"We are the Aliens to What Could be the Most Explosive Event Since the Big Bang
Another week, more amazing stories about our Universe ranging from could intelligence have been moving back and forth between biological beings and machine receptacles for aeons to the human “dataome” —was like a sudden invasion by extraterrestrials,
We Are the Aliens --On a geological timescale, the emergence of the human “dataome” is like a sudden invasion by extraterrestrials, or an asteroid impact that precipitates a mass extinction, reports Caleb Scharf for Scientific American.
Could Weirdly Straight Bolts of Lightning Be a Sign of Dark Matter? --A group of scientists say the phenomenon could indicate dark matter speeding through our world at more than 300 miles a second, reports Smithsonian.
Antimatter Galaxies –“Could Create the Most Explosive Event Since the Big Bang”, reports The Daily Galaxy."Just because we happen to live in a region that is overwhelmingly dominated by matter doesn’t preclude the existence of other regions of space that are instead dominated by antimatter,” observes Dan Hooper, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
An Exit Chute from the Universe: The Story of a Historic Effort to Image a Black Hole --After more than a decade of effort, a global network of radio telescopes revealed the first-ever picture of an enigmatic hole in spacetime, reports Scientific American.
“Invisible Monsters” --Supermassive Black Holes Roam the Milky Way, reports The Daily Galaxy. --“It is extremely unlikely that any wandering supermassive black hole will come close enough to our Sun to have any impact on our solar system,” said lead author Michael Tremmel, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. “We estimate that a close approach of one of these wanderers that is able to affect our solar system should occur every 100 billion years or so, or nearly 10 times the age of the universe."
Quantum Astronomy Could Create Telescopes Hundreds of Kilometers Wide --Astronomers hope to use innovations from the subatomic world to construct breathtakingly large arrays of optical observatories, reports Scientific American.
How microbes could communicate with alien species, reports The Conversation --"Microbes, such as bacteria, may be rulers of the cosmic life – and they are a lot more intelligent than we give them credit for. Indeed, we show how microbes could mimic the Seti program without human interference."
“The Apollo Rock” –Half-a-Billion Years Before the Appearance of Life an Asteroid Blasted a Piece of Earth to the Moon. “The absence of a lunar atmosphere,” writes Loeb in “The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life”, “guarantees that these messengers would reach the lunar surface without burning up. In addition, the geological inactivity of the moon implies that the record deposited on its surface will be preserved and not mixed with the deep lunar interior. Serving as a natural mailbox, the lunar surface collected all impacting objects during the past few billions of years. Most of this “mail” comes from within the solar system.”
Where do minds belong? asks astrophysicist Caleb Scharf. Intelligence could have been moving back and forth between biological beings and machine receptacles for aeons.