Posted on 08/14/2012 5:18:41 AM PDT by SatinDoll
Early this morning, about 5:05 AM, my nephew saw a star explode in the constellation Ursa Major.
We're not star hounds and do not know the name of the star that blew, but he did see it and he was sober.
This is his first ever critical astronomy observation. It is amazing what one can see smoking a ciggie on the back deck.
Actually there is some potential for instantaneous communication over light years through quantum entanglement. As Einstein called it “Spooky action at a distance”.
While nothing can physically move faster than the speed of light, reactions can. For instance, if a massive body suddenly appears in the universe, its gravitational pull would be felt everywhere at once. Its obviously weaker with distance but gravity doesn’t travel, it just is.
I personally think gravity is the key to faster than light communication and possibly travel.
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We view the night sky through the "lens/prism" of our own atmosphere, which always causes some significant refraction and/or magnification of the stellar lights we are observing.
This is why the stars "twinkle"... and the movement/changes in the upper layers make the light change colors... and even disappear/reappear within a few seconds.
Wavering/changing starlight has caused airliners to change course (fearing another aircraft that wasn't there) and also report UFO's.
Nearing sunrise, the upper atmosphere receives the first touches of sunlight. This pre-dawn heating cycle makes some significant 'waves' in the upper air.
Ergo...
The stars we are watching (especially those low in the sky) will really seem to dance with these subtle changes in our "lens/prism". This includes an apparent and sudden brightening--followed by a near "disappearance" only to return to normal a few seconds later.
There ya go....
...Just trying to help...
... still waiting for the uranus joke ...
“I wonder what a meteor coming almost straight at you as it burns up would look like.”
Been there, done that.
It cast a shadow, that’s why I looked up. It was very bright, brightest thing I’ve seen in the heavens besides the Sun and Moon. After a few seconds I could see that is was moving laterally just a little bit, then it blew and there were two meteors, one moving slowly the other smaller piece moving faster in the opposite direction. Then they both blew. I heard a couple reports ten or twenty seconds later. I then ran in circles looking for someone to tell. There was no one.
I too share your view of gravity being a key for travel in that if one could reverse the polarity of the gravitational force or lock onto a gravitation force the enormity of the speed acceleration would be nearly instantaneous which could have implications for travel and communication. The polarity of the gravitation force is elusive in constructing an engine able to harness polarity frequencies. There would possibly be a bending or folding of time. If space could be left out of the bending or folding of time, then time would be insignificant as quantum mechanics states. Being here there and everywhere all at the same time to encompass the past, present and future and to view each event simultaneously would have our minds possibly so confused our minds would not be able to perceive what was actual in the past, present, or future. Each event would not take on its own distinguishing characteristics but would instead appear to be the present.
Einstein was a spooky person. His theories and equations and the understanding of such of Einstein's works are understood by only a few. I am not one of the few. Einstein's work is continually being dissected, in the present, and much of it may still be misunderstood (imho) though for myself, I never understood most of his works I read. Einstein was brilliant, and have heard it said he may not have been of this world.
“Our minds would not be able to perceive what was actual in the past present or future.” - Jim Beam does that to me. Jim Beam folds time.....wow.....bottoms up!
Maybe an engine based on the effects of Jim Beam for time travel should be considered. It could work! Leave it to the simplest explanation of wow ... bottoms up! Einstein would be proud of you because sometimes the simplest of explanations explain the constipation of the mind when expelling a solution. LOL blueunicorn6.
It gets even weirder: scientists have found entanglements exist not only across space, but also across time. It's possible to backdate events and communicate with the past and future. Entanglements are known to occur when two photons are emitted from the same source, which seem to retain the same location for a while despite going separate ways, but it may also be possible to tune into a spacetime location without having previously been there. Space and time are illusions of some kind.
If there’s been no report of any kind from another source, I’d guess that it was a high-altitude detonation of a chunk of space debris, such as a larger example of one of Frank’s mini-comets.
Maybe it was a rock from the Perseid meteor shower colliding with a passing spaceship. Anything’s possible.
First thing I thought of.
heavens-above.com is also a good source for Iridium flare data.
It looks like a bright spot then fades. I have seen this naked-eye and through a telescope. Very pretty actually.
They’ve improved that “spooky action” distance to about 100 miles (news item yesterday).
The catch is that while the information transfer is instant, the time to extract the information remains equivalent to light time. That is, the action across the 100 miles is instant, but figuring out what happened still takes half a millisecond. The “information doesn’t move faster than light” rule holds, though for very strange reasons.
Probably a meteor.
The Perseid shower is going on now.
It really is bizarro world at the quantum level. Light is waves or particles depending on whether you’re looking at it or not.
Saw three of them last night around 10:45 p.m. CDT. NE sky from mid-continental North America.
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