We are not alone...

[bhinso]

Apparently there is a large green comet visible tonight.

DON'T LOOK AT IT!

Those who have read Day of the Triffids will know what I mean.

[Easy-X]

I think the main hang up is people saying "The Speed of Light" like it's a thing. A thing like a bullet or a ball or anything else you can hold physically or, for that matter, mentally even as a concept.

Light isn't really physical nor is it energy (in the classical sense) I prefer to think of Light's effects on our physical universe of 4 classical dimensions as an intrusion from a vaster (or smaller, depending on your point of view) multi-dimensional layer. Then things like the double split experiment are pretty easy. A photon doesn't "choose" which slit to travel by it's actually at both slits simultaneously because quantum definitions are imperfect. One would say the probabilities collapse to one point or other but the fundamental way of describing the scenario is flawed. However, it is very convenient with regards to making energy and information useful back in the "real world" in the same way Newton's theories were also useful for the realities of his time.

Physical things can't travel faster than the speed of light, no problems there. But other stuff can: the fabric of space-time itself can expand faster for instance. Then again we're (mis)applying human terms like speed in an almost nonsensical way.

Anyhoo, the issue is not "can we travel at the speed of light" (obviously no) but can we move from Point A to Point B without taking an inordinate amount of time doing it. And that's not the same question.
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[Ribenapigeon]

We're being softened up for the big reveal. Trumps already let slip a clue by his being able to drink ammonia.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Lord Percy]

[Easy-X]

[Easy-X]

I was watching a thing on magnetic monopoles... which sounds like the sort of mad voodoo shit you'd find in a UFO lightspeed drive

Anyhoo, something I didn't know (add it to the list) is that electricity and magnetism are entirely complimentary - with regards to equations and all the boffinry - except for charge vs spin (the latter being what makes things magnetic, spin orientation dictating N-S or S-N.) Like you could have something that was negatively or positively charged but you can't just nick the North Pole off a magnetic. It's obviously a dipole by mere definition no matter what scale you look at it (material, domain, atom.)

However, the equations don't work unless monopoles are a thing even though we've never laid hands on one! This is the shit Faraday was into almost 200 years ago and the people in white coats still haven't got to the bottom of it.

Basic electromagnetism, ffs. Still lots to see methinks
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[Islander]

[Islander]

[Rebel]

More weird particle physics, this is an interesting phenomenon..

https://www.rt.com/news/489519-no-parallel-universe-antarctica-time-backwards/

Perhaps one of our resident pharisees for the Standard Model paradigm can venture a hypothesis?

[Ribenapigeon]

We're all just the product of some dickhead with a very advanced 3d printer.

[WD Forte]

Taumata-whaka-tangi-hanga-kuayuwo
tamate-aturi-pukaku-piki-maunga
horonuku-pokaiawhen-uaka-tana-tahu
mataku-atanganu-akawa-miki-tora


thas a bit o that quantum jump fer ya
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[Diggs]

Thank you Kemosabe.
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[Rebel]

What appear to be extreme high energy neutrinos have been detected shooting out of the ice. Normally these are attributed to immensely powerful cosmic accelerators such as neutron stars and galactic nuclei.
What could possibly be down there that can replicate this?

[Ribenapigeon]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Really, when you read about something on your favourite conspiracy theory website you should Google it and read more widely.

Strange ice formations may have tricked physicists into seeing mysterious particles that weren't there.

[Rebel]

RT is hardly a conspiracy website, and your explanation appears tenuous.
Really, when you link an article, you should read it first: "It is a possible explanation, but in my opinion quite unlikely." -Peter Gorham, physicist at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and leader of the ANITA collaboration.

And from the same website, more conspiracy?

https://www.livescience.com/antarctic-neutrino-mystery-deepens.html

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I'm sure RT News is a bastion of impartiality, but then I'd accept that the BBC is similarly questionable to be fair.

Your livescience link on the matter pre-dates my own, which refuted the claim.

[Rebel]

[Rebel]

[chickenstrip]

[Rebel]

Well yes, the New Scientist is a publication, and there is indeed an article in last months edition about the unusual findings of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, which does exist and is staffed by qualified personnel, all verifiable.
For you to suggest otherwise is a level of tin foil hattery even I would recoil from.

[chickenstrip]

I guess I was speaking more generally. Laziness or lack of interest meant I didn't follow the thread. Apologies.
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[WD Forte]

I reckon a lot of is obviously emissions from a source of gravitonium
from a crashed interstellar craft belonging to an advanced race of spacefaring
telepathic lizard robots who came here millenia ago to spy on and control us.
They still exist in the shadows and sneak about abducting people from quiet laybys and such and
after drugging them, finger their bumholes before letting them go
Its true!
The dirty alien bastards
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