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To: TaraP; Realism; Quix

This quote you have, says — “A mysterious screen of extra-loud radio noise permeates the cosmos...”

You do realize that this “noise” is not noise in the sense that you or I hear with out ears. It’s not noise in that sense. It’s only “radio frequency noise”. They’re using terminology that one could possibly confuse with conventional “noise” that one hears with their ears.

Also — “Scientists hear mystery boom from space”

This, once again, is not really a “boom” in the sense that we hear a boom, with our ears. It’s only the “terminology” to get across the idea of a big increase in radio frequency waves hitting the instrument. It’s a “boom” in that sense.

And, instruments that detect this, can be “assigned” a “sound” so that we can “hear it” — but we’re really not hearing it, actually. What is happening is that we have created the sound, so that our ears can have some “representation” of it. It’s *not* the actual “noise” that is going on. It’s a sound produced from the instrumentation...

So, this is talking about something that we would never even know was there — as “humans” — using our normal senses. We only know of it existing as we have instruments that can measure frequencies in the range of what is coming from this area of space. If not for those specialized instruments, we would never even know they existed, and people on the ground would know nothing of it.

BUT, aside from that fact, of them being radio frequency waves, totally out of the range of perception of human beings — there are strange things that go on in the universe, things that people have been totally ignorant of — for centuries, simply because they had nothing to detect them. Now we’re able to detect things which have been there, but simply never known.

Now, while there may be a few “new things” — I really seriously doubt that there are “new things” in space, in the universe. These things have been there all along — it’s just that people never knew they were there.

And in addition to that, even if something “shows up” that wasn’t showing on instruments in the recent past — I believe it would be nothing more than either a “cycle’ that waxes and wanes, or something that was in another region of space (like a body that is moving through space) and simply is in our region of space now.

I wouldn’t be “looking too intently” for any particular set of “signs in the heavens” — because then people tend to jump on everything that shows up as a “sign” of something... :-)

If there are going to be signs that are the ones that the Bible is talking about, it will be *very obvious* and undeniable in retrospect, after it has shown itself — and people, in general, will recognize it as such, across the board. Short of having a general recognition and as something that is indeed something amazing (impacting people’s everyday lives), I wouldn’t think it has too much significance, other than something of scientific interest and understanding how the universe works.

Now, in talking about this, I’m only talking specifically about what you’ve just reported in that one post, and not anything else that you’ve posted.

In other words, this particular phenomenon described, has nothing to do with sounds which are heard “by the ears” in the atmosphere.

For sounds produced in the atmosphere, it takes some kind of compression of the atmosphere to produce the “sound”. That’s usually some kind of “physical object” moving at speed and compressing the air in front of its movement (or some other phenomenon of the object which produces “noise” through other movement of the object [say, just for an example, the movement of propellers, on an airplane which compresses the atmosphere and produces the noise you hear]).

And radio waves don’t have any “mass” to be able to compress the atmosphere and thus produce the “noise” that we hear. If radio waves were ever to do that (if they could, and I’m not convinced if it could even happen, even in a huge amount of radio waves) — in such quantity as to be able to compress the atmosphere, the amount would be so huge, it would probably *fry* all life on the planet and we would all be dead as a result... LOL...


30 posted on 03/10/2009 5:06:50 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler

Many valid points.

However, when the experts in such things declare they are observing something new . . . I at least consider that they may well be quite right.

Particularly in the era when God has already declared there will be great signs in the heavens.


32 posted on 03/10/2009 9:11:21 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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