mysterious mass muncher

[AntonioLao]

Balloons borne detectors found a large number of low energy antiprotons in cosmic ray streams. These cannot be accounted for by any existing theory of particle physics. The mystery is pending resolution by NASA’s Astromag space detector, abstract follows: The Astromag (for astrophysics magnet) superconducting magnet facility to be flown aboard the Space Station in the late 1990s is described together with its scientific objectives. The Astromag facility is basically a magnetic spectrometer capable of determining the momentum per unit charge and the sign of the charge of fully ionized cosmic rays. The Astromag's science goals include investigating the origin and the evolution of matter in the Galaxy by direct sampling of Galactic material, examining cosmological models by searching for antimatter and an evidence of dark matter, and studying the origin of extremely energetic particles and their effects on the dynamics and evolution of the Galaxy. The Astromag's instrumentation will include an array of particle detectors (the WIZard instrument), a large spectrometer (LISA), and a stack of passive high-resolution track detectors in the Astromag's magnetic field (the SCIN/MAGIC instrument).

There was another mysterious speculation of antimatter impact that occurred at a remote area of Tunguska, Siberia on June 13, 1908. A 1927 research team to the site failed to find any evidence for provable cause of the explosion. The Nobel Prize winner for radiocarbon dating technique, Willard Libby suggested that the explosion might have been caused by small peanut size antimatter from outer space. If he was right this would be more than just cause to worry and to be on the lookout for more of this inorganic alien invasion.

[mkirkpatrick]

Antonio,I have been lead to believe that antimatter and matter will cancel each
other out,were they ever to meet that is,if that is the case,how would one account for the peanut sized piece that may have hit Tunguska in Siberia!
You would have thought that it would have been destroyed the moment it
appeared in our space,any ideas,on this one,of course it could have been a meteor instead?


regards michael.

[AntonioLao]

it could have been a meteor

But there was no crater only chewed up forestations.

[baudrunner]

My hackles are rising but you really don't want to know why. Alright, you've twisted my arm. The operative words here are "alien" and "anti-matter".

The only "practical" way to get around in the galaxy, if that's your thing, is to ride the shockwave of a nova, Yes, shockwaves in space occur when the cause is colossal in nature, such as an exploding sun. Such a shockwave's velocity far exceeds lightspeed, in fact, there is a pocket at the bow of this wave where gravity does not exist and where time is momentarily suspended. A specially designed craft could ride on such a wave, surf it if you will, and find itself about four or five thousand light years distant in a couple of days after the event. I suspect that the "asteroid" Toutatis is actually an alien craft, that it has been manufacturing anti-matter for about five thousand years (since the occurrence of the nova that gave us the crab nebula) and that the event of 1908 was an antimatter fart of sorts, intended to be directed toward the sun, of a substance with an impure nature incompatible with the stored pure form in the half of that "astreroid" that is intended to be hurled toward the sun when the time comes. Quite soon actually, according to the "Mayan" calendar.

Oops, have I said too much?

[harmonygirl]

Baud,
in your theory, is it the only way to get around because of the speed involved? What if (just say) you could articificially reach that speed? would there be any other thing preventing you suring the cosmos?

[AntonioLao]

Oops, have I said too much?

The secret agents of the anti-world will be after you for exposing their ultimate plan to destroy physical reality.