1 Topic by cameron (edited by cameron 2005-02-19 20:11:08)

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Topic: Huge Cosmic Blast - Density Phase Shifter?

This /. post was intriguing.  I started looking around and came up with a little theory.  What does your intuition tell you about this event?

New Scientist

Several dozen satellites around Earth, and one orbiting Mars, detected a flash of high-energy photons - known as gamma rays - on 27 December 2004. The 0.25-second flash was so bright it overwhelmed the detectors on many satellites - making an energy measurement impossible - and disrupted some radio communication on Earth.

[...]

The neutron star in question is rare mangetar, with a magnetic field so strong it could wipe a credit card clean from a distance of 160,000 kilometres. And this magnetar is even rarer yet, one of three "soft gamma repeaters" (SGRs) in the Milky Way.

BBC News

SGR 1806-20is sited in the southern constellation Sagittarius. Its distance puts it beyond the centre of the Milky Way and a safe distance from Earth.

[...]

The initial burst of high-energy radiation subsided quickly but there continues to be an afterglow at longer radio wavelengths.

This radio emission persists as the shockwave from the explosion moves out through space, ploughing through nearby gas and exciting matter to extraordinary energies.

This is thought to be the largest explosion in the galaxy since the SN 1604 supernova observed by Kepler in 1604.

Two Theories:

- This is a cosmic event tied to the metaphysical event known as "The Wave" or the Cassiopaean term defined as a shift in "hyperkinetic sensate".  It occured opposite the galactic core from Earth.  The core may have acted as either an electromagnetic or gravity wave filter or enhancer.  If indeed consciousness 'ascends' from lower to higher densities, with higher density realm-goers serving those below in their progression towards Unity, perhaps a rare cosmic explosion might serve this goal.

- The close proximity in time of the neutron star explosion to the major earthquake and tsunami implies a connection between the two events.  Like whales using sound waves to communicate over vast distances of ocean, perhaps the cosmic pulse from a distant neutron star could stimulate the sensate of the planet Earth producing a "shiver" or quake.

Ancillary Notes:

Swift Space-based Telescope

- First images from Swift were taken of Cassiopaea A supernova remnants.
- Latest Swift burst data.

Nasa SGR 1806-20 data  (for the more equations-oriented theorist)

Patrick B. Cameron blogs about his observations of 1806-20 with the VLA (Very Large Array) telescope.  Data goodness in his post on the giant flare on Dec 27.

More data collected from the Integralspace-based observatory for gamma-ray emmisions.  (also, Integral is watching the galactic core closely)

The Distance of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1806-20

Further thoughts:

- The intensity of these long-wave radio waves could affect all sorts of Solar System and earth-based phenomena.
- Although I haven't seen it mentioned, I'm wondering about gravity waves associates with this burst.  Especially because the galactic core was somewhat between earth and the neutron star.
- Still need to place SGR 1806-20 actual position relative to Earth and galactic core

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I found this paragraph from the Wikipedia definition of magnetar to be quite interesting:

wikipedia wrote:

Blockbuster Detonation

On December 27, 2004, the light from an explosion on the surface of a magnetar, SGR 1806-20, reached Earth from 50,000 light years (500 exameters) away. In terms of gamma rays the burst was brighter than a full moon. It was the brightest event known to have impacted this planet from an origin outside our solar system. The gamma rays struck the ionosphere and created more ionization which briefly expanded the ionoshere. The magnetar, which is no more than twenty kilometers (twelve miles) in diameter, released more energy in one-tenth of a second than our sun has released in 100,000 years. A similar blast within ten light years (100 petameters) of earth would destroy the ozone layer. Fortunately, the nearest known magnetar to earth is 1E 2259+586, 13,000 light years (120 exameters) away. SGR 1806-20 is located in the constellation Sagittarius.

This definitely seems to be a very notable event.   "The brightest ever known ..."   Does that mean it's an incredibly rare occurence for something like this to happen?  Or, does it mean they've only been able to detect this sort of thing for a short amount of time, and for all we know it's quite common?   That's my first question.

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Re: Huge Cosmic Blast - Density Phase Shifter?

Yes i think this is somewhat related, if not part of "the wave"
Maybe related to the Tsunami, who knows?

what does any1 know about our solar system making its way thru "the photon belt"?

also, heres a bit of speculation:
i have a vision of our solar system slowly drifting off the orion arm and into the saggitarius arm. but everytime i try to look this up i find different diagrams that dont agree on the same "arms" in this galaxy. quite annoying. but i have a strong feeling on this.

well, theres my 2 very unscientifical cents...

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morning sun wrote:

Or, does it mean they've only been able to detect this sort of thing for a short amount of time, and for all we know it's quite common?

Apparently, all they're basing their estimation on is the high probability of observing an event of this magnitude given the large number of amateur and "academic" astronomers that have been searching the sky since roughly the 17th century.

What's not common, are these soft gamma repeaters (SGRs).  They say they're only 3 in the entire Milky Way.

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Forgive me if I'm misinformed, but if this blast happened 50,000 light years away and  only just hit us in December wouldn't that mean that the initial blast happened a long time ago? That's my other beef with astrology, the light we are receiving from these stars is many thousands of years old and differs immensely from star to star. Therefore we aren't seeing each star in it's current state, we are seeing the light of almost every star at a different point in time.

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Alushe wrote:

Forgive me if I'm misinformed, but if this blast happened 50,000 light years away and  only just hit us in December wouldn't that mean that the initial blast happened a long time ago?

Yes, fifty thousand years ago to be precise.

Alushe wrote:

That's my other beef with astrology, the light we are receiving from these stars is many thousands of years old and differs immensely from star to star. Therefore we aren't seeing each star in it's current state, we are seeing the light of almost every star at a different point in time.

As far as this explosion is concerned, I guess the important point is that the waves or "Wave(TM)" is hitting us now; it probably doesn't matter where or when it took off from. 

As far as astrology, I've heard two different sources make the same point:  'Whether it works and why it works are two separate questions.  Just because you don't know the answer to the second doesn't mean the answer to the first must be in the negative.'  I can appreciate that.  So, not knowing the answer, I keep my mouth shut, my eyes open, and refrain from forming opinions until I have sufficient information on which to base them.  In the matter of astrology, that day may never come for me as far as I know; I'm not actively studying the subject.  But who knows, that may change.

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It's like throwing a ball at someone I guess, it doesn't affect them until it hits them :S

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I just remembered something.  I had a vision on the solstice when this 'wave' started hitting the earth. From the NASA source above:

NASA wrote:

During 21 December more than 30 SGR-like bursts
were detected by Konus-Wind and Helicon-Coronas-F
with peak fluxes varied from 5e-7 to 8e-5 erg /cm2 s.
The time interval between bursts varied from seconds to hours.

The triangulation of several these bursts
indicated that their origin is SGR 1806-20.

My vision was of a "Dawn", like rays of light finally hitting the earth.  The sense of it was that it was a here and now event, not the future.  And the feeling was a very powerful feeling of joy and hope.  A "Bringers of the Dawn" sensation. smile  I really think this may be important.  This may *really* be the "Dawn" and the "Wave" that channels have been talking about!  I also think the negative forces are trying to harness this energy in a negative way.  The energy itself may be neutral, able to be hasnessed in a positive or negative way.

THAT is what I believe is the connection to the earthquake on the 27th.  The 'ills', at least the US gov faction, tried to harness the event to  heighten negative energies and spread chaos.  The technology exists, the simplest explanation is that it was used, especially considering the appaling lack of warning that occurred on the part of the governments involved.  It may have been 'allowed' by Earth and the higher sto forces in the hopes that compassion would be enhanced.

NASA also indicated that busts occurred in October of last year.  I was feeling very anxious in October.  That things were being planned to cause immense destruction, in part to allow Bush to consolidate his power.  Those events are more difficult to call though.

NASA wrote:

This is the second series of bursts from this source.
The previous one was detected on 5 October (GCN 2769).

In any case this is extermely important.  We need to investigate this more.  Did anyone else have any special sensations or visions around solstice last year?

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This is a cosmic event tied to the metaphysical event known as "The Wave" or the Cassiopaean term defined as a shift in "hyperkinetic sensate".  It occured opposite the galactic core from Earth.  The core may have acted as either an electromagnetic or gravity wave filter or enhancer.

You mean like a gravity lense? How much arc degrees from the core would such a cosmic event would have to be at the most? Probably much less then the actual degrees.

- The close proximity in time of the neutron star explosion to the major earthquake and tsunami implies a connection between the two events.

One would need more datapoints to establish a significant correlation.
Does the wave travel as light speed according to the C's, does it perhaps travel back in time?

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even light speed is relative...

think about it this way:

what happens when you heat up matter? its atoms begin to vibrate faster,

perhaps thats how this blast is going to effect is ? help raise our frequency? help activate hidden DNA sequences?

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Here are some excerpts from the transcripts, and some supplementary research from the web:

970301 wrote:

: And where are you transmitting from?
A: Cassiopaea.
Q: (T) You had a question about transmitting from
Cassiopaea, Arkadiusz. What was the question? (A) I think
the question was, why do they need a particular place in the
universe to transmit from?
A: We transmit "through" the opening that is presented in the
locator you represent as Cassiopaea, due to the strong radio
pulses align from Cassiopaea, due to pulsar from neutron star
300 light years behind it, as seen from your locator.
[Planchette spirals briefly] This facilitates a clear channel
transmission from 6th density to 3rd density.
Q: (A) I would like to know how long it takes for the
transmission to come from Cassiopaea to Earth.
A: "Zero" time.
Q: (A) 'Zero time...' They transmit, using what?
Electromagnetics, gravity, or what?
A: Both. They are interconnected, or you could say "unified".
Q: (A) Zero time? Because of what? Because of... structure
of space/time? Of warp?
A: Space and time are selective and flexible.
Q: (A) What is behind that? What is... what is the medium
behind which the transmission goes?
A: If there were a medium, your puzzlement would be
justified, but, there is not. You see, when one utilizes zero
time, there is zero space as well.
Q: (J) If there is zero space, and zero time, why does it need
to be fixed at a specific location here in 3rd density.
A: It does not, for "transmission purposes." The need for a
specific locator, as expressed previously, as you perceive it,
was due to vibrational frequencies helpful to your psychic
awareness profile. What causes pulsars, Arkadiusz?
Q: (A) What causes pulsars? A good question... (L) Do you
know? (A) Some nuclear reactions...
A: Neutron "stars."
Q: (A) A neutron star is a pulsar. The question is, what is so
particular about neutron stars, because anything which is not
understood...
A: Quantum physics...
Q: (T) The answer to what causes neutron stars is in quantum
physics? Or, is to be found in quantum physics? Is that what
they're saying? (A) Or it is known...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) OK, so, if you look up pulsars, it will tell you, I guess...
(A) OK...

So quantum physics may shed some light on neutron stars...

From a paper titled "Gravitational Meissner Effect"
by R.P. Lano
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Iowa

There is strong evidence that neutron stars are superfluid and maybe superconducting,
indicating that macroscopic quantum effects play a significant
role in neutron stars. In addition neutron stars are very strongly gravitating
objects. We therefore would like to investigate the possibility of macroscopic
quantum gravity effect in the form of a gravitational Meissner effect.
In the post-Newtonian approximation Einstein’s theory of general relativity,
gravity looks like a U(1) theory and is very similar to the electromagnetic
Maxwell theory [2]. This allows us to follow closely the approach of London [3, 4]
in deriving gravitational London equations, predicting a gravitational Meissner
effect. Not knowing the underlying microscopic theory of quantum gravity we
have to resort to this semi-classical approach.

[...] More significant than the expulsion of the gravitational magnetic field, however,
may be the fact that the Meissner effect is a macroscopic quantum effect,
and in essence, the gravitational Meissner effect is a macroscopic quantum gravity
effect. There is experimental evidence that neutron stars are superfluid as
well as superconducting. This indicates that macroscopic quantum effects do
play a significant role for neutron stars. Furthermore, neutron stars are the
strongest gravitational objects observed with certainty. Under the assumptions
used here, we find that macroscopic quantum gravity effects may play a significant
role for neutron stars.

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/9603/9603077.pdf

Macroscopic quantum gravity effects....

970301 wrote:

A: A pulsar pulses at an extremely rapid rate.
Q: (T) It creates a frequency... (L) Well, everything's
frequency...
A: Yes.
Q: (T) Well, this was a specific frequency they were looking
for. The rate of vibration is the rate of frequency. And it
creates a frequency that they said was something that would
be beneficial to... (L) No, this location is the beneficial thing,
right here, this house.
A: No.
Q: (A) But, I do not understand. The frequency...
A: Your planetary realm.
Q: (L) OK, your planetary realm is what they were referring
to. (A) OK, there is something about pulsar, because it brings
these pulses with a certain frequency. But, of course, it is not
these pulses that are important for transmission, because the
pulses take hundreds of years to get here. This we know. (L)
But, the pulsar is the window... (A) It's a window... (L) The
window between densities. (A) Yes, but what is the pulsar
that is so specific that it makes a window? Is it this frequency?
Or, is it something else? Which physical phenomenon is
responsible for making this window? Can we specify
something more exactly than saying that it's just quantum
physics?
A: What is the nature of neutron stars, super novas, "black
holes," et cetera?
Q: (L) You go in a black hole, and you come out a pulsar?!
A: All are the junction of matter/antimatter... the borderline
between realities as you know them... material realms/etheric
realms, density level junctures, realities. One can pass through
these windows with ease; remember, the stars and planets are
windows too.

[...] Q: (L) Is gravity something from the center of the window to a
reflective opposite in the ethereal realm, rather than the
attraction between objects in this material realm?
A: Gravity is the "binder" common to all imaginable existence.
That is all you really need to know.

So according to the C's, neutron stars among other things function as dimensional windows between realms and densities. An energy pulse from such an object would thereby extend this function outward and connect whatever is in the path of the pulse with the source of the pulse, if sender and receiver are tuned into each other. For example, earth receiving the energy influx of a supposed supernova 300 ly beyond Cassiopeia would aid in the communication process between 3D earth and 6D injecting their transmissions through that dimensional window. The image I get is a pencil punching through several layers of paper.

How this might related to the Wave is that such energy may stimulate quantum leaps into higher realms, just as light can stimulate an electron into leaping into a new orbital level.

000722 wrote:

Q: (I) I was writing something in my journal about supernovae
being steps toward the Big Bang, in the sense that each
supernova represents a reflection of ourselves...
A: In a more physiological sense, supernovae present cosmic
energies which "up the ante" of awareness, when one is in
close enough proximity.

Not exactly a supernova, but a magnetar burst is still powerful. Whatever travelled instantly would have hit 30,000-50,000 years ago. As for the gamma ray burst that just hit, if gravity waves travel at the speed of light then likewise we were just hit by those. If anything, looks like it marked the beginning of an "upping of the ante" -- the tsunami marking it as well since cosmic, geological, and mass social events tend to happen together.

From a paper by Eugene Podkletnov, the russian antigrav researcher

Impulse Gravity Generator Based on Charged
Y Ba2Cu3O7−y Superconductor with Composite Crystal
Structure

The detection of apparent anomalous forces in the vicinity of high-Tc supercon-
ductors under non equilibrium conditions has stimulated an experimental research in
which the operating parameters of the experiment have been pushed to values higher
than those employed in previous attempts. The results confirm the existence of an
unexpected physical interaction. An apparatus has been constructed and tested in
which the superconductor is subjected to peak currents in excess of 104 A, surface
potentials in excess of 1 MV , trapped magnetic field up to 1 T, and temperature
down to 40 K. In order to produce the required currents a high voltage discharge
technique has been employed. Discharges originating from a superconducting ceramic
electrode are accompanied by the emission of radiation which propagates in a focused
beam without noticeable attenuation through different materials and exerts a short
repulsive force on small movable objects along the propagation axis. Within the
measurement error (5 to 7 %) the impulse is proportional to the mass of the objects
and independent on their composition. It therefore resembles a gravitational impulse.
The observed phenomenon appears to be absolutely new and unprecedented in the
literature. It cannot be understood in the framework of general relativity. A theory
is proposed which combines a quantum gravity approach with anomalous vacuum
fluctuations.

http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/p … 108005.pdf

This shows that superconductors, when highly energized by a pulse, may emit gravitational waves in anomalous quantities. Taking into account that neutron stars may be superconducting, and that the recent gamma ray burst came from an explosion on the surface of a magnetar type neutron star, emmitted gravity waves  may indeed be the significant factor here.

That gravity is said to be the binder of reality means a gravity wave would create fluctuations in that binding and therefore affect the nature our our individual and global realms, therefore our individual and global learning experiences.

Lastly...

991204 wrote:

Q: We have been discussing the possibility of Rigel going
supernova as has been suggested in the past, and the arrival of
the optical effects being conducive to DNA changes in human
beings. Is this, in fact, possible or probable?
A: Yes.
Q: Are the optical effects of the supernova the same as The
Wave?
A: Do not get ahead of yourself. The Wave will be apparent
when it arrives.

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I didn't know where to put this so I'm trying here.  It has to do with the earth's magnetics.

SUNDAY TIMES Johannesburg, South Africa. Sunday 18th July 2004.
National news: “¾Something weird is going on below us“.

SATELLITES IN LOW-EARTH ORBIT OVER SOUTHERN AFRICA ARE ALREADY SHOWING SIGNS OF RADIATION DAMAGE by BONNY SCHOONAKKER

Southern Africa is experiencing weird vibes, according to scientists studying one of the more profound upheavals awaiting planet Earth. This forthcoming revolution is a reversal in the Earth's magnetic field, an event that occurs every 500 000 years or so. Signs that the reversal is about to happen again are nowhere more apparent than over Southern Africa, according to Dr Pieter Kotze, head of the geomagnetism group at the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory in the southern Cape.

Satellites in low-Earth orbit over Southern Africa are already showing signs of radiation damage suffered as a result of the Earth's magnetic field weakening above our part of the planet. The field forms the magneto sphere, which, like the Earth's ozone layer, protects the planet from the sun's harmful radiation. Other symptoms destined to become apparent in the years ahead include the aurora australis, or southern lights. Usually seen only over the South Pole, these will become visible closer to the equator as the Earth's magnetic field weakens and disappears. Eventually, on past form, the field will reappear but with magnetic north and south pole changing places, as they have done for billions of years.

According to an article in the New York Times this week, the change will be devastating for migratory animals such as loggerhead turtles, which use the Earth's magnetic field to migrate 8 000km around the Atlantic. Bees, swallows, cranes, salmon, homing pigeons, frogs and eagles may also lose their way between breeding and feeding grounds. Humans will suffer, too. The (temporary) disappearance of the magnetic field ahead of its reversal will lead to increased occurrences of radiation-induced cancer, Kotze said. Commenting on the New York Times report, Kotze said that the decay in the Earth's magnetic field was becoming increasingly apparent in "the South Atlantic anomaly", a huge deviation in the Earth's magnetic field discovered with the help of the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory.

This month, the European Space Agency (ESA) approved a multimillion-euro space mission, called Swarm, to measure the anomaly, which stretches from Southern Africa towards South America. The ESA's scientists believe that this anomaly, as revealed by the occasional "geomagnetic jerk" to which our part of the world is prone, will provide a clue to predicting the next "flip" in the Earth's magnetic field, now 250 000 years overdue - as these things go.

Three ESA satellites, flying in low-Earth orbit (400km to 500km up) after their launch in 2009, will measure the variation over Southern Africa. The observatory has also recorded a faster-growing deviation between true north and magnetic north over Southern Africa during the past 10 years, drifting steadily westward. Taken together, the blip and this drift point to an imminent reversal in the Earth's north-south magnetic alignment. "We should be able to work out the first predictions by the end of the [Swarm] mission," Gauthier Hulot, an ESA geophysicist and a colleague of Kotze's, told the New York Times.

The discovery of the "anomalous field behaviour over Southern Africa" drew wide attention, reported the US newspaper, because "it seemed consistent with what the [ESA's] computer simulations identified as the possible beginnings of a flip". Kotze said that, "these are all indications that we have conditions similar to the last reversal,
780 000 years ago. So it means that we are due for another one soon." In geological terms, however, "soon" could mean anytime between tomorrow and the next 3 000 years.

Kotze said the anomaly was the result of "things happening" far below the Earth's surface. At the boundary between the mantle and the outer core (more than 3 000km below Southern Africa) disruptions were occurring in the flow of the Earth's liquid outer core (mostly iron), he explained. This created "a reverse dynamo situation", which is becoming increasingly apparent as variations in the magnetic field above the Earth's surface.

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Alushe wrote:

Forgive me if I'm misinformed, but if this blast happened 50,000 light years away and  only just hit us in December wouldn't that mean that the initial blast happened a long time ago?

Good point but maybe as time is only a 3D illusion and all that exists is now and with quantum particles moving forwards in backwards in "time" theory,
perhaps the synchronicity of the flash and the tsunami may have been planned at any "now" in "time" if  indeed it was.
If 4th or 5th dimensional entities or energies are involved then the "time" factor is meaningless.
Complete and utter speculation only of course :-)

With harmonic resonanance what happens to one particle will happen to another particle instantly even they they are separated in space by light years so could the same effect happen if they seperated in "time"

Its not like we are fractions of the whole but rather versions of the whole.

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Well Alfred, you read it here first.  Or, maybe you read it here first.  Either way, Paul LaViolette has a theory very similar to the one proposed above.

Interested to know whether LaViolette's article came out after this post or not.  Either way, they are strikingly similar and only enforce the proposed theory.

Does anyone know of other sources claiming this theory?

I've been continuing to put some of these thoughts together for an article.  Will post it here when done. 

@Montalk - Thanks for posting the above research.  The stuff from Podkletnov -- LaViolette mentions him as well.

edit: Well, it appears LaViolette has been at it for a while now.  Interesting how multiple unrelated sources came to the same theory.

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These may be relevant:  Bells theorum http://www.gettingit.com/article/266

http://home.infionline.net/~jforberg/id17.html

Jack Sarfatti  http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/q2beynd.html

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