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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.
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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.
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05-04-2018
Phosphorus — a crucial ingredient for life — might be a lot less common in the universe than we thought
Phosphorus — a crucial ingredient for life — might be a lot less common in the universe than we thought
The Crab Nebula as seen by five different observatories
(animation; 10 May 2017).
Phosphorus, denoted by the symbol P in the periodic table, is the 11th most common element on Earth. It is fundamental to all living things, being essential for the creation of DNA, cell membranes, and for bone and teeth formation in humans. According to a new study by astronomers at Cardiff University, there seems to be far less of this precious element lurking in the rest of the universe than we used to think. If extraterrestrial life is similar to that on Earth, then the odds of it existing have just depreciated considerably.
P is for life
Phosphorus is one of just six chemical elements that are thought to be indispensable to the functioning of Earth organisms. Phosphorus cannot be manufactured or destroyed, and there is no substitute or synthetic version of it available. Astronomers claim that phosphorus in created in supernovae, which are massive explosions of dying stars. Dr. Jane Greaves of Cardiff University observed that the observed amounts of phosphorus in the universe don’t match the computer models, and naturally wondered what this implies for life on other planets given the unpredictable nature of phosphorus production.
Using the William Herschel Telescope, sited on La Palma in the Canary islands, Greaves and colleagues probed the famous Crab Nebula in infrared for signs of phosphorus and iron. The first element supports life, while the second is a major part of our planet’s core. The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant around 6500 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Taurus.
This was only the second study of phosphorus from supernovae ever made. The first such study looked at the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant. By comparing phosphorus content from both supernovae, the researchers concluded that there seems to be far less phosphorus in the Crab Nebula than in Cas A. The latter is the explosion of a rare type of supermassive star, which might explain the discrepancy in phosphorus content.
More observations by different telescopes could reveal more insight and complete some of the missing pieces of the puzzle. For instance, it could be that there are some phosphorus-rich regions in the Crab Nebula that astronomers have overlooked. But, so far, these preliminary results suggest that the amount of phosphorus blown into space can vary wildly. In the future, the researchers plan on studying more supernovae to establish how common it is to find supernova remnants that lack phosphorus.
“The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious. We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth—probably in meteorites—were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules,” Greaves said in a statement.
‘If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I’m wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born? That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova? In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own.”
The findings were presented this week at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.
The Hidden Secrets of Cholula, The Largest Pyramid On Earth
The Hidden Secrets of Cholula, The Largest Pyramid On Earth
The Largest Pyramid on Earth isn’t the Great Pyramid of Giza. Halfway around the world, in modern-day Mexico lie the ruins of a majestic ancient structure which rightfully holds the title as the largest pyramid ever built.
Said to have been erected by the giant Xelhua, according to Aztec Mythology, this ancient structure is believed to have taken ten centuries to build.
The pyramid of Cholula, in the state of Puebla, is the most massive building erected by man, not even the pyramids of Egypt, (although higher) occupy so many cubic meters of material.
It was allegedly built by a giant who wanted to build a pyramid that reaches to heaven, says mythology; but archaeologists are convinced that thousands of builders participated in its construction, taking them at least ten centuries to complete.
The site itself is shrouded in magic and mystery.
Model of the city and Great Pyramid of Cholula. Cholula Museum, Puebla, Mexico.
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The ancient archaeological site of Cholula has been the center of study four archaeologists end exporter from all around the world.
In this article, we bring you the most important facts about the archaeological site home to the largest and most massive pyramid on the surface of the planet.
One of the most important facts, which many people are unaware of is thatthe great pyramid of Cholula is larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The pyramid of Giza, in Egypt, occupies 2 million 500 thousand cubic meters, but the pyramid of Cholula comprises 4 million 500 thousand cubic meters, which makes it the largest building built by man.
Mythology says Giants built it.
According to mythology, in ancient times, the earth was inhabited by giants, but after a massive flood swept over the Earth, all died except Xelhua, who in gratitude, built what we know today as Cholula, one of the most massive pyramids in the world. This giant wanted to build a gigantic pyramid that reached to the heavens.
But Tonacatecutli, father of all the gods, saw this as an offense and launched a rock from the heavens in the killing off many of the builders, causing the construction to halt.
The last excavations done inside the pyramid of Cholula to explore the interior of this massive structure were conducted from 1966 to 1974, led by Miguel Messmacher.
However, exploration was halted for two reasons: the possibility that explorations would cause the entire Pyramid to collapse, and because of the risk of damaging the foundations of the church that was built at the top, which is protected by INAH.
Because there aren’t any written documents, no one knows when the pyramids construction process began.
However, archaeologists believe that it was in 300 BC or at the beginning of the Christian era when thousands of workers started erecting one of the most massive pyramids on the planet.
Bottoms up!
Meet the Mural of Drinkers.
Discovered at a depth of nearly eight meters, the Mural of Drinkers happens to be one of the largest pre-Columbian murals ever discovered in Mexico, having a total length of 57 meters.
The subject of the mural is a feast, featuring personages drinking what is most likely pulque.
Seven Pyramids, not one.
The Great Pyramid of Cholula or the Tlachihualtepetl as its also known, was the product of seven superimposed pyramids, each of which covered the whole of the previous pyramid. This motivated the gradual enlargement of the base, which reached up to four hundred and fifty meters on one side, reaching a height of sixty-six meters.
The current appearance of the great pyramid of Cholula is that of a massive hill on top of which a Catholic church was built, dedicated to the Virgin of the Remedies.
Are aliens real? Grim discovery raises doubts about existence of extraterrestrial life
Are aliens real? Grim discovery raises doubts about existence of extraterrestrial life
Jasper Hamill
The Crab Nebula, a supernova explosion 6,500 light years from Earth
(Photographer: Dr Jane Greaves/University of Cardiff)
The universe could be a more lonely place than we ever imagined. A new study has cast doubt on the existence of alien life after discovering that a chemical called phosphorus is less abundant than anyone expected
The element is vital to energy storage and transfer in cells, and is part of the chemical backbone of DNA.
Phosphorus is created in supernovae, exploding massive stars at the end of their lives.
But the new research suggests that typical supernovae may not provide the conditions needed for forging the element.
Earth may be unusually lucky, because it happened to be situated close enough to the ‘right’ kind of supernova.
Astronomer Dr Jane Greaves, from the University of Cardiff, said: ‘The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious.
‘We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth, probably in meteorites, were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules.
‘If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I’m wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born?
‘That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova? ‘
In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own.’
The evidence comes from observations of two supernova ‘remnants’, Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and the famous Crab Nebula.
The team used the UK’s William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands, to look for signatures of phosphorus and iron from the Crab Nebula, the aftermath of a supernova explosion 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Taurus.
A previous study had searched for phosphorus from Cas A, 11,000 light years away.
for 35 years Comparing results from the two observations showed much less phosphorus from the Crab Nebula than Cas A, which came as a surprise.
Dr Phil Cigan, another of the Cardiff astronomers, said: ‘The two explosions seem to differ from each other, perhaps because Cas A results from the explosion of a rare super-massive star.’
The findings were presented at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science meeting in Liverpool.
The scientists now plan to continue their search to see if other supernova remnants also lack phosphorus.
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UFO researchers release video of strange craft hovering in night sky over NC town
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The video, shot at night, features a hovering v-shaped object illuminated by six lights.
"Whatever it is, it seems to be dropping," says the unidentified man behind the camera. "I'd like to know what the heck those six lights are."
The YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly referred to the object as as a "huge mother ship."
The black and white video is nearly five minutes long. It was posted April 3 on YouTube by the Mutual UFO Network. The video is credited to the UFO Institute.
Among the commenters on the footage was Chris Lo, who posted: "I live in NC near there. If I see it I will shoot at it. I do not come in peace."
A site known as the National UFO Reporting Center says there have been more than 20 reported strange sightings in North Carolina. Among them is one reported in Charlotte on March 18, when someone reported "round orange balls flying over my backyard with no sound."
North Carolina is among the top 10 states in the country for UFO sightings, with several recent reports in Charlotte and the Lake Norman area, according to the National UFO Reporting Center in Davenport, Wash.
Conspiracy theorists have suggested some of the sightings are actually experimental military craft such as TR-3B, an anti-gravity space craft that hovers. Such theories seem plausible, given the presence of Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force in eastern North Carolina.
However, Military.com says the craft "doesn't exist officially."
Strange unidentified flying object over Manchester, UK 3-Apr-2018
Strange unidentified flying object over Manchester, UK 3-Apr-2018
Strange bright object caught on tape over Manchester in United Kingdom earlier this month.
Witness report:
This UFO was spotted over Heywood Manchester. This footage was captured with an Ipad on the 3rd of April of the 2018. The family dog started barking when he saw this scary UFO sighting. The light grew as it came towards the family as they took photo’s with their Iphones. These photo’s failed but the video footage was great. This great disc shaped UFO was being filmed with their smart phones. The object seemed to be turning into a light ring. They zoomed into the object what gives us the amazing the amazing image .This footage offer some of the best video evidence ever of UFO encounter ever.
A series of young stars glimmer in the distance like fireworks in the sky. This image was released in April 2015 to celebrate Hubble's 25th anniversary.
The Hubble Space Telescope has continuously unleashed a stream of jaw-dropping intergalactic imagery since it launched on April 24, 1990. Not only do these images, which look more like paintings at first glance, allow researchers to study distant worlds, galaxies and nebulae, they have captured the minds of the general public, getting us genuinely excited about space exploration. But here's some sad news: despite all of these wonderful things, Hubble is getting older.
In a few short years, Hubble's technology will become fully outdated and NASA will let it drift to a fiery death in the atmosphere, like some crazed band of space Vikings. Once gone, at least we know we'll have the gold-encrusted James Webb Space Telescope to keep the images flowing in. With time marching on, let's not worry about what will happen to everyone's favorite space telescope and, instead, take a look at some of the most amazing pictures it's given us over the years.
A ROSE MADE OF GALAXIES
Released on Hubble's 21st anniversary, a pair of galaxies swirl together to form Arp 273. This unique object formed as two galaxies in the Andromeda constellation passed through one another.NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
WHEN BLACK HOLES COLLIDE
Though there isn't an actual picture of a supermassive black hole (yet), this image possibly captures two of them swirling together and shooting off jets of particles into the universe. Each of these jets, which travel at nearly the speed of light, stretch for thousands of light-years as two galactic nuclei blend together.
Taken in 1995, the 'Pillars of Creation' is one of Hubble's most notable images. Inside, you see three cold columns of gas illuminated by stars in the Eagle Nebula. This re-released version of the original adds more detail by including near-infrared light, which helps expose the various stars behind the pillars. Few other space images have received as much fame and adoration as this one.
The Lagoon Nebula churns with a series of crazy, huge storms. "The region is filled with intense winds from hot stars, churning funnels of gas, and energetic star formation, all embedded within an intricate haze of gas and pitch-dark dust," NASA notes. This colorful image was released in August 2015.
Meet the Eta Carinae system. It has two stars in it and one of them is huge and unstable. Since the 1800s, astronomers with less powerful telescopes have been watching the system's outbursts. However, it wasn't until Hubble came that researchers were able to fully check out the clouds of matter, dubbed the Homunculus Nebula, thrown off by it. This image in particular, which was released in 2012, is one of the most detailed. Researchers refer to these sort of outbursts as 'impostor supernovae' because they appear like normal supernovae but they do not kill off the star.
Known scientifically as NGC 3521, this flocculent spiral galaxy appears woolly because of how stars shine through its dusty clouds. Though it seems incredibly close in this image, it actually lies about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo, and it was discovered back in 1784 by William Herschel. Hubble released this incredibly detailed picture back in 2015, though if you were to look at it with an ordinary backyard telescope it would appear like a giant bubble.
The star system DI Cha was imaged by Hubble in October 2015. The unique bright spot in its center consists of two stars shining through rings of dust, which actually hide two other stars in this quadruple star system. Besides having two pairs of binary stars, the system is notable because it has a large region known as the Chamaeleon Complex, an area that gives birth to brand new stars.
Front and center in this March 2016 Hubble image is a star named IRAS 12196-6300, which lies 2,300 light-years from Earth. Researchers call this type of image a fingerprint because the light spreads out enough for them to understand what chemicals make up the star.
There is just so much going on in this image that it's hard to pin down just one thing to discuss. Inside, we see a ton of young stars inside a nebula. "The nebula reveals a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges and valleys," says a NASA statement. "The pillars, composed of dense gas and thought to be incubators for new stars, are a few light-years tall and point to the central star cluster. Other dense regions surround the pillars, including reddish-brown filaments of gas and dust."
While this may look the cover a direct-to-VHS fantasy film from the late-80s, this Hubble image showcases the open cluster known as Pismis 24, the three stars directly above the nebula. In fact, the biggest star of the three, Pismis 24-1, is one of the largest stars ever recorded at 100 solar masses.
Reminiscent of the default Mac background, this image shows off the galaxy UGC 447, which lies 110 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. Researchers believe galaxies like UGC 447 are composed mainly of dark matter, making them prime targets for future study because, though researchers see evidence of it everywhere, dark matter is super elusive. This is one of the relatively recent images captured by Hubble in April 2016.
To celebrate Hubble's 24th anniversary (they always put out great images for anniversaries), researchers released this image of the Monkey Head Nebula, which is basically a star factory. This region specifically lies about 6,400 light-years from Earth.
New AI Program Classifies Planets and Predicts Probability of Life
New AI Program Classifies Planets and Predicts Probability of Life
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
An infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan, built from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Titan's energy availability and surface and atmosphere characteristics make it a good possible home for life.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
Researchers have developed a new technique that uses artificial intelligence to classify planets and, in turn, determine whether life may exist on other worlds.
The new technique uses so-called artificial neural networks, known as ANNs, to classify planets, based on whether they resemble present-day Earth, early Earth, Mars, Venus or Saturn's largest moon, Titan. These five bodies are among the most potentially habitable objects in our solar system and are therefore associated with a certain probability of life, according to a statementfrom the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science conference.
While Earth is still the only world known to support life, the new data could help astronomers plan future interstellar exploration missions to planets that are more likely than others to host alien life, the researchers said in the statement. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
"We're currently interested in these ANNs for prioritizing exploration for a hypothetical, intelligent, interstellar spacecraft scanning an exoplanet system at range," Christopher Bishop, a researcher from the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University, said in the statement.
ANNs are computer systems that essentially mimic the human brain's learning process. They have proven to be particularly useful for sorting through and identifying patterns in vast amounts of data that would otherwise be too complex and time-consuming for scientists to process, researchers said in the statement.
In this case, the ANNs are fed atmospheric observations, also known as spectra, from present-day Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan and predictions for early Earth — all of which are rocky bodies that have characteristics that suggest the right conditions to support life, according to the statement.
However, since life has yet to be discovered outside of Earth, the ANNs classify planets using a "probability of life" measurement that is based on the atmospheric and orbital properties of the five target bodies in our solar system, the researchers said.
Based on these spectral profiles, the ANNs can predict the habitability of numerous planets, and, as a result, save researchers time by allowing them to focus only on the most promising targets. This technique has been successful for categorizing new planets, according to the statement.
"Given the results so far, this method may prove to be extremely useful for categorizing different types of exoplanets using results from ground-based and near-Earth observatories," Angelo Cangelosi, a supervisor of the project, who is also from the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University, said in the statement.
The researchers hope to apply this technique to data collected during upcoming missions such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Exoplanet Large-survey) space mission.
Their findings were presented today (April 4) at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science conference in Liverpool, England.
Science fiction author Whitley Strieber continues to promote the notion of extraterrestrial visitations. His _Communion: A True Story_ (1987) told of his own close encounter -- actually what psychologist Robert A. Baker has diagnosed as "a classic, textbook description of a hypnopompic hallucination" (or "waking dream"). Now, several money-making books later, Strieber offers _Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us_. In addition to UFO sightings and close encounters, there is the hard evidence, quite literally -- alien implants!
Implants are the latest rage in UFO circles, and Strieber marshals the diagnostic, radiographic, surgical, photographic, and analytic evidence that supposedly indicates -- but admittedly does not prove -- extraterrestrials are implanting devices in human beings.
The concept of implants is an outgrowth of the modern UFO craze which began in 1947. In the 1960s came reports of alien abductions, events now understood to consist largely of waking dreams, hypnosis-induced fantasies, and hoaxes. Implants seem to have begun with the alleged 1967 abduction of a Massachusetts woman, Betty Andreasson, who described a tiny spiked ball that had supposedly been inserted up her nose.
Soon such devices began to proliferate, one of which survived and was thoroughly investigated by the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in the late 1980s. Possessed by a self-claimed abductee, the object had supposedly been implanted by his extraterrestrial abductors, but was later dislodged when he caught a cold and blew his nose. It proved to be a common ball bearing!
Since 1994 alleged implants have been surgically recovered but they've become remarkably diverse: one looks like a shard of glass, another a triangular piece of metal, still another a carbon fiber, and so on. None was located in the brain or nasal cavity, instead being recovered from such extremities as toe, hand, shin, external ear, etc.; some were accompanied by scars while others were not.
As physicians know, a foreign object can enter the body unnoticed, as during a fall, or while running barefoot in sand or grass -- even as a splinter from a larger impacting object. Such foreign objects may become surrounded by a membrane, like several of the recovered "implants."
In _Confirmation_ Whitley Strieber describes several of the implants including one removed from his own external ear by a physician. It turned out to be collagen, the substance from which cartilage is formed. Strieber admits that the promised "hard evidence" provided by implants is not so hard after all: "I hope this book will not cause a rush to judgement," he writes, "with skeptics trying to prove that evidence so far retrieved is worthless while UFO believers conclude that it is proof. Both approaches are a waste of time, because the conclusive evidence has not yet been gathered."
Of course, it is not skeptics but implant advocates who have the burden of proof -- a burden they have emphatically failed to meet. Indeed, the implant concept -- like the larger alien abduction phenomenon itself -- lacks proof that it has an objective reality. Instead, the evidence indicates it is simply part of an evolving UFO mythology. Its theme of entities exerting influence over humans is one seen in many variants, ranging from ancient mythical lore to modern science fiction and persisting in some form in popular culture. There have always been individuals -- fantasizers as well as paranoid schizophrenics -- who have heard voices that directed or controlled them, voices that are expressions of hopes and fears. Therefore it seems safe to predict that, as the millennium draws near, there will be further claims of "hard evidence" of extraterrestrial visitation. We may also expect that misperceptions and exaggerations of natural phenomena, as well as hoaxes, will abound.
A team of scientists from the United States and Russia headed by Sanjay Limam found in the clouds of Venus some black stripes. Experts believe that they were caused by extraterrestrial life. The researchers intend to continue to do research of the planet to confirm or destroy his theory.
Venus is the second planet farthest from the Sun. She may even, despite the proximity to the main body, may have life. There are scientific concepts, which state that about two million years ago Venus had a suitable climate. Nature and the living organisms are unique creatures that can survive in the most dire of circumstances. For example, there is a bacterium that managed to survive on the moon in outer space. Venus also has an atmosphere that can positively influence the development of life in such harsh conditions.
Speaking about conditions of life on Venus, it should be noted that only the average temperature on this planet is equal to 462 degrees Celsius. Venus itself is covered by the opaque clouds that consist of sulfuric acid. They have good reflectivity, which also hides a planet from view. Because of all these factors raises the greenhouse effect that is causing such high temperatures.
Recently, scientists studied photos of the surface of Venus. They noticed strange objects, which are considered living organisms. According to Sanjaya Limaj, these organisms can be bacteria that live in the clouds of the planet. However, this may not be true. There is only one way to test the theory is to fly to Venus and take samples, but this future will not happen just because all eyes are now focused on Mars.
PHYSICIST SAYS OUR UNIVERSE COULD HAVE SPAWNED FROM A BLACK HOLE
PHYSICIST SAYS OUR UNIVERSE COULD HAVE SPAWNED FROM A BLACK HOLE
According to our best understanding of the Universe, if you travel back in time as far as you can, around 13.8 billion years or so, you’ll eventually reach a singularity– a super-dense, hot, and energetic point, where the laws that govern space-time breakdown.
Despite our best attempts, we can’t peer past that singularity to see what triggered the birth of our Universe – but we do know of only one other instance in the history of our Universe where a singularity exists, and that’s inside a black hole. And the two events might have more in common than you’ve ever considered, as physicist Ethan Siegel explains over at Forbes.
It might sound a little crazy, but, as Siegel reports, from a mathematical perspective, at least, there’s no reason that our own Big Bang couldn’t have been the result of a star collapsing into a black hole in an alternate, four-dimensional universe.
In fact, the idea was first proposed by theoretical physicists at the Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo in Canada back in 2014, and despite physicists’ best attempts, no one has been able to rule it out.
So let’s step back for a second here. What we know about the Big Bang is that, immediately after the singularity, our Universe began expanding. Within a few fractions of a second, it underwent a rapid period of inflation, increasing in size by around 1026, before slowing down again and expanding more gradually.
What we know about black holes, is that, in our three-dimensional Universe, black holes spawn a two-dimensional event horizons – which basically means that they’re wrapped in a two-dimensional boundary that marks the ‘point of no return’ for matter.
Below is an artist’s impression of what that might look like:
What black holes and the Big Bang have in common is that they’re the only two instances of a singularity that we know of in the Universe. (A singularity basically just means a point where the rules that govern our Universe no longer work.)
To the best of our knowledge, our Universe is dictated by two sets of rules: quantum mechanics for all the small stuff like particles; and general relativity for all the bigger stuff, like stars, planets, and you and me.
If you crunch the numbers, black holes defy these rules, because their event horizons are bigger than can be explained by the behaviour of the particles inside it.
“The fact that black holes in our Universe are much more massive than this isn’t a problem,” explains Siegel.
“It simply means that the laws of physics that we know break down at the singularity we calculate at the centre. If we ever want to describe it accurately, it’s going to take a unification of quantum theory with general relativity. It’s going to take a quantum theory of gravity.”
For now, though, we don’t have that ‘theory of everything‘, so our understanding of black holes ends at the singularity – just as our understanding of the Universe does.
Knowing that, three physicists from the Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo suggested two years ago that the two singularities could be one and the same – maybe our Universe was born out of the singularity of a much larger black hole.
Or, to put that another way, maybe our Universe is the three-dimensional packaging around another universe’s event horizon.
“In this scenario, our Universe burst into being when a star in a four-dimensional universe collapsed into a black hole,” a Perimeter Institute press release explained back in 2014.
Mathematically speaking, this holds up.
While we can’t calculate what happens with a black hole’s singularity, what we can calculate is what happens on the boundary of the event horizon – and it matches up pretty well with what happened at the birth of our Universe, as Siegel explains.
“As the black hole first formed, from a star’s core imploding and collapsing, the event horizon first came to be, then rapidly expanded and continued to grow in area as more and more matter continued to fall in.
If you were to put a coordinate grid down on this two-dimensional wrapping, you would find that it originated where the gridlines were very close together, then expanded rapidly as the black hole formed, and then expanded more and more slowly as matter fell in at a much lower rate. This matches, at least conceptually, what we observe for the expansion rate of our three-dimensional Universe.”
Of course, this whole idea remains an hypothesis until we have some measurable way of merging the laws of quantum mechanics and general relativity, and peering past a singularity.
But, until then, the coolest thing to consider is that, based on this concept, there’s no reason that our own Universe couldn’t be spawning brand new two-dimensional universes every time black holes are born. “As crazy as it sounds, the answer appears to be maybe,” writes Siegel. Oof.
We can’t wait to eventually get that theory of everything so we can begin to test some of these big ideas out.
You can hear more about the black hole birthing our Universe hypothesis in the video below, and read their full paper on arXiv.org.
Europe’s CryoSat satellite was used – over 7 years – to track 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of Antarctic coastline. It can be seen warm ocean water is eating away at Antarctica’s floating margins.
View larger. | Illustration of the rates of grounding line migration around Antarctica between 2010 and 2016, via ESA.
The European Space Agency said on April 3, 2018, that its CryoSat satellite mission has revealed a shifting inward of the grounding lines of ice sheets in Antarctica. Over the last seven years, according to ESA, Antarctica has lost an area of underwater ice nearly the size of Greater London (about 90 miles, or 140 km across, according to Britannica.com). ESA said the grounding lines – the place where the base of Antarctic ice sheets leave the seabed and begin to float – is shifting inward.
… warm ocean water beneath the continent’s floating margins is eating away at the ice attached to the seabed.
ESA said that between 2010 and 2017, the Southern Ocean melted about 565 square miles (1463 sq km) of underwater ice. A paper describing these results is published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience. The paper describes how CryoSat was used to map grounding-line motion along nearly 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of Antarctic coastline, over seven years.
72 mysterieuze flitsen stellen astronomen voor een raadsel. Wat hebben ze ontdekt?
72 mysterieuze flitsen stellen astronomen voor een raadsel. Wat hebben ze ontdekt?
Met een telescoop in Chili zijn 72 mysterieuze flitsen waargenomen in verafgelegen sterrenstelsels. Astronomen staan voor een raadsel.
Wetenschappers die onderzoek doen naar supernova’s, de explosies die een einde maken aan het leven van reusachtige sterren, legden 72 krachtige lichtflitsen vast.
De raadselachtige flitsen waren net zo helder als supernova’s, maar piekten in een veel korter tijdsbestek en doofden vervolgens veel sneller uit.
Images of one of the transient events, from eight days before the maximum brightness to 18 days afterward: This outburst took place 4 billion light-years from Earth.
Credit: M. Pursiainen/University of Southampton
Maandenlang
De 72 lichtbronnen zijn vastgelegd met behulp van een telescoop die moet helpen bij het onderzoek naar donkere energie, waarover nog maar weinig bekend is.
Hoofdonderzoeker Miika Pursiainen van de Universiteit van Southampton in Engeland zei dat hij nog geen verklaring heeft kunnen vinden voor dit ongewone fenomeen.
De flitsen waren slechts een week tot een maand aan de hemel te zien, terwijl supernova’s doorgaans maandenlang waarneembaar zijn.
Veel onbeantwoorde vragen
De objecten hebben temperaturen tussen de 10.000 en 30.000 graden en afmetingen van een paar honderd miljoen tot zo’n 15 miljard kilometer.
Mogelijk gaat het om sterren die materiaal uitstoten voordat ze exploderen. In de meest extreme gevallen kan zo’n wolk van gas en stof de ster helemaal omringen. Als een ster explodeert licht ook deze cocon op.
De ontdekkingen zijn door Pursiainen gepresenteerd op een conferentie in Liverpool. “Ons werk laat in ieder geval zien dat er nog steeds veel onbeantwoorde vragen zijn,” zei hij.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETZo’n 65 miljoen jaar geleden stonden de dinosaurussen aan de top van de voedselketen, tot een meteorietinslag abrupt een einde maakte aan hun heerschappij op aarde. Dat is toch de gangbare theorie, maar evolutionair expert Gordon Gallup haalt die denkwijze nu onderuit. Volgens hem waren de dino’s al lang op weg naar de uitgang, en wel wegens een gebrek aan smaak.
Prof. Gallup en zijn voormalige student Michael Frederick menen dat de dinosauriërs al in de problemen zaten en aan het uitsterven waren voor een meteoriet ze helemaal van de kaart veegde. Ze leggen dat uit in een nieuwe studie, die gepubliceerd werd in het vakblad Ideas in Ecology and Evolution. Volgens hen lag een fysiologisch probleem aan de basis van de uitsterving: ze hadden een slecht ontwikkeld smaakvermogen.
Het gaat hier meer bepaald om ‘aangeleerde smaakafkeer’, een evolutionair verdedigingsmechanisme dat je vandaag de dag bij de meeste diersoorten ziet. Dat wil zeggen dat dieren kunnen leren welke voeding voor problemen zorgt, zoals buikpijn, en die in de toekomst gaan vermijden. “Dat is waarom we er nooit in geslaagd zijn om ratten volledig uit te roeien, omdat ze geleerd hebben om om te gaan met toxische voeding. Komen ze iets tegen dat ze nog nooit geproefd hebben, dan proberen ze slechts een klein stukje. Bevalt het hen niet, dan zullen ze het voortaan vermijden, omdat ze de geur en smaak linken aan de negatieve gevolgen.”
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Giftige planten
Dino’s hebben dat mechanisme echter nooit ontwikkeld. Aan het einde van hun tijdperk - de overgang van het Krijt naar het Tertiair - ontstonden de eerste bloeiende planten. Die angiospermae waren vaak giftig, maar de dieren bleven ze toch eten, omdat ze de problemen die ze ondervonden niet konden linken aan de planten in kwestie. Heel wat dinosaurussen bezweken aan de gevolgen van de toxiciteit, en hun aantallen begonnen achteruit te gaan.
Gallup kwam tot die conclusie na onderzoek bij krokodillen, die rechtstreeks afstammen van de dino’s. Ook zij bleken geen onderscheid te kunnen maken tussen gezond en giftig voedsel. “Hoewel de meteoriet zeker zijn rol heeft gespeeld, stond de soort daarvoor al zwaar onder druk. Hun brein was niet genoeg ontwikkeld om te beseffen wat ze wel en niet mochten eten. De huidige theorie impliceert dat de dinosauriërs plotseling verdwenen zijn, maar de bewijzen zeggen iets anders: ze waren al lang voor de meteorietinslag aan het uitsterven.
If you had “God particle” in the “What will cause the end of the universe?” pool, you stand a good chance of winning … but a poor chance of collecting your winnings. According to new research, scientists believe the universe will end when a tiny bubble begins expanding at the speed of light and devours everything it meets. Even scarier, the bubble will form inside the Higgs field. If that name sounds familiar, it’s the field of energy that creates the Higgs boson particle – better known as the “God particle” – which was discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2012. If the mass of Higgs boson is altered, it could become the particle in the Higgs field that creates the bubble that eats the universe.
Have you guessed the bad news yet?
“At some point you will create one of these bubbles. It will be very unpleasant.”
Harvard physicist Anders Andreassen is the lead author of the study, published recently in the journal Physical Review D, who links the bubble to Higgs boson. The particle’s mass is currently 125 gigaelectronvolts, but it could change. When it does, the end result is that ever-expanding, universe-killing bubble-to-end-all-bubbles. It’s a good thing that hasn’t happened yet, right? Right?
“It’s possible that a bubble has already formed and is hurtling toward us at the speed of light right now.”
Live Science reports that Andreassen gave that depressing observation in an interview. Hopefully, we’ll at least be able to see it coming and make preparations for our demise, right? Right?
“It is sobering to envision this bubble, with its wall of negative energy, barreling towards us at the speed of light. We will never see it coming.”
Is there any good news or should we storm CERN and shut it down?
The Large Hadron Collider
Fortunately, Andreassen and company have been able to at least figure out approximately when the end of the universe will happen — between 10 quinquadragintillion years (one with 139 zeros after it) and 10 octodecillion years (one with 58 zeros after it).
“That is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time. Our sun will burn up and many things will happen in our solar system before this is very likely to happen.”
Well, that a little good news, right? Right?
Yes, unless you’re one of those physicists who believes the universe will end in a battle between matter and dark matter, which could happen at any time.
Every now and again, when I’m either lecturing on the Men in Black phenomenon, or being interviewed on radio on the subject, the matter of Jello surfaces. Yeah, really. It’s a fact that the MIB and Jello have a connection, as strange as it certainly sounds. Google “Men in Black + Jello” and you’ll see what I mean. You will find numerous references online to a certain case from the 1960s – involving a Man in Black and Jello. But, not everyone knows the full story. So, today, I thought I would rectify that.
John Keel, the author of the acclaimed 1975 book, The Mothman Prophecies, was someone who had a deep interest in the Men in Black enigma and who even found himself in their clutches from time to time. Of the many cases that Keel personally investigated, one of the strangest has persisted – probably because of its sheer weirdness. It’s a story which had its origins in late 1966. And, it’s a story which Keel shared in his 1970 book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse. Keel also made mention of the case on many occasions in his lectures, too. But, on with the story.
The location was a field in a rural part of the 19th century city of Owatonna, Minnesota. It was late one night in ’66 when a Mrs. Butler and a friend were staring at a patch of the night sky, watching a curious display of unidentified bright lights dance around. Without warning, one of the lights dropped from the heavens at high speed. Just before it hit the ground, the UFO came to a sudden halt, bobbing just a few feet above the field, not unlike a small boat on ocean waters. In disturbing fashion, Mrs. Butler fell to the ground and briefly appeared to be under some kind of supernatural possession. Suddenly, the light shot away, vanishing into the night sky, and Mrs. Butler recovered. Ominously, and for the next few days, whenever the two friends tried to share the details of their encounter they were hit by pummeling migraines and debilitating weakness. But, there was something else, too.
During the course of the interview between Mrs. Butler and John Keel, something very intriguing surfaced. Quite out of the blue, she asked Keel if he knew anything about mysterious men visiting UFO witnesses; men who looked like military personnel, but who may not have been. Keel, who was hardly a stranger to the MIB phenomenon, played matters down a bit and said that, yes, he had heard a few such stories. Actually, Keel had dozens of such cases on record, but he didn’t want to risk influencing Mrs. Butler. Instead, Keel sat back and listened as she told her story.
Mrs. Butler told Keel that some six months after the UFO sighting, a “Major Richard French” turned up on her doorstep, identifying himself as a representative of the military and asking questions about flying saucers. Just like all of the Men in Black, there was something just not right about Major French: his skin was an odd shade of olive. His face was extremely pointed, and particularly so his chin. He spoke English, but his accent was as blank as it could be. And he was dressed in a suit and a black tie, rather than in a military outfit.
Very oddly, Major French – quite out of the blue – said that his stomach was causing him some trouble. Mrs. Butler offered him some Jello, which he quickly declined. He soon left. The next day, though, the major was back. Yet again, he complained about his stomach. Mrs. Butler again offered him a bowl of Jello, hoping that it might help. Here is where surreal became beyond surreal. For a moment or two, Major French stared at the Jello, seemingly completely unaware of what it was. He then stared at the spoon Mrs. Butler had given him, as if he had no comprehension of what it was. He then awkwardly picked up the bowl and proceeded to try and drink the Jello. Mrs. Butler went silent and stared in disbelief. Major French did not hang around, realizing, it seems, that Mrs. Butler knew something was not quite normal – which is an understatement of absolutely epic proportions. He quickly left, never again bothering Mrs. Butler.
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Large ROGUE object moving under the Sun
Large ROGUE object moving under the Sun
Over the years there is much written about a celestial body hidden out of sight that has not been discovered yet, although evidence is building, astronomers say as well as NASA has admitted that that there is a mysterious world called Planet Nine.
The theory is that a mysterious celestial body is lurking on the edge of our solar system with a huge orbit of the sun and although there are many videos showing an unknown huge celestial body often called as a second sun, Nibiru or PlanetX maybe the best example of a possible planetary body near the sun has been caught on the following video.
The video clearly shows an unknown massive object that orbits the sun. MrMB333 who has uploaded the video wonders whether the object is a planetary body, a binary star, or something else what can be explained.
Black UFO Comes Out Of Cloud Recorded By Passenger On Jet, March 2018, 2 videos, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Comes Out Of Cloud Recorded By Passenger On Jet, March 2018, 2 videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 22, 2018 Location of sighting: USA Here is a black mostly cloaked UFO following a passenger plane and was noticed by a person looking out his window. The UFO is seen rising up out of the lower clouds and then turns and begins to follow the direction of the plane, but keeping its distance. This is the same type of alien craft that I reported back in 2015, also seen by a passenger from a jet. I will place the video which is mine from the eyewitness at the bottom of this post to compare and contrast. Click here to see that old 2015 post. The dark UFO hides in the clouds and when a passing jet interests it, it comes out to take a closer look. The UFO is scanning the plane, gathering information and even recording the thoughts of the passengers. Yes, most aliens can hear your thoughts when close. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
Something Strange or UFO Coming Out of The Clouds Next To Plane.
Below is my video on my Channel from an eyewitness back in July of 2015.
Now the USAF is reporting that an F-16 crashed while doing training at Nellis AFB, however I think its all a cover up. You see, Nellis AFB is famous for having an alien base of Tall Whites located behind the old firing range. I believe that a Tall White ship saw the moves of a F-16 as threatening and shot it down. For instance the F-16 could have locked its laser tracking missile system on the UFO...that could be seen as threatening. Tall Whites are said to be hyper aggressive. Tall Whites see themselves as superior to humans and have killed USAF soldiers before for such things as pushing a child Tall White away from your gun, touching a child Tall White at all, or defying any demand they make. Yeah, not the superior species many hoped for, but the US military seems to think there is a great benefit in having them there, probably for military trade. Do you want to learn more about the Tall Whites at Nellis? Then watch this interview of a man who was a non military go between for the Tall Whites and the USAF. Scott C. Waring
Science fiction has had a profound impact on our cultural consciousness when it comes to how we imagine what advanced alien races might be like. In some ways, sci-fi has shaped the contemporary imagination, leading to a great deal of misinterpretation of phenomena we observe in space. We just really want there to be massive motherships zooming through the universe, living out real-life space operas that would put Battlestar Galactica or the Bloodbath of B-R5RB to shame. At least, I really want that to be real. Whether it is or not, astronomers have recently observed what can only be described as a series of extremely bright explosions in space, and there is so far no good explanation. Have we witnessed an intergalactic battle in deep space?
It’d be a lot cooler if we did. Unfortunately, this was likely just another natural phenomenon. We’re utterly alone out here.
The events were detected by the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Programme (DES-SN), a collaborative program carried out at 25 different astronomical institutions which is aimed at tracking down and identifying supernovae and dark matter in the vast black reaches of space. According to their estimates, these explosions – or whatever they were – occurred in a corner of the universe around 4 billion light years away. These mysterious events were extremely hot, with temperatures ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 degrees Celsius (our Sun’s surface temperature, by comparison, is around 5,000 Celsius on average). These explosions were also enormous, ranging in size from several times the distance from Earth to Sun to up to a hundred. Whatever these events were, they were terrifying to behold.
Astronomers with The Royal Society still aren’t sure what exactly could have caused these bright explosions. Typically, supernovae last several months, but these events displayed maximum brightness for only a week or so. One theory posits that a powerful supernovae could have incinerated a cloud of material ejected from a dying star, although much more data is needed before any conclusions can be drawn. Although I have to wonder: would we be able to identify something truly anomalous or unique if we witnessed it? Or what scientists reach for the most likely explanation based on our current knowledge, publish the paper, and move on?
It’s hard to say. Miika Pursiainen of the University of Southampton has been analyzing the data but has so far been left with more questions than answers. “If nothing else,” she says, our work confirms that astrophysics and cosmology are still sciences with a lot of unanswered questions!” When it comes to the mysteries of space, aren’t those the best kind? With the Earth feeling much smaller than it ever did, we need something grand to explore.
The aptly named Shroud of Turin has been shrouded in mystery since its appearance in the mid-14th century. Stored in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, it is considered by many to bear the image of Jesus of Nazareth, miraculously transferred to the cloth when it allegedly wrapped the body after burial. Others who believe the carbon dating which indicates the cloth was made in the mid-14th century refer to the mysterious image as the Man in the Shroud. Whoever it is, we now had a 3D sculpture of the image, courtesy of Giulio Fanti, a teacher of mechanical and thermal measurements at the University of Padua in Padua, Italy, and a student of the Shroud.
Full-length photo of the Shroud of Turin
“This statue is the three-dimensional representation in actual size of the Man of the Shroud, created following the precise measurements taken from the cloth in which the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion. Therefore, we believe that we finally have the precise image of what Jesus looked like on this earth. From now on, He may no longer be depicted without taking this work into account.”
From that quote in the Italian weekly magazine Chi and reported by Turin’s La Stampa news source, there seems to be no doubt in Fanti’s mind whose image is on the shroud … and now on a three-dimensional statue (picture here). While is well-protected in Turin from both the curious and the elements (the last public viewing was arranged by Pope Francis in 2013), Giulio Fanti has had access to the Shroud and numerous photographs and tests of it in his quest to prove its validity and disprove the carbon-dating tests. He’s the head of the Shroud Science Group, about 140 scientists dedicated to study of it, and has authored 8 books and more than 50 scientific works on the Shroud.
As a professor of mechanical engineering, Fanti was an ideal candidate to look at the two-dimensional measurements of the Man in the Shroud as a blueprint and translate them into three-dimensional directions which were then given to plaster master Sergio Rodella, who made the actual statue. In that respect, it’s no surprise that the ‘man in the statue’, like the Man in the Shroud, measures 5 feet, 11 inches in height, has a beard, long hair and Caucasian features, and looks like a man who died traumatically.
“On the Shroud, I counted 370 wounds from the flagellation, without taking into account the wounds on his sides, which the Shroud doesn’t show because it only enveloped the back and front of the body. We can therefore hypothesize a total of at least 600 blows. In addition, the three-dimensional reconstruction has made it possible to discover that at the moment of his death, the man of the Shroud sagged down towards the right, because his right shoulder was dislocated so seriously as to injure the nerves.”
The wounds may match a crucifixion, but the size and features don’t match what other historians believe Jesus of Nazareth looked like. In her new book, “What Did Jesus Look Like?“, Joan Taylor, professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King’s College London, used archaeology, images on coins and in paintings, and texts from the time period to determine what Jews in Judea and Egypt at the time of Jesus looked like. From that, Taylor thinks Jesus was about 5 feet 5 inches (1.7 meters) tall with brown eyes, black hair and olive-brown skin … but no long hair, beard or European nose and features. (Depictions here)
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin
Scientifically speaking, Fanti has created an accurate 3-D statue of the Man in the Shroud, and Taylor has depicted an accurate image of what a Jewish man living in Nazareth at the time of Jesus would look like. Do either conclusively prove or disprove the identity of the Man in the Shroud? No. Does the Catholic Church or any other religious body require belief that the Man in the Shroud is Jesus of Nazareth? No.
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
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