July 11th, 2014
I don’t know if this is anything worth reporting, but I will report it anyway. Today on two occasions while watching TV there was an interference flash of the picture and the audio gave off what sounded like a static discharge. This seems very much like what would be caused by a cosmic ray passing through the TV electronics. Digital TVs are supposed to be interference free except when an airplane passes between your antenna and the transmitting tower or except in the case where you have a weak signal. Neither of these situations applied to this case. Also supplementary to this on several occasions during the past few days I have experienced a solitary blue flash of light. I am guessing that our eyes and brains can act as very good cosmic ray detectors in that a penetrating cosmic ray would initiate a neural response. I previously do not remember having such blue flash sensations. So in combination with the TV signal experience I am wondering if occasional high energy cosmic rays may be arriving from the Galactic core in advance of a main superwave volley due to a possible superluminal propagation effect. The recent finding that the G2 cloud a month ago had not yet reached pericenter now makes some sort of core explosion a more likely outcome. If any of you who follow these postings experience something similar that you regard as out of the ordinary, please comment.
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July 12th update
The overwhelming response received to the above July 11th posting from people reporting something similar indicates that this blue flash experience may be real and more widespread than initially thought. It is such a brief event and so sporadic that most normally would not pay much attention to it. The report that Kurt Sarrica made in the comments section was interesting: that Apollo astronauts had reported this same white or blue flash experience when they were in space outside of the Earth’s protective magnetic field shield further strengthens this supposition. (See the following wikipedia posting suggested by Kurt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena.) So that puts us flash seers in league with some fairly reputable space venturers. I have not noticed these before, unlike a few of the people who responded in the comments. It is perhaps the frequency of the events that has called my attention to them. Considering that the G2 cloud may be approaching pericenter in this month or next month (as well as the prediction of Father Avondios), this all gives me some reason for concern.
Such flashes which we are now experiencing on Earth under protection of the geomagnetic field would suggest that we are being exposed to very high energy cosmic rays, ones of high “magnetic rigidity” capable of penetrating the Earth’s field. These would be the first to arrive in the advent of a core explosion because they are traveling so close to the speed of light. In fact, it is possible they could surf a bit ahead of the light horizon, hence be superluminal. I have mentioned before the experiments that Guy Obolensky and I performed some years ago which demonstrate that waves from shock discharges travel superluminally by piggy backing on the shock’s outgoing ether wind. In the future keep in mind the flash phenomenon. If you experience many flashes occurring repeatedly, try to take cover to avoid overexposure to cosmic rays. This built in cosmic ray detector may be useful for surviving a future superwave.
In the comments Charlie Knoll mentioned the following cosmic ray neutron record maintained by the EU NMDB program (Neutron Monitor Data Base): https://www.nmdb.eu/?q=node/335. He mentioned that it showed two instances of multiple sites going down at about the same time. I think only the second instance is worth paying attention to. It involved about 9 sites out of 33 located around the world all going off-line at the same time and an additional two sites already being off line somewhat before that; see summary chart below.
Neutron monitor readings at various stations around the world over the past 3 days.
The detectors that went down are located in the vicinity of the north and south pole where geomagnetic screening is minimal. They include:
- SOPO (South Pole, Antarctica)
- SOPB (South Pole Bare, Antarctica)
- THUL (Thule, Greenland)
- PW NK (Peawanuk, Canada)
- NAIN (Nain, New Foundland)
- MCMU (McMurdo, Antarctica)
- INVK (Inuvik, Alaska)
- FSMT (Fort Smith Canada)
- NEW K (Newark, USA)
The detectors at NRLK (Norilsk, Siberia, Russia) and NANM (Nor-Amberd, Armenia) remained on but recorded large excursions in the midst of this period. A few of the detectors were not functioning prior to the event, like TXBY (Tixie Bay, Siberia), MWSN (Mawson, Russia), KGSN (Kingston, Russia), and IRKT (Irkutsk, Russia).
Each time tick mark along the bottom of the chart represents 1 hour in Greenwich Mean Time. This multi-detector cut off (or down period) began about 19:20 GMT (equivalent to about 1:20 PM MDT (Mountain Daylight Time) or slightly after 12 noon MST. Perhaps Charlie meant daylight savings mountain time. I am currently near Athens Greece which is 3 hours later than GMT. So this indicates that the detectors cut out about 10:20 PM my time. In fact, that is about the time that I observed the TV signal interference. I was watching a movie from 10 PM to 12 midnight and the interference came toward the beginning of the movie as I remember. So this data confirms that the interference I saw on my TV coincided approximately with the knocking out of nine high latitude neutron monitors.
I observed two distinct signal glitches on my TV separated by about 10 to 15 minutes. Could this be the time difference between a proton cosmic ray primary particle and an electron cosmic ray primary particle? The electrons travel at a slightly higher velocity because they have 1/2000 th of the mass of a proton. The NRLK and NANM events that occurred after midnight GMT were long after I had shut off my TV and gone to bed. So cannot correlate these two events.
July 14th update:
The neutron detectors that had gone off line apparently were back on line some hours after their shut down. Since that time I have not noticed any TV interference or blue flashes.
Buce,
I would not rely on the Data at that link at this time as we are due a CME event today, the 6th of Sept. and there is a warning on the page at your link that says the DATA is not reliable “These data are invalid during a significant proton event because of sensor contamination at the GOES spacecraft.”
FILAMENT ERUPTION, EARTH-DIRECTED: On Sept. 2nd, an enormous filament of dark plasma, which had been snaking across the face of the sun for days, became unstable and erupted. NASA’s Solar Dynamics
According to NOAA analysts, the CME will deliver a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field on Sept. 6th. ”
http://spaceweather.com/
Needless to say, there are multiple indicators we all can rely on to get to the bottom of things. The key is getting through all the noise. I’m thinking that Paul would know the easier routes to do so. If not, http://www.solarham.com has also been quite good to many of us…
HI Paul,
It appears several of the signs previously discussed are still in play. The electron flux monitor, cosmic ray charts, and unusual clicking from the TV set are all acting up. Further, the electron flux pattern seems unusually volatile. Are there any new distinct or unusual indicators that you’ve been viewing? Any additional thoughts? http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/elec_3d.html
Thanks in advance,
Bruce
Dear Dr. LaViolette,
I just saw a recently posted YouTube video you and your followers might find of some interest. It is an interview with Robert Schoch who has done a lot of research similar to yours with regard to the concept that a massive solar plasma event caused tremendous destruction to the Earth at the end of the last Ice Age:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqBuUD0f2HU
Are you already familiar with Dr. Schoch’s work? I did not see any references to him in your “Earth Under Fire” book.
As far as I can tell, he does not mention a “Blue Star” or make reference to the “galactic superwave” as a causal agent for the massive solar plasma event, but his research tends to support your “solar conflagration” scenario.
–Kurt
You are right, Robert Schoch does not refer to my findings on ancient solar cataclysms anywhere in his interview. For whatever reason, I don’t know. The reason I did not cite him in my book Earth Under Fire is that Earth Under Fire was first published in 1997, with the second edition being published by Inner Traditions in 2005. At that time Dr. Schoch had not published anything on solar cataclysms. His main contribution at that time was in pushing back the date of the Gizeh Sphinx to around 5000 to 7000 BCE.
Schoch knew of my work as early as 2000. We had met each other at a conference in Montana hosted that year by Douglas Kenyon where we were both speakers. As I recall, I had spoken about the superwave phenomenon and its triggering of solar cataclysms and glacier wave floods and he spoke about the dating of the Sphinx. He had taken an interest in reading my book Earth Under Fire and had purchased a copy of it at the conference. Some months later, I had attempted to contact him at Boston University but did not have any response back from him, my calls and emails to him having gone unanswered. From that time until 2012, I had no contact with him.
In other interviews he did in 2010 and 2012, which are posted on youtube, he also did not mention my work in connection with his solar cataclysm theory, e.g., the youtube posting of a lecture he gave in January 2012 at the Electric Universe conference. Like yourself, someone had sent me an email back in the spring of 2012 bringing to my attention to his failure to mention my prior work. In viewing it, I noticed that he described a number of ideas regarding large magnitude solar events occurring at the end of the last ice age and saw that many of the ideas he discussed were similar to ideas I had pioneered and published on over the preceding 30 years, but did not mention my name. I then did an internet search and came across a Red Ice Creations radio interview he had done that March (2012) on the subject of his then new book “Forgotten Civilization” which was to appear in the fall of that year. Again, I noticed that he discussed many of the ideas I have advocated and written about, but again no mention of my name. But I noticed that he did mention Anthony Peratt’s name both in that interview and in his Electric Universe lecture. When speaking about the past occurrence of a huge solar outburst at the end of the ice age, he just made a quick acknowledgement that it was not just himself, but that other people were also working on this too.
He had met with Peratt in 2000 a few months after his encounter with my work on the subject. Dr. Peratt and his group have researched Indian petroglyphs around the world and they interpret them as depictions of the auroral displays of giant prehistoric solar storms. In his current interview Dr. Schoch also cites Thomas Gold whose work dates back to 1969 in which he wrote about a solar conflagration occurring in the past 30,000 years based on lunar rock evidence, whose work I also cite in my book.
I should mention that in a paper he wrote in November 2011 he had cited my solar conflagration paper which had been published a few months earlier in the journal Radiocarbon. And I was happy to hear that he expressed enthusiasm about my findings which referred to ice core and sedimentary core evidence of a large scale solar cataclysm occurring around 12,900 and 12,700 years ago near the onset of the Younger Dryas and also another around 11,600 years ago at the termination of the Younger Dryas. But even so, he did not refer to my other work which places these solar cataclysm findings in a much larger context.
Anyway I contacted Robert in June 2012 suggesting that when speaking on these topics that he be a bit more proactive in acknowledging my past work in addition to that of the other scientists. I pointed out to him that over the previous 30 years I had invested a lot of time and effort in moving forward on this topic, against the tide of the scientific establishment, to communicate my findings, not just on the superwave theory, but also on ideas relating to elevated solar activity and that SPEs and CMEs had constituted a particular hazard to early ice age man. Keep in mind, that when I had written on this 30 years ago, this antedated by many years the widespread discussion of the nineteenth century Carrington event solar hazard which had been popularized by a National Academy of Sciences report. It was also before a lot of the newer ice core and ocean sedimentary core evidence had come out. So it was even more difficult then, than it is today, to get anyone to take these ideas seriously.
I told him that because his present area of investigation overlaps with my own, I thought it would be a good idea to let him know what I consider to be my contributions to this field, so that he is properly informed when he discusses similar ideas in his writings. I said that this goes as well for his forthcoming book, that I hoped that he had cited my prior work. Having not seen the book, I could not say to what degree he referenced my past work, including my interpretations of past conflagration and flood legends. I told him that I did not want to appear overly cautious, but that I thought it is good to communicate on these matters before his book goes to press so he is aware of a bit of the historical perspective regarding my own work. In case he was not familiar with it (even though he had purchased a copy of my book 12 years earlier) I did give him a list of some ideas that I considered to be novel (I list them here below).
I told him that I understand from what I have read on the internet about his views that he takes a somewhat different view of the solar cataclysms subject than I do in that he does not consider that the Sun had become aggravated into an active state at the end of the ice age by external factors, such as cosmic dust injected by a passing superwave. Rather he seems to propose that what was happening back then was due to a phase in the Sun’s activity that was due to factors internal to the Sun, perhaps cyclic phases of the Sun that we do not well understand at present. This variable Sun idea is an idea previously advocated by John Eddy. I said that, even so, this should not detract him from recognizing my prior work on solar cataclysms. I maintain my view that in the past the Sun was aggravated by exogenous factors and that this explains why we have been going through a series of ice ages for the past 3 million years and have not for many millions of years prior to that.
I note that in his recent radio interview on youtube that he focuses on the date 9500 BCE as a time of a major solar cataclysm that affected past human civilization. He seems to present this as being a new idea. Yet in fact, in my book Earth Under Fire, in Chapter 6 (p. 201), I discuss the large amplitude solar cycle geomagnetic field modulations and disturbances which occurred around 11,600 years ago and noted that, together with other evidence of elevated solar activity during this extended terminal ice age period, this indicated the occurrence of solar flare activity at that time that was hundreds of times more intense than today and approaching levels found in the vicinity of a T Tauri star. This published work dates back to 1997. Also in my 2011 Radiocarbon paper I had pointed out that at around 11,571 cal years BP (about 11,620 years before 2000) there was a large amplitude acidity spike in the Greenland ice core record, the largest to occur during the entire Younger Dryas period, and that an almost equally large acidity spike occurred one solar Hale cycle later (22 years) and coincided with an abrupt cooling spike and Be-10 spike and was immediately followed by the prolonged climatic warming that ended the last ice age. I pointed out that this indicates the involvement of an active Sun. These are interesting findings for this period that no one else had previously pointed out. As far as I know, I was the first.
Robert responded to my email reassuring me that some of the topics I had referred to were included in his book whereas others were not, and that he planned to include a more in depth discussion of such topics in a possible follow up book. So I did not get a firm admission from him that he cited my solar cataclysm work. I had requested a copy of his book from Inner Traditions (my publisher as well) but don’t recall whether I received a copy. As far as I know, his book did briefly mention about my superwave theory and in Appendix 3 he did discuss my dating of the ice age termination date. But again, these are done with no reference to my solar cataclysm work. Without having the book in front of me, I cannot say for sure if he did. But, a book review on World-Mysteries.com indicates that (surprising to me) that he didn’t cite me. It reports: “Laviolette provides still another explanation for the ancient cataclysm scenario; (one that did not find it’s way into Schoch’s book.)” So apparently, my attempt to call his attention to my work prior to the publication of his book had no effect at all.
I don’t mean to sound complaining in any kind of egocentric way. I am only trying to set the facts straight and give here an adequate answer to the question that Kurt sent in. I personally believe that it is important to cite the work of past researchers particularly if their postulates have been published and even subsequently confirmed by newly emerging evidence, as mine have been. If you look at my work, it is replete with citations of other people’s work. In a way, it is a disservice not to cite wherever possible instances in which other people have proposed the same idea that you yourself discuss. The reason is that citation allows people to follow the thread back to the others’ work and to references and ideas that you might not be mentioning in your own work. If you do not agree with some things the prior researcher has said, it is best to state your difference and why you disagree. It is not a good strategy to ignore his work all together and pick items from his research without giving their source.
In my 2012 email, I pointed out to Robert the following ideas that I have developed and which I feel are original:
I am also the originator of the glacier wave idea, where water impounded on the surface of a melting ice sheet can cause a glacier burst which then self-amplifies as it proceeds toward the ice sheet periphery, and then can proceed outward along across the continents. More recently, during the past 7 years or so I attribute these glacier floods as the cause of the Heinrich layers observed on the ocean floor and hence identify some of these glacier waves with Heinrich events. I also have interpreted the tundra flood remains in Alaska and Siberia as being produced by such waves, as well as the cause of animal remains found in more southerly regions. I have associated these waves with the production of lignite deposits in Europe, maintaining that the wood was carbonized by solar cosmic rays prior to its flood burial (as opposed to the standard theory that such carbonization occurred gradually over millions of years due to the wood’s own sulfur acids). I proposed that the Missoula flood may have been triggered by one of these waves inducing the emptying of Lake Missoula and also triggering of the eruption of nearby volcanoes. I also discuss how the cold meltwater from the north would have triggered torrential downpours out of the water saturated air as it proceeded southward.
I also was the first to propose a solar cause to geomagnetic excursions and geomagnetic flips and advocated that such disturbances were rapid events, not changes taking thousands of years due to movements of the Earth’s core. My proposed theory was later confirmed with the discovery of the Steens Mountain geomagnetic excursion recorded in lava which showed that the field reorientation took place in a less than a few days. Many of my proposed ideas, which were originally at odds with standard belief, and their later confirmation by later findings are listed on the Starburst Foundation website, e.g., see: http://starburstfound.org/predictions-part-1/2/. Another indication of the rapidity of geomagnetic change is the reversal event which dates to around 41,000 years ago which showed a sharp onset and renormalization at its beginning and end.
In addition, I have proposed the novel finding that warmings at the end of the ice age occurred synchronously in both hemispheres supporting this with various geological evidence. This is important because extraterrestrial effects such as changes in solar luminosity that would have caused climatic changes, would have caused simultaneous change in both hemispheres. Such evidence makes it easier to convincingly propose extraterrestrial mechanisms such as the one that Schoch and myself are proposing.
Paul LaViolette
August 31, 2014
Dr. LaViolette thank you for your research and keeping us updated on what is or is not going on. Specially the lack of response from those in the know.
I was recently reading this article:
Solar Flares on Steroids
Solar flares that scorch Earth’s atmosphere are commonplace. But scientists have discovered a few each year that are not like the others: they come from stars thousands of light years away.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/12sep_magnetars/
The headline was to curious to not bear reading. Apparently Earth was hit with a Solar Flare that came from 45,000 light years away:
A few days later–no surprise–another blast wave swept past Earth. Satellites registered a surge of x-rays and gamma-rays. Hams experienced another blackout. It seemed like another X-class solar flare. Except for one thing: this flare didn’t come from the sun.
It came from outer space.
“The source of the blast was SGR 1900+14, a neutron star about 45,000 light years away,” says NASA astronomer Pete Woods. “It was the strongest burst of cosmic x-rays and gamma rays we’ve ever recorded.”
SGR 1900+14 is a special kind of neutron star called a magnetar. “Magnetars have the strongest magnetic fields in the universe: a million billion (1015) gauss,” he says. For comparison, the magnetic field of the sun is less than 10 gauss in most places, and about 1000 gauss near sunspots.
It is true, we live in a Ghetto with drive by’s, and there is a Nuke down the street.
Dear Dr. LaViolette,
I just saw a YouTube video claiming to show “gravity waves” in the ionosphere. I suspect that this is a gross misinterpretation of what is actually occurring in the video, but I was curious to get your opinion on what is being depicted in the video and whether it could in any way be associated with the gravity waves we are expecting to hit Earth as a component of the coming galactic superwave?:
http://youtu.be/tA4p07y49gI
Thanks for your consideration.
Yours truly,
Kurt
Probably just cloud fronts passing by. Gravity waves travel at the speed of light. So you wouldn’t even see them.
Dear Dr. LaViolette,
I have noticed several other YouTube videos posting the same “gravity waves” images, so I decided to track down the original source of the photos to see what the basis for this apparent “misnomer” may be:
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=101211
It turns out that the “misnomer” was entirely in my own mind.
There is indeed an atmospheric phenomenon called “mesopheric gravity waves”:
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=%22mesospheric+gravity+waves%22
I eventually realized that I was the one misinterpreting “gravity waves” as being synonymous with “gravitational waves,” which are indeed a very different astrophysical phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave
Sorry for the confusion.
Take care.
–Kurt
Hi Mr. LaViolette,
I read this post of yours today and I felt like I had to make a comment regarding an experience I had this weekend.
A friend and I were watching the stars from a hill Saturday night (22:00 to midnight, August 23rd, in Sweden) and over those couple of hours, I would estimate that we saw about 20-25 flashes of a blueish light. We could not explain it nor make out any source for it.
Would be interesting to hear if anyone else did experience anything around this date.
Thank you,
Jimmy
It’s possible you were seeing meteor showers. I think that general time frame falls into one of the major ones?
But i suppose it could also be related to high amount of cosmic rays too.
Btw, as a side note, i want to say that i think i have misinterpreted the Padre’s info some. I kind of assumed that if we were to get “signs” of something happening in July and/or August, that this period would also likely correspond to when a superwave would take out electricity.
However, having re read Pauls post on his meeting with the Padre, the Padre doesn’t say anything about a collapse, or rather, severe issues until the post November time frame.
Frankly, i’m a bit confused by all this. More specifically, what i don’t understand is this. If by late November/early December, during the increasing Galactic Core, Solar, Earth alignment, we experience the “dragon mode effect” because the Galactic Superwave is in a sense pushing the Solar energy towards us, wouldn’t the actual main part of the super wave have likely started before that time?
Or, does a superwave possibly start in spits and sputters (not strong at first, and inconsistent), but then increase in intensity and consistency?
Also, how does my wife’s dream about the date of September 22nd fit into all of this. I tend to trust dreams more than meditation messages when there is preconceived info or perceptions involved, because i’ve learned that having preconceptions can really distort ones translation of nonphysical info. Dreams are subject to this to some extent too, but less so, since the conscious mind is less involved in the creation and translation of same.
Anyways, her dream indicated that by that September 22 date, people en masse would start to experience hunger, and that vegetarians like us would have to start hunting for food. I suppose it’s possible that because she had the dream some 5 years or so ago, that future probability and time lines has changed some?
As Yoda would say, “Clouded the future is, always in motion.
I’m worried that something like an Ebola outbreak may take its toll before the superwave arrives.
Unless this monkey drug cure works on humans too, things do not look very encouraging for the future with 1600 dead from the disease already.
I am aware of Cliff Justin and FYI this is the 24th and there was an interesting Earthquake in CA this Morning, which apparently woke people up and caused quite a bit of excitement. There seems to be a lot of comments about the event.
http://earthquake-report.com/2014/08/23/earthquakes-in-the-world-on-august-24-2014-m4-5-or-more/
http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/sccimages/HI_SREM_A/20140812/512/20140812_175720_SRh2A.png
Hi Michelle, Look to see if Dr. Paul or Charlie Knoll comment, but I did see that the neutron monitoring chart showed many sites down this past week and those up had big spikes. Rely on the Dr. Paul and Charlie though… not me. It looked very similar to when Dr. Paul had his experience with the TV. I should have posted that I had seen it and the dates, but I had a very busy, busy week. I am sorry. I will try to do better in the future.
I looked at the neutron monitor site and do not see any coordinated multi detector outages during the past 3 days. There was one detector (NANM) near the bottom that had a large upward excursion. But since no other detectors showed this, it is possibly an isolated event or may be due to a detector malfunction.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1951.pdf
Dear Dr. Paul,
Thank you for all the information and your work to assist humanity to be more aware to this subject with regards the super wave effect.
Recently, I have listened to one of your interviews with project Camelot. In the interview you invited people to share their experiences and dreams that might be related with this super wave phenomena.
I would like to share a strange dream that has been with me for more than 10 years. A dream with big tsunamis reaching the coast. Waves with 200/300 feet! I see people on the beach, not being aware of what is coming in their direction. I scream to them to run as fast is possible. But people are not aware of this danger. As I am running away from the coast I have a inner voice telling me to reach a higher building and I will be safe. I am always finding such a place and I am safe with a few people. From the top of the big building I see devastation and people being killed by the wave. These cities on my dreams are not modern but instead are more rustic and small. Sometimes is day light , sometimes is evening. Sometimes are two big dark grey waves one after the other.
All my life I felt some strange tension being on the beach…. Like waiting for something… Funny enough I have been living on the beach in Thailand but I am making a decision to move soon to Lao, a neighbour country above Thailand on the north, far away from the coast and 500m + above sea level.
I have been speaking with relatives and friends about these dreams and since my childhood I am able to see “pieces” of the future. Premonitions. These dreams with the tsunamis are too real and I always felt deeply this is something that I will need to go through during these life cycle.
I think the reason why I see in these dreams people not being aware of the danger it’s a projection of what’s happening in reality: how the mainstream is avoiding to alert people of the risk that can happened at any time.
I do not watch t,v’s and I do not watch mainstream programs or news. I am choosing well the sources/information and I am aware that we all need to be prepared for this event to a certain extension. Moving away from the coast and rivers is the first one!
Much love and thanks to you Paul for all your work to us.
Susana.
Nice to hear of your experiences. Thank you.
An interesting quote from this summary of recent G2 news: http://goo.gl/l7prMN “Gillessen notes that although the Very Large Telescope could not resolve structures within the tail of gas behind G2, it seems to be clumpy, indicating that there may be other gas clouds following G2 for the black hole to feed on in the near future.” Could there be some objects of significant mass trailing the dense center of the G2 cloud?
Hi Dr. Paul and Charlie, I pulled up the Neutron Monitor Readings Chart this past week, should have posted…the dates, sorry… and noticed recently there had been many reading sites down, and now got an email notice that Michelle Hawkins commented this…”I don’t know if this is anything worth reporting, but I will report it anyway. Today on two occasions while watching TV there was an interference flash of the picture and the audio gave off what sounded like a static discharge.” Did you notice this on the chart yourselves recently or am I mistaken? Thanks : )
What Michelle reported is exactly what I saw some weeks back (reported in this posting). It is likely due to a cosmic ray passing through the TV set electronics.
Dr. Paul, Thank you very much for your responses.
For the fortunate world, you are our only trustworthy, knowledgeable guide through these most challenging times.
For making yourself so available to us as you do, we owe you an immeasurable debt of gratitude.
Dr. Laviolette, I looked at Space weather.com this morning and they are calling our 2 formerly active sunspot regions that have returned from the backside:
The two formerly-active regions decayed during their two week absence and are now little more than “sunspot corpses.” Yet, they also reported an unexpected Aurora sighting in Northern Minnesota within the City limits of Grand Rapids, saying: “The source of this unexpected display was a fluctuation in the interplanetary magnetic field. The IMF tipped south, opening a crack in Earth’s magnetospere. Solar wind poured in and ignited the auroras.
Perhaps this Fluctuation if the interplanetary magnetic field and the tilting of the IMF is the source of the unusual Cosmic Ray “Showers” we are experiencing.
Dr. LaViolette,I was wondering about the Cosmic ray situation myself this morning. I was checking the space weather this morning and it appears:
“Near the peak of Solar Max, the sun has slipped into a state that resembles Solar Minimum. Sunspot numbers are low; the sun’s X-ray and radio output are depressed; and NOAA forecasters estimate a scant 1% chance of solar flares during the next 24 hours.”
Which appears counter-intuitive to other reports, like the increase in Noctilucent Clouds apparently caused by increased meteor dust, which would indicate increased Solar activity should be occurring according to your analysis here:
I don’t believe that the Sun would reach the level of activity that it had at the end of the ice age which is evident from NASA studies of lunar rocks. The reason is that the superwave incursion proposed to have been occurring at that time would likely have surrounded the Sun with a dust shroud that would have reflected light back onto the Sun and greatly participated in aggravating the Sun’s level of flaring activity.
Which, with the lack of Solar activity, yet an increase in noctilucent clouds, there seems to be a conflict of cause and results.
However, according to one article I read, that the current “Local Fluff our star is entering was filled with energy particles that were causing our Stars heliosphere to “run away” instead of the expected compression of the suns energy shield. This of course is troubling just as the “Re-evaluation” of the proximity of the Local Fluff and the expected unfolding of events:
The model developed by the Polish-US team suggests that the boundary between the Local Cloud and the Local Bubble might be not within a few light years from the Sun, as it was believed earlier, but within just a thousand of astronomical units, a thousand-fold closer. This might mean that the Solar System could enter the million-degree Local Bubble cloud as early as the next century.
“Nothing unusual, the Sun frequently traverses various clouds of interstellar gas during its galactic journey,” comments Grzedzielski. Such clouds are of very low density, much lower than the best vacuum obtained in Earth labs. Once in, the heliosphere will reform and may shrink a little, the level of cosmic radiation entering the magnetosphere may rise a bit, but nothing more. “Perhaps future generations will have to learn how to better harden their space hardware against stronger radiation,” suggests Grzedzielski.
I guess I expect more accuracy from scientist today, rather than the poor math we are apparently getting. In any event, Dr. LaViolette, thank you for your awareness and sharing it. If you have any insight that would clarify the unfolding events, it would be greatly appreciated.
David
Dear Dr. LaViolette,
Here is another update video on the mysterious ring structures that were emanating from the Sun on July 20th.
This video verifies that several different solar-watching telescopes saw the same phenomenon at the same time:
http://youtu.be/huHPCcJsLMM
Many neutron monitors are offline as of 11am MDT on July 25. http://www.nmdb.eu/?q=node/335. Earthquake activity increasing: http://goo.gl/tD5Asd. And a noticeable bump in the last Swift observation: http://www.swift-sgra.com/
How does one “take cover from cosmic rays” ?
Hide in a cave or go into the subway? Very high energy cosmic rays are very penetrating, can go through 30 meters of rock. You can research it on the internet.
I just checked spaceweather.com and saw something that seems to pertain to your posting Paul. Here is an excerpt from the page talking about some viewings of “sprites”.
“This colorful sprite occurred over a large thunderstorm system in northeast New Mexico and was visible to the naked eye,” says Edens. “I took the picture using a Nikon D4s and a 50 mm f/2 lens at ISO 25600.”
Inhabiting the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere alongside noctilucent clouds, meteors, and some auroras, sprites are a true space weather phenomenon. Some researchers believe they are linked to cosmic rays: subatomic particles from deep space striking the top of Earth’s atmosphere produce secondary electrons that, in turn, could provide the spark that triggers sprites.
Although sprites have been seen for at least a century, most scientists did not believe they existed until after 1989 when sprites were photographed by cameras onboard the space shuttle. Now “sprite chasers” regularly photograph the upward bolts from their own homes. Give it a try!”
Here is the web page link, http://www.spaceweather.com/
Have no idea if this is related, but it’s interesting that the Sun has been very relatively quiet and inactive the last 5 days or so. It could just be that it’s starting to move towards the minimum part of the cycle, but maybe it’s being influenced somehow by increase in cosmic rays from another source?
As solar activity falls, the heliopause shield lessens in its ability to impede the entry of interstellar cosmic rays. So Galactic cosmic rays will be able to more easily penetrate to Earth during such times.
That makes sense, thank you Paul.
I checked the time (~10 pm) and place (central area in Greece) in Stellarium, and one can see that the galactic center would be almost at its highest altidude (peaking at about 11pm). I am no expert, but that would indicate to me that this would be one of the best times to be affected by the GC (my assumption is that there is no effect when the GC is below the horizon).
Also, for the last couple of days the cosmic ray density on this graph (http://i.imgur.com/Lo47cHq.gif) has spiked quite a bit; its largest spike being today, July 20th around midnight. I don’t have too much experience with this kind of data, but a difference of about 2.000 counts/hour in a matter of about 12 hours seems quite high.
Also note the pitch angle (If I am interpreting this correctly, then it is the angle between the sun’s magnetic field and the source of the cosmic rays). It is on average about 130. The angle between the GC and the sun at the moment is about 145. So this would indicate to me, that the source could actually be the GC.
And lastly, the sun has been very quiet for this time frame. So, I don’t think it is responsible for these results.
Hello, this afternoon I just started doing some research on the cosmic rays because since what happened and after some de-information and misinformation I camed here, the first paragraph was like my own experience but written in english…. Well I live in the countryside and the other night just a few days ago as i came to glimpse the stars, I was blitz rayed… In a second more or less a big event happened in front of my eyes, I did not have time ever to fear, well fear was instantly removed from me on the spot and then the light…. it was brilliant and more rapid than any sparkling star very luminous all at the same time and coming from all directions, staying in every part at the same time and then dissapearing like it had come, well maybe it was east to west the direction…. absolutely astonishing, I see here many sparklings and other ligths and stars and even many storms at the sea from my mountain level +-400 meters above sea and at a 5km distance… i look forward to this light because its resonates with me together with the last prophecy of Omraam and also because in the last months i’m having some other spectacular events with sort of lights…. But this was in itself a number one event and gigantic… thank you!!!
Regarding my time calculations, you are correct, I was using MDT. One other bit of info. The first swift telescope observance of G2 after the “event” occurred was at approximately 23:30 GMT on July 12th, nearly 28 hours later. Also, Swift was not observing the G2 from 7/10 – 7/11 and when Swift does observe, it only lasts 20 minutes. If this was a small singular event maybe it was missed? http://www.swift-sgra.com/
maybe.