No one has ever contended that the Sun did not affect the weather or that the changes in the natural solar cycles aren’t drastically affecting earth. DUH.
But what …or WHO…initiates or precipitates these changes to the Sun? Does it just automatically happen? It is THE SUN after all. It has a mind of its own if anyone dares ascribe sentience to it? Do they? I think the scientists believe their own sentience and interpretation control the Sun’s narrative.
Actually, what I hear is the male scientists’ interpretation of TIME in history in 12:60 cycles supposedly controlling the Sun. Maybe male time controls the Sun. Voila! What do the French say? “Au Contraire mon ami. Le soleil est le grand parent de nous tous.”
In ancient wisdom, the Sun is mother and father in the ether, tending to all evolving life in our Sol Ring. Tending to, not controlling, not beating, not killing. A section of the Urantia Book is the story of the birth of our earth and local planets being born out of our sun so there is the parentage. It starts on page 651 if you want to google, “The History of Urantia” It’s Part III and quite moving.
Our Sun was born from the Andronover nebula. This was 987,000,000,000 (billion) years ago so…And it is in direct communication with Galactic Center, Source. So, it’s all good. I love this book. It’s mind-blowing and precise.
6 billion years ago marks the current functioning of our sun for our system. That’s on page 655. Our sun’s Number on universe records is 1,013, 572. The birth of our solar system or Sol Ring is on pages 656-659. Our Sol Ring is 3 billion years old and was originally called Monmatia. I love that name. Sounds like “My Mother” in Spanish. There is nothing more nurturing than our Universe and its Directors. Any suggestion to the opposite is a pure error.
987,000,000,000 years ago associate force organizer and then acting inspector number 811,307 of the Orvonton series, traveling out from Uversa, reported to the Ancients of Days that space conditions were favorable for the initiation of materislization phenomena in a certain sector of the, then, easterly segment of Orvonton.
The Urantia Book, page 651
Note Etheric Mother Sun and Etheric Father Sun. This is the Mayan Way.
This is The Shift predicted for 30 years now by my peer group. We talked about in 1990 when I lived in Sedona.
The N.Polar Zone and the S.Polar Zone will flip. This has happened 4 times before in the history of Earth. Typically, the entire west coast will submerge below the ocean and re-emerge for the fifth time.
The sun is not going to purposely kill us. The earth and all life on it is evolving according to galactic timing and we just need to pay attention and live away from the coasts or any major volcano or fault lines all over the planet.
I didn’t particularly care for the content written on these stones. It seemed Draconian and Bill Gatesish to me. I think they came from the Grey’s in Orion who need to be put out of their misery.
Some say they are us on a future timeline. WELL SO ARE THE MILLIONS OF GOOD AND LOVING E.T. HUMANS IN FIFTH DENSITY FROM ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE HERE TO HELP US. The Grey’s and their agenda are not here to help us improve.
After the last post, a few minutes ago, I walked downstairs and I thought, “I bet the sun can turn the asteroid belt to dust.” It was just on my radar and I picked it up. I came upstairs and googled, “Can the sun turn the asteroid belt to dust?” Holy crap. Geez, my radar is freaky. Just to be clear, the coming solar flash is not our sun DYING. It is our Sun changing. It isn’t going to die for billions of years. However, my intuition says that the ELM energy from just the flash could turn our asteroid belt to dust. I could be wrong but a solar flash is super, super strong.
The light of a dying star is so intense it can reduce asteroids to dust. A new study indicates this will happen to most of the stars currently burning in the Universe, including the Sun, which will shatter its asteroid belt down to boulders in about 5 to 6 billion years.
The sole agent of this mass destruction is electromagnetic radiation, according to modelling, and it has to do with the Yarkovsky-O’Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect, named after the four scientists who contributed to understanding it.
The YORP effect occurs when the heat of a star changes the rotation of a small Solar System object – an asteroid, for example.
Light energy from the Sun is absorbed by the asteroid, warming it up. The heat makes its way through the rock until it is emitted again in different directions as thermal radiation. This emission generates a tiny amount of thrust; over short time periods, this doesn’t really change much, but over longer periods, it can cause an asteroid to spin or wobble off-axis.
The phenomenon of tumbling asteroids is one way we can already observe this process today. But as the Sun evolves, the effect is going to become more pronounced.
When main sequence stars like the Sun reach their elderly stages, they enter something called the giant branch stage as they expand out, getting very big and very bright. That stage lasts just a few million years before – whoosh! – they eject their outer material and collapse down into a dense dead star called a white dwarf.
“When a typical star reaches the giant branch stage, its luminosity reaches a maximum of between 1,000 and 10,000 times the luminosity of our Sun,” explained astrophysicist Dimitri Veras of the University of Warwick.
“Then the star contracts down into an Earth-sized white dwarf very quickly, where its luminosity drops to levels below our Sun’s. Hence, the YORP effect is very important during the giant branch phase, but almost non-existent after the star has become a white dwarf.”
Because of the initially increased luminosity, the YORP effect would also increase. And most asteroids are not dense chunks of rocks; they’re more loosey-goosey, low-density conglomerations riddled with cavities, known as “rubble piles“.
According to the team’s computer modelling, the YORP effect would spin most asteroids larger than 200 metres across (about 660 feet) enough to cause them to fracture and disintegrate.
This disintegration wouldn’t happen to objects with higher structural integrity, such as dwarf planets (so Pluto is safe!). But an asteroid belt has a different fate.
“For one solar-mass giant branch stars – like what our Sun will become – even exo-asteroid belt analogues will be effectively destroyed,” Veras said.
“The YORP effect in these systems is very violent and acts quickly, on the order of a million years. Not only will our own asteroid belt be destroyed, but it will be done quickly and violently. And due solely to the light from our Sun.”
It’s not just computer modelling that shows evidence of this. Our observations of white dwarfs suggest this, too.
Over a quarter of white dwarf stars have evidence of metals from asteroid guts in their spectra. These asteroid signatures in white dwarf spectra are something of a mystery and are still debated.
The YORP effect could explain how the asteroid metals got there. As the asteroids crumble, they form a disc of asteroid dust around the white dwarf, some of which gets slurped down into the dead star.
“These results help locate debris fields in giant branch and white dwarf planetary systems, which is crucial to determining how white dwarfs are polluted,” Veras said.
“We need to know where the debris is by the time the star becomes a white dwarf to understand how discs are formed. So the YORP effect provides important context for determining where that debris would originate.”
I will regularly post changes to our solar system as well as earth since it’s part of our evolutionary neighborhood.
Saturn losing its rings is a very big deal. Its about the same Earth losing its frozen poles, a harbinger of change on both planets as I mentioned in my previous post. Jupiter and Mercury have been in the news lately too.
Saturn mediates Yellow Warrior histamine and Blue Night Alanine and it is the ruler of ♑ Capricorn the sea goat. 🐐
Data collected from 2010 to 2019 revealed that there were “extraordinarily rapid” changes to the seafloor along an area of permafrost that formed between 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago.
In addition, it supports Jose’s channeled work in Earth Ascending. It’s the Psi Bank; The Mind of GAIA or the EARTH HOLON.
Here’s what we’re talking about folks, applied to the Tzolkin. Do you see it?
Imagine the Tzolkin exactly around this with + and -negative ELM polarity in the amino acids creating the double helix in the GAP kin. The 365-day solar year sprockets exactly with the 260-day cycle. The Tzolkin is square around the human in the middle. The upwelling is the North Polar Zone, the center is the Zone of Transformation and the downwelling is the South Polar Zone. The Torus are the Van Allen Belts around the Earth.See Below.
Two giant swaths of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surrounding Earth were discovered in 1958. In 2012, observations from the Van Allen Probes showed that a third belt can sometimes appear. The radiation is shown here in yellow, with green representing the spaces between the belts. (Image credit: NASA/Van Allen Probes/Goddard Space Flight Center)
Giant donut-shaped swaths of magnetically trapped, highly energetic charged particles surround Earth. James Van Allen, a physicist at the University of Iowa, discovered these radiation belts in 1958 after the launch of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite. The radiation belts were eventually named after him.
Van Allen’s experiment on Explorer 1, which launched Jan. 31, 1958, had a simple cosmic ray experiment consisting of a Geiger counter (a device that detects radiation) and a tape recorder. Follow-up experiments on three other missions in 1958 — Explorer 3, Explorer 4 and Pioneer 3 — established that there were two belts of radiation circling the Earth.
While observations have continued for decades, our knowledge of the belts became more enhanced when the Van Allen Probes launched in 2012. They found that the belts were more complex than previously imagined.
The probes showed that the shape of the belts depends on what particle is being studied. They also uncovered information hinting there is less radiation than imagined in certain parts of the Van Allen belts, which means spacecraft and humans would not need as much radiation protection if they are voyaging in that region.
On the 60th anniversary of Explorer 1, NASA said that studies of the Van Allen belts are even more important today. “Our current technology is ever more susceptible to these accelerated particles because even a single hit from a particle can upset our ever smaller instruments and electronics,” said David Sibeck, Van Allen Probes mission scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, in a 2018 statement. “As technology advances, it’s actually becoming even more pressing to understand and predict our space environment.”
Early probe findings
Part of the interest in the Van Allen belts comes from where they are located. It is known that the belts can swell when the sun becomes more active. Before the probes launched, scientists thought the inner belt was relatively stable, but when it did expand, its influence extended over the orbit of the International Space Station and several satellites.
The outer belt fluctuated more often. The ISS has been permanently inhabited since 2000, with typical astronauts staying there for six months at a time. In 2015-16, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko remained there for almost a year. As astronauts stay in orbit for longer, their radiation exposure may also increase, leading to concerns about long-term habitation for astronauts in space.
So scientists are interested in close study of this region. In 2012, a new set of probes launched. The Van Allen Probes (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm probes) have several scientific goals, including discovering how the particles — ions and electrons — in the belts are accelerated and transported, how electrons are lost and how the belts change during geomagnetic storms.
The mission was planned to last two years, but as of May 2018 the probes were still operating at more than double the expected mission lifetime. 😲 However, fuel reserves are running low and the probes will likely retire in the next couple of years.
Usually, scientists take a few months after launch to calibrate their instruments, but a team with the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope asked that their instrument be turned on almost immediately (three days after launch); they wanted to compare observations before another mission, SAMPEX (Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer), de-orbited and entered Earth’s atmosphere.
“It was a lucky decision,” NASA said in February 2013, noting that a solar storm had already caused the radiation belts to swell as soon as the instrument was turned on.
“Then something happened no one had ever seen before: the particles settled into a new configuration, showing an extra, third belt extending out into space,” the agency added. “Within mere days of launch, the Van Allen Probes showed scientists something that would require rewriting textbooks.”
Protective shield
Data gathered by the probes also showed that the radiation belts shield Earth from high-energy particles. “The barrier for the ultrafast electrons is a remarkable feature of the belts,” study lead author Dan Baker, of the University of Colorado in Boulder, said in a statement.
“We’re able to study it for the first time, because we never had such accurate measurements of these high-energy electrons before.” [Gallery: NASA’s Van Allen Probes]
This new information helped scientists model the belts’ changes. But there was more information to come. In January 2016, scientists revealed that the shape of the belts depends on what type of electron is being studied. This means the two belts are much more complex; depending on what is being observed, they can be a single belt, two separate belts or just an outer belt (with no inner belt at all.)
“The researchers found that the inner belt — the smaller belt in the classic picture of the belts — is much larger than the outer belt when observing electrons with low energies, while the outer belt is larger when observing electrons at higher energies,” NASA wrote at the time. “At the very highest energies, the inner belt structure is missing completely. So, depending on what one focuses on, the radiation belts can appear to have very different structures simultaneously.”
What is still poorly understood, however, is what happens when particles from the sun hit the belts during a geomagnetic storm. It is known that the number of electrons in the belts changes, either decreasing or increasing depending on the situation. Also, the belts eventually return to their normal shape after the storm passes. NASA said it isn’t clear what kind of storm will cause a specific type of belt configuration. Also, the agency noted, any previous observations were done only with electrons at a few energy levels. More work needs to be done.
Luckily, scientists got the chance to observe a storm up close in March 2015, when one of the Van Allen Probes happened to be situated inside the “right” spot in Earth’s magnetic field to see an interplanetary shock. NASA describes such shocks as similar to when a tsunami is triggered by an earthquake; in this case, a coronal mass ejection of charged particles from the sun creates a shock in specific areas of the belts.
“The spacecraft measured a sudden pulse of electrons energized to extreme speeds — nearly as fast as the speed of light — as the shock slammed the outer radiation belt,” NASA wrote at the time. “This population of electrons was short-lived, and their energy dissipated within minutes. But five days later, long after other processes from the storm had died down, the Van Allen Probes detected an increased number of even higher energy electrons. Such an increase so much later is a testament to the unique energization processes following the storm.”
In 2017, the Washington Post published an article with some of the sounds of space recorded from an instrument on the Van Allen Probes, called Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS). Although humans cannot hear these sounds — because there is no medium in which the waves can carry the sound — translating this data was fairly straightforward, the Post wrote. “The electromagnetic waves are in the same frequency range as the part of the sound spectrum that is audible to humans. It was a simple matter to translate those radio waves as MP3s — turning EMFISIS data into a radio broadcast from the heavens.”
Designing better spacecraft
The Van Allen Probes are specially hardened to withstand the intense radioactive environment of the belts. Some spacecraft, however, are more vulnerable — especially when a solar storm hits. At worst, spacecraft can short out due to an electrical overload. Communications can also be disrupted. Fortunately, sometimes instruments can be turned on or off on a spacecraft during a solar storm.
The shape of the Van Allen belts can vary widely depending on how energetic the individual electrons are, and general conditions in the Earth’s magnetic environment. During geomagnetic storms (4), all three regions in the belts can balloon. (Image credit: NASA GODDARD/DUBERSTEIN)
Radiation, of course, also poses a human risk. Astronauts are subject to lifetime radiation limits from their time in space, to reduce any risk of cancer. Since only a few dozen people have spent six months or longer in space, however, it will take decades to understand the long-term effects of radiation on humans.
The astronauts on the ISS do not regularly spend time inside the belts, but from time to time solar storms expand the belts to the orbit of the space station. In the 1960s, several Apollo crews went through the Van Allen belts on their way to and from the moon. Their time in that radiation-intensive region, however, was very short, in part because the trajectory was designed to pass through the thinnest known parts. With more study, astronauts can be better protected for long-term stays in Earth orbit.
“We study radiation belts because they pose a hazard to spacecraft and astronauts,” said David Sibeck, the Van Allen Probes mission scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, in an August 2016 NASA statement. “If you knew how bad the radiation could get, you would build a better spacecraft to accommodate that.”
Newer findings from the probes show that radiation in certain zones may be less harsh than scientists thought. In March 2017, the Van Allen Probes made a finding showing there is less radiation in the inner belts that previously theorized, which means less shielding is required for spacecraft and satellites in that region. The most energetic electrons residing in the inner radiation belt are there for less time than scientists thought beforehand.
The following year, the probes discovered that some communications wavelengths (called very low frequency communications) emanating from Earth are sometimes a sort of a shield against high-energy particle radiation in space. This means that human activity has effects even in the near-space environment around Earth.
As of 2018, the Van Allen Probes are running low on fuel and are expected to finish their mission around 2020. Goddard is working on a CubeSat (small spacecraft) mission called GTOSat that will continue studying the Van Allen belts.
“This mission of firsts will serve as a pathfinder for new radiation-tolerant technologies that could help scientists realize a long-sought dream: deploying a constellation of small satellites beyond low-Earth orbit to gather simultaneous, multi-point measurements of Earth’s ever-changing magnetosphere, which protects the planet from the constant assault of charged particles streaming off the sun,” NASA said in May 2018.
Elizabeth Howell is a contributing writer for Space.com who is one of the few Canadian journalists to report regularly on space exploration. She is pursuing a Ph.D. part-time in aerospace sciences (University of North Dakota) after completing an M.Sc. (space studies) at the same institution. She also holds a bachelor of journalism degree from Carleton University. Besides writing, Elizabeth teaches communications at the university and community college level. To see her latest projects, follow Elizabeth on Twitter at @HowellSpace.
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About 42,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field broke down temporarily, according to a new study. It’s happening right now in 2021 as well. This led to environmental cataclysms and mass extinctions, including the demise of the Neanderthals. The dramatic period was a turning point in Earth’s history, claim the scientists, full of resplendent auroras, electrical storms, and strong cosmic radiation.
These changes were caused by the reversal of the planet’s magnetic poles and variations in solar winds. The researchers behind the international study called this period the “Adams Transitional Geomagnetic Event’ or simply “Adams Event.” The Adams they are referring to is the science fiction writer Douglas Adams, who famously wrote in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” that 42 was the answer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
“Using ancient New Zealand kauri trees, the researchers were able to create global climate models that showed how the growth of ice sheets and glaciers across North America, differences in wind belts and tropical systems, and even the extinction of Neanderthals could all be linked to the climate changes brought on by the Adams Event. “Earth’s magnetic field dropped to only 0-6 per cent strength during the Adams Event,” pointed out UNSW Sydney professor and co-author Chris Turney. “We essentially had no magnetic field at all – our cosmic radiation shield was totally gone.” According to the researchers, another fascinating consequence of the Adams Event is that early humans would have been both inspired and terrified by the amazing auroras seen in the sky, brought on by the magnetic field fluctuations. The calamities would have forced our ancestors into the caves, leading to the amazing cave art that came about approximately 42,000 years ago.
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