Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00653)

--- In theos-talk@y..., "Dennis Kier" <dennw3k@e...> wrote:
> Of course, this is all over my head, but I did read something 
recently
> that may be relevant, -or not?
> 
> Dennis

I think whoever wrote this article may be pulling your leg.





> **********************************
> BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mirror matter mystery
> 
> Wednesday, 13 November, 2002, 14:40 GMT
> Mirror matter mystery
> 
> By Dr David Whitehouse
> BBC News Online science editor
> 
> 
> Two Australian scientists believe they have found evidence of 
a
> parallel universe of strange matter within our own Solar System. 
Dr
> Robert Foot and Dr Saibal Mitra, of the University of Melbourne,
> report that close-up observations of the asteroid Eros by the
> Near-Shoemaker
> probe indicate it has been splattered by so-called "mirror
> matter". Mirror matter is not anti-matter, it is altogether weirder.
> It is somehow a "reflection" of normal matter, a sort of parallel
> series of particles required to restore the balance of the Universe.
> Sounds far-fetched - some believe so. However, experiments are
> underway to confirm or deny the existence of this strange, 
potentially
> significant but as yet undetected component of the cosmos.
> Cosmic balance
> Mirror matter is a hypothetical form of matter that restores
> nature's flawed left-right symmetry. Laws of nature, such as the
> rules that govern the interactions of fundamental particles, show a
> high degree of symmetry except that some laws are not the same 
when
> reflected in a hypothetical mirror.
> 
> Blue dirt: Pools of dust may be impact sites This
> means that elementary particles display a preference for left over
> right. In a way, the Universe is left-handed. Why? Nobody knows. 
Many
> physicists are happy with this idea believing that in the first
> instants of the Big Bang everything was perfectly symmetrical. Only
> when the cosmos cooled did it become asymmetric, with a difference
> emerging between left and right. But some scientists do not accept
> this. They maintain that the Universe has a left-right balance
> because there exists "mirror matter" - for every known particle 
there
> is a mirror particle that restores the cosmic balance.
> Dark matter
> Mirror matter would produce its own light but we would not be
> able to see it because mirror matter only interacts with our matter
> via gravity. Dr Robert Foot believes that mirror matter would have
> been made in abundance in the Big Bang and that it is all around 
us
> but we can't see it.
> 
> Mirror man Dr Robert Foot
> 
> "There could be mirror matter stars, planets and galaxies out
> there," he told BBC News Online. "In fact, some think that the
> unseen so-called "dark matter" of the Universe could actually be
> mirror matter," he adds. "Mirror matter is perfect to explain dark
> matter. It's dark and can only be detected through its gravity." 
Dr
> Foot believes he has found evidence that it is here, closer than we
> believed, and that it had had a measurable effect on our 
spaceprobes.
> 
> Mysterious force
> In October 2000, the Near-Shoemaker spacecraft lightly touched
> down on the 3-by-13-by-33-km (8 by 8 by 20 miles) Eros asteroid. It
> was the first time a probe had landed on an asteroid. Its close
> scrutiny of Eros revealed many strange features - such as
> flat-bottomed craters filled with a peculiar bluish dust, and a
> puzzling lack of small craters. Unexplained by conventional
> understanding, Dr Foot believes that mirror matter provides an
> answer.
> He calculates that small objects containing mirror matter 
could
> have struck the asteroid and left behind precisely the same scars
> that are seen. Indeed, he says there is no other credible
> explanation. He also calculates that mirror matter may explain the
> mysterious force that acts on both the Pioneer 10 and 11 deep
> spaceprobes.
> 
> Distant probes
> 
> Launched in 1972, the Pioneers are leaving the Solar System in
> opposite directions. Detailed analysis of their trajectory 
indicates
> that they are both subject to a tiny, unexplained force that is
> slowing them down. Dr Foot believes that mirror matter exerting a 
drag
> on the Pioneers could
> be to blame.
> 
> Mysterious force: Pioneer 10
> 
> "How else can you explain that both Pioneers, on opposite ends
> of the Solar System, experience the same force pushing in the same
> direction?" Dr Foot asks. In a research paper to be published
> shortly, Drs Foot and Mitra suggest that mirror matter may even 
have
> struck the Earth. He singles out three possible events: the 1908
> Tunguska impact in Siberia and low-altitude, low-velocity fireballs
> seen in Spain in 1994 and in Jordan in 2001. "Mirror matter could
> also explain these events," he told BBC News Online.
> 
> Future experiments
> 
> Many scientists dismiss mirror matter as wild speculation but
> even the sceptics will have cause for thought if the latest
> experiments from the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) are
> to be believed. Experiments involving so-called ortho-positronium - 
an
> arrangement in which an electron orbits a positron (its antimatter
> equivalent) - show that it decays slightly faster than can be
> explained. This could be due, says Dr Foot, to the electrons 
changing
> fleetingly into mirror matter and then back again. Experiments at
> Cern and in Moscow hope to determine in the next year or so if 
mirror
> matter really does exist. See also:
> 
> 26 Sep 01 | Science/Nature
> Asteroid's mystery 'blue ponds'
> 
> 30 Jul 02 | Science/Nature
> Antimatter mystery deepens
> 
> 06 May 99 | Science/Nature
> Matter or antimatter, that is the question
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <leonmaurer@a...>
> To: <theos-talk@y...>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World fields - to Leon
> 
> 
> >
> > In a message dated 11/16/02 5:01:28 AM, micforster@y... writes:
> >
> > >
> > >Leon you say:
> > >
> > >"All causal relationships between fields should be
> > >determined by analogy and correspondence - since all
> > >fields are interdependently originated from a common
> > >non-local zero-point center and are "in coadunition
> > >but not in consubstantiality.""
> > >
> > >Could you please elaborate on your definition of a
> > >field?
> > >
> > >Cheers, mic
> >
> > With respect to my ABC theory, such "coadunate but not
> consubstantial fields"
> > are electrically coenergetic spherical hyperspace regions, like
> bubbles
> > within bubbles within bubbles, etc. -- that are analogous in their
> various
> > stages or levels of substantiality or frequency/energy phase (or
> "order") to
> > the scientific "field" of the lowest order 3-dimensional physical,
> "metric"
> > or observed space, which is defined as follows:
> >
> > "A region of space characterized by a physical property, such as
> > gravitational or electromagnetic force or fluid pressure, having a
> > determinable value at every point in the region" (American 
Heritage
> > Dictionary)
> >
> > Such coenergetic hyperspace "fields" are identical to the seven 
fold
> (or
> > more) involved "fields of action," "planes," or "states of
> consciousness"
> > described by HPB in the SD. For a visualization of the involution
> of such
> > fields, see the symbolic cross sectional energy flow diagrams at:
> >
> 
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.ht
> ml
> >
> > LHM
> > http://tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics/ABC_bw.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >