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A potentially habitable world, termed Ross 128 b, has been discovered just 11 light years away. It is roughly Earth-sized and orbits its parent star once every 9.9 days.
Astronomers calculate that its surface temperature could lie somewhere between –60° and 20°, making it temperate and possibly capable of supporting oceans, and life.
The world was found by a team of European and South American astronomers led by Xavier Bonfils (Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, France) who were using the European Southern Observatory’s world-leading planet-hunting instrument, HARPS. They reported the discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
originally posted by: ForteanOrg
Professor Simon Holland recently learned that we are currently in an UN 25 year disclosure plan - and we are in the fifth year. Seems we have been in contact with another civilisation, roughly 11 lightyears away. And how do we communicate with them - do we have to put up with a twenty-two year round trip? Not so, according to Simon (in fact: his lead). We are actively using quantum tunneling to establish realtime (sic) communications with our peers..
He said: "we talked to them in real time"
It's starting getting into science fiction says simon. I'm beginning to look like a plonker
Until he told me about quantum tunneling communication.
Here’s how to reconcile the instantaneous nature of quantum tunneling with the fact that no information is ever transmitted faster than the speed of light...
people fool themselves (and unscrupulous news organizations try to fool you) into thinking they’re breaking the speed of light.
But that’s not what’s happening here, or in any of these so-called “faster-than-light” demonstrations. Instead, all that’s happening here is that only a portion of the quantum particles found in the pulse manage to successfully tunnel through the barrier. The majority of the particles do what a (classical) tennis ball would do: they bounce back, failing to arrive at the destination. The “trick” to fooling yourself into believing that you’ve created a faster-than-light system is that it’s possible to front-load which particles make it through the barrier, preferentially cutting off the particles in the back of the pulse.
If you do this without being sufficiently careful, you’ll falsely measure a faster-than-light speed for the overall pulse, even though no individual particle actually ever exceeds the speed of light.
Are you talking about ATS member Astr0?
originally posted by: CosmicFocus
a reply to: ForteanOrg
I have not yet got into this thread. One reason for the delay is that it strikes a cord. How many of you old-timers remember the few days and submissions from a fellow calling himself "Astroengineer?"
He seemed genuine and knowledgeable about science and engineering.
originally posted by: CosmicFocus
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
….the ETs can swap dimensions with a snap of the fingers almost.
The Q are a species of extremely powerful entities who inhabit an extradimensional plane of existence called the Q Continuum. They claim, apparently truthfully, to be both omnipotent and immortal.
originally posted by: ARM19688
Going to have to be quicker than that. Time runs out 2027. We had 10 yeas from 2017. That’s why it is all being ramped up. Funny thing is most of this stuff is closer to home but non human. The time compression comes from outside our solar system though. Perhaps not all will be revealed.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
He seemed knowledgeable, but knowledgeable people can tell stories too.
originally posted by: DaydreamerX
'We' did not make a contact with 'them' in no 2019 nor anytime else. Wonder, the 'we' must be an American government, right?
'They' are here. Always have been. Contacts were happening on individual level all along with abductions and close encounters. There are a number of different civilizations who visit us, I believe, based on told stories.
Just think...how are you to have any meaningful conversation with entities hundreds if not thousands of years ahead of us?
What there might be in common? I am talking of fare communications, not some one-way instructions given to us by them, but a conversation. Not.
UFO and aliens experience is deeply individual in terms of 'contact'. Seeing a UFO or having a close encounter is a bliss that is hard to underestimate from the point of view of an individual.
To summarize, where is the purpose to be in contact with any government? US UFO scene is very specific nation oriented and particular country explicit. I might suspect that the government in the US will push the story that the actions they are taking are 'suggested' from a 'higher intelligence' from cosmos and are hence must be embraced by all of us. Thats the scenario I read between the lines as possible development.
cheers all)
Thanks for the memory jogger. Yes I did read that years ago but the astroengineer name didn't stick with me. Did you read this part from the blog link?
originally posted by: Another_Nut
a reply to: Arbitrageur
Not its astroengineer
He also has a blog if you search for it... I still check to see if its updated...
Lots of stuff no one has debunked to my knowledge... Yet at least
astroengineer.wordpress.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Zaphod says:
April 14, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Regarding the data rate (and yes, complete raw speculation, but I thought of this while reading the account before I saw this question). Could the onboard radio actually be simply an oboard radio transmitting to a sat in geo-mars orbit? That sat is actually the qlink testbed?
astroengineer says:
April 14, 2010 at 2:08 pm
This is exactly the sort of feedback I was hoping to get. Thank you! We had failed to consider that as an option, and it is certainly worth considering. I can’t believe we didn’t.
First, Professor Simon may be lying about being a professor. Just teaching higher education doesn't necessarily make one a professor, and I imagine it's hard these days to become a professor without getting a PhD and he more or less admits he doesn't have a relevant PhD. So he may or may not be lying about that...he doesn't give enough information about exactly where he was a professor to verify that, as a real professor probably would do.
originally posted by: ForteanOrg
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
He seemed knowledgeable, but knowledgeable people can tell stories too.
Check his credentials: www.thehandbook.com...
How knowledgeable is he? But that does not say he is lying - there is smoke, there might be fire..
As with the other fake headlines I just mentioned, you might find fake headlines saying so, but they are fake headlines. I know your teachers in school said you're not allowed to use Wikipedia as a source but they actually have good information about faster than light communication, at least when I reviewed the article for accuracy today (and it's been accurate every other time I've checked it):
originally posted by: MrGashler
On the topic of FTL communication, haven't we already found a way to do this? If memory serves me correctly, Quantum Entanglement can be used to transmit information across any distance instantaneously.
I would guess a lot of the fake headlines saying otherwise are often written by "science writers" who are not scientists themselves, and they misinterpret the science.
Superluminal communication is a hypothetical process in which information is conveyed at faster-than-light speeds. The current scientific consensus is that faster-than-light communication is not possible, and to date it has not been achieved in any experiment.
Superluminal communication other than possibly through wormholes is likely impossible[1] because, in a Lorentz-invariant theory, it could be used to transmit information into the past. This complicates causality, but no theoretical arguments conclusively preclude this possibility.[2]
A number of theories and phenomena related to superluminal communication have been proposed or studied, including tachyons, neutrinos, quantum nonlocality, wormholes, and quantum tunneling.
Considering the immense energy or exotic matter with negative mass/negative energy that current theories suggest would be required to open a wormhole large enough to pass spacecraft through, it may be that only atomic-scale wormholes would be practical to build, limiting their use solely to information transmission. Some hypotheses of wormhole formation would prevent them from ever becoming "timeholes", allowing superluminal communication without the additional complication of allowing communication with the past.