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[Brandon]

Briwnys

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   posted 06-09-2006 11:38 AM                   
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Several years ago I began to collect data based on the theory that the sun, on its orbit around the center of the galaxy, passes through regions of space which – for reasons not yet clearly understood on earth – affect the entire solar system in a manner similar to the way that seasons affect all life on earth. I called this the seasons of the sun, and pointed to data on earth and the other planets – as well as the increased activity on the sun itself, as indications that the summer of the sun was beginning.

There are several theories as to why this is occurring; among them, that the sun is passing through an area where large amounts of extrasolar dust is entering the system and falling into the sun or is being swept into the sun, causing it to heat up. Dr Paul La Violette hypothesizes that immense explosions near the center of the galaxy occur cyclically during which intense winds of cosmic ray particles are released equivalent to the energy of five to ten million supernovas.

He concluded that these outbursts recur every ten thousand years or more and last anywhere from several hundred to several thousand years. Cosmic rays of this sort travel outward from the Galactic Center. These rays are propelled outward virtually unimpeded and form a spherical shell called a ‘galactic superwave’ that advances symmetrically throughout the galaxy at a velocity approaching the speed of light.

One such cosmic ray volley passed through the solar system toward the end of the last Ice Age (about 14,650 years ago), injecting large amounts of cosmic dust over a period of thousands of years. This dust dramatically changed the earth's climate in a period of less than one hundred years through its effect on the sun and sunlight transmissions through space.

La Violette theorizes that these superwaves regularly pass the earth at approximately the same point in the sun’s orbit, triggering the onsets and endings of the Ice Ages. He analyzed Ice Age polar ice for traces of cosmic dust, finding high levels of cosmic dust that supported his theory.

In 1983 he presented data indicating that debris from the nearby North Polar Spur supernova remnant is presently engulfing the solar system.

Sun
On February 15, 2001, the sun’s magnetic field flipped. The reversal will continue until 2012.
On April 2, 2001, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed that the solar flare that emerged from sunspot area 9393 today at 5:57 EDT was measured as X-22 on the 20 point solar flare gauge.

On November 4, 2003, an even larger eruption occurred, possibly X-25 or X-30.

On January 20, 2005, a solar flare “produced the largest solar radiation signal on the ground in nearly 50 years," says Dr. Richard Mewaldt of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who is a co-investigator on NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft. "But we were really surprised when we saw how fast the particles reached their peak intensity and arrived at Earth."

Normally it takes two or more hours for a dangerous proton shower to reach maximum intensity at Earth after a solar flare. The particles from the January 20 flare peaked about 15 minutes after the first sign.

Venus
In 1975 the Russian Venera probes reported that the green spectral light identifying oxygen was completely undetectable in Venus’ upper atmosphere.

Between 1978 and 1983, the amount of sulfur gases in Venus’ atmosphere – according to Bullock and Grinspoon, in Scientific American Magazine – decreased dramatically.

In 1999, the ground-based Keck telescopes discovered that the previously undetectable green spectral light was 2500% brighter than in 1975.

Earth
In May 1998, activity in Earth’s two known Van Allen radiation belts grew so intense that a ‘new belt’ was created, generating excitement and awe in the scientific community.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - A NASA press release stated that observations from NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite detected mysterious flashes of gamma ray energy in Earth's upper atmosphere. These bursts of energy are called terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs).

TGFs are very short blasts of gamma rays, lasting about one millisecond, emitted into space from Earth's upper atmosphere. They are thought to be emitted by electrons traveling at 99.99 percent of the speed of light (186,000 mps), when they scatter off of atoms and decelerate in the upper atmosphere.

According to David Smith, an assistant professor of physics at UCSC, "The energies we see are as high as those of gamma rays emitted from black holes and neutron stars."

While it remains unknown exactly how electron beams accelerate fast enough to produce TGFs, Smith said it might involve the build-up of electric charge at the tops of thunderclouds due to lightning discharges. This results in a powerful electric field between the cloud tops and the ionosphere, the outer layer of Earth's atmosphere.

"Regardless of the exact mechanism, there is some enormous particle accelerator in the upper atmosphere that is accelerating electrons to these very high energies, so they emit gamma rays when they hit the sparse atoms of the upper atmosphere," Smith said.

TGFs have been correlated with lightning strikes and may be related to visible phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere over thunderstorms.

Mars
In 1997, on the Hubble Space Telescope website, the head of Public Affairs for NASA, Don Savage, said that between the late 1970’s and 1997, Mars had “developed clouds, had lost most of its dust, and had picked up a ‘surprising abundance’ of ozone.” The orbiting Mars Surveyor Probe encountered an area with a two hundred percent increase in atmospheric pressure over what was expected at several hundred miles attitude.

Mars is experiencing global warming. Its ice caps are melting.

Jupiter
In 1979, a donut-shaped, luminous cloud of energy appeared around the orbit of Io, the closest major moon to Jupiter.

Between 1979 and 1995, the cloud grew 200 percent brighter and denser.

In 1973, Io’s ionosphere was measured between 30 and 60 miles in altitude.

In 1996, Jupiter’s intense auroral emissions interacted with Io, causing the moon to eject an invisible electric current of charged particles, which flow along the planet’s magnetic field lines.

NASA spokesperson Dr Louis Frank announced the ionosphere of Io had increased to 555 miles. The surface of Io is now three times hotter than the surface of Mercury.

Saturn
Between 1981 and 1993, a study from Dr Ed Sittler shows that Saturn possessed a donut of energy very similar to the one around Jupiter and it had become a thousand percent more dense and bright in that 12-year period.

Extrasolar
December 27, 2004 - Scientists detected a huge extrasolar explosion about 50,000 light-years away, which briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere. This was the brightest galactic flash ever detected on earth. It was caused by a special variety of neutron star known as a magnetar. Magnetars are similar to pulsars, but they flash X-rays, and at a slower rate - about once every 10 seconds. They also occasionally let out a burst of gamma rays. Their magnetic field, which is thousands of times stronger than that of normal pulsars and billions of times stronger than that of any magnet on Earth, are the highest magnetic fields in the universe. The December blast was 100 times more powerful than any other similar eruption witnessed, said David Palmer of Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of several researchers around the world who monitored the event with various telescopes.

To have such large magnetic fields, magnetars are thought to originate from the supernova of very massive stars. Bryan Gaensler from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and his colleagues have found evidence for this in an enormous void - more than 70 light-years across - that showed up in their radio data.

"The empty bubble is exactly centered on the magnetar and it is expanding," Gaensler said. He explained that the magnetar’s radiation couldn’t be the cause of the cavity, since that would require the absorption of too many of the X-rays that are seen. Instead, a stellar wind from the progenitor star of the magnetar must have cleared out the gas.

This wind would have been five times faster than the Sun’s wind of charged particles -- the source of space weather and the Northern Lights -- and a million times denser. The implied energy is 25 million times that of our solar wind.

The blast affected Earth's ionosphere, which is routinely affected to a greater extent by changes in solar activity.

Galactic
March 2, 2005 - NewScientist.com news service featured the following story by Stephen Battersby:

"A mystery object near the center of our galaxy is sending out powerful pulses of radio waves. It is unlike any known source.

"A team of astronomers led by Scott Hyman of Sweet Briar College, Virginia, US, detected the mysterious source using the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico.

"The pulses are coming from a spot just to one side of the galactic center. Each pulse lasts about 10 minutes, and they repeat regularly every 77 minutes. If, as the researchers think, the source is near the center of the Milky Way, it would be one of the most powerful emitters in the galaxy. The shape and timing of the pulses rules out most known sources, such as radio pulsars.

"The object could be a magnetar - a neutron star with an ultra-strong magnetic field. "Magnetars store plenty of energy to power the observed outbursts," says Hyman. Or it may be something entirely new. To find out more, the team is studying it using the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia, and hopes to use NASA's Chandra space telescope to see if it is also spitting out X-rays."

These mysterious energy blasts appear to be affecting the earth’s protective layer of ozone.

Briwnys

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