CERN Scientists Find Further Evidence That the Universe 'Should Not Exist’

They "simply do not understand where the difference is."

By Yasmin Tayag

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When it’s not lending its name to the worst show on cable TV, the Big Bang Theory tells the origin story of our universe. According to the theory, a massive explosion created all the matter in the universe — and for every particle of matter that was created, a particle of antimatter was created too. In mass, shape, and size, antimatter should be exactly the same as its counterpart: The only defining differences between them are in their electrical charge and quantum numbers. If you smash a particle of matter into its corresponding particle of antimatter, the two should obliterate each other into nothingness — or so the theory goes.

It’s the best explanation we’ve got for the existence of the universe, but it leaves one all-important, gaping hole in our origin story: If there are equal parts matter and antimatter in the universe, then why hasn’t all of it canceled each other out?

As scientists at CERN pondered in a Nature study in mid-October, antimatter, as far as we can tell, exists in far smaller quantities than the matter that makes up everything in the universe, but nobody really knows why. Whatever the reason, it’s what’s responsible for the existence of everything we know.

Scientists grappling with this question — perhaps the most fundamental cosmological riddle of all time — figure that there must be some sort of asymmetry between matter and antimatter that allows things to exist. In their study, the team of scientists that make up CERN’s BASE group, which includes researchers from Japan and Germany, made extremely high-precision measurements on rare antiprotons — the counterparts to the positively charged protons at the heart of every atom in the universe — to find infinitesimal differences between the two particles that might account for their refusal to cancel each other out.

In a statement on October 19, Christian Smorra, Ph.D., the study’s first author, summed up the team’s conclusions in a single line:

 ”All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist.”

Attempts to find differences between protons and antiprotons have been made before, but CERN’s team, equipped with tools that allowed them to make parts-per-billion-scale measurements of the magnetic force of antiprotons, tried to make some of the most precise observations yet.

In their experiments, they used 16 antiprotons that had been generated at CERN in 2015 and carefully stored in a vacuum cooled to near-absolute zero, where they were isolated from matter that could annihilate them. The high-precision technique they used for measuring the antiproton’s g-force, which used devices called Penning traps, produced data that was then compared to known measurements of the proton g-force.

They had hoped that the comparison would yield some insights into the differences between the two particles, but they were out of luck. There was no discernible difference between them.

“An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is,” continued Smorra in his statement. “What is the source of the symmetry break?”

If we don’t want the universe to continue contradicting our own existence, we should hope that the asymmetry exists in some even more minuscule property of antimatter that we haven’t been able to measure yet. Because if it doesn’t, then we might have to rethink the Big Bang Theory altogether, which would make this cruel cosmological riddle infinitely more perplexing.

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Newly Released Cassini Image Shows Why Saturn is Clearly The Best Planet

By Rae Paoletta

Though the debate about which planet reigns supreme has been over for some time, occasionally, people need a reminder that Saturn is number one. The latest proof comes from a newly released image of the gas giant, which NASA’s calling “The Grace of Saturn.” Do you remember the last time Mercury got a poetically titled photo like that? Of course not — it doesn’t exist.

The image was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on August 12, 2017, about a month before mission end. It was snapped roughly 581,000 miles (935,000 kilometers) from Saturn, giving a great perspective on the sunlight reflecting off Saturn’s icy rings. According to NASA, this gap — positioned between the planet’s D ring and its cloud tops — is the chasm Cassini dove through 22 times during its Grand Finale. It’s a piece of the spacecraft’s history that we can all cherish forever — can the same be said about the first planet from the sun?

Folks with extremely good eyesight can have some fun trying to find Saturn’s moon, Pandora, hiding in this pic. The “potato-shaped” moon is about 88,000 miles (142,000 km) away from Saturn and hugs the planet’s F ring. In this pic, it appears as a speck in the upper-righthand corner.

NASA hasn’t formalized any plans to return to Saturn, so for now, we’ll have to settle for staring at Cassini’s final images like this one. As the agency pours through the plethora of pictures and data the spacecraft left behind, hopefully, it’ll be inspired to plan a return trip.

“We left the world informed, but still wondering, and I couldn’t ask for more,” Cassini project manager Earl Maize, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said at a news conference back in September. “We’ve got to go back — we know it.”

It must be hard to be a small, uninspiring planet in the same solar neighborhood as Saturn. But hey, we can’t all be winners.

Alien Civilization Exists In The Milky Way

After doing a research, scientists came up to a conclusion that there is at least one alien civilization in the galaxy that communicates with Earth in our galaxy through the Milky way.

Three American scientists Luis A. Anchordoqui, Susanna Weber and Jorge F. Soriano in an article published on the website of the University of Cornell, discussed the possibility of the existence of an alien civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy that communicates with humans.

Experts relied upon the Drake formula so that they could estimate the number of civilizations in our galaxy and according to their result, there is at least one extraterrestrial civilization that communicates with Earth through technology that could intercept or transmit radio emissions.

Moreover,  scientists compare these planets where there are some potential civilizations with the rate of birth of heavenly bodies within the settled zone around their star.

Scientists agree on one potential thing, that the existence of the aliens is endagered by the powerful gamma ray bursts. Their note,however, will be verified with the help of TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and JWST (James Webb Space Telescope).

This research is additionally complicated by the fact that the scientists have come up to,which is the small percentage of intelligent alien civilizations in the Milky Way,about 0.5% of the total number of alien civilizations that may exist in the Universe. This is also their explanation of having not found any aliens so far.

The discovery of other civilizations will only be sucessfull if the scientists discover more of Earth’s “twin” planets.

In the research paper the scientists note that a new data is needed so that they can understand better the occurrence of exoplanets in the habitable zone, the early star formation rate models and GRB phenomenology.

Finding new Earth-like planets has been a challenge since these planets produce weaker signals. The technology for detecting these kinds of planets has been developed for the next generation space telescopes. So, NASA’s next search for planets is through Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satelite (TESS).

The NASA roadmap will  continue with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as well as with Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope – Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (WFIRST-AFTA) early in the next decade. The discovery of alien life will probably take some more time, but the search is on its way.

In 2016, scientists adapted the Drake Equation data with data from Nasa’s Kepler satellite on the number of exoplanets that could harbour life. Researchers also adapted the equation from being about the number of civilizations that exist now, to being about the probability of civilization being the only one that has ever existed.

The study shows that unless the odds of advanced life evolving on a habitable planet are astonishingly low, then humankind is not the only advanced civilization to have lived.

In fact, the odds of an advanced civilization developing need to be less than one in 10 billion trillion for humans to be the only intelligent life in the universe.

Source: 

http://www.untold-universe.org/2017/07/scientists-sayat-least-one-advanced.html

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STRANGE ANOMALY DISCOVERED ON ASTEROID EROS

Could a bizarre anomaly on EROS have led to NASA losing control of spacecraft?

The second largest near-Earth object with an average diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers is the mysterious and highly controversial EROS. EROS is described as a stony and oddly shaped asteroid which was visited and researched by the NASA NEAR Shoemaker space probe back in 1998. The images captured on this visit and the unusual details of the mission have led to some highly unusual questions being raised.  

Back in 1998, the NASA spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker first visited Eros in a flyby mission. In 2000, the space agency entered the asteroid’s orbit and a year later on February 12th, 2001, EROS became the first asteroid that the space agency ever soft-landed on using maneuvering jets. In the course of this historic mission, NASA equipment captured some images of the surface of the asteroid some of which have raised eyebrows among members of the public.  

In this particular image, the NASA cameras captured what they describe as being an enormous, rectangular boulder which is around 148 feet in length. While objects exhibiting such a perfect right-angled appearance do sometimes occur in nature (such as in the course of crystallization), it is highly unusual for a rock formation to develop in this way. Could it be possible that the rectangular object was created by intelligent hands?  

The appearance of this deeply unusual boulder is made all the more mysterious by the problems which beset the first attempt to reach EROS in 1998. The team operating the spacecraft found themselves struggling to keep control of the spacecraft as it approached the near-Earth object. The original disruption is linked to computer problems, but following a staggering 128 simulations aimed at establishing the sequence of events that would completely explain the malfunction, the researchers were still baffled as to why they could not regain control of the craft immediately. To this day, there has still been no comprehensive explanation as to why this happened.  

This has led some people to suggest that the unusual boulder on Eros could well have been made by intelligent hands. However, the origin of the rectangular object and its potential purpose are still a complete mystery.

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CRAZY VIDEO OF TRIANGLE SHAPED UFO SEEN FLYING OVER TEXAS

UFO fans have managed to capture a video that shows off one of the best videos of a triangle shaped UFO. The sighting occurred in Texas in October at about 20: 50 pm. The witness said that they saw a triangular craft gliding above Texas and knew that they had to film it.

UFO CHASERS FOLLOW IN CAR AS IT CAPTURES LOTS OF GROUND 

Shortly into the video, another UFO that is triangular in shape is seen coming into the picture, and they slowly distance themselves, the people filming it then get into their car and drive so that they can get a better vantage point. The video was described as being raw chase footage and as you can expect the video is shaky and blurry in places. 

he video does show two good portions of footage that is clear and this is at the start of the video and at the end. The middle portion is somewhat shaky due to the excitement and car ride. The UFO does manage to capture a lot of ground and due to its size, it could not have been a drone. The object does seem to fit in with that of a classic triangle shaped UFO.

COULD UFO BE LINKED TO CASH-LANDRUM INCIDENT?

There has been a great deal of controversy about the video with one person commenting that the incident was only a few hours away from the Cash-Landrum incident and the person wondered if there was a military base close by. The incident he is talking about involved Vickie Landrum and Betty Cash along with a 7-year-old. They were driving home in Texas along a road that was isolated when they saw a diamond object floating above them. The UFO was said to have had flames coming out of it and a large amount of heat that was so hot so as to cause the metal parts of the car to become too hot to touch.

Not long after around 23 military helicopters zoomed over the heads of the witnesses and it looked like they were chasing the UFO. In the aftermath of the incident, Cash became ill and symptoms included radiation poisoning. She had large blisters that were painful and lost patches of skin and hair. A radiologist said that there was strong evidence that Cash had suffered damage due to ionizing radiation.

But could the appearance of the triangle shaped UFO have had a connection with that incident? The UFO was chased by military aircraft that were unmarked so they could have come from a military base that was secret. Perhaps the UFO had been a prototype that the military had been testing out and then they chose to see how humans would react to it. If this is the case then the region may be home to many other anomalies and perhaps people should be on the lookout for more UFOs.  

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THE REASON WHY THERE ARE SO MANY UFO SIGHTINGS NEARBY ERUPTING VOLCANOES

Over the last decade, there have been numerous reports and sightings of UFO's flying in the vicinity of dormant or, in most cases, erupting volcanoes.

Only recently there was a large glowing orb flying over the Yellowstone volcano in the US. In September 2017 a UFO was filmed flying over the Chaparrastique volcano in El Salvador. In January 2017 a similar huge spherical object was flying over the Popocatépetl Volcano in Mexico. In 2016 there were numerous accounts of UFO's flying over active volcanoes.  

Is there a reason for this increase nearby these erupting giants? Consider this, when a medium volcano erupts, it release arround 27 megatons of thermal energy. That's a lot. Could it be that these mysterious crafts have found a way to harvest the energy that is released during these events?

One way of harvesting the immense energy was shown during a volcanic eruption in 2015 in Chile. The Calbuco volcano erupted and multiple witnessed captured a UFO on video that was hoovering nearby the ash cloud. In one of these video's the object is hit with multiple lighting strikes. Is this the way these extraterrestrial craft harvest the power of erupting volcanoes? These lightning flashes are created by a process called charge seperation by the ash cloud.

This could also explain why we have seen some video's of UFO getting hit by regular lightning strikes over the last couple of years. Maybe Elon Musk can learn a trick or two from these aircraft... 

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t’s on! Scientists have managed to verify, for the first time, a technique to induce lucid dreaming.A technique to induce lucid dreaming has been independently verified for the first time. More than half of the participants had lucid dreams during the scientific experiment. The structures sighted through Google Earth appear to have a pyramidal shape, such as those temples that lie just over a thousand kilometers to the west, in Mayan and Aztec lands allegedly…

The structures sighted through Google Earth appear to have a pyramidal shape, such as those temples that lie just over a thousand kilometers to the west, in Mayan and Aztec lands allegedly.

Recently, Dr. Denholm Aspy, of the University of Adelaide, conducted a study with 169 participants who had to learn different techniques to induce lucid dreams.

He told IFLScience this exceeds any previous study conducted without interventions such as masks that shine lights in people’s eyes on detecting REM sleep.

One of the techniques, called “reality check,” sought to make the individuals in the experiment take the habit of making sure they were actually asleep.

In addition, it was combined with the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (or ‘MILD’), where an alarm went off every five hours, after which the subjects were to wake up and recite the following: the next time I’m dreaming, I’ll remember that I’m dreaming “; then they went back to sleep imagining what it would be like to have a lucid dream.

These two techniques led to 53% of individuals having lucid dreams during the experiment, with a 17% who stood out for having them every night.

He told IFLScience this exceeds any previous study conducted without interventions such as masks that shine lights in people’s eyes on detecting REM sleep.

Aspy reports, these results exceed any previous studies conducted with instrumental assistance.

“The MILD technique works on what we call ‘prospective memory’ – that is, your ability to remember to do things in the future. By repeating a phrase that you will remember you’re dreaming, it forms an intention in your mind that you will, in fact, remember that you are dreaming, leading to a lucid dream,” says Dr. Aspy, Visiting Research Fellow in the University’s School of Psychology.

“Importantly, those who reported success using the MILD technique were significantly less sleep deprived the next day, indicating that lucid dreaming did not have any negative effect on sleep quality,” he says.

“These results take us one step closer to developing highly effective lucid dream induction techniques that will allow us to study the many potential benefits of lucid dreaming, such as treatment for nightmares and improvement of physical skills and abilities through rehearsal in the lucid dream environment,” Dr. Aspy says.

Approximately 55% of people have had a lucid dream at some point in their life, but for most, it is a rare occurrence. In fact, the researcher who carried out the recent experiment became interested in the subject after having had a lucid dream during his childhood and another just the night before starting his doctorate.

According to IFLScience, Aspy is looking for volunteers to do future studies that will not last more than a week. The short time of the exercises will seek that the developed techniques will be applicable later in treatments for different disorders.

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Traces of a lost civilization? Researchers find HUNDREDS of mysterious structures in the Amazon

Archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of enigmatic structures located in the Amazon, believed to have been built over 2,000 years ago. These mysterious structures have remained concealed for centuries by the Amazon and reveal that the Amazon isn’t as untouched as we believed in the past.

The fascinating ancient structures were most likely built by an unknown civilization.

The traditional idea many historians share is that before the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese in the fifteenth century, and unlike conventional history in the Andes, there weren’t any advanced civilizations in the Amazon region. But, given the fact how deforestation has revealed much of the hidden secrets of the area, scholars are confident that an advanced civilization inhabited the area in the distant past. The numerous aerial and satellite images are revealing, a complex network of structures, roads, and even possibly settlements that until now had remained hidden under the impenetrable layer of the Amazon.

These remarkable earthworks have been uncovered due to rapid deforestation which has allowed experts to uncover over 450 massive geoglyphs in the rainforest.

While their size and complexity has taken archaeologists by surprise, experts are still unsure as to what their exact purpose was, however some authors speculate that the massive enclosures may have been used sporadically as ritual gathering places.

Traces of a lost civilization? Researchers find HUNDREDS of mysterious structures in the Amazon | Ancient Code

According to phys.org, the structures are unlikely to be villages as archaeologists have recovered very few artifacts during excavations. Furthermore, the layout of the structures suggests they weren’t defensive structures.

The massive structures—eerily similar to Stonehenge— occupy around 13,000 square kilometers in Acre, in the western Brazilian Amazon.

Scientists from the UK and Brazil have said that these structures prove the Amazon isn’t as untouched as we believed in the past.

“The fact that these sites lay hidden for centuries beneath mature rainforest really challenges the idea that Amazonian forests are ‘pristine ecosystems,” said Dr. Jennifer Watling, a post-doctoral researcher at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, University of Sao Paulo.

“We immediately wanted to know whether the region was already forested when the geoglyphs were built, and to what extent people impacted the landscape to build these earthworks.”

Researchers have managed to ‘look into the past’ by reconstructing 6000 years of vegetation and fire history in the vicinity of two of the archaeological sites using state of the art methods, revealing HEAVY alterations by the ancient culture that inhabited the area.

Scientists say that the ancients modified the bamboo forests for millennia, constructing small temporary clearings in order to erect these mysterious structures.

Experts found that instead of burning large parts of the forest, the ancients were able to transform their environment by concentrating on economically valuable tree species such as palms, creating a kind of ‘prehistoric supermarket’ of useful forest products.

Dr. Watling said: “Despite the huge number and density of geoglyph sites in the region, we can be certain that Acre’s forests were never cleared as extensively, or for as long, as they have been in recent years.

“Our evidence that Amazonian forests have been managed by indigenous peoples long before European Contact should not be cited as justification for the destructive, unsustainable land-use practiced today. It should instead serve to highlight the ingenuity of past subsistence regimes that did not lead to forest degradation and the importance of indigenous knowledge for finding more sustainable land-use alternatives”.

Source: Impact of pre-Columbian “geoglyph” builders on Amazonian forests, PNAS, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

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CONTROVERSIAL THEORY CLAIMS HUMANS WITH BLOOD TYPE RH NEGATIVE BELONG TO AN ALIEN LINEAGE

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ALIEN TERROR? Man 'stared at by crew of bizarre triangle UFO hovering over crop field'

A MAN has told how "time stopped" after he locked eyes with the crew of a bizarre triangular UFO he claims to have seen hovering over a field.

ALIEN COVER UP? Police officer ‘hounded from force’ after reporting UFO encounter

A FORMER police officer claims he was hounded from the force after he reported seeing a UFO and being abducted by aliens.

Do agencies of government take note of millennia-old mysteries, tales of ancient astronauts, and archaeological anomalies? Well, yes, albeit to a degree. The CIA, for example, has taken an interest in the tales of Noah’s Ark – or as the agency refers to it, “The Ararat Anomaly.” The late Miles Copeland – who held a significant position in the Central Intelligence Agency – told an intriguing story concerning the CIA and the Dead Sea Scrolls. And, then, there’s the matter of a man named George Van Tassel.

In the early 1950s, Van Tassel claimed interaction with extraterrestrials out in the desert near Joshua Tree, California. Van Tassel’s visitors from the stars were said to have been: (a) extremely human-like and (b) highly demanding, when it came to getting across their space-laws and regulations. At the time of the encounters Van Tassel was living in the desert region of a small town called Landers – actually in a large, converted cave beneath a gigantic rock that, unsurprisingly, is called Giant Rock.

Van Tassel claimed the aliens told him that the Human Race had been molded, guided and manipulated for thousands of years – by extraterrestrials who posed as gods. Such was the fascination that the public had with his claims, Van Tassel was prompted to establish a yearly UFO conference at Giant Rock that – at its height, in the mid-1950s – attracted audiences in excess of ten thousand. The word was spreading. It even reached the FBI, who opened a file on Van Tassel in 1954.

Documentation declassified by the FBI demonstrates that George Van Tassel was periodically monitored well into the 1960s. As were Van Tassel’s statements concerning ancient aliens and the saga of the Ten Commandments. An FBI report – on a lecture Van Tassel gave at the Phipps Auditorium in Denver, Colorado, in 1960 – states the following: “The major part of his lecture was devoted to explaining the occurrences in the Bible as they related to the space people. He said that the only mention of God in the Bible is in the beginning when the universe was being made. He said that after that all references are to ‘out of the sky’ or ‘out of heaven.'”

The FBI agent present at the gig also reported: “He said that this is due to the fact that man, space people, was made by God and that in the beginning of the world the space people came to the earth and left animals here. These were the prehistoric animals which existed at a body temperature of 105 degrees; however a polar tilt occurred whereby the poles shifted and the tropical climates became covered with ice and vice versa. After the polar tilt the temperature to sustain life was 98.6 degrees, which was suitable for space people, so they established a colony and left only males here, intending to bring females at a latter date on supply ships. This is reflected in Adam not having a wife. He said that Adam was not an individual but a race of men.”

And there was more: “[Van Tassel] said that this race then inter-married with ‘intelligent, upright walking animals,’ which race was EVE. Then, when the space people came back in the supply ships they saw what had happened and did not land but ever since due to the origin of ADAM, they have watched over the people on Earth. He said that this is in the Bible many times, such as MOSES receiving the Ten Commandments. He said the Ten Commandments are the laws of the space people and men on earth only give them lip service. Also, the manna from heaven was bread supplied by the space people.”

Also contained in the FBI’s file is the following, which covers that same 1960 lecture in Denver: “[Van Tassel] also stated that this can be seen from the native stories such as the Indians in America saying that corn and potatoes, unknown in Europe were brought here by a ‘flaming canoe.’ He said that this can be shown also by the old stories of Winged Chariots and Winged white Horses, which came from out of the sky. He said that JESUS was born of MARY, who was a space person sent here already pregnant in order to show the earth people the proper way to live. He said the space people have watched over us through the years and have tried to help us. He said they have sent their agents to the earth and they appear just as we do; however, they have the power to know your thoughts just as JESUS did. He said this is their means of communication and many of the space people are mute, but they train a certain number of them to speak earth languages.”

Those reading this article and hoping to learn that the FBI has an office devoted to the secret investigation of ancient astronauts will be deeply disappointed. No such office exists. And, no such office has ever existed. Certainly, the FBI listened to what Van Tassel had to say about alleged alien visitations to Earth in the distant past, but they were not at all impressed by what they saw or heard. An April 12, 1965 FBI document refers to Van Tassel as “an eccentric, self-ordained minister of a quasi-religious organization.” A further FBI document refers to Van Tassel as – and I quote exactly – “a mental case.”

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“All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist.”

Are you reading this? Good. That means the world’s greatest scientists using the world’s greatest scientific instruments are wrong. Or are they? Researchers at CERN in Switzerland recently made the most precise measurements ever of the magnetic force of protons and antiprotons and found them to be exactly the same … except for an opposite sign. The means the idea that scientists have danced around for centuries is still making them waltz – the Big Bang created equal amounts of matter and antimatter which should have annihilated each other and left nothing behind … including the universe and us. So, why are we still here?

Image: CERN, Maximilien Brice and Julien Ordan

A better question might be: “How did the CERN Physicists manage to experiment with the magnetism of matter and antimatter without annihilating the universe for real?” In a word … slowly. In 2014, they were able to measure the magnetic moment – how much a proton resists magnetic force – by trapping an individual proton in a magnetic field, then spinning it with another magnetic field.

That part was easy – at least protons don’t annihilate when they come in contact with any matter. Antiprotons are – no pun intended – another matter. After creating antiprotons in 2015, they had to create an antimatter chamber to store them in. They started with a Penning trap – a cylindrical container that traps charged particles between a magnetic field and a quadrupole electric field (apologies to physicists for this overly simple explanation). These Penning traps are imperfect and the antimatter can leak out (not a good thing – if you’ve been paying attention), so the CERN physicist used two and kept the antimatter extremely cold. This allowed them to store the antimatter for 405 days, more than enough time to do the magnetic moment measurements.

BASE Penning trap system to measure magnetic moment of the antiproton. Credit: Stefan Sellner, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan

And the answer is … −2.7928473441 μN. (μN is a nuclear magneton). Not only was this exactly the same – except for the minus sign – as the magnetic moment of a proton, it’s accurate to nine digits or nearly perfect. Would you expect any less from CERN?

Christian Smorra, the physicist at CERN’s Baryon–Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) collaboration who observed that the universe should not actually exist, was excited at the results, published this week in Nature, but still puzzled.

“An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is.”

Are we really sure these are the people we want experimenting with antimatter? As Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott once said to Mr. Spock:

“Those few seconds will not make any difference, Mr. Spock, because you and I and the rest of the crew will no longer be here to bandy it back and forth. This thing is going to blow up, and there’s nothing in the universe can stop it.”

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Within the domain of the alien abduction phenomenon, there are a number of accounts of people reportedly taken on-board UFOs and submerged into mysterious liquids, or gels – as in completely submerged. Very oddly, and as the abductees state, the liquid does not prevent them from breathing normally. Researcher Helmut Lammer – in an article titled “New Evidence of Military Involvement in Abductions” – tells the story of a woman who he refers to as “Lisa,” and who found herself in just this precise situation. Lisa was an alien abductee, but she was also someone who was subjected to what have become known as Milabs – or “military abductions.” It was in this latter context that Lisa had a very traumatic experience, as Lammer shows.

Lammer says Lisa was taken against her will to what turned out to be a below-surface facility, in which she “…saw naked humans floating in tubes. Lisa claims that she was forced by humans into some type of pool filled with a golden yellow bubbly fluid, while other humans looked at her. Lisa has traumatic recollections that her kidnappers tried to make her and other victims able to breathe in the liquid. In two of the before mentioned cases the abductee was forced to breathe the liquid like Lisa. The hypnosis transcripts reveal that the liquid breathing experiences were traumatic for the abductees. Both abductees where totally immersed in the liquid and both reported that they could breathe the fluid.”

Then, there is this from another abductee: “I found myself inside a clear glass cylinder, totally submerged in some kind of warm fluid, thicker than water, thinner than oil. To my surprise, I was able to breathe this warm fluid without discomfort. I could also open my eyes without a problem. The solution was clear, of a greenish color and the container was softly lit. I remember, still fully submerged in this solution, that I slowly began to recall the abduction that had taken me away from my bedroom, minutes, maybe hours before.”

There is also this one: “…I woke up again, this timer naked in a funnel shaped pool filled with a greenish black gel type liquid. The pool had to be 20 yards wide all around. And pretty deep. The pool was made of some kind of shiny metal. With the gel it made the surface very slippery and you would slip under the gel if you tried to get out. I then realized something very odd at that time. I wasn’t alone. There were at least 15 other humans with me. All of them screaming and panicking…”

There is a good reason why I mention all of this now. Just a few days ago I received a Facebook message from a woman who I’ll call “Andrea” and who lives in Minneapolis. Andrea’s main reason for contacting me was because on several occasions, back in the 1980s, and after experiencing classic abduction phenomena – missing time, nightmares, and a sense of being subjected to stressful and terrifying medical experimentation – she was visited by a Man in Black. And, yes, it was the same MIB over and over again, which is intriguing, since such repeat visits by the very same MIB are not too common. The MIB was of the typically weird kind: tall, skinny, pale-faced, and with slightly larger than normal, staring eyes. And, of course, he was dressed in a black suit and an old style fedora. On each occasion Andrea was warned not to talk about her experiences.

It was only after recently reading my 2015 book, Men in Black, that Andrea decided to share her experiences, chiefly because one of the MIB described in the book sounded eerily like her very own Man in Black. But, there was more: I asked Andrea if we could chat via Skype and she agreed. During the course of talking with Andrea, something interesting came out: Andrea told me that on every occasion she was abducted by the familiar, dwarfish, black-eyed entities of UFO lore, she was immersed into a “bathtub”-like environment of what looked like water, but which was slightly thicker. It had an overwhelming odor that was not unlike that of nail polish.

On the first occasion, Andrea was terrified that she would drown. In seconds, though, she found she could “breathe the liquid” with no problem at all. During subsequent abductions, Andrea felt that her abductors were testing how long she was able to comfortably remain immersed. On one occasion, she felt a pressure on her body, which led her to suspect that the craft she was in had suddenly taken to the skies and that what she was experiencing were the effects of G-Forces.

Phys.org stated in March 2017: “Liquid ventilation – breathing a liquid instead of air – has long been the stuff of science fiction, and despite experimental clinical use, its potential for treating severe pulmonary or cardiac trauma, and use in deep diving and space travel, it is still not widely used or understood.” They note too that research into this area is moving ahead and in notable fashion, as you will see from this link.

Maybe unearthly creatures have developed the kinds of technology that we are still working to perfect…

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You’ll never see a more touching film about a 72-year-old alien experiencer

Love & Saucers: David Huggins has an unremarkable life—well, minus lifelong alien affairs.

NATHAN MATTISE 

AUSTIN, Texas —Perhaps no film has ever set its tone so clearly within its first line as the new documentary Love & Saucers:

“When I was 17, I lost my virginity to a female extraterrestrial,” begins 72-year-old David Huggins. “That’s all I can say about it.”

Huggins’ voice carries no sarcasm. It doesn’t hesitate for an instant. And filmmakers Matt Ralston (producer) and Brad Abrahams (director) provide no filters. Love & Saucers ostensibly sets out to allow this man with more than 100 encounters in his lifetime to lay out his experiences detail by detail.

At times, the results can be wild. Huggins had his first encounter at eight years old when a little hairy guy with yellow eyes kept calling out “David, behind you” in the backyard. By age 18, his encounter total eclipsed 20, including meeting Crescent, the alien woman he’d have a prolonged relationship with (regarding that opening statement, Huggins later says: “I figured, if anything, I’d be losing it in the backseat of a Ford, but it didn’t work out that way at all”).

Huggins eventually got prodded inside a vacuum cleaner-like spacecraft, and he fathered a lot of possible interspecies children. Perhaps most peculiar of all, the aliens did not permit Huggins to discuss his encounters or express his feelings about them until he was nearly 50. At that point, they finally allowed Huggins to share his stories so he would have a way of dealing with his complex emotions. Their idea for how he should handle those feelings? Paintings. Huggins ran with this suggestion and has turned out a series of erotic, impressionistic oil works ever since.

“I was traumatized; I’m not saying I wasn’t,” Huggins says as he introduces his art. “But after I started doing the painting, I started calming down. I realized these things happened to me, and I was able to face it.”

So Love & Saucers sounds like an extended report from the likes of Coast to Coast AM, right? (Naturally, Huggins once appeared as a guest on the long-time, late-night radio show that believes the truth is out there.) Not quite. This film does not set out to change viewers’ minds on the existence of extraterrestrial beings; it doesn't want to parade Huggins in front of the audience as a sideshow generating lulz either. Instead, Love & Saucers stumbled into a story more about us down here on Earth—how do we react to others perceived as odd, and does it hurt to believe in something everyone else quickly turns a side-eye towards?

A loving lens

Abrahams makes a number of smart decisions throughout the film that allow Huggins’ humanity—his sincerity, his matter-of-fact acceptance of this strange life—to shine through. For instance, the entire first half of the film consists solely of Huggins talking. He walks the audience through his childhood, his hobbies (notably, his love of genre film that manifests itself through a VHS collection in the thousands), and the start of his family while pointing out the notable encounters along the way. Not only does this reveal the somewhat claustrophobic nature of Huggins’ current life (unfolding in a small Hoboken apartment where his job sits down the street); it allows his story to speak for itself without the filter of a narrator or the possibly influential reactions of others.

But as Huggins introduces more outlandish-sounding encounters, the urge to have someone else react becomes undeniable. After all, Huggins may live a small life, but he doesn’t live in isolation. Ralston and Abrahams know this sensation, too—it’s why they ultimately tracked down a handful of Huggins’ neighbors, his boss, some fellow experiencers, and even Huggins’ son to appear in Love & Saucers’ second half.

“We realized we needed a larger perspective, and so we at least tried to incorporate the world around him,” Abrahams tells Ars. “We fully expected his boss or his neighbor or the professor to be skeptical or to express disbelief, but they all just completely support him because they knowhim. And once you know him, you can’t say he’s being untrue.”

“He’s definitely not lying,” Ralston adds.

Ralston and Abrahams would know—the latter has been talking with Huggins on-and-off for more than five years now. And his first extended interactions with Huggins came when the film’s star invited the director to stay with him at his home, for three days, using his live-in ex-wife’s room. (Although she doesn’t appear on camera, Janice is mentioned often. She and Huggins split not long after he revealed his unusual upbringing. “I know that she knows something is different about me,” Huggins says. “But I didn’t know how to bring it up.”)

Talking with Ars, the production team doesn’t want to say whether or not they ultimately believe in extraterrestrial life or whether Huggins changed their minds at all. But they certainly feel confident that the man consistently speaks his truth.

Huggins’ unorthodox art ultimately brings his truth to life—to the filmmakers (who first made contact with him through a book collection of the paintings), to the audience (all the film’s promotional material, including prints for sale, revolves around them), and to others appearing in the film. In the most endearing scene within a documentary full of ‘em, Abrahams accompanies Huggins to a Manhattan gallery opening for his work. The thought of Huggins not only showcasing his intimate and offbeat paintings, but explaining them to total strangers in one of the most coolhunting areas in the world instantly generates anxiety. Then just as Huggins has done for viewers up to this point in the film, his genuine nature seems to deflate any potential conflict.

Ralston: Manhattan ended up being the perfect place. It’s just a melting pot of weirdness.

Abrahams: A lot of those people were artists and really appreciated the work. The paintings are nice, but some have a shocking amount of skill. They’re so cinematic with the lighting and staging, and the detail on the faces... you’re really struck.

Ralston: And David’s really purposeful—he doesn’t sketch.

Abrahams: It’s from memory—with oil paint.

Ralston: We showed some of his paintings at a screening / show in Miami and asked some of the other painters what they thought. They all said, “You know he’s not great, but his strokes are purposeful—he knows what he wants to paint and it’s vivid in his head.”

The Love & Saucers team ultimately has an interest in exploring what makes people believe in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary—what kind of person can proceed in that situation and how does society then accept or deny them? Abrahams and Ralston first worked together on a short film exploring researchers devoted to finding Florida’s mythical Skunk Ape, and they have intentions of turning that into a full-blown feature on cryptozoologist researchersonce promotion for Love & Saucers has wrapped up.

Huggins shows that even a kind, accepting grandfather-like figure may fall into one of these fringe communities. And Love & Saucers shows a true believer doesn’t have to explicitly appear unhinged or become a communal pariah. (Just this week in Florida, a city council member now running for Congress talked to press about her own childhood abduction and the reaction came swiftly.) Instead, Huggins continues on with 90 percent of a rather plain life, and his belief allows him some joy and relief from past stress. If that doesn’t negatively impact others—and it may, in fact, benefit them through some interesting genre art—where’s the harm?

Love & Saucers continues on the festival circuit with a stop in San Francisco this weekend. The most up-to-date schedule can be found on the film's Facebook page, though the filmmakers intend to release it on VOD and VHS (so Huggins can watch at home, of course). Below, you can watch the Skunk Ape short soon being turned into a feature-length documentary.

Listing image by Matt Ralston, Brad Abrahams

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Huge unknown object takes off outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico

While driving on the highway 15 miles outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico on October 23, 2017 the witness noticed a huge strange object standing in a field.

Surprised by what he witnessed he tried to capture the object on his camera but as soon as he started recording it took off.

According to the witness, he has no idea what he has recorded and wonders whether it was a so-called ‘dust-devil’ or something that cannot be explained?

  

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Image Source: Rebecca-louise

Scientist proposes wild explanation for why we haven’t discovered aliens yet

Mike Wehner @MikeWehner

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