s about time we had another one of these super-eruptions, but just because we haven’t seen one doesn’t necessarily mean we’re overdue for one. In all likelihood, something else will probably kill us first.
“The probability of a super-eruption in (say) my lifetime is absolutely tiny, about 2 in 1000,” says Rougier. “From that point of view, super-eruptions are marginal in light of all the things that we need to worry about right now, and all of the other ways in which our civilization might experience a catastrophe over the next few thousand years.
That being said, Rougier notes, there definitely are communities around the world that are at risk for large — but not super — eruptions.
“They do need to plan and to invest in order to reduce their risk.”
A Turkish university is including a new course called “Ufology and Exopolitics” in its curriculum. The Dogan News Agency reported that the purpose of the class is to prepare students for the possibility of extraterrestrial contact.
“We believe representatives from the world and extraterrestrial civilizations will soon be making official contact with each other. We think they will be in an open and mass contact,” the class’s tutor, Erhan Kolbaşi, told the Dogan agency. “[It will be the] biggest change seen in the history of the world.”
The course will focus not just on practical preparations and galactic diplomacy but also on the purported history of cover-ups related to alien contact. Kolbaşi, who told Dogan he expects contact within 15 years, also maintains that aliens have already visited Earth and that technologies like fiber-optic cable, microchips and night-vision instruments were developed from intelligence gathered at crash sites. He claimed that public knowledge of this kind of alien activity is being suppressed by a group known as MJ-12.
BREAKING NEWS ON UFOLOGY!.. “Dear Friends and Colleagues, The news on the courses on “Ufology & Exopolitics” that had been officially launched at “Akdeniz University (Antalya/Turkey)” received a substantial mainstream national media coverage in Turkey...https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1208648475903901&id=100002762809852 …
Kolbaşi is the deputy chair of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center, in Istanbul. MJ-12 has been the province of conspiracy theorists for years and also is the plot basis of the 1997 film Men in Black.
MJ-12 is short for Majestic 12, a vast, allegedly secret organization that President Harry Truman (allegedly) created to handle instances of alien contact and to (allegedly) keep them hidden from the public, even if that meant killing those who learned too much. Allegedly, anyway.
An artist's rendering of another planet's landscape.
NASA JPL
A journalist who previously requested the first documents to mention MJ-12 under the Freedom of Information Act explained in The Huffington Post that while the truth behind the rumors remained unclear, a lot of the claims were predicated on misinformation. And, in an FBI investigation of the first documents to mention the group, the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations ruled they were “bogus.”
“In 1988, two FBI offices received similar versions of a memo titled “Operation Majestic-12…” claiming to be highly classified government document,” the FBI records from its Vault website read. “The memo appeared to be a briefing for newly-elected President Eisenhower on a secret committee created to exploit a recovery of an extra-terrestrial aircraft and cover up this work from public examination. An Air Force investigation determined the document to be a fake.”
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CANADIAN PHYSICS PROFESSOR CLAIMS TO HAVE UNCOVERED ETI SIGNALS FROM 234 STARS
CANADIAN PHYSICS PROFESSOR CLAIMS TO HAVE UNCOVERED ETI SIGNALS FROM 234 STARS
For quite a while, humans have been curious to find out if life exists beyond the small fraction of the universe we occupy. For instance, we have been fascinated by UFO sightings and reports of aliens being found, regardless of how fake or silly it may sound. Furthermore, in the famous radio broadcast "War of the Worlds, "many humans believed that aliens were actually going after them, and many US states evacuated even though they were told before the start of the program that it was all a dramatization.
This human fascination with the supernatural has led some researchers to believe that special signals coming from 234 stars are extraterrestrial beings also trying to find out if they are the only inhabitants of the universe. These 1.65 picosecond long pulses are thought to have originated from some sort of extraterrestrial life form.
This isn't the first time humans have tried searching for extraterrestrial life: back when the MERCURY unmanned probes still existed, scientists sent along gold plates of data regarding the human race, and a CD with greetings in many of Earth's languages. Perhaps this discovery means that the extraterrestrial life forms have received our message and are replying back.
However, this could also be a hoax. 1.65 picosecond pulses could be a result of instrumental inaccuracies or poor observer measurement. Additionally, the length of time is so small that the perfect hoaxer would make it look as if it was a believable amount of time but significant enough to spark interest.
Space exploration is constantly getting better, and maybe in the future, we will be able to debunk the mysteries of extraterrestrial life once and for all!
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Flat Earth Society gaat in discussie met Elon Musk, en wat daarop volgt is gewoon geweldig - HLN.be
Flat Earth Society gaat in discussie met Elon Musk, en wat daarop volgt is gewoon geweldig - HLN.be
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HET LEUKSTE VAN HET WEBOndanks het overweldigende wetenschappelijke bewijs zijn er nog steeds mensen die geloven dat de aarde plat is. De Flat Earth Society heeft zelfs een geverifieerde Twitteraccount, met een erg actieve beheerder. Die ging eerder deze week in discussie met Elon Musk, CEO van Tesla, en dat leverde een geweldig staaltje internetgoud op.
Als je ervan uitgaat dat de aarde plat is, zou je logischerwijs denken dat hetzelfde geldt voor de andere planeten. Maar aan logica doet de Flat Earth Society duidelijk niet mee. Toen Elon Musk eergisteren op Twitter met een knipoog vroeg waarom er geen Flat Mars Society bestaat, besloten de aanhangers van de platte aarde zich te mengen in de discussie.
“Hey Elon, bedankt voor je vraag. In tegenstelling tot de Aarde hebben we kunnen observeren dat Mars rond is. We hopen dat je een fantastische dag hebt!”, klonk het beleefde doch ietwat dubieuze antwoord. En daarmee ontketenden ze een Twitterstorm die ons nog lang zal heugen.
De Flat Earth Society werd met veel sarcasme op de korrel genomen, en het moet gezegd: de twitteraar achter de account beschikt over veel doorzettingsvermogen en een goed gevoel voor humor. De man of vrouw bleef maar antwoorden op ironische vragen en niet al te subtiele uithalen. Hij liet zich lustig meeslepen in een semantische discussie over het verschil tussen ronde, sferische en bolvormige objecten:
By no means! Those who believe the Earth to be round claim that it is an oblate spheroid - since the spin of the Earth would slowly bulge it out of shape.
BIZARDe mythe van de yeti, ofwel de verschrikkelijke sneeuwman, is onuitroeibaar. De reusachtige aap wordt al eeuwenlang waargenomen in de Himalaya en het Tibetaanse Hoogland. Wetenschappers hebben negen vermeende sporen van de yeti onderzocht.
Het resultaat is ontnuchterend: het gaat om acht beren en een hond. De onderzochte sporen betreffen onder meer haren en tanden, zoals gevonden door de bewoners van de bergen in Nepal, Bhutan en China. De wetenschappers van onder meer de universiteit in het Amerikaanse Buffalo lieten de nieuwste genetische technieken op de aangedragen voorbeelden los.
Maar de haren bleken van beren en de tanden behoorden tot het gebit van een hond, zo meldt The Guardian. Wel waren de sporen van sommige beren niet geheel thuis te brengen. De wetenschappers zeggen dat het om een onbekende berensoort gaat. De onderzoekers legden ook nog ‘bewijs’ van enkele musea en dierenparken onder de loep. Ook in deze gevallen ging het om materiaal van de bruine beer die in de Himalaya leeft.
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There are rules of the physical world that don’t apply to the mental world. You can fly in a dream. You can imagine a squirrel talking to you. The realm of dreams and imagination is, however, often thought of as self-contained. It has no tangible bearing on the world at large.
Precognitive dreams have taught Dr. Julia Mossbridge otherwise. “I think that precognition is a kind of mental time travel into the future to get information,” she said. “We’re just so used to applying the rules of the physical world to the mental world that we don’t really get it that there are different rules. That’s a different domain.”
She continued: “The separation that we have between people in space and the separation we have between events in time in the physical world, who says that has to apply to the mental world?”
Precognitive dreams suggest the mind doesn’t follow the rules we usually apply to the physical world, says Mossbridge.
Mossbridge is a cognitive neuroscientist. She has been working with physicists and psychologists to figure out the rules of mental time travel. Her book, “Transcendent Mind,” co-authored with Dr. Imants Barušs, was published last year by the American Psychological Association.
Having a major scientific institution publish this book is a significant step forward for the many scientists who have seriously studied precognition, a “shared mind,” and other phenomena that suggests the mind exists beyond the brain.
Mossbridge’s personal experience with precognitive dreams started her on this research path. She said that one such dream, “knocked my socks off.”
Mossbridge had a dream that accurately predicted an event in great detail.
At the time she had the dream, she was going through a divorce. She had a 5-year-old child and didn’t know where they would live. She thought of an area where she used to live and thought it would be nice to return there.
In her dream, she called a landlady in the area that she knows. The landlady told her she had a two-story rental property. The upstairs unit had been recently refurbished and was already occupied. The downstairs unit was being refurbished and would be ready in two months. The landlady said she could show Mossbridge around the upstairs unit so she could get an idea of what the downstairs would look like when finished. If she were to sign the lease right away, she could pick the color of the paint.
In waking life, after the dream, Mossbridge didn’t call the landlady; she ran into her instead. But every other minute detail of her dream came true—the two-story property, the refurbishing, the two months until the bottom floor would be finished, picking the paint color, all of it.
“People both have dreams that seem mundane and dreams about things that are really important in their lives. Precognition works that way,” Mossbridge said. “But I’m kind of starting to get convinced that the things that seem mundane are not. That they’re more like signposts in your life. You don’t recognize them as important events, but later you go, ‘Oh yeah.'”
For example, the first precognitive dream she remembers was one she had as a child. She dreamed that her friend lost her watch on the playground, and it really happened the next day. It was a mundane event, but looking back on it, it seems important to Mossbridge. The watch represents time, a topic that would be central to her studies later in life.
As a scientist, Mossbridge asks herself whether it’s confirmation bias. In science, confirmation bias generally refers to interpreting information in a way that will confirm a preexisting belief. A meaningless dream could become “precognitive” if you look back on it and intentionally search for connections to events in waking life.
That’s why Mossbridge tests these things scientifically.
Experiments have shown people unconsciously know what’s going to happen in the future.
A file photo of a man wearing an Electroencephalography (EEG) cap. (Ulrich W.)
For example, she conducted a meta-analysis of experiments from seven independent laboratories indicating that the human body reacts to future stimuli. When something is about to happen, a person unconsciously already knows it’s going to happen. This unconscious response can be tested in a lab by measuring reactions in the nervous system, sweat glands, or heart rate.
Mossbridge described how this presentiment works with an analogy of a stick being dragged through water. The stick represents an event. There are ripples on both sides of it, representing the emotional disturbance we feel from the event. The ripples before the stick aren’t as pronounced, the ripples after the stick are bigger. Similarly, the emotional response to an event is more subtle before the event occurs than afterward.
She is also working on experiments to show that people can use remote viewing and precognitive dreaming to predict stock market events.
What if we could predict terror attacks?
A file photo of a reported suicide car bomb attack by Islamic State (IS) in Kobani, Syria. (Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)
Predicting mass-shooting or bombing attacks could especially help people. In 2015, Mossbridge had a precognitive dream about an Islamic State (IS) bombing in Kuwait.
She had the dream the same night it happened and a lot of the details matched up. She saw it happening during midday prayer; she saw the number 27, which was the number of people killed; she saw the letters “IS.” Some of the details didn’t match, like she thought it was in Israel, not Kuwait.
Dr. Julia Mossbridge’s journal, where she recorded an apparently precognitive dream about a bombing on July 26, 2015. Screenshot/Skype)
Nonetheless, Mossbridge thinks that if people could share their premonitions via an online registry, it might help. If the registry receives dozens of premonition accounts that all match up in certain regards, it could indicate an event is likely to occur.
People could avoid a certain location if a lot of people have premonitions of an attack at that location at a certain time.
Envision a future with a central premonitions registry.
Although there have been some attempts to create a premonitions registry, Mossbridge said, “They don’t seem to catch on because people can’t be out of the closet with this stuff. People are scared. If I were to tell someone about that dream about the bombing, if it was too much detail, they might be coming up to my house and saying, ‘So, you did this bombing,’” she said.
Since we don’t know how to deal with this information, she said, we say that people with premonitions are crazy, “Or more generously, those people are seeing coincidences as something that’s meaningful, but they’re just coincidences.”
While thinking about time and transcendent mental abilities are some of Mossbridge’s favorite things to do, she also works on all kinds of other cool projects. Her roles include research director of the Mossbridge Institute, director of the Innovation Lab at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and visiting scholar at Northwestern University.
Her daily work includes using compassionate robots to make people happy, developing apps to help people listen to their intuition and test their psychic abilities, and teaching Silicon Valley programmers to take care of their minds.
In Beyond Science, The Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below.
Is helderziendheid een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen? Neurowetenschapper komt tot opmerkelijke conclusies
Is helderziendheid een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen? Neurowetenschapper komt tot opmerkelijke conclusies
Helderziendheid is een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen naar de toekomst om informatie te krijgen. Dat heeft dr. Julia Mossbridge gezegd.
“We zijn gewend om de regels in de fysieke wereld toe te passen op de mentale wereld, maar we begrijpen niet dat daar andere regels gelden,” zei ze. “Het is een ander domein.”
“In de fysieke wereld kennen we de scheiding tussen mensen in de ruimte en de scheiding tussen gebeurtenissen, maar wie zegt dat dat ook van toepassing is op de mentale wereld?” vroeg ze.
Toevallig
Mossbridge is een neurowetenschapper en werkt samen met natuurkundigen en psychologen om te achterhalen hoe mentaal tijdreizen werkt.
Ze begon haar onderzoek nadat ze zelf een voorspellende droom had. Toen ze die droom had lag ze in scheiding. Ze had een kind van vijf en wist niet waar ze zou gaan wonen.
In haar droom belde ze een huurbazin die ze kende. De huurbazin zei dat ze binnen twee maanden iets beschikbaar had.
Na de droom kwam Mossbridge de huurbazin ‘toevallig’ tegen op straat. Elk detail van de droom werd werkelijkheid.
Onbewust
Mossbridge heeft onder meer experimenten van zeven onafhankelijke laboratoria geanalyseerd waaruit blijkt dat het menselijk lichaam reageert op toekomstige prikkels.
Als er iets staat te gebeuren, weet iemand dat onbewust al. Deze reactie kan worden getest in een laboratorium door reacties in het zenuwstelsel, de zweetklieren en de hartslag te meten.
Ze werkt ook aan experimenten die aantonen dat mensen remote viewing (verzien) en voorspellende dromen kunnen gebruiken om te voorspellen wat er op de aandelenbeurs gaat gebeuren.
Voorkomen
In 2015 had dr. Mossbridge een voorspellende droom over een bomaanslag van terreurgroep IS in Koeweit.
Ze had de droom op dezelfde dag dat het gebeurde en veel van de details klopten. Ze zag het getal 27, wat stond voor het aantal slachtoffers, en de letters IS.
Mossbridge denkt dat het een goed idee zou zijn om een register op internet te openen waar mensen hun voorspellende dromen kunnen delen.
Misschien kan dat helpen om aanslagen te voorkomen, zei ze.
Huiverig
Er zijn al enkele pogingen gedaan, maar mensen zijn over het algemeen erg huiverig om hun ervaringen te delen.
Ze zijn bang dat ze zelf van een bomaanslag worden verdacht als ze te veel details geven, aldus de neurowetenschapper.
“Omdat we niet weten wat we met deze informatie aan moeten, zeggen we dat helderziende mensen gek zijn,” zei ze. “Of dat het slechts toeval is.”
Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2017 shows Chang Jin, chief scientist of Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), introducing the science achievement of DAMPE Satellite, "Wukong", at the PMO in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. China's DAMPE has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter.
The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution.
"DAMPE has opened a new window for observing the high-energy universe, unveiling new physical phenomena beyond our current understanding," said Chang Jin, chief scientist of DAMPE and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature.
"This is the first time a space experiment has reported a detailed and precise electron and positron spectrum up to about 5 TeV. In this energy range, we found some unexpected and interesting features. We have detected a spectral break at 0.9 TeV and a possible spike at 1.4 TeV," said Chang.
Precise measurement of cosmic rays, especially at the very high energy range, is important for scientists to look for traces of dark matter annihilation or decay, as well as to understand the most energetic astrophysical phenomena in the universe, such as pulsars, active galaxy nuclei and supernova explosions. "Our data may inspire some new ideas in particle physics and astrophysics," said Chang.
Dark matter, which cannot be seen or touched, is one of the great mysteries of science. Scientists calculate that normal matter, such as galaxies, stars, trees, rocks and atoms, accounts for only about 5 percent of the universe. However, about 26.8 percent of the universe is dark matter and 68.3 percent dark energy.
China sent DAMPE into an orbit of about 500 kilometers above the earth on December 17, 2015, to look for evidence of the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles in space.
DAMPE has the widest energy range coverage and the highest energy resolution of all the dark matter probes currently in space. Based on the satellite's data, scientists drew the cosmic ray electron and positron spectrum.
To their surprise, scientists found a break at around 0.9 TeV and a strange spike at around 1.4 TeV on the spectrum. "We never expected such signals," Chang said.
"The spike might indicate that there exists a kind of unknown particle with a mass of about 1.4 TeV," said Chang.
"All the 61 elementary particles predicted by the standard model of particle physics have been found. Dark matter particles are beyond the list. So if we find a new elementary particle, it will be a breakthrough in physics," he added.
"The spike is very unusual," said Fan Yizhong, deputy chief designer of the scientific application system of DAMPE. "The signals might have originated from either dark matter or pulsars. Even if they were from pulsars, it would be quite a strange astrophysical phenomenon that nobody had known before."
"However, the data of the strange signal are still not enough. We need to collect more data to make sure it's real," Chang said.
More than 100 Chinese scientists and engineers, together with those from Switzerland and Italy, took part in the development of DAMPE and the analysis of its data.
Researchers have ruled out the possibility that the unusual signals are caused by a malfunction of the satellite's detectors. Independent analyses from five different teams all came to the same conclusion, said Chang.
DAMPE's design life is three years, but as it is performing so well, scientists expect it to work much longer. "DAMPE will continue to collect data to help us better understand the anomaly and might bring dark matter out of the shadows," said Chang.
Nobel Laureate Samuel Chao Chung Ting, leader of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment on the International Space Station, said of DAMPE, "It's a very good experiment."
Bi Xiaojun, a particle physicist at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the CAS, said DAMPE's observations are important to help scientists better understand the origin of cosmic rays.
"The satellite's data on the spike at 1.4 TeV are still not enough to declare a physical discovery. If the signal can be confirmed with the accumulation of data, it would be of great significance," Bi said.
"That could be explained by either dark matter or an astrophysical source. If we use dark matter to explain it, dark matter would be different from what we thought before. It conforms to the popular dark matter model of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP), but has some special features," Bi said.
Chen Hesheng, a CAS academician, said that even if a candidate dark matter particle is found, it still needs other experiments such as underground detection or collider experiments to confirm it, which would be difficult.
Illustration of the Wukong space telescope. China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. (photo provided to China News Service)
The photo shows Chang Jin, chief scientist of Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), introducing the findings made by DAMPE Satellite, "Wukong", at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China. China's DAMPE has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Photo: China News Service/Zhang Su
Photo taken on Dec. 17, 2015 shows a Long March 2-D rocket carrying the Dark Matter Particle Explorer satellite blasting off. China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
Photo taken on Dec. 24, 2015 shows scientists of the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), work with the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, "Wukong", at the science mission hall of the center in Beijing, capital of China.(Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2017 shows Fan Yizhong, deputy chief designer of the scientific application system of the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), introduces research findings at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)
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