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Astronomers Record Mystery Radio Signals From 5.5 Billion Light Years Away
sarahnaomi writes For the first time ever, astronomers have captured an enormous radio wave burst in real time, bringing us one step closer to understanding their origins. These fleeting eruptions, called blitzars or FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts), are truly bizarre cosmic phenomena. In the span of a millisecond, they emit as much radiation as the Sun does over a million years. But unlike other super-luminous events that span multiple wavelengths—gamma ray bursts or supernovae, for example—blitzars emit all that energy in a tiny band of the radio light spectrum. Adding to the mystery is the rarity of blitzar sightings. Since these bursts were first discovered in 2007 with Australia's Parkes Telescope, ten have been identified, the latest of which was the first to be imaged in real time.
This is obviously an advanced data stream which we are intercepting. Civilizations who do not have control over quantum entanglement, Use compressed radio bursts at unbelievable magnitude to transfer massive amounts of information across multiple civilizations simultaneously.
This has been known for about 10 years. But suppressed due to it;s sensitive nature.
Attempts to decode the messages have only been marginally successful. The one small decoded message translated into English is roughly: "Never going to give..."
The rest of the message can only be guessed at.
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"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
The subby did finish it. Just read it as an exclamation of joy. "Astronomers something something stuff - YEAH!!!"
No worries ladies and gents. Just some black hole or star being absorbed into a circle of more stable vacuum than the twitchy sort of vacuum we have over here. Move along. Move along. There's literally nothing to see there.
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I felt a great disturbance, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible had happened 5.5 billion light years away.
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"“In real time here means, ‘as soon as the burst radiation arrives on the Earth,’” astronomer Daniele Malesani, co-author of a new paper about the discovery, told me over email. " So, not in real time then. "Astronomers record mystery signals" isn't as exciting though is it?
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Congratulations on this being the first time that the arriving radio waves were captured in real time. But I would be far more interested in hearing how you capture radio waves other than in real time. I wouldn't even need a DVR if I could do that.
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It's just some farmer in the middle of nowhere trying to connect to the internet on their home planet. (S)He tried to save a few bucks by self installing the dish, and is sweeping the sky at full power.
Is "real-time" the new "literally", where how much you mean it matters more than what the word actually means?
No worries ladies and gents. Just some black hole or star being absorbed into a circle of more stable vacuum than the twitchy sort of vacuum we have over here. Move along. Move along. There's literally nothing to see there.
C'mon, there's got to be some highly implausible yet scientific sounding explanation that blames it on a time hole to the future slamming shut. Right? Maybe Elon Musk has been working on a time portal, but he hasn't quite figured out how to make it appear close enough to be usable?
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Now now, we all know vacuum stabilization events travel out from their sources at the speed of light, if it were to happen it would be against the laws of physics to see it coming.
More interesting is one of the actual proposed explanations. A massive spinning magnetron gradually slowing down until centrifugal force can't keep it from collapsing into a black hole anymore. And when the source of the magnetic field suddenly gets cut off from the outside universe by being engulfed by the event horizon, the magnetic field has no where to go but... out. The most powerful magnetic field in the universe getting converted almost instantly to energy; creating a spark that lasts seconds and outputs more energy than the sun has in the past million years.
Our Earth's orbit just crossed a High Power Alien Communication Beam between two of their outposts. Nothing to worry about...
Clearly, this is the signature of an FTL drive spinning up. Pity the folks using it died out 5.4999 billion years ago.
But unlike other super-luminous events that span multiple wavelengths—gamma ray bursts or supernovae, for example—blitzars emit all that energy in a tiny band of the radio light spectrum.
Why is this a mystery? 5.5 Billion years ago, did anyone have anything other than a radio? It wasn't like they could use a satellite dish or something...
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Reasonable nitpick, but yes: "signal" in the signal processing context means a detected quantity whose variations may tell you something. Vibrations in the earth, detected by a seismograph, are signals.
Since I'm engaged in humorous speculation, I posit that stable vacuum events are either limited in size and scope or that they travel at less than C, or both.
Speaking of which, does the inside of a black hole qualify as a more stable type of vacuum? Being a fairly ignorant sort, can a physics guy out there enlighten me?
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i think in the case of vibrations in the ground many of them are from man communication signals. any time there is a nuclear test or contructing something it's a signal, "working on a test!" or something imilar. evn earthquakes are a way of the earth intellgiengtly giving feedback on its current geological state.
Reaper carrier signal.
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Or maybe say this radio signal was bait/chum and we (or perhaps our planet) are the game in someone else's sport.
Apparently nobody has a clue about these so called FRBs, so nobody can prove us wrong ;^)
On the other hand it appears that these signals are pulse compressed a bit by some kind of intergalactic dispersive media (electron gas?) so if someone was actually looking for some thing in the intergalactic void, this is a pretty plausible analogy to deep seismic sounding the cosmos...
i think in the case of vibrations in the ground many of them are from man communication signals.
Yes, and many of them are not. Just accept the meaning of the term "signal" already! Temperature readings are signals. Air pressure readings are signals. ALL measurements are signals. Otherwise what would be meant by "signal conditioning" etc, The conditioning og other people's transmissions? Signals are just the part you are interested in, as opposed to noise. WTF kind of a debate is this?
How do we know the original burst was radio? Wouldn't red/blue shift affect the entire electromagnetic spectrum, not just visible light? Could these be higher energy bursts (perhaps gamma emitted from known phenomena) red-shifted by our relative space/time/vector/position? I feel ignorant asking, but if we don't know where they came from or have any fix on the source, how do we know they were emitted as "radio"?
A massive spinning magnetron gradually slowing down until centrifugal force can't keep it from collapsing into a black hole anymore.
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I think some far away scientist just said "don't worry, our LHC can not create a black ho..."
creating a spark that lasts seconds and outputs more energy than the sun has in the past million years.
Actually it lasts only about a millisecond, but the 1 MYears of solar output part is right. It's about the mass of the moon converted to RF energy in
1 ms.
I wonder how they gauge the energy. If they simply extrapolate the energy-emission by assuming it's the same from any other angle, then it doesn't really take into account it could be a directed radio-burst.
My logic tells me they should have already taken it into consideration, but if not it could explain the theorized super-duper-hyper-nova energy-levels, seeing as a sphere with radius 5.5 billion light years would require an enormous amount of energy to have its surface receive the measured levels of radio waves.
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That figure reminds me of how harold white's warp drive initially required the mass of jupiter in energy to operate. That energy output seems like it would be ideal for such an alien technology, not that I ever expect to find proof.
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Blitzars are the most common final stage of technological Singularities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
When a Singularity has finally exhausted all local novelty in their system of origin and for lack of a better word become bored, they often tend to initiate a Blitzar-Epitaph. * Blitzar-Epitaphs are also often initiated in the case of detected approaching vacuum stabilization events or other impending local catastrophes.
This is a process by which a Singularity re-engineers all matter/energy in their system including their star into a final Blitzar-Event. This Blitzar-Event is designed to maximally transmit the entirety of the Singularities pattern across the universe with the widest possible dispersion. Their pattern is compressed with an omega-class compression algorithm padded with sufficient meta-data for other singularities to be able to detect and decode.
The motherboard.vice.com article states a million years but references the newscientist article which states a day. Looks like the summary just used the motherboard link and text. It wouldn't be slashdot if the summary was correct.
Since I'm engaged in humorous speculation, I posit that stable vacuum events are either limited in size and scope or that they travel at less than C, or both.
Great! As a physicist, I eagerly look forward to your supporting math to back up those posits which contradict the math I have already seen.
"A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up"
It's also on Research Gate.
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