by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Jul 29, 2020 | Paradigm Revolution, Punk Science, Science
Is a black hole winking at us?
A Galaxy named 1ES 1927+654 became the object of attention for astronomers when it went through a 40-fold increase in brightness in March 2018.
They started discussing ‘winking black holes’. In this article, we discuss what is meant by that and what is really going on.
Ordinary no more?
What was thought to be an ordinary black hole at the centre of a galaxy was surprising scientists who turned their telescopes to study it further.
After that initial brightening, the Black Hole then dimmed, getting 10,000 times less bright in less than a year. It has since become brighter again. Hence the idea that it is winking.
Why so fast?
Current orthodox scientists believe that such changes should happen over thousands of years – but this black hole changed by a factor of 100 over the course of eight hours.
One of the foremost theories for what is going on is that a star has collided with the region around the black hole.
© NASA/JPL Caltech
Mainstream Scientists believe that a star colliding with the area around a black hole is causing it to ‘wink’.
Mystery Solved
However, by understanding, The Black Hole Principle, the mystery is solved. This predicts that the material ejected from the black hole fluctuates in an unpredictable pattern
The Black Hole Principle
We don’t need to evoke any violent or weird situations to explain this. Already mainstream scientists have told us about the amazing abilities of black holes to burp and gobble and they are now saying that they can wink.
It’s simply not necessary if you understand the black hole ‘winking’ as a natural consequence of the process at the edge of our reality.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Jun 10, 2020 | Paradigm Revolution, Punk Science, Science
We are used to comets having long tails but recent investigations show us that comets give off fine jets, but why?
The Old Picture of Comets
We tend to think of comets as snowballs in the sky with long tails.
Ancient people used to think that they were signifiers of doom.
But it’s only in recent years that we have been able to study them in more detail because the European Space Agency has sent probes to various comets.
New Surprises
And what they found was a big surprise.
Instead of just one long tail as the comet nears the sun, comets actually give off jets of vapour and dust including water vapour.
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
These can also be accompanied by an increase in brightness.
The video above contains another image of a comet with jets spinning through space.
Too much power
At first, people thought that these plumes must be caused by the sun which heats up ice and gases beneath the surface.
But these plumes erupt with so much power that there must be another energy source involved.
Black holes and comets
Of course from the perspective of The Black Hole Principle, we would expect comets to give off jets intermittently including water vapour.
That’s because the same process is happening at different scales from a galactic black hole to even a comet.
Just as black holes give off intermittent jets, so do comets.
I hope you have enjoyed this episode of Punk Science TV.
Please leave a comment below with your thoughts about comets, jets and black holes.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Apr 30, 2020 | Paradigm Revolution, Punk Science, Science
The End of Science?
Scientists are running out of ideas. Is it time for a new paradigm?
With so many changes going on in the world, it feels like we are coming to the close of a civilisation. In this article and video, I discuss if we are at the end of science?
The Collapse of Empire
From the Ottomans to the Roman Empire, apparently there were a few signs that heralded the demise of all civilisations.
One is the debasement of currency, another is the celebration of sporting stars or gladiators depending on your era, another is the increasing disparity between the rich and the poor and another is the rise of celebrity chefs.
I think we can agree that we have seen quite a few of these recently and it seems like massive debasement of currency is just around the corner.
With the startling events of 2020, most people in Western civilisation may be waking up to the possibility that we are seeing the beginning of the end – that the dismantling of empire is coming soon.
Where are all the breakthroughs?
And so it is with Science and its breakthroughs in the understanding of the nature of reality. Although the 20th Century seemed awash with groundbreaking ideas such as the theory of relativity and quantum physics, more recent attempts to create breakthroughs of that magnitude haven’t borne fruit.
In a visit to the Perimeter Institute in Canada, journalist Daniel Cossins reported back to New Scientist magazine in January 2019 about the state of theoretical physics and it was not entirely optimistic.
Neil Turok, the director of the Institute explained that when he entered physics in the early 80s, “it stopped being successful”. And later in the article, Turok is quoted as suggesting that we disregard the past 30 years and retrace our steps to figure out where we went wrong.
One of the key issues is the lack of one unified theory that unites the very large structures in space, such as galaxies, with the very small, such as atoms. Although certain theories in physics have been very successful at explaining some aspects of the universe.
Is there something that unites all processes from the very large such as galaxies to atoms Image: Shutterstock
We need a new paradigm
We need a new paradigm in physics. I believe that The Black Hole Principle can contribute to that new paradigm. It has successfully predicted behaviour at several levels of the universe such as antimatter from thunderstorms, water from black holes, methane on Mars and much more.
At a time when civilisation and ideas are running out, it is time to move to a new paradigm that places consciousness at the heart of both science and civilisation.
What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Mar 11, 2020 | Paradigm Revolution, Punk Science, Science
The Biggest Ever Explosion in the Universe
Astronomers have recently found the biggest explosion in the universe ever recorded. Or is it?
Astronomers recently reported that they had found the biggest explosion ever in the universe that they have ever found so far. It has punched a hole in the centre of a huge galaxy 390 million light-years away.
It’s estimated that the explosion had the power of 10 million times the lifetime energy output of the sun.
But is it an explosion?
Let’s look at some of the features.
- It’s in the vicinity of a black hole.
- It contains electrons at just below the speed of light
- It created a concentrated jet.
Conventional scientists say that this explosion was created by in-falling material on top the black hole that was then accelerated out. But they are quite vague as to how a black hole actually does this.
In their minds, black holes are supposed to be sucking everything in so why is stuff exploding out?
They admit they don’t know what is going on.
Everything becomes clearer with The Black Hole Principle.
We expect jets of electrons to be emitted from black holes at just below the speed of light because they have only just entered our dimensions. This is accompanied by various types of radiation including radio waves.
This is obviously another Black Hole Principle event
Why is this event so powerful? It is powered by infinite light in higher dimensions that reaches our dimension via a black hole. When the light slows down it gives off these emissions often as beams of electrons at the speed of light because they have only just slowed down to our dimensions.
We need to stop pretending that we know everything about our universe. There is a lot that we do not know. It lies beyond the speed of light. That is where these extreme energies are coming from.
It’s quite humbling really. It’s not an explosion but the effortless power of the universe creating itself from infinity.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Jan 29, 2020 | Paradigm Revolution, Punk Science, Science
New mysterious gravitational waves are being detected. Are they coming from Betelgeuse and is it about to go supernova? This time we are discussing gravitational waves and the Betelgeuse mystery.
You may have seen in the news a few years ago that scientists detected gravitational waves, which are fluctuations in Spacetime itself. It was believed that these waves were created when two neutron stars collided and merged.
Nobel prizes were issued and the scientists celebrated. However, a new set of gravitational waves have puzzled scientists and they are wondering if there is a link with Betelgeuse which is mysteriously dimming.
These gravitational waves are lasting a much shorter time than the previous ones and at first, people thought it might be down to Betelgeuse, one of the stars in the Orion Constellation that has dimmed considerably in the last few months with people speculating that is might be about to ‘go supernova’ and explode.
Other theories are that black holes which are colliding or eating neutron stars might be causing these signals and scientists helpfully create images like the ones in the video that allow us to visualise this.
Shattering illusions
I hate to shatter your illusions, but nobody has directly imaged one of these neutron star collisions or any of the other exotic events that are supposed to be responsible for the gravitational waves that are being detected by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory).
They are simply making these inferences from the amount of energy that is given out. When you see images of neutron stars colliding, these movies are Computer Generated in much the same way as the special effects in Hollywood movies.
Neutron Stars colliding
So what is happening? Are neutron star collisions really responsible for gravitational waves or is something else going on? Is it Betelgeuse after all?
A familiar pattern
The clue is what happens in the aftermath of gravitational wave release, we see gamma-ray bursts and X-rays just as we do in any typical Black Hole Principle event. I asked a scientist directly what these were and he looked uncomfortable and said they were aftershocks. The key to this is whether or not you see fluctuations in radiation coming from the same point in space much later as we do in many other situations.
This is because the radiation is not coming from an explosion or collision or any other one-off destructive event but is created by the breathing process of the Black Hole Principle. The sheer energy given out in these events is due to the fact that this process is bringing in energy from infinity!
The Black Hole Principle
The process is tapping into what lies beyond the speed of light, beyond our normal perception and what we call dark energy and dark matter. This region actually makes up the majority of the universe. There is so much of of the universe that we humans just do not know!
And this process breathes and fluctuates. So one minute an object in space will be bright and the next, dimmer. And the will seem completely arbitrary.
By understanding The Black Hole Principle, we can not only understand gravitational waves but the dimming of Betelgeuse as fluctuations in brightness, are to be expected.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Jan 8, 2020 | Paradigm Revolution, Punk Science, Science
Today on Punk Science TV, we shall discuss galactic lightning.
What happens if you peer into a black hole?
Scientists have found a storm of gamma-rays inside a black hole that they are comparing to lightning.
They were looking at the galaxy IC 310 and witnessed its brightness shifting over just five minutes. Bear in mind that these scientists still think that black holes are destructive so they think these emissions are caused by material being gobbled up by the black hole.
Why the sudden flare-up?
But it takes at least 25 minutes for an object to cross the event horizon in their models. So why are these variations of galactic gamma-ray lightning happening so quickly?
All can be explained by the Black Hole Principle which says that gamma-ray bursts are created intermittently by the recombination of matter and antimatter at the edge of the black hole producing jets at the speed of light.
Sometimes the process goes the other way and matter and antimatter are formed from light. The process is breathing.
The Black Hole Principle
It is this breathing process that is creating the fluctuating brightness.
And of course, I have said before thunderstorms on earth are created in exactly the same way only smaller. It’s the same process all the way down.
Image: James Gordon Graham
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