Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
21-11-2018
Linda Moulton Howe “Something is Coming to Earth From 2 5 Billion Light Years Away”
Linda Moulton Howe “Something is Coming to Earth From 2 5 Billion Light Years Away”
What has been making very powerful and rapid signals in the past ten years from 2.5 billion light-years from Earth?
Linda Moulton Howe explains that the first recorded fast radio burst was in 2007 by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
The power of that radio burst was 500 million times the power of our solar system’s sun and lasted only 5 milliseconds.
Whatever the source is has become the subject of intense speculation by astrophysicists and astronomers.
In the March 9, 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Avi Loeb — Chair of Harvard University’s Astronomy Dept. and Director of Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation and the Black Hole Initiative — proposed that fast radio bursts could be “interstellar light sails pushing payloads up to a million tons each, large enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances.”
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UFO Shows Up On Live Newcast Over Buenos Aires, Argentina, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shows Up On Live Newcast Over Buenos Aires, Argentina, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 11, 2018
Location of sighting: Buenos Aires, Argentina
During a live news broadcast two reporters were surprised when a box shaped UFO began to cross the top of the large screen TV. As they are talking you first notice the UFO on the far right at 16 seconds into the video, but they don't notice the UFO until 36 seconds into the video.
The shape and size of this UFO is very similar to one I reported over New York a few days ago. This box shape is actually more common than you might think. Without wings, propellers, jets this boxy UFO moves across the sky at a very high speed, much too fast to be a balloon. Remarkable, and this is 100% proof that aliens are trying to gentle their way into the hearts and minds of the public.
Large UFO Caught By News Network KTLA 5 During Coverage Of Camp Fires That's Happening In California
Large UFO Caught By News Network KTLA 5 During Coverage Of Camp Fires That's Happening In California
In the clip we can see what looks like a "Cigar shape craft" using the smoke as cover. With the sea on the same side of the object one could think it's a boat or ship but look at the speed in which this object is moving..
An elongated very fast traveling object has been spotted over the west coast of Florida. Neither wings nor a contrail can be seen. What is the logical explanation for this sighting? Interesting footage for sure.
NASA recently announced it will land its Mars 2020 rover in Jezero Crater. The 45-km-wide site was once filled with water and features rich geology that could tell scientists a lot of things about the planet’s troubled history. There’s also a chance that the rover mission might find evidence for past life on the Red Planet.
Color-coded image of Jezero Crater taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Jezero means ‘lake’ in Serbian.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / JHU-APL.
Jezero Crater sits on an ancient river delta, just north of the Martian equator on the western edge of Isidis Planitia. The crater was formed billions of years ago by a meteorite impact and, at one point, became filled with water to a depth of about 250 meters. Although the water is long gone, sediments at the site could still contain a record of microbial life — if any existed in the first place.
“The delta is a good place for evidence of life to be deposited and then preserved for the billions of years that have elapsed since this lake was present,” Mars 2020 project scientist Ken Farley said during a press conference.
Carbonate rocks present at Jezero may also tell us how surface water and the Martian atmosphere interacted billions of years ago. In fact, it is Jezero’s diverse geology that distinguished it from other potential landing sites for the 2020 rover. NASA had also considered Northeast Syrtis, which contains some of the oldest rocks on Mars, and Columbia Hills, which the Spirit rover explored between 2004 and 2011.
Jezero is also more accessible than the other sites, although that doesn’t mean that touchdown will be a piece of cake. NASA is doing everything it can to minimize the risk of landing the rover in a boulder field, a sand trap, or on the edge of a cliff.
“Getting samples from this unique area will revolutionize how we think about Mars and its ability to harbor life,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a press release.
The $2.4-billion rover will launch in July 2020, landing on Mars seven months later, in February 2021. The six-wheeled, nuclear-powered Mars 2020 rover has almost the same design as NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been operational on the surface of Mars for the past six years. Like Curiosity, Mars 2020 will be deployed on the Martian surface from a rocket-powered “Sky Crane” platform. NASA has also refined its landing technique, which means Mars 2020 should be better equipped to doge risky areas.
Artist concept of the Mars 2020 rover.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Unlike the Curiosity mission, Mars 2020 will also bring samples back to Earth. Although it’s not certain how this will happen, NASA says it hopes to send a new mission to Mars in the late 2020s to retrieve the rocks collected by the rover and return them to Earth by the early 2030s.
In the meantime, NASA has more immediate things to worry about. On 26 November, a robot called InSight will land on the surface of Mars, tasked with studying the Red Planet‘s interior.
TheTree of Lifeis a metaphor established by Charles Darwin to give some perspective to evolution. Every living organism on Earth has a home somewhere on the Tree, and by looking at it, we can see how species relate to one another.
While we’ve known about a type of microbe called hemimastigotes since the 1800s, it turns out we were totally wrong about where they fit on the Tree of Life — because they didn’t fit on any of the existing branches.
Home Of Its Own
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from Dalhousie University detail their discovery that hemimastigotes are so unlike anything else in the Tree of Life, they require the creation of a brand-new branch.
“It was clear from our analyses that hemimastigotes didn’t belong to any known kingdom-level group, or even to a known ‘super-group’ of several kingdoms together, like the one that includes both animals and fungi,” researcher Alastair Simpson said in a news release.
“This one little collection of organisms is a whole new group at that level, all on its own,” she continued. “It’s a branch of the Tree of Life that has been separate for a very long time, perhaps more than a billion years, and we had no information on it whatsoever.”
Evolution Of Tech
The Dalhousie team was only able to reach this conclusion thanks to an advanced genetic analysis technique that wasn’t available when scientists first discovered hemimastigotes.
“That such a distinct form of life could be hiding literally under our feet,” Simpson said in the press release, “is a sharp reminder about how little we still know about the diversity of life on Earth.”
And as our technologies advance even further, there’s no telling what else we might discover — or how many other branches we might add to the Tree of Life.
A newly released composite photo of the galaxy cluster Abell 1033, which lies about 1.6 billion light-years from Earth, bears a striking resemblance to the Starship Enterprise from "Star Trek."
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Leiden Univ./F. de Gasperin et al; Optical: SDSS; Radio: LOFAR/ASTRON, NCRA/TIFR/GMRT
Is that the USS Enterprise blurring as it makes the jump to warp speed?
Well, no. But a new photo of the galaxy cluster Abell 1033 certainly does call the famous "Star Trek" starship to mind.
The image, which was released Thursday (Nov. 15), is a composite that combines observations in optical light as well as X-ray and radio wavelengths, the latter two of which are represented by the colors purple and blue, respectively. [USS Enterprise Evolution : The Many Faces of Star Trek's Favorite Starship]
The optical data was gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the X-ray by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the radio by the Low-Frequency Array network in the Netherlands.
Abell 1033 lies about 1.6 billion light-years from Earth. The object is actually two galaxy clusters coming together in a dramatic, hugely energetic smashup that's generating shock waves and other forms of turbulence in this patch of space-time.
The fully restored studio model of the starship USS Enterprise, from the TV series "Star Trek," which is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Credit: Dane Penland/National Air and Space Museum
"In Abell 1033, the collision has interacted with another energetic cosmic process — the production of jets of high-speed particles by matter spiraling into a supermassive black hole, in this case one located in a galaxy in one of the clusters," Chandra mission team members wrote Thursday in a description of the image.
"These jets are revealed by radio emission to the left and right sides of the image," they added. "The radio emission is produced by electrons spiraling around magnetic field lines, a process called synchrotron emission."
The observed radio emission in Abell 1033 spans a whopping 500,000 light-years, Chandra team members said. The electrons responsible for this emission have likely been re-energized, a result that researchers announced and explained in an October 2017 study. You can read it online for free at arXiv.org.
The newly released image is an example of pareidolia, which describes the tendency of the human brain to see familiar shapes in more or less random data. Other examples include the famous "Face on Mars" and the various creatures that some folks see in the Red Planet rocks photographed over the years by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
As Earth's tectonic plates dive beneath one another, they drag three times as much water into the planet's interior as previously thought.
Those are the results of a new paper published today (Nov. 14) in the journal Nature. Using the natural seismic rumblings of the earthquake-prone subduction zone at the Marianas trench, where the Pacific plate is sliding beneath the Philippine plate, researchers were able to estimate how much water gets incorporated into the rocks that dive deep below the surface. [In Photos: Ocean Hidden Beneath Earth's Surface]
The find has major ramifications for understanding Earth's deep water cycle, wrote marine geology and geophysics researcher Donna Shillington of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in an op-ed accompanying the new paper. Water beneath the surface of the Earth can contribute to the development of magma and can lubricate faults, making earthquakes more likely, wrote Shillington, who was not involved in the new research.
The deep water cycle
At earthquake-prone subduction zones, where tectonic plates dive beneath one another, massive amounts of sea water are dragged into the planet's interior, a new study has revealed.
Credit: visidia/Getty
Water is stored in the crystalline structure of minerals, Shillington wrote. The liquid gets incorporated into the Earth's crust both when brand-new, piping-hot oceanic plates form and when the same plates bend and crack as they grind under their neighbors. This latter process, called subduction, is the only way water penetrates deep into the crust and mantle, but little is known about how much water moves during the process, study leader Chen Cai of Washington University in St. Louis and his colleagues wrote in their new paper.
"Before we did this study, every researcher knew that water must be carried down by the subducting slab," Cai told Live Science. "But they just didn't know how much water."
The researchers used data picked up by a network of seismic sensors positioned around the central Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. The deepest part of the trench is nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers) below sea level. The sensors detect earthquakes and the echoes of earthquakes ringing through Earth's crust like a bell. Cai and his team tracked how fast those temblors traveled: A slowdown in velocity, he said, would indicate water-filled fractures in rocks and "hydrated" minerals that lock up water within their crystals.
Missing water
The researchers observed such slowdowns deep into the crust, some 18 miles (30 km) below the surface, Cai said. Using the measured velocities, along with the known temperatures and pressures found there, the team calculated that the subduction zones pull 3 billion teragrams of water into the crust every million years (a teragram is a billion kilograms).
Seawater is heavy; a cube of this water 1 meter (3.3 feet) long on each side would weigh 1,024 kilograms (2,250 lbs.). But still, the amount pulled down by subduction zones is mind-boggling. It's also three times as much water as subduction zones were previously estimated to take in, Cai said.
And that raises some questions: The water that goes down must come up, usually in the contents of volcanic eruptions. The new estimate of how much water is going down is larger than estimates of how much is being emitted by volcanos, meaning scientists are missing something in their estimates, the researchers said. There is no missing water in the oceans, Cai said. That means the amount of water dragged down into the crust and the amount spouted back out should be about equal. The fact that they aren't suggests that there's something about how water moves through the interior of Earth that scientists don't yet understand.
"Many more studies need to be focused on this aspect," Cai said.
Filer’s Files #46 – 2018 President Reagan Chased UFOs - PART I
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Filer’s Files #46 – 2018 President Reagan Chased UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut and Research Pilot Joseph A. Walker Saw UFOs, President Reagan Chased UFOs, ECETI (Enlightened Contact with extra Terrestrial Intelligence, Beyond UFOs, Dr. Jack Sarfatti Star Gate Book, and 750 UFO sightings in October
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Idaho. Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Virginal.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Korea, New Zealand, Poland, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
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Astronaut and Research Pilot Joseph A. Walker
On May 11, 1962 NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. He had filmed five or six UFOs during his record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962. It was the second time he had filmed UFOs in flight. During a lecture at the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research in Seattle, Washington he said: “I don’t feel like speculating about them. All I know is what appeared on the film which was developed after the flight.” – Joseph Walker. To date none of those films has been released to the public for viewing.
Joseph A. Walker was a Chief Research Pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center during the mid-1960s. Walker was the recipient of many awards during his 21 years as a research pilot.. He joined the NACA in March 1945, and served as project pilot at the Edwards flight research facility on such pioneering research projects as the D-558-I, D-558-II, X-1, X-3, X-4, X-5, and the X-15. He also flew programs involving the F-100, F-101, F-102, F-104, and the B-47.
Walker made the first NASA X-15 flight on March 25, 1960. He flew the research aircraft 24 times and achieved its fastest speed and highest altitude. He attained a speed of 4,104 mph (Mach 5.92) during a flight on June 27, 1962, and reached an altitude of 354,300 feet on August 22, 1963 (his last X-15 flight). He was the first man to pilot the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) that was used to develop piloting and operational techniques for lunar landings.
President Reagan Chased UFOs
Gobachev and Reagan
On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan spoke the people of West Berlin at the base of the Brandenburg Gate, near the Berlin wall stating, “. Mr. Gobachev, Tear down this wall.” The speech began the destruction of Soviet Communism.
Ronald Reagan claimed to have seen UFOs on at least two occasions. Allegedly, before he was governor of California, he and Nancy were on their way up the Pacific coast highway to a dinner party. They arrived half an hour late and distraught saying they had seen a UFO and that was why they were late. They did not explain the time delay and may have had a life-altering experience for the two of them if not an actual abduction experience. Later when Governor of California, he asked his pilots to chase a UFO. He alerted the Navy to one of his sightings, and he and Nancy believed that Egyptian hieroglyphics referenced extraterrestrial flying crafts.
On June 8, 1982, President Reagan spoke to the British House of Commons and called the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire.”Almost a year later, President Reagan in a television speech announced on March 23, 1983, the US was building the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) later known as the
“Star Wars” program. The system was designed to destroy missiles in flight.
In 1985, at the summit meeting Soviet premier, Mikhail Gorbachev states, Reagan surprised me by asking, “What would you do if the United States were suddenly attacked by someone from outer space; would you help us?” I said, ‘No doubt about it.'” “He said, ‘We would help you too.”
“At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute that hypothesis.”
Gorbachev confirmed the earlier Geneva conversation in a speech to the Central Committee in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
In the Summit Meeting in Iceland during October of 1986, astonishingly, Reagan offered to share the Stars Wars weapons system with the Soviets. The Star Wars system was the most expensive weapons system ever conceived and parts are still being designed and built.
That alien space invaders scenario was so compelling to Reagan that he repeated it in public speeches, on multiple occasions, while president. Reagan talked about this alien threat all the time, to the apparent consternation of his staff and was receiving UFO data on a regular basis.
President Ronald Reagan’s remarks made to the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations, on September 21, 1987. In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us realize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, IS NOT AN ALIEN FORCE ALREADY AMONG US?”
Soviet Communist KGB sources claim during the late 1980s large triangular craft were attacking Soviet installations. These drawings were provided to me by a Soviet KGB Colonel who felt this was the real cause of the demise of Soviet Communism. I said, “We were told financial weakness was the cause.” He indicated they were in better financial shape than in many previous years. .
The Soviet Union mysteriously gave up its position as one of the world’s greatest powers and splintered into multiple nations. Its leader at the time was Mikhail Gorbachev who has made several public statements about the reality of a covert extraterrestrial presence visiting Earth. He stated,
‘The phenomenon of UFO’s does exist, and it must be treated seriously.’The Russian anti-missile-missile system remains in operation today as the upgraded A-135 anti-ballistic missile system.
ECETI (Enlightened Contact with extra Terrestrial Intelligence
ECETI (Enlightened Contact with extra Terrestrial Intelligence where contact happens virtually every night. Kathryn Vestal visited the ranch near Mount Adams and saw green Ultra-dimensional Orbs come out of the mountain and fly about maneuvering and overcoming inertia in every way. When the crowd cheered and clapped the orbs substantially brightened in acknowledgement. After flying around for an extended period the green orbs reentered Mount Adams. Jay Gillilandreports that the sightings have increased and they have film of ships going in and out of the mountain, Thermal cameras of the orbs do not record heat but do show the heat generated by a human body.
Many massive ships are seen flying over the fields and the ranch. Military helicopters and jets attempt to chase the UFOs but they easily out distance, maneuver or simply disappear. Web: www.eceti.org/
Beyond UFOs
The video is a recent lecture Rey Hernandez gave to the Boston Chapter of IANDS (International Association of Near Death Studies) on the possible relationship between UFO Contact, NDEs, and OBEs). This presentation highlighted many similarities between Contact with Non Human Intelligence (NHI) via UFO related contact, via Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and via Out of Body Experiences. (OBEs). The FREE Foundation firmly hypothesize that all of these experiences are in fact one phenomenon which needs to be studied jointly and not separately.
NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non Human Intelligence Attached is a free copy of selected sections from the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation’s (FREE), new book titled “Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non Human Intelligence”. The Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation’s mission is focused on exploring the question: What is the relationship between Consciousness, the nature of our multi-dimensional reality, and contact with Non-Human Intelligence with what we have termed the Contact Modalities (contact via UAPs, NDEs, OBEs, Remote Viewing, Channeling, perceived ghosts/spirits, hallucinogenic experiences, among many others). The FREE organization hypothesizes that all of these Contact Modalities. ghosts/spirits, hallucinogenic experiences, among many others).
The FREE organization hypothesizes that all of these Contact Modalities are not separate phenomena but possibly ONE phenomena and that Consciousness is the key to its understanding. Thus, we are not a Ufology organization– instead, our mission is to change the academic focus in how it addresses the topic of “What is Consciousness”.
We are attaching a free copy for your review of Chapter 1, comprised of 122 pages, which provides a summary and analysis of the research findings from our historic 5 year academic research study. We are also attaching the Table of Contents, Book Endorsements, Author Biographies and the Preface written by FREE’s Executive Director and Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild. If you enjoyed reading these attached materials and would like to read our entire book, you can purchase our 820 page book via AMAZON at this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1721088652/ref=sr_1_1?s=books
Dr. Rudy Schild.
FREE is in the 5th year of administering the world’s first comprehensive, multi-language worldwide academic research study on individuals that have had Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) related contact experiences with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI)– The FREE Experiencer Research Study. The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences, or FREE, is a 501c3 not for profit academic research foundation. FREE was co-founded by the late Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Harvard University Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild, Australian researcher Mary Rodwell, and Rey Hernandez, an attorney, a UAP Contact Experiencer, and Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley. Over the last 5 years, the FREE Foundation has had over 10 Ph.D.s, mostly retired academic professors, and 20 other lay researchers, volunteering in this research study. FREE’s Executive Director is Dr. Rudy Schild, a retired Astrophysicist from Harvard University.
This 820 page book details the academic research findings of the world’s first comprehensive multi-language quantitative and qualitative 5 year academic research study on individuals that have had UFO related contact with Non Human Intelligence (NHI)– The FREE Experiencer Research Study. Over the last 5 years FREE has collected detailed responses to 3 extensive quantitative and qualitative surveys from over 4,200 individuals from over 100 countries. Our survey findings from these thousands of “Experiences” contradict much of what is circulating in mainstream materialist Ufology. Our academic book will establish a new paradigm for viewing the UAP (UFO) Contact Phenomenon.
Due to the controversial nature of the FREE research data, the UAPrelated contact phenomenon is not studied in universities. Even the field of “Parapsychology” continues to view the UAP contact phenomena as a taboo topic and the majority within parapsychology do not want to be directly associated with the UAP phenomenon. FREE’s academic research study seeks to address this problem. Until we began our research, no one had a basic understanding on the topic of UAP-related contact with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI). Why? Because the basic research data collection on this topic was never undertaken. We discovered that many of our survey findings contradict much of what has been circulating in the field of Ufology. The true story of UAP-related contact with Non-Human Intelligence was not being accurately presented. FREE’s work is thus a paradigm-shifting event. As you will soon observe from our data, FREE’s research suggests that the physical aspects of this phenomenon are but a small fraction of attributes associated with these complex manifestations.Indeed, it is the pervasive non-physicality, the parapsychological and other paranormal aspects, that comprise the majority of survey respondents’ experiences. The majority of FREE Board of Directors, including
the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell, agrees with the hypothesis of Dr. Jacques Vallee when he stated: My personal contention is that this phenomenon could be something much more interesting– that the phenomenon is the result of an intelligence, that is technologically directed by an intelligence, and that this intelligence is capable of manipulating space and time in ways that we don’t understand… The essential conclusion I’m tending to is that the origin of the phenomenon of the intelligence is not necessarily extraterrestrial. … I think we are dealing with something that is both technological and psychic, and seems to be able to manipulate other dimensions. Dr. Jacques Vallee, ufology research pioneer and consciousness scholar. (YouTube video titled “Thinking Allowed – Implications of the UFO Phenomena,” interviewed by Dr. Jeffrey Mislove, dated 2003.)
This book is dedicated to the potential in humanity, which can bring a new age of understanding, cooperation, and peace among all intelligent entities, human and non-human, who reside in our vast multidimensional reality Rey Hernandez, Dr. Rudy Schild, Dr. Jon Klimo
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut a
We live in an exciting world where advances in space exploration and astrophysics are matched by the wonder of UAP2 sightings and deep inner space phenomena, as detailed in the field of parapsychology. We now understand that the speed of thought far exceeds the speed of light. We live in a quantum universe in which quantum effects reside in the dark energy fields and support telepathic transfer of information from mind to mind, through the exchange of quantum holograms. Preceding at the speed of thought allows for what the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation calls the Contact Modalities—contact with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI)3 via UAP related contact, Near Death Experiences (NDEs), Out of Body Experiences 1 Executive Director of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation and one its co-founders. I am an Emeritus research astronomer at the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cosmology, http://journalofcosmology.com/Contents14.html. My astronomy website is www.cfa.harvard.edu/~rschild and my personal website is www.rudyschild.com. 2 The term “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP) will be used in preference to “Unidentified Flying Objects” (UFOs), a more traditional term popularized in movies and mass media, since the term UAP is more inclusive, comprising such things as strange lights or plasma phenomena, in addition to unidentified aerial craft like the proverbial “flying saucer.” 3
The term “Non-Human Intelligence” (NHI) will be used in preference to “Extraterrestrial,” a more traditional term popularized in movies and mass media, since the term NHI is more inclusive, comprising both physical and non-physical “beings” as well as “terrestrial” and possible “inter-dimensional” intelligence.
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and FREE Co-Founder
We live in an exciting world where advances in space exploration and astrophysics are matched by the wonder of UAP2 sightings and deep inner space phenomena, as detailed in the field of parapsychology. We now understand that the speed of thought far exceeds the speed of light. We live in a quantum universe in which quantum effects reside in the dark energy fields and support telepathic transfer of information from mind to mind, through the exchange of quantum holograms. Preceding at the speed of thought allows for what the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation calls the Contact Modalities—contact with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI)3 via UAP related contact, Near Death Experiences (NDEs), Out of Body Experiences
(OBEs), Channeling, Telepathic Communications, Remote Viewing, visual sightings of Orbs, Spirits, Hallucinogenic Journeys, etc., which involve parapsychological phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, precognition, retrocognition, etc. The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences, or FREE, is a 501c3 academic research not for profit foundation. FREE was co-founded by myself (R.S.), the late Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Australian researcher Mary Rodwell, and Rey Hernandez, an attorney, a UAP Contact Experiencer, and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California at Berkeley. Over the last 5 years, the FREE Foundation has had over
Ralston spoke about the soul, which he believes has two parts, a higher consciousness that rises to a higher dimension when we die, and a lower consciousness which holds the body in form and is connected to the earth. “When I’m crossing souls over, I’m either dealing with low souls or high souls. I’ll go into graveyards and crossover hundreds of souls at one time, and most of them are the low souls that are attached to the earth,” many of whom died under traumatic conditions that kept them lingering around, he remarked. Ralston shared that one of the most gratifying aspects of his work is empowering people to get rid of unwanted emotional blocks, and gain their personal power back.
Jack Sarfatti Star Gate Book
Jack Sarfatti has authored a new book called, Star Gate that includes essays by and about his ideas as an advanced physicist. If you wish to be in on the latest concepts in physics this is the book to read. Jack Sarfatti created the legendary Physics/Consciousness Research Group at the New Age Esalen Institute in Big Sur and in San Francisco in 1975. MIT physics professor historian David Kaiser wrote in his award-winning book: “Little could Herbert, Sarfatti and the others know that their dogged pursuit of faster-than-light-communication and the subtle reasons for its failure, would help launch a billion dollar industry … at the heart of today’s quantum encryption technology” (How the Hippies Saved Physics). This book tells the story left out of Kaiser’s book showing how Sarfatti has explained the physical nature of our consciousness – our souls. The simple physics involved, if true, will herald in a new post-quantum technology of fully conscious artificial intelligent nano-electronic machines into which your consciousness can be uploaded to survive physical death. Sarfatti also explains what happened in the USS Nimitz’s Close Encounter with advanced warp drive craft off the coast of San Diego in 2004 that can render all our weapons impotent and obsolete. Key Words history of physics, Quantum Mechanics, Einstein’s Gravity, Physics of Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Space Craft, Time Travel web https://www.lap-publishing.com/
SOLUTION TO DAVID CHALMERS’S “HARD PROBLEM”
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: A completely non -statistical non -linear non-unitary framework in which “God does not play dice …” (Einstein) that describes the physical foundations of consciousness is presented for the first time. At its core is the insight that the missing link between current physical descriptions of reality and a credible physical framework for consciousness is provided by post quantum mechanics (PQM): the extension of statistical linear unitary quantum mechanics for closed systems to a locally -retrocausali non-statistical non -linear non-unitary theory for open systems through the introduction of a back -reaction potential and its implications. PQM is to orthodox QM as General Relativity (GR) is to Special Relativity (SR). PQM and GR both share the same metaphysical organizing principle that one way actions without a compensating reaction or back -reaction means an incompleteness in the theoretical model leaving out important physical phenomena. We gleaned the final piece in the puzzle of how consciousness arises from the material world from a result relating to long range collective excitations in microtubules described by Stuart Hameroff in a recent Fetzer Foundation conference in London. Herbert Fröhlich suggested that almost any many-particle system when properly pumped far off thermodynamic equilibrium can be put into a robust macro -quantum coherent state immune from environmental decoherence. Indeed, we suggest that all life forms are an example of Frohlich coherence that is intimately connected with locally-retrocausal PQM back reaction’s violation of the de Broglie guidance equation that was assumed by Bohm in his 1952 pilot wave theory. Using nature as a guide combined with nano -technology points the way to the construction of naturally conscious artificial intelligence machines capable of hacking into current-day quantum cryptographic networks. Furthermore, one can imagine attaining the transhumanist agenda. For example, the consciousness of a genius like Stephen Hawking could be uploaded to the post-quantum Cloud and then downloaded to a healthy body or android.
The original Foundations of Mind papers are being downloaded at an increasing rate (now more than 100,000 downloads per year), with the top papers receiving more than 100 downloads per week. In three years, Sarfatti and his group have published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. To download these key free papers go to:
October 2018saw a total of 750 UFO sightings reported to the Mutual UFO Network, MUFON from around the world. A breakdown by country is shown on the right. By scrolling down you can also see the number of reports by state, shape, and distance from the witness as well.
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Filer’s Files #46 – 2018 President Reagan Chased UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #46 – 2018 President Reagan Chased UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Yucaipa — I’m watching this red light in the sky about 8:00 pm on November 9, 2018, that flew erratically then became two. It disappeared after that.
I have no idea what it was. If it was a drone, I can’t figure the split into two. Used 8″ F10 Eade telescope and Cannon Rebel.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
North Key Largo – On November 13, 2018, I was taking a picture of sunrise in North Key Largo. The photo was taken at 7:31 AM. I was going out trapping. It is strange looking and I don’t know what to call it. It looks to have legs. I would like your opinion on what it could be.
Note: I am not sure what anomaly that the witness is referring to, but I suspect that it is the strange cloud (circled in the photo). Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Idaho Light
Boise — I was in front of my house helping a friend hook on to a camp trailer. I looked up to see what appeared to be a crescent of dim bluish light in the sky northeast of me. I noticed it was moving and was very large. As it got closer I could see a dark boomerang shaped object moving behind the light at around 200 knots. It seemed to put off a light glow all around the craft like a static glow. It had no lights. Once it was overhead it turned west and I lost it to the horizon. Three of us clearly witnessed it at about 8000 feet. It had to be close to a half mile across. This all happened a mile away from the Boise airport and Gown Field Army Base. My family has owned and flown small planes my entire life so I’m pretty confident in the altitude and speed it was traveling. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Object
Las Vegas— I was driving to work November 3rd, 2018, when I saw this object in the sky not moving on my 22 minutes drive. Once to the casino at Red Rock resort I parked on the top level 6th floor of the garage to observe the object better still thinking it had to be a balloon. Yet it was not tethered to anything on the ground. I took these three photos and still cannot seem to know what it could be hovering stationary above the skyline.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Disc
Bellmawr— Bright metallic disc/oval shape. No windows. Disappeared 2018-11-03 16:05:00
Jackson–We were at Six Flags amusement park-on October 30, 2018 at 8:30 pm and I looked to the right and saw a huge hovering object. At first we thought it was a drone, or blimp then we realized how massive the object was. It was huge. It was large and dark black making no noise at all. It had flashing lights on the three tips of the triangle and a top part similar to a diamond shape. After watching for a minute or so trying to grasp what it was it slowly crept forward and then it was gone and I couldn’t see it anymore. The photo is a depiction. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Light
Greensboro — I was walking back to my apartment from work. I saw two other students looking up at the sky and thought they were watching the clouds for rain. I looked up and first noticed the c and then the circular shape. The first thing I thought was am I really seeing a UFO?’ I decided to call my roommate who, luckily told me to take pictures because I was awestruck. The object was stationary but took up a huge part of the sky. From work to my apartment is about a mile and the object appeared very close the entire time I was walking. The light blinked in about two second intervals from violet to turning off. Almost to my apartment, I looked back up in the sky and it was gone. I was a bit uneasy but also really excited and awestruck. I couldn’t stop looking up at the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Utica –Five multicolored UFOs popping in and out ufosoverny New York video close up!
Video taken on November 11, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Disc
Welches — I was on vacation taking photos of the scenery with my cell phone on November 10, 2018.
When I reviewed them, I found an anomalous light that looks like a glowing golden disc seen from its side. I did not see this while taking the photos.
This may be some sort of camera glitch, but I took a couple of photos of that spot from the same vantage point all at the same time and the light is only in one photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Lights
Shamokin – Slow moving bright lights were seen on November 10, 2018. Very strange never seen anything like it. Shamokin is a city in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by Coal Township at the western edge of the Anthracite Coal Region in central Pennsylvania. It was named after a Saponi Indian village,Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Cloud Face
Monroe Institute — Look at the alien face that showed up Monday in some photos that I took. I didn’t see it until today. Looks a lot like K2A and others that I have snapped through the years. This is what Brett had to say about them: “Yes, definitely. I ran into this before… one interesting phenomena. Mark ran into while looking at NASA jpegs from the Moon and Mars, and also with pictures that he shot of UFOs.. He would drop a most basic filter in this old Photoshop program over the image and Wallah pictures of Zeta type ETS, but sometimes the imaging was like coded data historical possibly, happened repeatedly very peculiar. Love and Light, Dan Johnson
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Brisbane— My 14 year old son and I were just going to town ,as we started down our drive way my son said “What is that?” Pointing to a set of bright red lights that to me seemed like 3 across the top and 4 or 5 across the bottom of an hovering object about 1 mile away. I quickly grabbed my phone. My son said, “Wow did you see that light it was like a shooting star came out of the ground and flew into the red lights?” I finely got my camera on and took a pic and video. I see that these set of red lights appear on camera as an orb so it’s a very short video. This was taken just as my son shouted.
The light shot up and it glowed brighter for a second and then faded away.
Another identical one appeared to the right and just above. You can hear our amazement on the video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Objects
Halifax — I was in an airplane on descent into Nova Scotia filming the coastline, as it was a clear day when I spotted two stationary objects above the clouds. They appeared to be hovering. It’s hard to say how far they were from my position, but they were quite small from my point of view, so I’d guess they were pretty far away. I was amazed to see them, and glad that I’d been recording with my phone so that I could try and get a better look at them. When I looked at the footage later, and zoomed on the disc shaped object, it has a definite lenticular shape. I lost sight when my plane moved away from the location. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Cylinder
I was in Google Map to check an animal park in Northern France where I saw these of cylindrical shape figures over the park and a third one but very faint image. The date on the Google Map was June 2012. The park is called: Parc Animalier Saint Croix France. I took a screen shot of the objects.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland UFO
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating reports of bright lights and UFOs off the south-west coast of Ireland. It began at 06:47 local time on Friday 9 November 2018 when a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control. She wanted to know if there were military exercises in the area because there was something “moving so fast”.
The air traffic controller said there were no such exercises. The pilot, flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow, said there was a “very bright light” and the object had come up along the left side of the aircraft before it “rapidly veered to the north”. She was wondering what it could be but said it did not seem to be heading for a collision.
Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in and suggested it might be a meteor or another object re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. Trevor Buckley reports very interesting report on Shannon high level on November 9, 2018, with UFO report over County Kerry at 6:30 pm
He said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory” and that they were very bright. The pilot said he saw “two bright lights” over to the right which climbed away at speed. UFO-News from BBC:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46181662
Korea Object
I went to see the chrysanthemum festival in Hwasun-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, and was at the festival scene. I did not know it at the time and I found it while sharing a photo with my wife. I thought it might be a balloon or other float, but it was not a good thing to be around. I did not know about the operation at the time of photographing. I am writing about the idea of a UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Lights
Tauranga— The moon was near full and I like moon photography on May 31, 2018. Stood on my deck this night and after taking moon shots, noticed how bright Venus was close by. Just for fun I took a highly magnified shot of Venus and didn’t notice the UFO shapes until I had downloaded several days later. What the ‘UFO’s” in the photo are please Thank you Jocelyn Winwood
Poland Lights
Gostyn— On October 16, 2018 at 6:27 PM, a woman was waiting to watch her son practice soccer and snapped some photos. Later when reviewing the photos she found some strange formations of lights in the sky. She did not see anything unusual. She said that she took the photos outdoors and not through the windows of a vehicle. She took the photos with an I-phone X. She wanted to know if the lights were UFOs.
Note: The lights could be reflections of ground lights off of the clouds, but that is speculation. The ground lights in the photo would not cause the reflection. The witness sent three photos and the large formation shows up in all three photos. Only the first photo shows two formations of lights. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
UK Lights
Prestonpans — I was taking long exposure photos of the sky and planes in 16 second long exposures. I expected the line of the plane in lights to show with stars but after shot was taken an object appears in shot and is static with circular outline and green light. No idea what it is and how it appears in photo but couldn’t be seen while taking photograph! CMS
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A stream of galactic debris is hurtling at us, pulling dark matter along with it
It’s traveling so quickly it’s been described as a hurricane of dark matter
Scientists are excited to set their particle detectors at the onslffaught
Technically, “S1” is a stream of debris from a dwarf galaxy torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity, passing through space. What S1 is pulling along with it, though, is being described in a far more dramatic way, as “a dark matter hurricane.” Scientists believe this companion stream of dark matter (DM) is hurtling through us right now at a jaw-dropping speed of 500 kilometers a second. Hence the “hurricane” metaphor. Is it time to head down into our quantum storm cellars? Not quite. This is dark matter, after all, material we can’t directly perceive and with which we can’t interact, so no worries. On the other hand, this blast of DM has the potential to afford us our best glimpse yet of the elusive stuff.
A team lead by Ciaran A. J. O’Hare developed a series of models that predicted what would happen as all of this DM came charging through our solar system, and published research presenting resulting signatures whose detection would signify S1 and its dark matter.
Stream time
Astronomers have, over time, observed about 30 such streams wending their way across the heavens. S1 was first discovered about a year ago by the Gaia satellite. What makes it exceptionally interesting, though, as the paper says, is that the “stars in S1 impact on the Solar System at very high speed almost head-on. A coherent stream of DM associated with S1 hits the Solar System slap in the face.”
The reason scientists suspect S1 of having a companion stream of dark matter is that its source galaxy seems to have been similar to an existing galaxy, the Fornax galaxy. The paper asserts, “If this prediction is true then the S1 stellar stream must be accompanied by a substantial DM stream.”
What the hurricane looks like from here
IMAGE: Dark matter is a form of matter that cannot be detected by telescopes as it emits no radiation.
To register dark matter, our best detection devices seek out WIMP — “weakly interacting massive particles” — and axions, both suspected of being component particles of dark matter. With current technology, it’s unlikely we’ll get a glimpse of WIMP, but as particle detectors improve in the future we may, someday. There’s more hope for axion haloscopes finding dark matter, since the energy spectrum the dark matter generates should present a distinctive broad frequency bump with a recognizably narrow peak. This leads the authors of the research to a certain optimism if the dark matter is made up of axions, predicting “truly excellent detection prospects if the DM in our galaxy is made up of axions.”
Pay more attention to the earthly weather
There’s arguably nothing more intriguing in physics than dark matter, which many believe comprises some 85 percent of the universe, all while being imperceptible to us. You’re likely to be in the presence of it as you read this. The hurricane made of dark matter, then, is nothing to fear. In fact, it’s exciting in that it gives our scientists an improved, if long, shot of finally detecting some, testing the limits of our current detectors, and envisioning future ways of solving the mystery of dark matter.
Linda Moulton Howe: Something is Coming to Earth From 2.5 Billion Light Years Away (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe: Something is Coming to Earth From 2.5 Billion Light Years Away (Video)
What has been making very powerful and rapid signals in the past ten years from 2.5 billion light-years from Earth?
Linda Moulton Howe explains that the first recorded fast radio burst was in 2007 by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
The power of that radio burst was 500 million times the power of our solar system’s sun and lasted only 5 milliseconds.
Whatever the source is has become the subject of intense speculation by astrophysicists and astronomers.
In the March 9, 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Avi Loeb
— Chair of Harvard University’s Astronomy Dept. and Director of Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation and the Black Hole Initiative
— proposed that fast radio bursts could be “interstellar light sails pushing payloads up to a million tons each, large enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances.”
NASADe Mars 2020-verkenner zal onder meer speuren naar microben die op leven wijzen.
WETENSCHAPNa vijf jaar uitzoeken heeft de NASA beslist zijn Mars 2020 sonde te laten landen in de Jezero-krater op de rode planeet. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau bekendgemaakt.
De onbemande sonde zal in juli 2020 op Cape Canaveral in Florida vertrekken met een Atlas-V draagraket. Lanceerbedrijf United Launch Alliance benadrukt dat het hetzelfde type zal zijn als de Atlas die destijds de succesrijke Mars Curiosity naar de Rode Planeet heeft geslingerd.
Mars 2020 zal niet alleen op zoek gaan naar aanwijzingen van vroeger levensvatbare omstandigheden en vroeger microbiologisch leven. De robotjeep zal ook stalen nemen van gesteente en de bodem, en die daar in een soort opslagplaats stockeren. NASA zegt met de Europese zusterorganisatie ESA een toekomstige missie te bestuderen om die stalen op te halen.
De Jezero-krater herbergde ooit de delta van een rivier. Die heeft mogelijk, via in de krater terechtkomend water en sedimenten, vroegere organische moleculen en andere aanwijzingen van microbiologisch leven verzameld en bewaard, zo luidt het.
For a demonstration that overturned the great Isaac Newton’s ideas about the nature of light, it was staggeringly simple. It “may be repeated with great ease, wherever the sun shines,” the English physicist Thomas Young told the members of the Royal Society in London in November 1803, describing what is now known as a double-slit experiment, and Young wasn’t being overly melodramatic. He had come up with an elegant and decidedly homespun experiment to show light’s wavelike nature, and in doing so refuted Newton’s theory that light is made of corpuscles, or particles.
But the birth of quantum physics in the early 1900s made it clear that light is made of tiny, indivisible units, or quanta, of energy, which we call photons. Young’s experiment, when done with single photons or even single particles of matter, such as electrons and neutrons, is a conundrum to behold, raising fundamental questions about the very nature of reality. Some have even used it to argue that the quantum world is influenced by human consciousness, giving our minds an agency and a place in the ontology of the universe. But does the simple experiment really make such a case?
In the modern quantum form, Young’s experiment involves beaming individual particles of light or matter at two slits or openings cut into an otherwise opaque barrier. On the other side of the barrier is a screen that records the arrival of the particles (say, a photographic plate in the case of photons). Common sense leads us to expect that photons should go through one slit or the other and pile up behind each slit.
They don’t. Rather, they go to certain parts of the screen and avoid others, creating alternating bands of light and dark. These so-called interference fringes, the kind you get when two sets of waves overlap. When the crests of one wave line up with the crests of another, you get constructive interference (bright bands), and when the crests align with troughs you get destructive interference (darkness).
But there’s only one photon going through the apparatus at any one time. It’s as if each photon is going through both slits at once and interfering with itself. This doesn’t make classical sense.
Mathematically speaking, however, what goes through both slits is not a physical particle or a physical wave but something called a wave function—an abstract mathematical function that represents the photon’s state (in this case its position). The wave function behaves like a wave. It hits the two slits, and new waves emanate from each slit on the other side, spread and eventually interfere with each other. The combined wave function can be used to work out the probabilities of where one might find the photon.
The photon has a high probability of being found where the two wave functions constructively interfere and is unlikely to be found in regions of destructive interference. The measurement—in this case the interaction of the wave function with the photographic plate—is said to “collapse” the wave function. It goes from being spread out before measurement to peaking at one of those places where the photon materializes upon measurement.
This apparent measurement-induced collapse of the wave function is the source of many conceptual difficulties in quantum mechanics. Before the collapse, there’s no way to tell with certainty where the photon will land; it can appear at any one of the places of non-zero probability. There’s no way to chart the photon’s trajectory from the source to the detector. The photon is not real in the sense that a plane flying from San Francisco to New York is real.
Werner Heisenberg, among others, interpreted the mathematics to mean that reality doesn’t exist until observed. “The idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist objectively in the same sense as stones or trees exist, independently of whether or not we observe them ... is impossible,” he wrote. John Wheeler, too, used a variant of the double-slit experiment to argue that “no elementary quantum phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered (‘observed,’ ‘indelibly recorded’) phenomenon.”
But quantum theory is entirely unclear about what constitutes a “measurement.” It simply postulates that the measuring device must be classical, without defining where such a boundary between the classical and quantum lies, thus leaving the door open for those who think that human consciousness needs to be invoked for collapse. Last May, Henry Stapp and colleagues argued, in this forum, that the double-slit experiment and its modern variants provide evidence that “a conscious observer may be indispensable” to make sense of the quantum realm and that a transpersonal mind underlies the material world.
But these experiments don’t constitute empirical evidence for such claims. In the double-slit experiment done with single photons, all one can do is verify the probabilistic predictions of the mathematics. If the probabilities are borne out over the course of sending tens of thousands of identical photons through the double slit, the theory claims that each photon’s wave function collapsed—thanks to an ill-defined process called measurement. That’s all.
Also, there are other ways of interpreting the double-slit experiment. Take the de Broglie-Bohm theory, which says that reality is both wave and particle. A photon heads towards the double slit with a definite position at all times and goes through one slit or the other; so each photon has a trajectory. It’s riding a pilot wave, which goes through both slits, interferes and then guides the photon to a location of constructive interference.
In 1979, Chris Dewdney and colleagues at Birkbeck College, London, simulated the theory’s prediction for the trajectories of particles going through the double slit. In the past decade, experimentalists haveverified that such trajectories exist, albeit by using a controversial technique called weak measurements. The controversy notwithstanding, the experiments show that the de Broglie-Bohm theory remains in the running as an explanation for the behavior of the quantum world.
Crucially, the theory does not need observers or measurements or a non-material consciousness.
Neither do so-called collapse theories, which argue that wavefunctions collapse randomly: the more the number of particles in the quantum system, the more likely the collapse. Observers merely discover the outcome. Markus Arndt’s team at the University of Vienna in Austria has been testing these theories by sending larger and larger molecules through the double slit. Collapse theories predict that when particles of matter become more massive than some threshold, they cannot remain in a quantum superposition of going through both slits at once, and this will destroy the interference pattern. Arndt’s team has sent a molecule with more than 800 atoms through the double slit, and they still see interference. The search for the threshold continues.
Roger Penrose has his own version of a collapse theory, in which the more massive the mass of the object in superposition, the faster it’ll collapse to one state or the other, because of gravitational instabilities. Again, it’s an observer-independent theory. No consciousness needed. Dirk Bouwmeester at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is testing Penrose’s idea with a version of the double-slit experiment.
Conceptually, the idea is to not just put a photon into a superposition of going through two slits at once, but to also put one of the slits in a superposition of being in two locations at once. According to Penrose, the displaced slit will either stay in superposition or collapse while the photon is in flight, leading to different types of interference patterns. The collapse will depend on the mass of the slits. Bouwmeester has been at work on this experiment for a decade and may soon be able to verify or refute Penrose’s claims.
If nothing else, these experiments are showing that we cannot yet make any claims about the nature of reality, even if the claims are well-motivated mathematically or philosophically. And given that neuroscientists and philosophers of mind don’t agree on the nature of consciousness, claims that it collapses wave functions are premature at best and misleading and wrong at worst.
The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
Niets is vast en alles is energie. Wetenschappers verklaren de vreemde kwantumwereld om ons heen
Niets is vast en alles is energie. Wetenschappers verklaren de vreemde kwantumwereld om ons heen
Al in 1803 omschreef de Engelse natuurkundige Thomas Young iets wat vandaag de dag bekendstaat als het tweespletenexperiment.
Hij liet aan de hand van een experiment zien dat licht zich óók kan gedragen als een golf. Daarmee weerlegde hij de theorie van Newton dat licht enkel bestaat uit deeltjes.
Met de geboorte van de kwantummechanica aan het begin van de 20e eeuw werd duidelijk dat licht bestaat uit piepkleine onzichtbare eenheden energie die we fotonen noemen.
Onmogelijk
Young zette vraagtekens bij de aard van de realiteit. Sommigen stellen dat de kwantumwereld wordt beïnvloed door menselijk bewustzijn.
Werner Heisenberg zei bijvoorbeeld dat de realiteit niet bestaat totdat zij waargenomen wordt.
“Het idee van een objectieve, echte wereld – waarbij de kleinste onderdelen objectief bestaan op dezelfde manier als stenen of bomen, ongeacht of we ze waarnemen – is onmogelijk,” schreef hij.
Onmisbaar
Onlangs schreven natuurkundige Henry Stapp en zijn collega’s dat het tweespletenexperiment bewijst dat ‘een bewuste waarnemer onmisbaar is’ om het kwantumrijk te kunnen begrijpen en dat er een transpersoonlijk bewustzijn schuilgaat achter de materiële wereld.
De Broglie-Bohm-theorie stelt verder dat de realiteit zowel een golf als een deeltje is.
Of zoals Max Planck zei: “Ik zie bewustzijn als iets fundamenteels. Ik zie materie als een afgeleide van bewustzijn. We kunnen niet achter bewustzijn gaan staan.”
It looks like Peru no longer has a lock on the title of South America’s hot spot for elongated skull (not yet recognized by the Guinness folks). Archeologists have discovered 500-year-old tombs in a Bolivian quarry that contain the remains of individuals whose civilization was conquered by the Incas … remains which include the elongated skulls of people believed to have been high on the local social ladder – the only ladder safe enough to climb with those big heads.
Bolivian Minister of Culture Wilma Alanoca announced last week the discovery of a cemetery three months near the town of Viacha in Bolivia’s Altiplano (the high plains of the Andes) 20 km (12.4 miles) from La Paz. Reuters reports that it had been kept secret until the site was secured since it showed signs of previous looting. The find was made by a mining company digging just three meters down into limestone. Upon opening the tombs carved into the rocks, the workers immediately stopped and notified the government, which sent in archeologists to determine what they had uncovered. And what they uncovered had never before been seen in Bolivia. (Pictures here.)
Archeologist Jedu Sagarnaga holds a skull as part of an archeological finding, dated approximately 500 years ago, in Mazo Cruz, near Viacha, Bolivia, November 12, 2018 ( REUTERS/David Mercado )
“There are objects that are clearly attributed to the Inca culture, and others that are not Inca, but rather Aymara.”
Indigenous Bolivians
Referring to the 30-plus funerary vessels found in the tomb, archaeologist Wanderson Esquerdo was not surprised to find artifacts of the Incas, who conquered the area in the 15th century. However, the cemetery itself belonged to the Pacajes culture, which was part of the Aymara, the indigenous people of the Andes and Altiplano regions whose descendants are still found in Bolivia. The four tombs appeared to have contained the remains of over 100 individuals, along with the vessels, jewelry and funereal bundles. The jewelry — necklaces, bracelets, hair combs and headbands – indicated the tomb was used by families of mixed levels of social status.
And then there’s the elongated skulls. The presence of the skulls means the Incas used the tomb after conquering the Aymaras and that they were at the highest social level – the one that thought elongated skulls were a sign of superiority. Believe it or not, the archeologists are less interested in the skulls than in the remains and artifacts of the Amaras, a culture little is known about.
“(It’s a period when) many of the cultural patterns that today deeply mark the customs of the ethnic groups of present-day Bolivia were shaped. Although they have been the subject of some research, they are not known in depth, so the new findings will help fill the gaps of that era.”
Inca expansion
Roberto Lleras , professor at the Externado de Colombia University, will be studying the remains and artifacts after they’re analyzed at an archeological center, and then returned to a museum in Viacha. Per Bolivian law, the town is responsible for preserving both the artifacts and the historical site.
Are elongated skulls becoming so common in South America that they generate little interest and no shouts of “Aliens!”? That’s probably a good thing … although it certainly wasn’t for the poor little rich kids whose parents wanted bumper stickers on their carts that read “My child is an honor student at Big Skull Academy.”
Just a handful of days before Christmas 1977, the United States’ Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a thought-provoking paper. It was focused on how, in theory, the world of officialdom might handle the situation if it was proved that Bigfoot really exists. And other mysterious animals too.The document had the following heading: Are We Ready For ‘Bigfoot’ Or The Loch Ness Monster? I have presented for you the contents, without interruption. It begins: “What if they really did find the Loch Ness monster or the legendary Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest? Most scientists doubt that these creatures exist, but thoughts of the discovery of a new species that might be the closest living relative to man, or the possibility of finding a leftover dinosaur, excite the imagination of scientist and nonscientist alike. It also poses another question: Would such a creature be subjected to the same kind of exploitation as the giant movie ape, King Kong?
“Scientists generally believe there are still many species of birds and mammals that have not been discovered because they live in remote areas and their populations are limited. After all, the gorilla and giant panda were only legends until the late 19th century when their actual existence was first confirmed by scientists. The komodo dragon, a 10-foot-long lizard, wasn’t known to science until 1912. The coelacanth, a deep-water prehistoric fish, was known only from 65 million-year-old fossils until 1938 when a specimen was caught alive off the Madagascar coast. Just last year a Navy torpedo recovery vessel dropped a sea anchor into 500 feet of water off Hawaii. But instead of a torpedo, it hauled up a 15-foot representative of a new species of shark. The dead shark, named megamouth after its bathtub-shaped lower jaw, had an enormous, short-snouted head and 484 vestigial teeth.
Megamouth shark
“To be sure, no remains of today’ s legendary ‘monsters’ have ever been found. There are no living specimens in zoos or dead ones in museums. Most certainly, many “sightings” of these creatures are exaggerated or misinterpreted reports, and some are downright hoaxes. But finding a Loch Ness monster or Bigfoot is still a possibility, and the discovery would be one of the most important in modern history. As items of scientific and public interest they would surely command more attention than the moon rocks. Millions of curiosity seekers” and thousands of zoologists and anthropologists throughout the world would be eager to “get at” the creatures to examine, protect, capture, or just look at them.
“What would the United States Government do? ‘I doubt well ever have to do anything, because I don’ t believe there are any of the things around to be discovered in the first place,’ said Keith Schreiner, Associate Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Service is the Government agency with responsibility for protecting endangered and threatened species. ‘At least, we have the laws and regulations on the books to deal with newly discovered species.’
“Schreiner acknowledged, however, that a good deal of international cooperation would be needed if extremely rare species were found abroad. And finding one on U.S. soil would pose serious problems too, Service officials agree. Undisputed proof of a Bigfoot might cause an immediate, short-term problem no law could handle. Word of its discovery would be flashed around the world within hours. Hysteria, fear, or panic might accompany the news in the area where the creature was located. The throngs of curiosity seekers, would-be captors, and others wishing to find Bigfoot would not only create a serious threat to the animal itself, but to public safety as well. Some officials doubt whether any State or Federal action short of calling out the National Guard could keep order in the area within the first few hours or days of the creature’ s discovery. This could be essential until a team of scientists could do the necessary things to ensure the creature’s survival.
“The key law in the preservation of a species is the Endangered Species Act, which pledges the United States to conserve species of plants and animals facing extinction. This broad, complex law protects endangered species from killing, harassment, and other forms of exploitation. The Act prohibits the import and export of, and interstate commerce in, endangered species. American citizens cannot engage in commercial traffic in endangered species between nations, even when the United States is not involved. Scientists wishing to study endangered species are required to have a permit issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“But before a creature can receive protection under the Endangered Species Act, a number of actions normally must occur which involve recommendations from the public, scientists, and State and foreign governments where the species exists. The first of these would be the species’ formal description and naming in a recognized scientific publication. In addition, if it were a U.S. species, the Governor of the State where it was found would be contacted, as would the officials of foreign governments if it were found outside the United States. Only after much information was collected could the Service make a formal determination as to whether the species should be afforded endangered or threatened status.
“For the Loch Ness monster, the first step has already been taken. Last year, a highly respected British journal published a description and proposed the name Nessiteras rhombopteryx, meaning ‘awesome monster of Loch Ness with a diamond-shaped fin.’ ‘Nessie,’ as the creature is affectionately known by believers in its existence, has been periodically sighted in Loch Ness, Scotland, over the last 14 centuries. Loch Ness is a 2.5-mile-long, cold, deep lake whose peat-stained, murky waters make positive identification of almost anything from photographs next to impossible. But the most recent reports, based on sophisticated underwater cameras and electronic gear, identify a 30-foot-long creature with a massive, humped body bearing a small head and long slender neck with an immense set of flippers. Although no presently known aquatic organism answers this description, it would fit any of various species of prehistoric, carnivorous reptiles called plesiosaurs which lived 100 million years ago.
“In recent discussion in the British House of Commons, members of Parliament were assured that if ‘Nessie’ were found it could theoretically receive immediate protection since it had already been described and named. If ‘Nessie’ were taken out of Britain illegally, it would be a violation of the U.S. Lacey Act to bring it into the United States. Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is purported to be an 8-foot, 900-pound humanoid that roams the forest and wilderness areas of the Pacific Northwest. One ‘eyewitness’ described an obviously female Sasquatch as a ‘tall, long-legged, gorilla-like animal covered with dark hair and endowed with a pendulous pair of breasts.’ It, too, has been described in publications and given a scientific name. In fact, so many people were stalking Bigfoot with high-powered rifles and cameras that Skamania County, Washington, is prepared to impose a fine of $10,000 and a 5-year jail term on anyone who kills a Bigfoot. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers even lists Bigfoot as one of the native species in its Environmental Atlas for Washington. This year the Florida and Oregon legislatures also considered bills protecting ‘Bigfoot’ type creatures. A Bureau of Indian Affairs policeman has 18-inch plaster cast footprints of the ‘McLaughlin monster,’ a Bigfoot-type creature he saw last month in South Dakota.
“Under U.S. Law, the Secretary of the Interior is empowered to list as threatened or endangered a species for 120 days on an emergency basis. For endangered species in the United States, the Secretary can also designate habitat that is critical to their survival. No Federal agency could then authorize, fund, or carry out any activities which would adversely modify that habitat. So long-term Federal protection of Nessie or Bigfoot would basically be a matter of following the same regulatory mechanisms already used in protecting whooping cranes and tigers.
“‘Under normal situations,’ Schreiner said, ‘we must know a great deal about a species before we list it. How big is the population? Does it occur anywhere else? Is the population in danger of decline? Is its habitat secure? Is the species being exploited? What is its reproductive rate? Obviously, if a Bigfoot really were found we could use emergency provisions of the Act to protect it immediately. But for the record, I seriously doubt whether such a creature really does exist.’ Along with the hundreds of requests received last year to protect more well-known plants and animals, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was queried about protection for Bigfoot and the ‘Lake Champlain sea serpent.’
“No requests have so far been received for the protection of the reputed foul-smelling Noxie monster, a 7-foot denizen of Oklahoma, or the skunk ape of the Everglades, or the infamous Mothman in West Virginia. But in time, they, too, might come. And when they do, they’ll be treated accordingly.”
The evolutionary tree of life is called as such because of the way species are interrelated to each other. From the base of the trunk, which represents the single-celled common ancestor that all life on earth shares, the tree grows and splits into branches: bacteria and other single-celled organisms split from the branch of the Eukaryotes, multi-celled organisms like plants, animals, fungi, etc. Then those branches split. Plants, animals, and fungus all go their own ways. And then again. Mammals end up on a different branch than reptiles, for instance, and then dogs, bears, and primates all end up on different smaller branches. On and on it goes until we end up with all the life we see on earth today. That’s a gross simplification, but it works. Sort of. According to a recent paper published in the journal Nature, Canadian scientists have discovered an organism so vastly different from anything else alive that they believe it requires it’s own own unique branch on the tree of life.
The organism, a microbe called Hemimastigophora, isn’t a new discovery. While it is rare, scientists have known about its existence for some time. Ten species of Hemimastigophora have been known to scientists for over 100 years. While they knew it was weird, technology and genetic science hadn’t progressed far enough to tell exactly how weird.
A simplified picture of the evolutionary tree of life.
Hemimastigophora looks like one of the terrifying creatures you might see under a microscope. It moves, it hunts prey, and it utilizes microscopic body parts to get through it’s day to day existence. It looks and behaves like a microscopic animal, but it’s not. In fact, Hemimastigophora is farther away from any other living organism than humans are from mushrooms. According to Alastair Simpson, an author of the study:
“They represent a major branch… that we didn’t know we were missing. There’s nothing we know that’s closely related to them.”
The discovery was made by Dalhousie University graduate student Yana Eglit and a team of biologists after Eglit, on a whim, collected some soil samples on a hike in Nova Scotia. Upon examining the soil samples Eglit and fellow graduate student Gordon Lax found that they not only contained the rare microbe but contained two of them, including a previously undiscovered species of hemimastigophora which they named Hemastix kukwesjijk, after a hairy ogre from the legends of the local M’ikmaq people.
Its name means “little greedy ogre.”
Genetic analysis of the Hemastix showed it’s bizarre evolutionary lineage. Despite being a small micro-organism it’s a complex multi-cellular creature which puts it in the kingdom of Eukaryotes, the kingdom that includes plants, fungi, and animals. Yet it doesn’t fit in to any of those kingdoms. The scientists have now proposed adding an entirely new “supra-kingdom” to the tree of life to account for Hemimastigophora. A supra-kingdom is a fundamental separation. Again, human beings and portabello mushrooms are part of the same supra-kingdom.
Of course, proposing a new branch on the tree of life doesn’t mean the rest of the scientific community will easily accept it, and if they do it will take a long time. Still this shows, once again, how much we have yet to learn about the this strange floating rock we call home.
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