Day: 11/13/2015

Ants respond as a collective “superorganism” when they sense a predator

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A swarm of ants scurrying over the ground may look like a relatively chaotic scene, but don’t underestimate these very complex and social insects.

A new study by researchers in the UK has found that highly cooperative ants are capable of coordinating together to form a single entity – effectively uniting as one to become a “superorganism” when faced by a predator or threat.

“Ants react very differently, and in a coordinated fashion, to perceived predator attacks depending on their location,” said Thomas O’Shea-Wheller from the University of Bristol. “Just as we may respond to cell damage via pain, ant colonies respond to the loss of individuals via group awareness and reaction.’’

To measure how this behaviour is demonstrated, the researchers simulated a range of different predator attacks on 30 migrating ant colonies. In each simulation, using almost military-sounding tactics, they picked off ant scouts at the colony’s periphery, before separately removing worker ants toiling in the middle of the nest.

The colony was not amused. When the collective body of insects became aware that its scouting parties had been taken out, it withdrew its extended, foraging ‘arms’ that drew out from the centre and reassembled into a tight, defensive formation.

But once worker ants were then removed from the centre of the nest, the opposite effect happened. Sensing a new threat at the very heart of the colony, the ants scattered outward to find a safer location.

The researchers suggest that these findings, which are published in PLOS ONE, draw parallels with the nervous response systems of single organisms. They liken the colony’s arms withdrawing to when you burn your hand on a stove and quickly yank it back, whereas the outward exodus from a central threat is what people might do if their house was on fire (not that any singular organisms can pull this particular trick off, scattering in all directions at once).

“Our findings lend support to the superorganism concept, as the whole society reacts much like a single organism would in response to attacks on different parts of its body,” the researchers write. “The implication of this is that a collective reaction to the location of worker loss within insect colonies is key to avoiding further harm, much in the same way that the nervous systems of individuals facilitate the avoidance of localised damage.”

This new ultra-sensitive instrument will hunt down dark matter

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And we have a pretty good idea where to look.

There’s five times more dark matter in the Universe than normal, everyday matter – that is the standard atoms and molecules making up the world we’re familiar with – but despite its volume, dark matter is notoriously difficult to spot.

To try and understand more about this mysterious hidden matter, scientists are hard at work constructing a new instrument at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy, as Phys.org reports.

And it’s pretty good timing, as physicists are getting more and more convincedthat colliding dark matter could be behind a series of powerful gamma rays spotted shooting out from the centre of the Milky Way.

Researchers have now eliminated other explanations for the gamma rays, but they’re going to need some more direct confirmation of dark matter in order to win over skeptics. Which is where a device like this one could come in handy.

The instrument is called the XENON1T and it’s designed to be more sensitive than anything that’s gone before it: 21 research groups from the United States, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates have joined forces to help build the machine, which was inaugurated on 11th November.

Some of the world’s best minds have been looking for dark matter for many decades, but up until now scientists have only been able to observe it indirectly, through its effect on the rest of our universe – we know it’s out there in space, but we can’t look at it directly as it emits neither light nor energy. Experts believe that a new, stable elementary particle is at the heart of dark matter, but we don’t yet know what it is.

XENON1T should help in that search. “We expect that several tens of thousands of dark matter particles per second are passing through the area of a thumbnail,” said the University of Chicago’s Luca Grandi.

“The fact that we did not detect them yet tells us that their probability to interact with the atoms of our detector is very small, and that we need more sensitive instruments to find the rare signature of this particle.”

The new instrument takes up a site measuring 110 metres long, 15 metres wide and 15 metres high; it’s encased in a 10-metre-diameter water shield and 1,400 metres of solid rock to block out cosmic rays and radioactive background radiation, while the instrument itself has a mass of 3,500 kilograms.

At the heart of the process is the ultra-pure noble gas xenon, cooled down to –95 degrees Celsius to turn it into liquid form. Tiny flashes of light passing through the cooled xenon are observed by 248 sensitive photosensors for any trace of dark matter particles, and the researchers have compared the setup to a giant Thermos flask.

And even if the XENON1T comes up short in its main task, then more help is already on the way. “Of course we want to detect the dark matter particle,”added Grandi, “but even if we have only found some hints after two years, we are in an excellent position to move on as we are already now preparing the next step of the project, which will be the far more sensitive XENONnT.”

The inventor of light-based ‘Li-Fi’ Internet has completed the first working prototype

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Back in 2011, during a TED Talk in Scotland, professor Harald Haas introduced a revolutionary ideato the world: what if a wireless Internet system could run on nothing but an LED lightbulb? Back then, this “Li-Fi” concept was just a cool idea, but now, roughly four years later, professor Haas is back with a working prototype. If this invention catches on, all you’ll need is a lightbulb and a solar cell to get online in the not-so-distant future.

Through a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh’s Li-FI R&D Centre and a university offshoot company called pureLiFi Ltd, the past four years have brought light-powered Internet connectivity out of the theoretical stage and into a tangible Li-Fi router. The real-world applications for Li-Fi connectivity could revolutionize the way much of the world gets online. The R&D team bringing Li-Fi to the real world expects that solar homes, consumer gadgets, and Internet of things devices will all be able to absorb power and receive data simultaneously with a Li-Fi system in place.

The Li-Fi prototype relies on solar energy to power Internet connections so that an LED light source paired with a solar panel becomes a fully functional transmitter and receiver system for high speed, secure data transfer. Instead of relying on hardwired cables or radio waves that are easily interrupted, Li-Fi uses the nearly undetectable flicker of an LED light to transmit data.

Li-Fi is much faster than most standard Wi-Fi connections, and, perhaps most importantly, provides a connection that is significantly more secure. Because Li-Fi relies on light to transmit data, you have to be in the room with your device and the Li-Fi router in order to get connected. That would preclude strangers or literal outsiders from piggy-backing on your connection or eavesdropping on your online activity.

Beyond the widespread Internet access that Li-Fi could help provide around the world, the technology also has applications for reliable systems like smart city networks and Internet of Things connectivity in the smart homes of the future.

“The wider opportunity is to transform global communications by speeding up the process of bringing Internet and other data communication functionality to remote and poorer regions in a way not previously thought achievable due to lack of infrastructure and investment,” said Tom Higgison, Edinburgh Research & Innovation’s IP Project Manager. Edinburgh Research & Innovation is the commercial branch of the technological developments accomplished on the University side, and they have announced they are looking for industrial partners to help bring Li-Fi routers to a more mainstream audience.

New Model Helps Predict Breast Cancer Risk in Hispanic Women

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he first breast cancer risk-prediction model based entirely on data from Hispanic women, including whether a woman was born in or outside of the United States, provided a more accurate assessment of Hispanic women’s risk of developing breast cancer compared with existing models based on data from non-Hispanic women, according to a study presented at the Eighth American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic 

“Currently, there is no breast cancer risk-prediction model for Hispanic women,” said Matthew P. Banegas, PhD, MPH, investigator with Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, and primary author of the study. “We developed a model based on data on ethnicity, nativity, and breast cancer risk factors, as well as incidence and mortality rates in Hispanic women, which allowed us to create a more specific tool to predict their risk of developing invasive breast cancer.”

Presently, physicians and researchers use the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BRCAT) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to estimate risk, counsel patients, and design breast cancer prevention trials. However, since it is based, in part, on data from women of other races and ethnicities, it does not accurately reflect the risk of breast cancer in Hispanic women, and tends to underestimate their risk, Banegas said.

“The goal of our work is to enable Hispanic women to better understand their risk of developing invasive breast cancer. They will be able to discuss this information with their physician and what it means for them specifically,” added Banegas.

Factors that are incorporated into the new prediction model include:

  • A woman’s age at first full-term pregnancy: Women who have children at younger ages tend to have a lower risk of breast cancer. Studies show that Hispanic women born outside the United States tend to start having children at a younger age than Hispanic women born in the United States.
  • A woman’s age at first menstrual period: The younger a woman is when she starts menstruating, the greater her lifetime exposure to estrogen, which has been shown to increase breast cancer risk. Prior research has shown that Hispanic women born outside the United States may be older when they start menstruating than Hispanic women born in the United States.
  • Having had a biopsy for benign breast disease: Breast cancer risk is increased among women with benign breast disease. In the risk-prediction model, the risk associated with this factor was slightly greater for Hispanic women born outside the United States than for Hispanic women born in the United States.
  • Family history of breast cancer in first-degree relatives: Women with a family history of breast cancer have higher risk of developing breast cancer. Prior studies show that Hispanic women born outside the United States are less likely to have a family history of breast cancer compared with Hispanic women born in the United States.

Banegas and colleagues used data from the San Francisco Bay Area Breast Cancer Study, focusing on 1,086 Hispanic women with breast cancer and 1,411 without breast cancer, to develop a Hispanic-specific breast cancer risk-prediction model. They separated the women into two groups: those who were born in the United States and those who were born outside the United States, then estimated risks for both groups, applying their estimates to incidence and mortality data from theCalifornia Cancer Registry and the NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program. The researchers validated their prediction model, in part, against data from Hispanic women in the Women’s Health Initiative, and found that the model was well calibrated for Hispanic women born in the United States, but overestimated the risk in foreign-born Hispanic women. Prior research has shown that foreign-born Hispanic women have about half the breast cancer risk of U.S.-born Hispanic women.

Since the model was developed using data from women in the San Francisco Bay area, it will be most applicable to women in that region, Banegas said. As researchers gather more data from Hispanic women in other parts of the United States and from those born outside the United States, those data should be incorporated into the model to increase the accuracy for those populations.

This study was supported by the NCI.

WARNING There’s A New Deadly Disease Worse Than HIV

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Human Papilloma Virus, or commonly referred to as HPV, is accountable for the outbreak of a new deadly disease. It is predicted that this new epidemic, even deadlier than AIDS, will claim many lives. The following key points explain why HPV is deadlier than HIV.

 

WARNING There’s A New Deadly Disease Worse Than HIV

WARNING There’s A New Deadly Disease Worse Than HIV2

1. The Condom Misconception
There’s a common misconception that condoms offer full protection against most sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/Aids. But, according to new research, condoms cannot provide 100% protection against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which can spread through skin-to-skin contact with infected areas of the skin not covered by the condom such as the male and female genitalia. This is especially serious for women because HPV is a silent killer that can be inactive, thus unnoticed for years before it attacks.

2. The HPV Nightmare
The most widespread STI in the United States, Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the name for a group of viruses that affect your skin and the moist membranes lining your body, for example, in your cervix, anus, mouth and throat. There are more than 100 types of HPV, many of which cause nasty looking warts.

3. A Prolific Virus
HPV is a common and highly contagious infection, with over three quarters of sexually active women acquiring it at some time in their lives. HPV is sexually transmitted, but skin-to-skin genital contact is also a well-recognized mode of transmission. This means that condoms cannot give full protection.

4. Contracting The Virus
HPV is mainly transmitted through sexual contact and most people are infected with HPV shortly after the onset of sexual activity. But HPV can be passed even when the infected individual has no signs or symptoms of the virus. In some cases it takes years for symptoms to appear, and rarely people never experience any symptoms during their life.

5. Links To Cancer
Cervical cancer is by far the most common HPV-related disease. Nearly all cases of cervical cancer, which is the leading cause of death in women, can be attributed to HPV infection. In fact, two types of the HPV, types 16 and 18, are responsible for almost 70% of all cervical cancer cases.

6. Danger To Women
Women are more susceptible to contracting the virus than men. Regarding HPV transmission rates, male-to-female transmission rates are 5% higher than female-to-male transmission rates.

“Never Has There Been A Safe Vaccine. Never Will There Be A Safe Vaccine”

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The world is constantly bombarded with the idea that vaccines are completely safe and necessary, it’s mass marketing at its best. It’s always best to do some examination and research before blindly believing what you are told. It’s good to know that  more doctors who have spent years researching the topic are sharing their professional opinions.  Sure, there are doctors that support and trust vaccinations, but just as valid are the arguments of those that don’t support them. They should not be ignored. The point I’m trying to make is that there is no definite answer, that the debate has not been settled as so many governing health authorities claim it to be.

Suzanne Humphries, MD, is a conventionally educated medical doctor who was a participant in the conventional medicinal system from 1989 until 2011. During those years she “saw how often that approach fails patients and creates new diseases.” She left conventional medicine to research “the many problems with mainstream medical theory, to write, and conduct a holistic medical practice.”

She was a Nephrologist, a specialty of medicine and pediatrics that concerns itself with the study of the kidney. Here’s what she has to say on the subject:

Those who are interested in doing the research will find papers that completely put to rest the debate. One example is a paper published by the CDC, titled “Increasing exposure to Antibody-Stimulating Proteins and Polysaccharides (antigenes) in Vaccines is Not Associated with Autism.”(1)

On the other hand, we have studies, also published in peer reviewed journals that do create a cause for concern. One example would be a study published a few months ago in the peer-reviewed journalTranslational Neurodegeneration that provided epidemiological evidence supporting an association between increasing organic – Hg exposure from Thimerosal containing childhood vaccines and the risk of an ASD diagnoses. (2)

We also have multiple studies in peer-reviewed journals that suggest thimerosal should be removed from all vaccines. (3)

It’s a proven fact that vaccine manufacturers and health authorities have known about the dangers associated with vaccines for a very long time, but have chosen to withhold them from public knowledge in order to maintain “herd immunity.” This is scientific fraud and manipulation of scientific data that’s dished out to doctors worldwide. (4)

These are a few of MANY examples.

The bottom line is that we are bombarded and heavily marketed on the safety and necessity of vaccinations, when it is evidently clear that this isn’t the case. So ask yourself, why are you pushed to believe that they are completely safe, and necessary, when so many studies out there contradict those claims? At the same time, many confirm those claims. What exactly is going on here? It can be hard to know sometimes, that’s why at the end of the day you have to examine the information yourself and decide for yourself. Don’t put your trust into the corporation, into the commercials, or billionaires, put it in the research, which clearly shows that there are two sides to this debate. (I personally believe there is no debate, and that vaccines are not safe)

If the research isn’t enough for you, try researching the history of the vaccine manufacturers. Where they originate from, who started them. Research the shareholders, and see what other corporations they have control over. You will find some interesting correlations and connections, but that’s another topic.

Since we are constantly bombarded with corporate heads and billionaires testifying to the safety of vaccinations, I thought it would be good to present this information from a doctor who has been researching it herself for three years. You will never see something like this on your television screen.

20 British foods Americans have probably never heard of but really should try

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Women find the smell of sweat more attractive after eating garlic.

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  • Men were asked to eat raw garlic, garlic capsules, or no garlic
  • Their sweat was then collected on armpit pads over the course of 12 hours 
  • Women sniffed the pads and rated them for attractiveness and masculinity
  • The more garlic the men ate, the more attractive they were perceived   

Scientists have found that the sweat of men who have eaten garlic is more attractive to women

It might sound like the most unlikely of dating tips.

But guys, if you want to get the girl, forget the aftershave and try eating garlic instead.

Scientists found the sweat of men who had eaten the bulb smelt more attractive to women.

The researchers suggested that women may have evolved to prefer the type of smell that eating garlic – which is a highly nutritious food – produces in armpit sweat, because it suggests the person is healthy.

Garlic has antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal properties and studies have suggested it can help reduce the incidence of colds, and even high blood pressure and some cancers.

Or, it could simply be that the antibacterial action of the garlic makes the armpits smell sweeter by reducing the density of the microbes which cause the nasty odours, the researchers from the University of Stirling in Scotland and Charles University in the Czech Republic said.

‘Certainly, breath odour plays a crucial role in most social interactions, but human axillary (armpit) odour is also an important factor in intimate relationships,’ the researchers wrote in the journal Appetite.

‘Our results indicate that garlic consumption may have positive effects on perceived body odour hedonicity (the pleasure derived from it), perhaps due to its health effects, for example antioxidant properties and antimicrobial activity.

‘From an evolutionary perspective, formation of preferences for diet-associated body odours was possibly shaped by means of sexual selection.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3313356/Forget-aftershave-want-charm-ladies-eat-GARLIC-Women-smell-sweat-attractive-eating-bulbs.html#ixzz3rOUE8JWi
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New algorithm cracks graph problem

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A puzzle that has long flummoxed computers and the scientists who program them has suddenly become far more manageable.

László Babai

A new algorithm efficiently solves the graph isomorphism problem, computer scientist László Babai announced November 10 at a Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science seminar at the University of Chicago. The problem requires determining whether two separate sets of interconnected points, known as graphs, are linked in the same way even if the graphs look very different. In practice, existing algorithms can do the job in reasonable time, but it was possible that extremely complex graphs would make the problem intractable. Not anymore.

“My first thought was that this was a joke. I checked the month to make sure it wasn’t April,” says Ryan Williams, a Stanford University computer scientist. “It’s a huge jump in our understanding of the problem.” He says the discovery is potentially the most important theoretical computer science advance in more than a decade.

Babai’s algorithm still needs to be vetted, but his expertise gives colleagues confidence in the result: He was grappling with the problem even before he made it the topic of his 1984 doctoral thesis. While the problem may seem abstract, it’s a prominent example of a strange class of puzzles that computers have trouble solving despite being able to quickly verify a solution if one is provided. The result could also reverberate beyond computer science, such as allowing chemists to determine whether complex molecules have the same bonding structure.

In math terminology, “graph” is a fancy word for a network, the kind of diagram that depicts, for instance, a web of friends on Facebook or the spread of a disease. Each point, or node, is like a ping-pong ball that’s indistinguishable from any other ball and connects to one or more balls with string. With such a setup it’s easy to make two initially identical graphs look very different by shifting the balls around (see diagram). The graph isomorphism problem requires a computer to examine two graphs that may look very different and determine whether all the balls share the same connections. Graphs that share this relationship are isomorphic.

Computers generally have little trouble determining if graphs are isomorphic. But for even the best algorithms, there is a worst-case scenario in which the solving time grows nearly exponentially as the number of nodes increases.

Babai claims that he has developed an algorithm that evaluates even the trickiest graphs in what’s called quasipolynomial time, which computer scientists consider reasonable. “We weren’t even close to quasipolynomial,” Williams says. The solving time still increases along with the number of nodes, but it does so much more gradually.

Babai declined an interview, saying he wants to confirm that his results survive several rounds of grilling from colleagues. It’s unusual for a mathematician to announce such a major result before submitting a written proof, says Neil Immerman, a theoretical computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. But “Babai is very smart and reliable and one of the top world experts on the graph isomorphism problem,” Immerman says. “So I am sure that he has proved what he has announced.”

Jeremy Kun, a theoretical computer scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, warns that “it’s going to take a while for everyone to sort through the details.” But he came away impressed after attending the packed seminar. “Most of the proof seems like very, very hard work rather than a flash of insight,” he says.

The advance could help researchers sort out a big mystery regarding whether every problem that can be easily verified can also be easily solved (SN Online: 9/9/10). Until Babai’s result, computers could quickly check if a solution showing that two graphs are isomorphic is correct, but they couldn’t necessarily solve the problem from scratch efficiently.

Some easily checkable problems are also quickly solvable; they belong to a category called P, for polynomial time. Others are classified as NP-complete (NP stands for nondeterministic polynomial time) and are the hardest to crack. The traveling salesman problem (SN Online: 2/20/12) is among the NP-complete puzzles. Graph isomorphism falls in between. Williams says that Babai’s discovery could improve understanding of the boundary zone between P and NP-complete, a region that includes problems such as factoring large integers, which is used for Internet security.

Earth Changes Accelerate: 12 Major Earthquakes Hit Chile Within Last 24 Hours.

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Over the past 30 days, there seems to have been much more “shaking” than normal, and this is particularly true along the Ring of Fire
Earth Changes Accelerate: 12 Major Earthquakes Hit Chile Within Last 24 Hours
Something strange is happening to our planet.
Over the past 30 days, there seems to have been much more “shaking” than normal, and this is particularly true along the Ring of Fire. This afternoon I visited the official website of the U.S. Geological Survey, and I discovered that Chile had been hit with 12 major earthquakes within the last 24 hours alone. The smallest was of magnitude 4.4, and the two largest both measured magnitude 6.9. We have also seen dozens of volcanoes erupt recently, including the incredibly dangerous Mt. Popocatepetlin Mexico. Fortunately we have not seen a major disaster that kills thousands of people yet, but many believe that all of this shaking is leading up to one. In addition, the weather all over the world continues to get freakier and freakier. Just today, Yemen was hit by a second major tropical cyclone in less than a week. Any one of these strange disasters in isolation may not seem like that big of a deal, but when you start putting all of the pieces together it starts to become clear that something really significant is taking place.
So why are all of these things happening? Well, some experts point to the sun. In recent years there has been a tremendous amount of hype about “global warming”, but the truth is that evidence is starting to emerge that indicates that our sun might be heading into a period of “hibernation”…

The sun will go into “hibernation” mode around 2030, and it has already started to get sleepy. At the Royal Astronomical Society’s annual meeting in July, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK confirmed it – the sun will begin its Maunder Minimum (Grand Solar Minimum) in 15 years. Other scientists had suggested years ago that this change was imminent, but Zharkova’s model is said to have near-perfect accuracy.
And what did we see last winter? It was a very cold, bitter winter that set new all-time records all over the planet. Here is more from that same article…
Solar cycle 24 – two cycles prior the cycle that’s expected to bottom out into a Maunder Minimum – was weak. In 2013-14 it reached its maximum far below average. Meanwhile extreme cold-weather anomalies have occurred around the world. Last year “polar vortices” slammed into the central US and Siberia as a third hovered over the Atlantic. All 50 US states, including Hawaii, had temperatures below freezing for the first time in recorded history. Snowfall records were broken in cities in the US, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and elsewhere. Southern American states and central Mexico, where snow is rare, got heavy snow, as did the Middle East.
This past summer the cold didn’t let up, with more temperature records across the US and rare summer snows seen in Canada, the US and China. Birds have migrated early in the last two years. Antarctic sea ice set a new record in 2013 and it was broken again in 2014.
Will this upcoming winter be similar?
Should we be anticipating a lot of cold and a lot of snow?
I have been watching stories like this for a couple of years. Our sun has begun to behave very erratically, and yet very few people are paying attention. But without the sun, life on earth would not be possible. So the fact that the giant ball of fire that we revolve around is starting to act very strangely should be a huge news story.
And this is not something that scientists have just started noticing. This has been going on for quite some time. For example, the following is from a BBC article that was published last year…
“I’ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” says Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
He shows me recent footage captured by spacecraft that have their sights trained on our star. The Sun is revealed in exquisite detail, but its face is strangely featureless.
“If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive… you’ve got to go back about 100 years,” he says.
This solar lull is baffling scientists, because right now the Sun should be awash with activity.
Another thing that many scientists are watching closely is the possibility of a magnetic pole shift. This has become such a concern that even scientists at NASA are talking about it. A major news source in the UK recently published an article entitled “NASA: Earth’s magnetic poles are ‘switching’ with catastrophic consequences for humanity“, and the following was the most fascinating part of the story for me personally…
Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said when the switch does take place, the Earth’s magnetic field which prevents the Sun’s dangerous radiation getting through, would be neutralised for around 200 years.
He revealed the detail during an historic announcement about how Mars lost 99% of its atmosphere and its oceans that could have housed early life.
Mr Jakosky explained that Mars had been blasted by solar winds, which had stripped it of its atmosphere, for billions of years since the beginnings of our solar system.
He said: “When the polar shift happens the Earth will have no magnetic field for about 200 years.”
During that time the Sun’s solar blasts are expected to strip away at our atmosphere as they did on Mars billions of years ago.
That certainly doesn’t sound good.
How could humanity possibly survive if “the Earth will have no magnetic field” for 200 years?
Perhaps some would survive by living in underground facilities shielded from the sun. But certainly most of humanity simply would not make it.
Meanwhile, as I have written about previously, scientists tell us that the entire universe is “slowly dying“. Apparently the universe is only producing about half as much energy as it once did, and over time the level of energy being produced continues to fade.
Most of us just take for granted that our planet, our sun and our universe will remain stable and behave normally.
But what if we have entered a time when things start to change dramatically?
What if the years ahead are filled with earth changes of a magnitude that most of us cannot even possibly imagine?
What will that mean for our society and for the future of humanity?