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12-01-2016 om 01:28 geschreven door peter  

Analyse spectrographique d'un OVNI au Norvège / DR

Par Yohan Demeure9 janvier 2016

Un projet baptisé UFODATA a été lancé récemment, porté par des scientifiques désirant impulser la recherche sur les OVNIs (Objets Volants Non Identifiés) qui a tendance à piétiner depuis quelques années.

Ce projet UFODATA a été lancé par Mark Rodeghier, directeur du Center for UFO Studies (Chicago), et Alexander Wendt, professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université d’État de l’Ohio. UFODATA fera l’objet d’une campagne de financement participative, car aucun argent public n’est disponible en rayon du caractère pseudo-scientifique de l’ufologie. Le but du projet UFODATA ? Établir une analyse systémique du phénomène OVNI ou PAN (phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés).

« Il est clair désormais que tout progrès sérieux dans la recherche sur les OVNIs passe par une rupture avec les usages du passé. Les récits des témoins, les photos, les vidéos et les documents officiels ne nous en apprendront pas plus. Désormais, nous devons étudier directement le phénomène OVNI comme les autres sciences le font avec leurs propres objets d’étude. Bien sûr, c’est une tâche difficile, mais elle est rendue possible par les avancées technologiques récentes en matière d’informatique, de communication, de sources d’énergie, etc. », explique Mark Rodeghier pour un article du Space Daily du 2 novembre 2015.

Tout d’abord, le projet consiste en la mise en place d’un réseau de stations de surveillance du ciel afin d’obtenir un maximum de données. L’idée d’un prototype est en place, mais les scientifiques ont besoin de 30.000 dollars pour le fabriquer. Ce prototype intégrera divers instruments de mesure afin de compiler le plus de données possible : photomètre, spectromètre, spectroscope, magnétomètre, entre autres.

« En fait, il s’agit d’appliquer aux PANs (Phénomènes aériens non-identifiés, le terme scientifique pour les OVNIs) les même méthodes qu’aux objets spatiaux connus comme les étoiles et les planètes » indique Philippe Ailleris, astronome hollandais responsable de projet pour l’Agence Spatiale Européenne et par ailleurs membre du conseil d’administration d’UFODATA.

UFODATA comporte un intérêt assez inattendu : si les participants au projet sont pour certains spécialistes en ufologie, bon nombre de scientifiques proviennent de disciplines plutôt éloignées de l’étude des OVNIs. C’est le cas d’Alexander Wendt, professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université d’Etat de l’Ohio. Ce politologue est une figure universitaire de renom, étant l’auteur de l’ouvrage intitulé Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1999) récompensé en 2006 par l’International Studies Association’s, qui lui a décerné le prix de meilleur livre de la décennie.

Certains autres importants contributeurs au projet préfèrent rester anonymes, car l’ufologie reste encore très stigmatisé au sein de la sphère scientifique.

Sources : Space Daily – Paris Match – Melty Discovery

Crédit photos : UFODATA

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12-01-2016 om 01:06 geschreven door peter  

A global effort has begun — Secret files hidden from the public for decades, Detailing every ufo account, are now available to the public.Cracking the Alien Code

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For millenia, it is believed that our cosmic neighbors in the Universe have sent messages for us to decode.
We have struggled to understand the symbols sent to us.
But now, for the first time in history an alien message has Been received.
this could be ground Breaking.
36 years ago two men made Contact with an unknown craft.
Tonight we will reveal it’s Meaning and the way we look at ufo encounters will change.
everything that people thought they knew about ufo’s For the last 7 years is probably wrong.
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” Exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.
No evidence of alien life has been more soft after than a Message from another world.
people have seen ufo’s but to Communicate with an alien, that would be the key to unlocking The secrets of life in the universe.
But one historic incident stands above the rest.

The year is 1980.
In the midst of the cold war, The entire war is on edge.
The possibility of annihilation Sparked by america and the ussr is at an al time high.
this is December 1980.
A period of international Tension.
Ronald reagan has been elected President.
This is a period that the cold War is defrosting and a danger that it might become pretty hot.

Troops are stationed at the royal air force base in the Uk.
Around 3:00 am on the night of December 26th, radar loses track in the woods.
They notice something strange high above the forest.
Radar indicated it could be a downed aircraft.
among the soldiers to witness these lights are airmen first Class boroughs and pendeston.
What they find after driving Into the forest is not a downed aircraft.
as I was getting out of the vehicle, it felt like there was Static electricity in the air.
Things felt abnormal.

Both of us looked at each other and realized something was going On.
Above the trees the two men see The silhouette of a try angular shaped craft.
the object was dancing on our skin and clothes.
At that point in time I knew I had an unknown object in front Of me.
sergeant reaches for his Notebook to record the details of the object that was almost Six feet tall with mysterious symbols etched on the side of The craft.
one of the things that sets The forest apart is this wasn’t just lights in the sky.
This was a landed ufo.
They both got extremely close to This object.

It had turned down in a small Clearing in the forest and jim claims that he got so close to This thing he was able to reach out and touch it.
I took my hand and ran it over the bottom all the way across.
It felt like going over the smoothest of metal to like Sandpaper.
but then something happens That will change his life forever.
out of all of them one was larger.
I decided to touch that one.
I touched that symbol and I had An explosion of white light where I couldn’t see, I was Blinded.
I started seeing 1′s and 0′s.
They were like inside my mind’s eye.
they burn into his memory leaving an imprint of an alien Code.
I think I was plain Terrified.
Somehow I was able to pull my Hand off and stop.
The craft started to move a Little bit and then it was gone in the blink of an eye.
next, the two men we witnessed the craft in the Forest reveal a shocking secret and their hunt for the truth Reveals a shocking alien contact.

it is coming this way.
this is “unsealed alien Files.
” exposing the biggest secret on Planet earth.
late in the night two men Experience something in the forest.
He is shaken by his experience and the vision it leaves behind.
John boroughs maintains a different memory of the events Entirely.
I do not remember seeing jim Walk around the craft.
What I clearly remember was we Got close to something and the next thing I know it appeared to Go out into the sky.
but the most unexpected Difference, the time on their synchronized watches differs by Almost 45 minutes.
whatever we encountered Affected our memory.
At one point I looked towards Whatever was in the air could have affected our memory or Could have affected what we saw.

when they returned to base it Transpired that more time had elapsed than they realized.
Time it seemed not only had run on, but had maybe one at Different speeds for them.
This takes us to quite Extraordinary territory.
But when you talk to john and Jim and people who looked at this case.
Theories had bounced around.
could the ship have caused The exception of time, their search for the answer uncovers Evidence that must be heard to be believed.
unsealed case file the charles halt recording.
The following evening.
John boroughs meets with base Commander shalt to reexamine the site of the commander.
They checked nearby trees for radiation.
One of the things that came up was that the radio traffic was Being recorded through the command post.
The side facing the expected landing site.
We were taking the sample now.
That is the strongest point on The tree? yes, sir.
it had gone all the way to the side of the meter.
the course of the investigation changes when a Soldier on the team notices something unusual.
A glowing light spotted in the distance.

There it is.
What is it? I don’t know, sir.
it is a strange, small red Light.
Maybe a quarter to a half.
there is no doubt this is genuine and it is extraordinary.
You can hear the tension and fear in their voices as the ufo Approaches them.
You can hear the ufo’s coming Closer.
the object exploded into a Great white light and shot back out.
he is thinking about this and he said was this communication? A warning? What was it? On January 13th, 1981, colonel halt writes a memorandum about The incident.
In it he confirms that what they Encountered on the previous night was no figment of the Imagination but a real phenomenon.
two pieces of evidence to support the incident was the Memo and the tape recording.
But what we found out years Later was that there was a more significant piece and that was The code that he received when he touched the craft.
But he was still keeping the code a secret.
I could pt sleep.
I was still having the codes Flashing.
After I completed 16 pages I Felt great.
But I wasn’t going to report That because it sounds in sane.
So I kept it quiet.
when he touched this the huge jolt and information somehow Transferred to him.
He forgot about this.
Maybe he didn’t realize it was important.
It was only 30 plus years he realized he was sitting on Something of the utmost significant.
coming up next, we reveal the meaning mind the code in his Notebook and uncover the shocking identity of the beings Who sent it to us

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This is “unsealed alien files” Exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.
welcome back to “unsealed alien files.
” Retired usair force sergeant has kept a secret from the world.
received in a vision.
For 30 years these pages remained hidden until a chance Reunion with his partner in as we were going through the book he came to pages that had I said these are binary Codes.
in 1974 scientists broadcast A message at a power of 1,000 kilowatts into deep space.
When the message was sent up at that time it was the most Powerful message that we had sent.
It was sent up in long strings of 0s and 1s.
the easiest way to understand binary code is to think of it as Morse code.
You put 8, 1s or 0s together and You get a band.
The code watts was decided to be The universal language.
It would be the easiest thing to Decipher.
When we sent the message to the Heavens we gave details about the universe and details about Who we are as humanity.

If pensatan received Communication and we were able to decode it.
That message could change humanity.
the al yen code.
In 2012 I was given six pages From his notebook.
I was asked to see if there was A message inside.
nick was asked to take the First six pages and determine if in fact they meant anything at All.
I was skeptical that I would Find anything.
I started running them into my Translator and I was shocked to find a message.
Which red latitude and longitude coordinates.
When I saw the message a chill ran down my spine.
I was not expecting to find anything.
And here was a message that would appear to come from the Aliens if they were trying to communicate for us.
the message could be in instruction or perhaps a warning A possibility made more intriguing by the numbers that Appear in the code.

it is the right number of Digits appearing somewhere on planet earth.
when plotted on a map.
They fall off the coast of Ireland and island once known as high procele.
it has been dubbed a sort of lost land a mythical country as It were that some believe were the site of an advanced Civilization.
According to legend.
Those who have seen it reported a land filled with a wealthy Civilization whose architecture was filled with domes.
then the island disappeared from the map.
But in the pages that followed.
Continued analysis has uncovered Other coordinates around the globe.
it clearly shows grid coordinates from around the Globe.
United states, central america, South america, greece, egypt and china.
Many have speculated that it points to alien ancestors on Planet earth.
But there is more to this story Than we have been led to believe.
many believe that this code could be the smoking gun that Blows open the whole mystery of ufo phenomenon itself.

but to fully understand the message we must answer the Question who sent it to the human race and perhaps the most Shocking revelation of the encounter is that jim believes He has the answer.
why would a race that Traveled thousands of light years play hide and seek with Us, give us a binary message and why is it in english and why Does the craft have markings like the usair craft? It doesn’t point to alien.
This is not a ufo.
coming up next jim exposes the creatures in the forest with An answer that will shock the world.
This is “unsealed alien files.
” welcome back to “unsealed Alien files.
” within the 16 pages of code Recorded by jim in the forest, the most important detail may be His explanation

of who gave it to him.
this is not about ufo’s.
It doesn’t point to alien.
What I seen was a craft that was us for the future.
perhaps the code is actually a message from our own species.
If jim is correct the true message of the code is an Assurance that mankind will survive well into the centuries Ahead and the revelation that ufo’s on planet earth may be a Glimpse into our future this is unsealed alien files.
Exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.

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11-01-2016 om 23:37 geschreven door peter  

Human Hybrids Of Ancient Greece

BY ANCIENT CODE 

Article written by Simon E. Davies, contributor to Ancient Code. Visit his Facebook page here. 

The Greeks adapted many of the monsters in their legends from the near east influences. However, it can be argued that their depiction of these fabulous beasts are among the most iconic and unique in world mythology.

Some of the most formidable beasts were known as hybrids (part human and part animal). Hybrids combined the savagery of nature with the intelligence of humans, making them powerful allies or deadly foes. The following list details some of the most notable hybrids of ancient Greece, and their roles in mythology:

The Gorgons were three horrifying sisters with broad faces, and piercing eyes (some depictions even say they had flaring nostrils, yellowed tusks and protruding tongues). Their heads were wreathed in snakes, and one look from a Gorgon’s eyes would turn a man to stone. Perseus killed Medusa, one of the Gorgon sisters, by beheading the beast while looking at her reflection in his shield.

Dryads were tree spirits, typically associated with oak trees. They were said to have been born from the trees in the Silver Age of Greece, and possessed bark like features. While the tree flourished, so did its resident nymph, but when it died she passed away with it. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures, except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend of the nymphs.

The Manticore, a beast which originated from Persia, was described by the Greek physician Ctesias in one of his memoirs. He claimed to have seen one on his travels in India, describing it as having the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion. Legend says it had three rows of sharp teeth and its tail could shoot venomous spines to paralyze or kill its victims. It devoured its prey whole and left no clothes, bones, or possessions.

The Drakaina were part woman, and part dragon. Sometimes they were depicted as having a woman’s head and torso, with the hind-quarters of a dragon or snake. They were among the most deadly of monsters in Greek mythology, often used as guardians of sacred places. Campe (guardian of Tartarus), Delphyne (guardian of the oracle) and Echidna (known as the mother of monsters because the majority of monsters in Greek myth were her offspring) were the most notorious.

The Minotaur was a man-eating beast with the head of a bull and the body of a man. King Minos kept it hidden in a labyrinth in Knossos, where he used it to frighten his enemies. Legend says the Minotaur was created by Poseidon to punish king Minos for an improper sacrifice. He made Pasiphaë (Minos’ wife) fall in love with a white bull, and together they sired the Minotaur. Eventually, the Greek hero Theseus killed this abomination on one of his adventures.

The centaurs were one of the most civilised hybrid races, but even they were known to be heavy drinkers, reverting to coarseness and savagery. They had the head, arms, and torso of a human and the lower body of a horse. Chiron was one of the most popular centaurs in Greek mythology. He stands in contrast to the typical depiction of centaurs being indulgent and violent drinkers with his intelligence and enviable medical skills.

The Lamia were vamparic women with a taste for blood. Their race originated in Ancient Libya, based on a beautiful queen Lamia who became a child-eating daemon. Hera (Zeus’ wife) killed all of Lamia’s children out of spite, after finding out that she had slept with her husband. Lamia’s grief at the death of her children caused her to turn into a monster who took revenge on all mothers by hunting down and devouring their children. Many accounts say these daemons had snake’s coils in place of legs.

Satyrs are a troop of male spirits who have goat-like features. They were described as having human bodies, with the hindquarters and horns of a goat. They were often found following Dionysus, the god of feasting. They roamed the woods and mountains, playing on their flutes and drinking copious amounts of wine. They epitomize the essence of having a carefree life as they make music and drink all their days away.

The sphinx of Ancient Greece was said to have a woman’s head, a lion’s body, and the wings of a great eagle. Legend says she terrorized travellers by demanding them answer a riddle. It went “what has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed”? Those who could not answer were devoured. Eventually the Greek hero Oedipus gave the proper answer: “it is man, for he crawls on all fours in infancy, walks on two feet when grown, and leans on a staff in old age”. Bested at last, the Sphinx threw herself from her high rock to her death.

The Earth Kings were an ancient race who had human heads and torsos, but serpentine coils in place of legs. The most famous of the Earth Kings was Cecrops I, a mythical king of Athens who reigned for fifty years, and was said to have been born from the earth itself. He was preceded in the region by the earth-king Actaeus of Attica (also said to have been born from the Earth). These founding figures were heroes of Greece, who taught their people marriage, reading, writing, and ceremonial burial.

The Sirens have been depicted as either half woman half bird (in ancient Greece), or half woman and half fish (in Hellenistic Greece). They lived on rocks by the sea, where their beautiful singing lured sailors to their deaths (wrecking their ships on their rocks). Odysseus filled his sailors’ ears with wax so that they might sail safely past the Sirens haunting laments.

Harpies were winged spirits, known for their proclivity for stealing food. Zeus used them to punish a king called Phineus by trapping him on an island with buffet and a large group of harpies, thus preventing him from ever eating as the food was always stolen away. These winged monsters had the bodies of birds and the heads and torsos of women.

For the Greeks, these monsters embodied a fear of chaos. Many of the tales speak of dark and malevolent creatures being conquered by gods and mortals, the forces of order, reason and civilisation.

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11-01-2016 om 23:11 geschreven door peter  

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11-01-2016 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

If There Are Aliens Out There, Where Are They?

Alien life, if it exists, could be as simple as bacteria or more complex than humans—and there are optimal strategies for searching for both

Physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked the question "Where are they?" to express his surprise over the absence of any signs for the existence of other intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy. Although many potential resolutions to this so-called “Fermi paradox” have been suggested over the years, there is still no consensus on which one, if any, is correct. The question of whether we are alone in the Milky Way (or in the universe at large) remains, however, one of the most intriguing questions in science in general, and in astronomy in particular.

Given the enormous uncertainties involved with the emergence, evolution,and survivability of any extrasolar life (if it exists), we shall attempt to briefly identify the most generic, remotely-detectable signatures of alien life (both simple and intelligent), and to examine the expected effectiveness of various search strategies. This topic has become particularly timely, because observations (primarily with the Kepler space telescope) have shown that the Milky Way contains no fewer than a billion Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like (or smaller) stars in the “Goldilocks” region that allows for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface (the so-called habitable zone). Furthermore, the search for extraterrestrialintelligent life has recently received a significant boost in the form of “Breakthrough Listen”—a $100-million decade-long project aimed at searching for non-natural transmissions in the electromagnetic bandwidth from 100 megahertz to 50 gigahertz.

Simple life appeared on Earth almost as soon as the planet cooled sufficiently to support water-based organisms. To be detectable from a distance, however, life has to evolve to the point where it dominates the planetary surface chemistry and has significantly changed the atmosphere, creating chemical “biosignatures” that can in principle be detected remotely. For instance, Earth itself would probably not have been detected as a life-bearing planet during the first two billion years of its existence. Concerning the evolution of intelligent life, the main open questions include:

—What are the geochemical constraints on the evolution of complex life?

—What are the timescales that those constraints dictate?

—Are there evolutionary "filters" or bottlenecks that make it extremely hard to make the transition to intelligence? On Earth, for example, it took about three billion years for the most basic multi-cellular life forms to appear. It took four and a half billion years (and a series of contingencies such as plate tectonics and asteroid impacts) to reach even the most rudimentary capability of interstellar communication (That is, via radio reception and transmission). These considerations demonstrate that it is important to first establish whether planetary systems that are older than the solar system are common in the Milky Way.

The current age of the solar system is about half that of the our galaxy's disk and also half of the sun’s predicted lifetime. We therefore expect that roughly one half of the stars in our galactic disk are older than the sun. A recent study that examined planet formation history concluded that the solar system formed close to the median epoch for giant planet formation, and that about 80 percent of currently existing Earth-like planets may already had been formed (pdf) at the time of Earth’s formation. This gives us great leverage for probing extrasolar intelligent life.

Which detectable biosignature may be considered the most reliable for the existence of simple life (on a sufficiently old, rocky planet, in the habitable zone)? Even though no single biosignature would be absolutely compelling, an atmosphere that is very rich in oxygen (say 20 percent or more) would probably be the most promising target initially. Wheras non-biological processes (such as the splitting of carbon dioxide by intense ultraviolet radiation) can produce oxygen in a planetary atmosphere, only under rare circumstances would these create such high levels of enrichment. Only in combination with other potential biosignatures, however, such as methane, would the credibility of a life-based origin for the oxygen be significantly strengthened.

Consequently, an excellent first step in the quest for signatures of simple extrasolar life in the relatively near future would be to: search for oxygen, but try to back it up with other biosignatures. This can (in principle) be achieved with large, ground-based arrays of relatively low-cost flux collector telescopes (such as a next-generation European Extremely Large Telescope; with a collecting area the size of a few football fields), if these are equipped with very-high-dispersion spectrographs. The oxygen lines from the exoplanet’s spectrum would be slightly Doppler-shifted relative to oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere, making it relatively straightforward (although definitely not easy) to detect them. The more difficult detection of methane in the infrared would have to follow.

What would be the requirements from a space mission? We would want to be able to at least place a meaningful constraint on the rarity of extrasolar life, if such a mission happens to not detect any biosignatures.  Simulations show that in the case of non-detection, to be able to make a statement such as: “remotely detectable life occurs in less than about 10 percent of Earth-like planets around sun-like stars,” would require the ability to image and characterize the atmospheres of at least three-dozen or so exoEarths. Such a yield, in turn, would necessitate a space telescope aperture exceeding about 8.5 meters in diameter. The proposed Habitable-Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx), under discussion for the next decadal survey, would have to be designed at the upper limit of its currently conceived aperture to meet this particular requirement. The more ambitious nine- to 12-meter Large UV/Optical/IR (LUVOIR) type space telescope such as the proposed High Definition Space Telescope would be a natural mission candidate for the 2030s.

One would ideally like to go beyond biosignatures and seek the clearest sign of an alien technological civilization. This could be the unambiguous detection of an intelligent, non-natural signal, most notably via radio transmission, the aim of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program. Yet there is a distinct possibility that radio communication might be considered archaic to an advanced life form. Its use might have been short-lived in most civilizations, and hence rare over large volumes of the universe. What might then be a generic signature? Energy consumption is a hallmark of an advanced civilization that appears to be virtually impossible to conceal.

The two most plausible, long-term energy sources available to an advanced technology are through commanding stellar luminosity with a construction known as a “Dyson sphere”, possibly including harvesting the starlight from many stars, not just one, or even from an entire galaxy; the other is by controlled fusion of hydrogen into heavier nuclei. In both cases, waste heat would be an inevitable outcome, producing a detectable mid-infrared (MIR) signature. Other potential signatures of advanced civilizations that have also been suggested, such as various forms of atmospheric industrial pollution, or short-lived radioactive products, are necessarily transitory. (Basically those aliens either clean up their act ordestroy themselves).  Infrared emission, on the other hand, seems almost unavoidable. A recent large survey by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite did identify five red spiral galaxies whose combination of high MIR and low near-ultraviolet luminosities are inconsistent with simple expectations from high rates of star formation. A conventional explanation for these observations, such as the presence of large amounts of internal dust, has not been ruled out, however. Such peculiar objects deserve follow-up observations before we explore whether they might represent the signatures of galaxy-dominating species.

More pessimistically, biologically-based intelligence may constitute only a very brief phase in the evolution of complexity, followed by what futurists have dubbed the “singularity”—the dominance of artificial, inorganic intelligence. If this is indeed the case, most advanced species are likely not to be found on a planet's surface (where gravity is helpful for the emergence of biological life, but is otherwise a liability). But they probably must still be near a fuel supply, namely a star, because of energy considerations. Even if such intelligent machines were to transmit a signal, it would probably be unrecognizable and non-decodable to our relatively primitive organic brains.

This could perhaps explain the Fermi paradox. If this scenario holds true, our chances of detecting simple life via biosignatures may be far greater than those of discovering intelligent ET’s. Still, the ultimate goal of detecting the signature of an advanced intelligence, whether biological or nonbiological, remains the most intriguing option. All power to proposed projects for the 2020s such as Japan's Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) and NASA’s Far Infrared Surveyor.

The key point is that for the first time in human history, we are only two or three decades away from being able to actually answer the “Are we alone?” question. Because the answer may affect nothing less than our last claim for being special in the cosmos, its importance cannot be overemphasized. In any case, echoing what Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison said at the end of their seminal 1960 Nature article on searching for extraterrestrials (pdf), we shall never know unless we search! (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)

This article is based on research conducted at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris.

{ http://www.scientificamerican.com/ }

11-01-2016 om 21:49 geschreven door peter  

Astronomie:Découverte de la plus grande structure de l’univers

Des chercheurs de l’université d’Hawaii à Manoa ont décelé la présence d’un gigantesque vide dans la constellation d’Eridan qui serait la plus grande structure jamais identifiée par l’homme dans l’univers.

Une spirale dans la constellation d’Antlia.

Les astronomes ont découvert, le 21 avril 2015, la plus grande structure jamais recensée dans l’univers : un immense trou vide, selon le Guardian. Surnommé «supervoid» (ndlr: supervide en français), il mesure 1,8 milliard d’années-lumière de diamètre et se distingue par sa vacuité inhabituelle. István Szapudi, qui a dirigé les travaux de l’Université d’Hawaii à Manoa, décrit l’objet comme «la plus grande structure jamais identifiée par l’humanité». «Compte tenu de sa taille, le fait de trouver une structure comme celle-là est un évènement très rare», ajoute lescientifique. Le trou se trouve dans la constellation d’Eridan, à 3 milliards d’années-lumière de la Terre, une distance relativement courte dans l’espace.

Un espace très froid

C’est grâce au télescope Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) de Hawaii que le supervide a été repéré, depuis le parc national de Haleakala. Les scientifiques remarquent qu’une immense zone de froid se dégage autour de lui, comparé à ses régions voisines aux températures plus douces. Pour justifier cela, les chercheurs accusent dans un premier temps l’immensité du trou qui freine la puissance de la lumière et donc de la chaleur. Car, traverser un tel espace prendrait des centaines de millions d’années, et les rayons de lumières faiblissent peu à peu lorsqu’ils traversent le vide.

Cependant, les scientifiques affirment que le vide ne peut pas être la seule explication à cette telle froideur. «Les trous vides ne sont pas entièrement vides, ils sont sous-dense. Le supervide contient environ 20% de choses en moins que dans notre partie de l’univers», nuance Andras Kovacs, un scientifique qui a participé à l’étude. En outre, les chercheurs ont même découvert qu’il manquerait près de 10 000 galaxies dans cette partie de l’espace ; ce qui expliquerait en partie ces températures si basse. Roberto Trotta, cosmologiste à l’Imperial College London explique au Guardian qu’il va désormais falloir comprendre «par quel processus ce vide s’est formé».

Un univers infini.

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11-01-2016 om 21:34 geschreven door peter  

Astronomie: une « lueur mystérieuse » sert de preuve à l’existence d’un univers parallèle

11-01-2016 om 21:20 geschreven door peter  

The objects plummeted from the heavens without any warning. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Brian Kerry

Military officials have been conducting an investigation after the objects fell from the sky on Saturday.

Locals from Vietnam's Tan Dong and Bao Dap communities reported thunder-like sounds in the region and observed 'flying objects' prior to the incident which took place during the weekend.

In total three balls were reported to have fallen over the area. One, which weighed only 250g, landed on the roof of a house while a second, weighing 6kg, came down in a nearby garden.

The third ball, which weighed in at a whopping 45kg, fortunately missed the residential area completely and instead landed in a corn field in the neighboring Tuyen Quang province.

Military officials have since been conducting an investigation in to the incident and believe that the spheres were most likely components dropped by a Russian rocket during a failed satellite launch. 

    

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11-01-2016 om 21:06 geschreven door peter  

David Bowie and the Music of Space, Aliens and UFOs

There’s a hole in the world of music today with the news of the passing of David Bowie. His departure from the Earth at age 69 also marks the departure of Ziggy Stardust, Major Tom and the many space travelers, adventures and tales of aliens and other worlds he created with his music.

Ground Control to Major Tom

The first words of his first major hit foretold the direction that the career and music ofDavid Bowie would take. “Space Oddity” was released on July 11th, 1969, five days before the launch of Apollo 11. Bowie predicted the pull this song and this music would inevitably have on his career with the last line: “Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do.”

There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds

Those lyrics are from “Starman,” a song on “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” David Bowie’s legendary concept album based on his alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust – a rock star messenger for extraterrestrials. The name of the band comes from an alleged mass UFO sighting on October 27, 1954, during a football game at Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence, Italy. Play was halted when a group of cigar-shaped UFOs traveling at high speed reportedly stopped suddenly over the stadium filled with 10,000 people One player described glitter falling from the sky, a glitter that some compared to spider webs falling from spaceships from Mars. Was it migrating spiders or UFOs?

The inspiration for the Spiders from Mars

What did Bowie think of UFOs?

They came over so regularly we could time them. Sometimes they stood still, other times they moved so fast it was hard to keep a steady eye on them.

David Bowie often talked about seeing UFOs as a child in England. In her book about life with her husband at the time, (Backstage Passes, Life On the Wild Side with David Bowie), Angela Bowie claims they were driving in 1974 on a concert tour near Detroit and witnessed a UFO … a UFO that was later reported to have crashed in the area with four aliens on board, possibly after engaging with US Air Force jets. There have been rumors of such a crash around that time, including bodies being taken to a base and a TV crew being fired for reporting it.

Who knows? One thing we know for sure this morning … David Bowie has an answer to his question about life on Mars. Rest in peace, Starman.

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11-01-2016 om 20:48 geschreven door peter  

Hoaxster apologises for viral 'strange lights over Canberra' video, reveals clip fake

The person who posted a viral video purporting to show a strange, ball-shaped light over Canberra has made an apology online, explaining the video was fake.

The video uploaded to YouTube on January 3, titled "Strange Lights above canberra 03/01/16", appeared to show a circular light exploding in the sky over the ACT during a storm.

As a result of extensive media coverage the clip went viral, gathering more than 300,000 views on YouTube in less than a week.

But on Saturday its creator posted a explanation on reddit.com, titled 'apology from an idiot':

Last week I uploaded a video here that depicted a large ball of light in the sky exploding into a doughnut. I didn't intend for it to be taken seriously, but I made an error in judgement and titled the video as if it was real. Because of this the video went viral ... I'm extremely sorry for that. I messed up bad.

- idontlikethetaste, reddit.com

A second video was posted with the apology, explaining how the clip was altered using editing software.

After spotting the video on YouTube last week, the ABC tried unsuccessfully to contact the person who uploaded the clip.

An astronomer and the Bureau of Meteorology were also contacted, to establish whether it was possible the video could be the result of real weather activity.

Both speculated that the clip could show a phenomenon called "ball lightning".

However the second video posted by the hoaxster showed the lights were superimposed using After Effects.

The words "unfortunately this video is not real" have since posted under the original clip on YouTube.

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11-01-2016 om 20:38 geschreven door peter  

NASA Astronaut to Highlight Space Station History from Orbit

by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor  

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NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams
Pin It NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, seen aboard the space station in March 2010, will devote part of his next mission, launching in March 2016, to highlighting the significance of the history of the orbiting outpost.
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HOUSTON — NASA's next astronaut to launch to the International Space Station will use his unique position — in both time and space — to share the history of the orbiting outpost.

Jeff Williams, in March, will become the first American to spend three long-duration expeditions aboard the space station and will set a new U.S. record for cumulative time off the Earth. The astronaut will dedicate part of his upcoming six-month expedition to highlighting how the orbital complex came to be what it is today.

"It occurred to me a few months ago that I have gotten the unique opportunity to have gone in the early days, before Expedition 1, to the space station for the first time and then to be there again, about halfway through assembly with a crew of two, and then back with a crew of three, and then later with a crew of six," Williams said in an interview after a briefing at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday (Jan. 7). "So my career covers the history of the space station." [Inside the Space Station: Take the Video Tour]

Williams, whose first trip to the outpost was aboard space shuttle Atlantis in May 2000, six months before the space station's first expedition crew arrived, is now set to join the Expedition 47/48 more than 15 years later. He will launch with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos on Russia's Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 18.

Once aboard the orbital laboratory, Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka will join Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra and British astronaut Tim Peake with the European Space Agency (ESA), who all launched in December. Later, after those three depart in June, Williams will command the Expedition 48 crew, including Ovchinin and Skripochka, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

"I'm really looking forward to flying with this crew," Williams said. "I think if you add it up, I've been on orbit with about 45 different people, and this will add at least five more."

During their stay, the Expedition 47/48 crewmembers will facilitate about 250 research investigations and technology demos, as well as oversee the re-supply of the station with the arrivals and departures of American and Russian cargo vehicles. The crew is also expected to be aboard when a prototype habitat, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), is inflated and when the first international docking adapter is installed. This adapter will enable future U.S. commercial crew spacecraft to visit the station.

Amidst that work, Williams intends to devote some of his time and outreach activities to taking a look back at what the station has accomplished and where that might lead as future missions embark outward into the solar system.

"If you go and survey the workforce right now and survey those in the general public who are following what we do, as is always the case, in the minds of many of them they don't have the awareness of how we got to where we are today," Williams said. "So, given my personal history going back ... I thought it would be a good opportunity to rehearse some of the significant milestones and the depth of history behind getting the space station built."

Jeff Williams with Soyuz TMA-20M Crewmates
Pin It NASA astronaut Jeff Williams with his Soyuz TMA-20M crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.
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Williams, whose father was a high school history teacher, said he hopes to remind the world of the significance of the history behind his soon-to-be home off the Earth.

"To me, it is fair to argue that the greatest achievement of the space station program is the space station itself, and that's what I want to try, in some way, to maybe enrich the awareness of the public [about]," he said. "Not so much because of the history, but because of what that history enables us to do in the future."

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11-01-2016 om 20:23 geschreven door peter  

Het geluid van de heilige ster ( Video )

Overal ter wereld horen mensen steeds vaker vreemde en voor sommigen angstaanjagende geluiden. 

Men brengt soms die geluiden in verband met de eindtijd en op een bepaalde manier klopt dat ook wel. 

Jarenlang worden er wereldwijd al vreemde en bizarre geluiden waargenomen waarvan mensen een ongemakkelijk gevoel krijgen, een soort angstaanjagende geluiden. 

In het Engelse noemt men dit soort geluiden vaak “apocalyptic”, dat wil zeggen geluiden die je in verband kunt brengen met de eindtijd, de Apocalyps.

Apocalyps is de Griekse naam voor de Openbaring van Johannes uit het Nieuwe Testament. De term wordt tegenwoordig vooral gebruikt om een situatie te beschrijven waarin de wereld lijkt onder te gaan, aangezien in dit bijbelboek het einde van de wereld wordt beschreven. 

De geluiden gaan niet weg en worden zelfs in toenemende mate overal ter wereld gehoord, zoals in dit voorbeeld enkele dagen geleden Gouda. 

 


Ook deze week in het nieuws "geluiden uit het hiernamaals" in Marokko: 

Vele bewoners van Agadir, Casablanca en Tanger werden afgelopen weekend opgeschrikt door een vreemd geluid. Velen beschouwen het als een "slecht teken". 

Het geluid werd zondagavond gehoord. Meerdere getuigen namen het op en deelden het op internet. 

Sommigen denken dat het buitenaardse wezens waren, anderen het voorteken van een grote ramp of een aanslag. 

 

Zo af en toe word er aandacht aan besteed in het mainstream nieuws, maar ook daar komt men niet veel verder dan te zeggen dat het een absoluut mysterie is en dat zelfs militairen geen antwoord weten op wat dit allemaal veroorzaakt. 

Wat nu volgt is een deel van reportages op de Amerikaanse televisie met daarnaast een aantal voorbeelden van deze vreemde geluiden. De video is een jaar oud, maar het geeft een goed beeld van het soort geluiden die ook nu nog steeds overal worden waargenomen. 

 

Een lezer stuurt ons het volgende bericht (dank!): 

Ik las op Facebook dat verschillende landen geteisterd worden door vreemde geluiden uit de lucht, dat het klinkt als een trompet geluid, en dat niemand met zekerheid kan zeggen waar het vandaan komt. 

Volgens sommige onderzoekers komt het bij het H.A.A.R.P vandaan (het project dat zich bezig houdt met het het met op verscheidene frequenties beïnvloeden van de elektromagnetische beschermlaag rond de aarde). 

Wellicht is HAARP de oorzaak. 

Om daar meer over te weten te komen raden wij om het volgende fascinerende interview te bekijken/beluisteren wat Dark Journalist (DJ) enkele dagen geleden had met de auteur Elena Freeland. 

Zij schreef het boek, “Chemtrails, HAARP and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planeth Earth”, een boek wat door DJ het beste boek ooit over dit soort onderwerpen wordt genoemd. 

Het werk is het resultaat van 20 jaar onderzoek van Freeland naar de verschillende geo-engineering programma’s. 

Het doel van al die programma’s is om wat zij noemt het Global Information Grid (GIG) samen te voegen met een kunstmatig geïoniseerde atmosfeer en het biologische weefsel van mensen, dieren en de frequentie van een Artificial Intelligence (kunstmatige intelligentie) programma. 

Het uiteindelijke doel is om volledige controle over en centralisatie van alle mensen en gegevens te krijgen, met voltooiingsdatum 2025.

 
Of het bovenstaande fascinerende verhaal verantwoordelijk is voor de vreemde geluiden weten wij niet. 

Echter, er is ook nog een andere hele reële mogelijkheid. Die ligt dan weer in lijn met de komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru, de vreemde lichtstralen die overal worden waargenomen en de tweede zon die zo af en toe wordt gefotografeerd. 

Wij hebben in eerdere artikelen verwezen naar de Kolbrin Bijbel, waarin wordt gerefereerd aan de vorige passage van dit zonnestelsel duizenden jaren geleden. De planeet Nibiru uit het gelijknamige mini-zonnestelsel die in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt aangeduid als de Verwoester.

Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over de vreemde geluiden die mensen hoorden en een stam in Afrika maakt nog steeds die geluiden terwijl ze wijzen naar een heilige ster. 

Navolgend een deel uit een eerder artikelvan ons hierover:

De Dogon is een bevolkingsgroep die woont op de helling van de Klif van Bandiagara in Mali, in West-Afrika. Ze zijn bekend om hun kleurrijke, gemaskerde dansen en ceremonies, authentieke architectuur en hun buitengewone cultureel gebonden manier van samenleven. 

De Dogon mensen hebben ook het soort kennis van de kosmos welke ze eigenlijk niet horen te hebben. Deze is afkomstig van hun verre voorouders. Ze hebben het over een Donkere Ster, onzichtbaar voor het menselijk oog en een ster die de eb en vloed van de stroom van het leven op aarde bepaalt. 

In de onderstaande reportage over de Dogon kun je na een paar minuten horen hoe ze een geluid maken, wat ze noemen: “De stem van de Donkere Ster”. Het geluid wat ze maken, lijkt verdacht veel op de geluiden die mensen wereldwijd waarnemen. 

Er wordt wel gezegd dat de Dogon met de Donkere Ster Sirius B bedoelen, maar als je daar over nadenkt is dat niet echt logisch. Misschien hebben ze het helemaal niet over een ster lichtjaren ver weg in een ander zonnestelsel, maar over een planeet veel dichterbij in een binaire omloopbaan met onze zon. De (nog) niet zichtbare planeet Nibiru. 

Waarom zouden de Dogon zeggen dat een ster in ons zonnestelsel het leven op aarde beïnvloedt? Ook dat is niet erg logisch. Veel logischer zou zijn dat het gaat over een planeet, een veel dichterbij dan wij denken. 

Het zijn niet alleen de Dogon die het over vreemde geluiden hebben. In een museum in Leiden ligt de Ipuwer Paypyrus, één van de oudste Egyptische documenten. Het bevat een kort gedicht met als laatste regel: “Jaren van geluid. Er komt geen eind aan het geluid”. 

Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over vreemde geluiden: “Zij zullen de trompetten horen en de strijdkreet van de Verwoester” en “De ster zong zoals nog nooit eerder was voorgekomen”. 

Eén ding is zeker, wij leven inderdaad in bijzondere tijden en misschien, als we willen weten wat de toekomst brengt, zouden we wat meer naar het verleden moeten kijken. Geschiedenis heeft de neiging zich te herhalen.

Zoals we eerder schreven, lijkt het dat de aarde op een bepaalde manier “ontwaakt” uit een soort diepe slaap en de komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru herkent. Dat het op diverse manieren signalen uitzendt en waarschijnlijk ook ontvangt. 

In de vorm van lichtstralen, vreemde geluiden en steeds heftiger wordende aardveranderingen. 

Wat in ieder geval een zekerheid is, is dat er teveel vreemde en bizarre dingen tegelijkertijd gebeuren om nog toeval te kunnen zijn.

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11-01-2016 om 19:58 geschreven door peter  

Disk UFOs Photographed Back in 1958 Near Colima Volcano, Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sightings: 1958
Location of sighting: Colima Volcano, Mexico

Check out these great old black and white photos from 1958 in Mexico. They so great detail of disk craft over the area of Colima and Guadalajara. Colima is famous for its disk UFOs over the area. Guadalajara is notorious for its giant disk holes that appear out of nowhere (UFO transportation tunnels coming and going.)
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
Javier Torres and Alejandro Duenas in 1958 on a stretch of the road Colima to Guadalajara took a series of very clear photographs of an object in disc form a few meters from them, the object was moving fast.

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11-01-2016 om 19:43 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious UFOs fall from the sky and crash land in northern Vietnam, Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: January 2016
Location of sighting: Yen Bai, Vietnam

These unknown objects could be fuel tanks for rockets or satellites, but honestly, they don't stay in the hands of the public long enough to do any tests to confirm it. They could be alien drones, or parts of damaged alien structures in space. There are a lot of possibilities. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
YEN BAI, VIETNAM — Several mysterious, metal orbs originating from Russia crash landed in Vietnam's Yen Bai and Tuyen Quang provinces Saturday, giving locals quite the scare. Three metal balls fell from the sky and crashed down in northern Vietnam at around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. The smallest, weighing 250 grams, smashed through the roof of a house in Yen Bai. Thanh Nien News reports that a six kilogram sphere fell in a garden three kilometres away. The largest object landed close to a stream in Tuyen Quang. Investigators determined all three balls are Russian-made compressed air tanks that likely fell from a rocket or aircraft. According to VietnamNet Bridge though, it's not clear if Russia owns the objects or if they had sold the balls to other countries. Thanh Nien News reports that none of the objects were explosive. Ngyuen Khoa Son, a professor at Vietnam's State Space Science and Technology Program, told VietNam Bridge that since the balls are intact, they probably fell from an altitude of less than 100 kilometres.

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11-01-2016 om 19:39 geschreven door peter  

Astro-Photographers Capture A UFO Over Darwin On Dashboard Camera

A mysterious light was caught on dash camera streaking across the night sky just south of Darwin in Northern Territory. The video has baffled husband and wife astrophotographers Paul and Sylvia Mayo. They captured the mysterious event on the dash camera near Berrimah when they pulled out of a petrol station.

Initially, they thought nothing about it, but after Mr Mayo had reviewed his computer files, he noticed the bizarre light moving at an incredible speed parallel to the horizon through the night sky.

Mr Mayo said that they have long careers in IT, but never encountered such thing. Their unusual sighting left them baffled. Mr Mayo said that he had seen strange jets throughout 30 years of taking pictures of galaxies and star clusters, but the light they caught on the dash camera hurtling through the night sky was moving a lot faster.

The dash-cam video was taken on June 12, 2015, at 1 am while Mr Mayo’s vehicle was pulling out of a petrol station. The light appeared from nowhere and flew past from the left at a very fast speed.

Mr Mayo studied stills from the video. He zoomed them in and increased the contrast of the light. The effort produced spectacular results.

Mr Mayo said that it appeared to be a string of coloured pearls streaking through the sky. He considered the reflection from the windscreen as the origin of the light, but eventually dismissed the theory because it was moving very fast and there were other reflections shown on the camera.

The strange thing in the video goes along the tree tops in a straight line. Mr Mayo remained open to anyone who could offer him an explanation about the identity of the mysterious light.

11-01-2016 om 19:26 geschreven door peter  

One of the best short interviews on UFOs and the cover up

Stanton T. Friedman – UFO Expert – Interview with Bill Boggs

Stanton Terry Friedman (born July 29, 1934) is a professional Ufologist, currently residing in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident. He studied physics at the University of Chicago and worked as a nuclear physicist on research and development projects for several large companies. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S.

11-01-2016 om 19:23 geschreven door peter  

Military Jets And Alien Craft Over Canada

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11-01-2016 om 00:19 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s New VASIMR Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars in 39 days

Franklin-with-VASIMR (Image Courtesy Photographers: Robert Markowitz and Bill Stafford.

NASA recently provided $10 million in funding to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for further development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster capable of propelling a spaceship to Mars in just 39 days. NASA’s funding was part of the “12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership.” Ad Astra’s rocket will travel ten times faster than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the amount of fuel.

The VASIMR system would cut the trip to Mars by months according to Franklin Chang Diaz, a former MIT student, NASA astronaut, and now CEO of Ad Astra.

According to Diaz, “this is like no other rocket that you may have seen in the past. It is a plasma rocket. The VASIMR Rocket is not used for launching things; it is used for things already in orbit. This is called “in-space propulsion.”

VASIMR heats plasma, an electrically charged gas, to extremely high temperatures using radio waves. The system then provides thrust by funneling the hot plasma out of the back of the engine. According to Diaz, VASIMR will save thousands of gallons of rocket fuel and tens of millions of dollars a year.

In the following video, Diaz explains in great detail the origins of space travel and why the magnetoplasma rocket technology will revolutionize space travel and exploration.

David Russell Schilling

David lives in Boston in close proximity to Boston University, Boston College, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Boston’s leading companies, labs and a vibrant startup community. David is open to contacts from inventors, entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors for articles and/or podcasts.

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11-01-2016 om 00:08 geschreven door peter  

After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics discovered

An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered an elusive massless particle theorized 85 years ago. The particle could give rise to faster and more efficient electronics because of its unusual ability to behave as matter and antimatter inside a crystal, according to new research.

The researchers report in the journal Science July 16 the first observation of Weyl fermions, which, if applied to next-generation electronics, could allow for a nearly free and efficient flow of electricity in electronics, and thus greater power, especially for computers, the researchers suggest.

Proposed by the mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl in 1929, Weyl fermions have been long sought by scientists because they have been regarded as possible building blocks of other subatomic particles, and are even more basic than the ubiquitous, negative-charge carrying electron (when electrons are moving inside a crystal). Their basic nature means that Weyl fermions could provide a much more stable and efficient transport of particles than electrons, which are the principle particle behind modern electronics. Unlike electrons, Weyl fermions are massless and possess a high degree of mobility; the particle's spin is both in the same direction as its motion — which is known as being right-handed — and in the opposite direction in which it moves, or left-handed.

"The physics of the Weyl fermion are so strange, there could be many things that arise from this particle that we're just not capable of imagining now," said corresponding author M. Zahid Hasan, a Princeton professor of physics who led the research team.

An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered Weyl fermions, elusive massless particles theorized 85 years ago that could give rise to faster and more efficient electronics because of their unusual ability to behave as matter and antimatter inside a crystal. The team included numerous researchers from Princeton's Department of Physics, including (from left to right) graduate students Ilya Belopolski and Daniel Sanchez; Guang Bian, a postdoctoral research associate; corresponding author M. Zahid Hasan, a Princeton professor of physics who led the research team; and associate research scholar Hao Zheng. (Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications)

The researchers' find differs from the other particle discoveries in that the Weyl fermion can be reproduced and potentially applied, Hasan said. Typically, particles such as the famous Higgs boson are detected in the fleeting aftermath of particle collisions, he said. The Weyl fermion, however, was discovered inside a synthetic metallic crystal called tantalum arsenide that the Princeton researchers designed in collaboration with researchers at the Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter in Beijing and at National Taiwan University.

The Weyl fermion possesses two characteristics that could make its discovery a boon for future electronics, including the development of the highly prized field of efficient quantum computing, Hasan explained.

For a physicist, the Weyl fermions are most notable for behaving like a composite of monopole- and antimonopole-like particles when inside a crystal, Hasan said. This means that Weyl particles that have opposite magnetic-like charges can nonetheless move independently of one another with a high degree of mobility.

A detector image (top) signals the existence of Weyl fermions. The plus and minus signs note whether the particle's spin is in the same direction as its motion — which is known as being right-handed — or in the opposite direction in which it moves, or left-handed. This dual ability allows Weyl fermions to have high mobility. A schematic (bottom) shows how Weyl fermions also can behave like monopole and antimonopole particles when inside a crystal, meaning that they have opposite magnetic-like charges can nonetheless move independently of one another, which also allows for a high degree of mobility. (Image by Su-Yang Xu and M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton Department of Physics)

The researchers also found that Weyl fermions can be used to create massless electrons that move very quickly with no backscattering, wherein electrons are lost when they collide with an obstruction. In electronics, backscattering hinders efficiency and generates heat. Weyl electrons simply move through and around roadblocks, Hasan said.

"It's like they have their own GPS and steer themselves without scattering," Hasan said. "They will move and move only in one direction since they are either right-handed or left-handed and never come to an end because they just tunnel through. These are very fast electrons that behave like unidirectional light beams and can be used for new types of quantum computing."

Prior to the Science paper, Hasan and his co-authors published a report in the journal Nature Communications in June that theorized that Weyl fermions could exist in a tantalum arsenide crystal. Guided by that paper, the researchers used the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy in Princeton's Jadwin Hall to research and simulate dozens of crystal structures before seizing upon the asymmetrical tantalum arsenide crystal, which has a differently shaped top and bottom.

The crystals were then loaded into a two-story device known as a scanning tunneling spectromicroscope that is cooled to near absolute zero and suspended from the ceiling to prevent even atom-sized vibrations. The spectromicroscope determined if the crystal matched the theoretical specifications for hosting a Weyl fermion. "It told us if the crystal was the house of the particle," Hasan said.

The Princeton team took the crystals passing the spectromicroscope test to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California to be tested with high-energy accelerator-based photon beams. Once fired through the crystal, the beams' shape, size and direction indicated the presence of the long-elusive Weyl fermion.

First author Su-Yang Xu, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Physics, said that the work was unique for encompassing theory and experimentalism.

"The nature of this research and how it emerged is really different and more exciting than most of other work we have done before," Xu said. "Usually, theorists tell us that some compound might show some new or interesting properties, then we as experimentalists grow that sample and perform experiments to test the prediction. In this case, we came up with the theoretical prediction ourselves and then performed the experiments. This makes the final success even more exciting and satisfying than before."

In pursuing the elusive particle, the researchers had to pull from a number of disciplines, as well as just have faith in their quest and scientific instincts, Xu said.

"Solving this problem involved physics theory, chemistry, material science and, most importantly, intuition," he said. "This work really shows why research is so fascinating, because it involved both rational, logical thinking, and also sparks and inspiration."

Weyl, who worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, suggested his fermion as an alternative to the theory of relativity proposed by his colleague Albert Einstein. Although that application never panned out, the characteristics of his theoretical particle intrigued physicists for nearly a century, Hasan said. Actually observing the particle was a trying process — one ambitious experiment proposed colliding high-energy neutrinos to test if the Weyl fermion was produced in the aftermath, he said.

Hasan (pictured) and his research group researched and simulated dozens of crystal structures before finding the one suitable for holding Weyl fermions. Once fashioned, the crystals were loaded into this two-story device known as a scanning tunneling spectromicroscope to ensure that they matched theoretical specifications. Located in the Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy in Princeton's Jadwin Hall, the spectromicroscope is cooled to near absolute zero and suspended from the ceiling to prevent even atom-sized vibrations. (Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications)

The hunt for the Weyl fermion began in the earliest days of quantum theory when physicists first realized that their equations implied the existence of antimatter counterparts to commonly known particles such as electrons, Hasan said.

"People figured that although Weyl's theory was not applicable to relativity or neutrinos, it is the most basic form of fermion and had all other kinds of weird and beautiful properties that could be useful," he said.

"After more than 80 years, we found that this fermion was already there, waiting. It is the most basic building block of all electrons," he said. "It is exciting that we could finally make it come out following Weyl's 1929 theoretical recipe."

Ashvin Vishwanath, a professor of physics at the University of California-Berkeley who was not involved in the study, commented: "Professor Hasan's experiments report the observation of both the unusual properties in the bulk of the crystal as well as the exotic surface states that were theoretically predicted. While it is early to say what practical implications this discovery might have, it is worth noting that Weyl materials are direct 3-D electronic analogs of graphene, which is being seriously studied for potential applications."

The team included numerous researchers from Princeton's Department of Physics, including graduate students Ilya Belopolski, Nasser Alidoust and Daniel Sanchez; Guang Bian, a postdoctoral research associate; associate research scholar Hao Zheng; and Madhab Neupane, a Princeton postdoctoral research associate now at the Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Class of 2015 undergraduate Pavel Shibayev.

Other co-authors were Chenglong Zhang, Zhujun Yuan and Shuang Jia from Peking University; Raman Sankar and Fangcheng Chou from National Taiwan University; Guoqing Chang, Chi-Cheng Lee, Shin-Ming Huang, BaoKai Wang and Hsin Lin from the National University of Singapore; Jie Ma from Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Arun Bansil from Northeastern University. Wang is also affiliated with Northeastern University, and Jia is affiliated with the Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter in Beijing.

The paper, "Discovery of Weyl fermions and topological Fermi arcs," was published online by Science on July 16. The work was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundations Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative (grant no. GBMF4547); the Singapore National Research Foundation (grant no. NRF-NRFF2013-03); the National Basic Research Program of China(grant nos. 2013CB921901 and 2014CB239302); the U.S. Department of Energy (grant no. DE-FG-02-05ER462000); and the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (project no. 102-2119-M- 002-004).

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10-01-2016 om 23:33 geschreven door peter