Giant 'Bubbletrons' May Have Helped Build the Universe to Extraterrestrial AI Can Contribute to a Technology 'Quantum Leap'

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Filtering Out Alien Signals From Earth Noise Just Got a Whole Lot Easier, reports Science Alert--""It's the first time where we have a technique that, if we just have one signal, potentially could allow us to intrinsically differentiate it from radio frequency interference," says Andrew Siemion, a co-author of a paper describing the technique --a distinctive 'twinkle' called 'diffractive scintillation' where the radio waves start to interfere with each other--and director of the Berkeley Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Research Center."

Giant 'bubbletrons' --theoretical particle accelerators that may have helped build the universe as we know it moments after the Big Bang, new study suggests, reports Paul Sutter for Live Science. "Those awesome energies could have flooded the universe with dark matter particles, microscopic black holes, and much more."

The Smithsonian: Whistleblower Alleges U.S. Government Is Covering Up Alien Life at UFO Hearing--A Pentagon spokesperson has denied the claims, while lawmakers are pushing for information on UFOs to be declassified, 

Our Universe wasn’t empty, even before the Big Bang--reports Big Think. "Before the hot Big Bang occurred, our Universe was expanding at an enormous and relentless rate. Instead of being dominated by matter and radiation, our cosmos was dominated by the field energy of inflation: just like today’s dark energy, but many orders of magnitude greater in strength and expansion speed."

Why the Big Bang might not have been the beginning of our Universe, argues Prof Stephon Alexander for BBC Science Focus.--"The Big Bang marks the birth of the Universe, right? The physicists brave enough to look beyond it aren’t so sure."

Extraterrestrial AI can contribute to 'quantum leap' in technological advancements: "Our AI systems can learn from extraterrestrial AI systems," says Harvard physicist Avi Loeb.

Webb Telescope Offers New Views Of Jupiter’s Moons: Ganymede And Io, reports the UC Berkeley. “This shows that we can do incredible science with the James Webb Space Telescope on solar system objects, even if the object is really very bright, like Jupiter, but also when you look at very faint things next to Jupiter,” said Imke de Pater, professor emerita of astronomy and earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley.

A Young Super-Earth Orbiting Red Dwarf AU Microscopii Is Evaporating, reports NASA."This artist’s illustration shows a planet (dark silhouette) passing in front of the red dwarf star AU Microscopii. The planet is so close to the eruptive star a ferocious blast of stellar wind and blistering ultraviolet radiation is heating the planet’s hydrogen atmosphere, causing it to escape into space." 

Using Cosmic Weather To Study Which Worlds Could Support Life, reports The Ohio State University. "As the next generation of giant, high-powered observatories begin to come online, a new study suggests that their instruments may offer scientists an unparalleled opportunity to discern what weather may be like on far-away exoplanets. These observatories will be some of the largest ground-based telescopes ever built, and their instruments are expected to exceed the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Titanium Clouds Engulf This Ultrahot Neptune-like Planet--A cosmic mirror of sorts, this planet is the first of its size and location to be discovered with an atmosphere, reports New York Times Science. "This opens a new window into understanding these kinds of extreme, Neptune-like planets — maybe some of the rarest planets that exist,” said James Jenkins, an astronomer at Diego Portales University in Chile, describing this one as probably having “a nasty, harsh, dark environment.”

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