Mystery of Strange Radio Bursts From Space
Aug 20, 2015 11:02:56 GMT -6
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Post by Mystic Wanderer on Aug 20, 2015 11:02:56 GMT -6
Is it pulsars, a spy satellite, or an alien message?
This is what scientists are trying to answer concerning the mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy.
These bursts of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. If they are proven real, we have some strange astral physics taking place, or the bursts are artificial, being produced by human or alien technology.
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To calculate how far the bursts have come, astronomers use a concept called the dispersion measure.
(To read how this works, click on hidden content below.)
The astronomer researchers claim there is a 5 in 10,000 chance that the line-up is coincidence.
(And haven't we learned by now that nothing is coincidence?)
“If the pattern is real,” says Learned, “it is very, very hard to explain.”
Hippke states that if they exclude every other possibility of what is causing these radio bursts, we are only left with ETs sending them.
So, in recent threads, I have discussed the Pillars of Light Phenomenon, and the Galactic Super-waves.
And now we have these radio bursts.
It is my personal opinion that all these phenomena are connected from one intelligent universal source that is using these different types of energy sources to affect our planet and our consciousness in some manner, and sending us a "message" to that effect.
What are your thoughts?
This is what scientists are trying to answer concerning the mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy.
These bursts of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. If they are proven real, we have some strange astral physics taking place, or the bursts are artificial, being produced by human or alien technology.
Source
Telescopes have been picking up so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs) since 2001. They last just a few milliseconds and erupt with about as much energy as the sun releases in a month. Ten have been detected so far, most recently in 2014, when the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, caught a burst in action for the first time. The others were found by sifting through data after the bursts had arrived at Earth. No one knows what causes them, but the brevity of the bursts means their source has to be small – hundreds of kilometres across at most – so they can’t be from ordinary stars. And they seem to come from far outside the galaxy.
The weird part is that they all fit a pattern that doesn’t match what we know about cosmic physics.
The weird part is that they all fit a pattern that doesn’t match what we know about cosmic physics.
To calculate how far the bursts have come, astronomers use a concept called the dispersion measure.
(To read how this works, click on hidden content below.)
" Each burst covers a range of radio frequencies, as if the whole FM band were playing the same song. But electrons in space scatter and delay the radiation, so that higher frequency waves make it across space faster than lower frequency waves. The more space the signal crosses, the bigger the difference, or dispersion measure, between the arrival time of high and low frequencies – and the further the signal has travelled.
Michael Hippke of the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, and John Learned at the University of Hawaii in Manoa found that all 10 bursts’ dispersion measures are multiples of a single number: 187.5 (see chart). This neat line-up, if taken at face value, would imply five sources for the bursts all at regularly spaced distances from Earth, billions of light-years away. A more likely explanation, Hippke and Lerned say, is that the FRBs all come from somewhere much closer to home, from a group of objects within the Milky Way that naturally emit shorter-frequency radio waves after higher-frequency ones, with a delay that is a multiple of 187.5 (arxiv.org/abs/1503.05245).FIG-mg22630153.600-2_300.jpg
Michael Hippke of the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, and John Learned at the University of Hawaii in Manoa found that all 10 bursts’ dispersion measures are multiples of a single number: 187.5 (see chart). This neat line-up, if taken at face value, would imply five sources for the bursts all at regularly spaced distances from Earth, billions of light-years away. A more likely explanation, Hippke and Lerned say, is that the FRBs all come from somewhere much closer to home, from a group of objects within the Milky Way that naturally emit shorter-frequency radio waves after higher-frequency ones, with a delay that is a multiple of 187.5 (arxiv.org/abs/1503.05245).FIG-mg22630153.600-2_300.jpg
The astronomer researchers claim there is a 5 in 10,000 chance that the line-up is coincidence.
(And haven't we learned by now that nothing is coincidence?)
“If the pattern is real,” says Learned, “it is very, very hard to explain.”
Cosmic objects might, by some natural but unknown process, produce dispersions in regular steps. Small, dense remnant stars called pulsars are known to emit bursts of radio waves, though not in regular arrangements or with as much power as FRBs. But maybe superdense stars are mathematical oddities because of underlying physics we don’t understand.
It’s also possible that the telescopes are picking up evidence of human technology, like an unmapped spy satellite, masquerading as signals from deep space.
The most tantalising possibility is that the source of the bursts might be a who, not a what. If none of the natural explanations pan out, their paper concludes, “An artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered.”
“Beacon from extraterrestrials” has always been on the list of weird possible origins for these bursts. “These have been intriguing as an engineered signal, or evidence of extraterrestrial technology, since the first was discovered,” says Jill Tarter, former director of the SETI Institute in California. “I’m intrigued. Stay tuned.”
Astronomers have long speculated that a mathematically clever message – broadcasts encoded with pi, or flashes that count out prime numbers, as sent by aliens in the film Contact – could give away aliens’ existence. Perhaps extraterrestrial civilisations are flagging us down with basic multiplication.
It’s also possible that the telescopes are picking up evidence of human technology, like an unmapped spy satellite, masquerading as signals from deep space.
The most tantalising possibility is that the source of the bursts might be a who, not a what. If none of the natural explanations pan out, their paper concludes, “An artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered.”
“Beacon from extraterrestrials” has always been on the list of weird possible origins for these bursts. “These have been intriguing as an engineered signal, or evidence of extraterrestrial technology, since the first was discovered,” says Jill Tarter, former director of the SETI Institute in California. “I’m intrigued. Stay tuned.”
Astronomers have long speculated that a mathematically clever message – broadcasts encoded with pi, or flashes that count out prime numbers, as sent by aliens in the film Contact – could give away aliens’ existence. Perhaps extraterrestrial civilisations are flagging us down with basic multiplication.
Hippke states that if they exclude every other possibility of what is causing these radio bursts, we are only left with ETs sending them.
If the result holds up, says Hippke, “there is something really interesting we need to understand. This will either be new physics, like a new kind of pulsar, or, in the end, if we can exclude everything else, an ET.”
Hippke is cautious, but notes that remote possibilities are still possibilities. “When you set out to search for something new,” he says, “you might find something unexpected.”
Hippke is cautious, but notes that remote possibilities are still possibilities. “When you set out to search for something new,” he says, “you might find something unexpected.”
So, in recent threads, I have discussed the Pillars of Light Phenomenon, and the Galactic Super-waves.
And now we have these radio bursts.
It is my personal opinion that all these phenomena are connected from one intelligent universal source that is using these different types of energy sources to affect our planet and our consciousness in some manner, and sending us a "message" to that effect.
What are your thoughts?
