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The Aquila connection and further evidence of a birefringent universe. |
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Further evidence of a birefringent universe?
Posted by Robert Clark on 4/13/2007 10:47:20 AM
In Reply to: Trouble in Aquila - a mystery solved? posted by ER on
2/19/2007 10:23:22 AM
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Re: the Aquila Gambit approaches...
Posted by Robert Clark on 6/28/2005 9:43:59 AM
Nothing like reading it from the man himself:
http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/clarke.htm
"The concept put forth in this essay is not original, and the idea
that we should look for the products of "astronomical engineering" has
been perhaps best expounded by Freeman Dyson. But nowhere as concisely
as by Stanley Schmidt in his novel "The Sins of the Fathers" (Berkeley
1976), which contains the chilling phrase: "Seyfert galaxies are
industrial accidents."
Posted by ljk on 6/13/2005 8:06:24 AM In Reply to: the Aquila Gambit
approaches... posted by Adam on 6/12/2005 11:26:22 PM
This regards the unusual number of novae observed in Aquila. This
reminds me of something else unusual observed about Aquila:
Is the Universe Birefringent?
"To be more specific, we found that the rate of rotation depends on
the angle between the direction of travel of the wave and a fixed
direction in space, pointing approximately toward the constellation
Sextans from Earth. The more parallel the direction of travel of the
wave is with this fixed direction, the greater the rotation. The
amount of rotation is also proportional to the distance of travel of
the wave. These are the only two dependencies of the rotation.
"The curious effect is illustrated in the diagram above. In this
diagram, Earth is at the center, and the direction toward Sextans is
represented by a red "anisotropy axis.'' The axis extends from Earth
toward Sextans in one direction, and toward the constellation Aquila
in the opposite direction. A plane-polarized radio wave emitted by
Galaxy A (green) travels toward Earth in a direction almost parallel
to the anisotropy axis (red). On the other hand, a plane-polarized
radio wave emitted by Galaxy B (blue) approaches Earth in a direction
almost perpendicular to the anisotropy axis."
http://www.aip.org/png/html/birefrin.htm
Anisotropy in Electromagnetic Interactions.
http://www.rochester.edu/college/rtc/Borge/aniso.html
The validity of these anisotropy measurements was widely discounted,
but I just don't dig coincidences in Science.
But how could both be connected?
Bob Clark
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'Axis of evil' a cause for cosmic concern.
13 April 2007
Zeeya Merali
http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19425994.000?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19425994.000
This New Scientist article discusses two separate and independent
indications the universe could have an axis of symmetry. One way this
would be explained
for example would be if the universe had an axis of rotation.
The question is, is this the same axis proposed by Ralston and Nodland
in their "birefringent universe"?
Bob Clark
c.f.:
Newsgroups: sci.astro, sci.physics
From: "Robert Clark" <rgregorycl...@yahoo.com>
Date: 28 Jun 2005 10:40:00 -0700
Subject: The Aquila connection.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.astro/browse_frm/thread/3d0bab198276bc2e/
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