Victor Grippi – The Atomic Writer

Since its launch last June, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away. Today at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver, Colo., Fermi scientists revealed new details about high-energy particles implicated in a nearby cosmic mystery. This from a NASA news release.

The Atomic Writer has probed deeper and found evidence that a close by unknown source of cosmic rays may exist near Earth. For the first time in history we are pulling off the blindfold and witnessing the true state of our environment. Perhaps there has always been a close by object emitting high levels of cosmic rays? Perhaps it has just arrived? With only months of initial data it’s too soon to know for sure.

Also discovered in data released by Nasa is the following:
“Fermi’s Large Area Telescope is a state-of-the-art gamma-ray detector, but it’s also a terrific tool for investigating the high-energy electrons in cosmic rays,” said Alexander Moiseev, who presented the findings. Moiseev is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

“Cosmic rays are hyperfast electrons, positrons, and atomic nuclei moving at nearly the speed of light. Astronomers believe that the highest-energy cosmic rays arise from exotic places within our galaxy, such as the wreckage of exploded stars.

“Unlike gamma rays, which travel from their sources in straight lines, cosmic rays wend their way around the galaxy. They can ricochet off of galactic gas atoms or become whipped up and redirected by magnetic fields. These events randomize the particle paths and make it difficult to tell where they originated. In fact, determining cosmic-ray sources is one of Fermi’s key goals.

“What’s most exciting about the Fermi, PAMELA, and H.E.S.S. data is that they may imply the presence of a nearby object that’s beaming cosmic rays our way. “If these particles were emitted far away, they’d have lost a lot of their energy by the time they reached us,” explained Luca Baldini, another Fermi collaborator at INFN.

“If a nearby source is sending electrons and positrons toward us, the likely culprit is a pulsar — the crushed, fast-spinning leftover of an exploded star. A more exotic possibility is on the table, too. The particles could arise from the annihilation of hypothetical particles that make-up so-called dark matter. This mysterious substance neither produces nor impedes light and reveals itself only by its gravitational effects.

“Fermi’s next step is to look for changes in the cosmic-ray electron flux in different parts of the sky,” Latronico said. “If there is a nearby source, that search will help us unravel where to begin looking for it.”

What do these observations mean? The Atomic Writer believes we are witnessing the blindfold being pulled away from our eyes. For the first time in history we are starting to see the true state of our environment.

We now know an object emitting high levels of cosmic rays exists in our neighborhood. Weather it just arrived or has always been with us, perhaps flaring up on occasion is unknown at this point. Could this be a harbinger of our ultimate fate? The FERMI instrument has the ability to look outside of the magnetic shield that surrounds the earth. This gives us the ability to determine a more accurate location of this object. We should be able to pinpoint its location and with this information we can take appropriate measures.

My guess is that we will see no visible light at the source. This will imply a possible link to dark matter which could be from, according to M-Theory, gravity leaking across an adjacent membrane from another universe. For more information on M-Theory, a subset of string theory check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory

“M-theory is not yet complete; however it can be applied in many situations (usually by exploiting string theoretic dualities). The theory of electromagnetism was also in such a state in the mid-19th century; there were separate theories for electricity and magnetism and, although they were known to be related, the exact relationship was not clear until James Clerk Maxwell published his equations, in his 1864 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. Witten has suggested that a general formulation of M-theory will probably require the development of new mathematical language. However, some scientists have questioned the tangible successes of M-theory given its current incompleteness, and limited predictive power, even after so many years of intense research.”

As readers of this blog, I know you are very smart and can put two and two together. If it turns out that the located source of this now detected cosmic ray object turns out to not interact with light, have no visible mass, and just be a point in the vacuum of space, can’t we assume the first observational evidence in support of M-Theory? If only a slight gravitational field can be measured, this would support the idea that a parallel universe exists outside of ours where only gravity and, vis-i-vis, cosmic rays leak out. M-Theory predicts multiple bubble universes floating in the fifth dimension, like balloons that sometimes come close to a neighboring balloon and touch. Could another bubble universe be coming our way. How will it affect the local physics of our environment?

More importantly, how will verification of parallel worlds affect the human race. With the popularity of television and movies dealing with plot lines that explore these topics, could mass consciousness be playing a part in what may soon be revealed to us by science? Are writers receiving a signal to prepare the masses for the realization that time travel, alternate realities, other Earth’s may exist out there? As we peel away more and more of the onion of reality, will we begin to regard science fiction as science reality? Will books like The Ninth Cube be read as possible factual stories that are no longer speculative?

I pose many questions in this blog, and I do so to illicit imagination and provoke thought in my readers. Too many writers out there cater to the mainstream masses for only one reason. That reason is money. They write garbage in order to sell more books. Writers like The Atomic Writer write to evoke an emotional response based on current observations in science. I speculate where needed and at times go to the extreme to prove a point. This is the essence of speculate writing. To extend the boundaries of the possible. To think out of the box and come to conclusions by turning mainstream convention on its head. If you, like me, enjoy and thrive in this environment, then this blog is for you. If you want middle of the road, a don’t dare to go there philosophy, then go read another blog. Here you will be challenged to think on your own. Don’t ever let anyone tell you you can’t do something. Always think for yourself.

Remember, never stop looking up at the night sky and asking…what if.

Victor Grippi
The Atomic Writer