Age of Exploding myth of The Photon Belt

Avid reader of Nexus Digest May well to recall an article entitled "The Photon Belt Story," in the February edition in 1991.

I read the article with amusement and laughed it off as a joke, but I have recently become aware that many people take this article seriously and that it was the cause for some concern.

I'm sorry to say that this story as romantic as it may be, has absolutely no basis in fact. It seems that a part of modern mythology, which arose around the Pleiades, an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, the Bull, in contrast to the current scientific knowledge. This mythology seems to be based on an intoxicating mix of pseudo-science, channeling messages from alleged space facilities, biblical prophecy, ignorance and a liberal dose of naivete. There is a general mistrust of our scientific community and misinterpretation of scientific thinking.

It is a sad reflection of science education in our society that so many people can be taken in by a story that probably began life as a student's prank.

For the benefit of those readers who do not read the article, in brief, it goes as follows:

In 1961, satellite-born instruments discovered a photon BAND in space. This PHOTON belt or MANASIC RING, the scientists were unable to reproduce in the lab, orbits the Pleiades and extends over 400 light years to our solar system. Quoting deadline someone named José Comas Sola, our solar orbit was told this system and all these stars were said to have planets. Our Sunday has been said about this system orbit in 24,000 years. During this time we spend 10,000 years alternately in the darkness and 2000 in light of the PHOTON belt. We have said that they, in the light of the PHOTON BELT, whereupon, we would all be converted in the Wink of an eye "in Atmosphereans and night does not exist anymore, among others.

A chart showing accompanies the article 6 of the Pleiadian stars, Merope, Atlas, Maya, Teygeta, Electra, Coeleno and our own sun in orbit around Alcyone, also a member of the Pleiades, surrounded by the PHOTON belt.

According been contacted by several members of the public with questions about this story, I decided to sort the fact from fiction and pursue the story on his "home.

The article was reprinted with permission from the Australian UFO Research Flying Saucer magazine. A phone number had been given. The telephone number turned out that a prominent South Australian UFO researcher who told me that the story originally written by a university student who was a member of his group at the time. This student is now apparently a physicist at a well-known nuclear facility. The UFO researcher was not clear where the student had the information and had attempted to verify the IT aspects with an astronomer at Mount Stromlo Observatory. I was not able to determine what aspects actually been confirmed.

Fortunately, the astronomer concerned was known to me, so I paid him a visit. He vaguely recalled in an interview with the researcher, but could not remember the exact details of the conversation. He assured me he would never have verified the existence of the PHOTON BELT, May, but him some information about himself the Pleiades. He told me that Mount Stromlo also had questions about the PHOTON Belt and, like me, the whole thing as a cruel joke.

So, what is reality and what is fiction? Well, for a start, I was unable to find any evidence for a satellite in 1961, the instruments required to PHOTON BAND as described. Satellites of the era were crude by today's standards and were more with telecommunications, operating mainly in radio wavelengths.

Subsequent satellites and probes, with its sophisticated instrumentation, would certainly be in a position PHOTON BELT, however, no such case has ever been reported. This is not a case of scientists around secrets, it is simply because they have never been discovered.

According to other information I have received, this is supposed to be PHOTON BELT with a ELECTROMAGNETIC ZERO-ZONE. This zone is said that a power vacuum, completely lacking in electromagnetic fields. If it exists, this NULL ZONE would certainly have shown up in the sky many polls, which in recent years on the Cosmic Microwave Background. This background radiation is remarkable because it is so evenly distributed across the entire sky. The electromagnetic NULL ZONE does not exist!

The PHOTON BELT was also described as MANASIC ring, a phenomenon that scientists have not yet been able to reproduce with laboratory experiments. " I have not been able to determine the meaning of the word "manasic." I can only guess that it derives from the word MANA. It is hardly surprising that this does not happen is new in a laboratory, as nobody really seems to know what MANA is beyond its dictionary definition as a mysterious power.

And so on the Pleiades themselves. José Comas Sola, whoever he may be, was either completely wrong or misquoted. Our sun is not part of the Pleiades system, not even orbit the Pleiades per 24,000 years.

The Pleiades are about 125 parsecs, or 407.5 light years from our solar system. A quick calculation shows that if our sun were in this orbit, then its orbital speed would be 0.107C, or slightly more than one tenth of the speed of light. This corresponds to about 32,000 km / sec This speed would seem, not only for astronomers, but at all how the constellations would change dramatically in the course of a single life, if this would be true.

The Pleiades is a loose group of about 100 stars, with an average age of an estimated 78 million years. It is very young stars, much younger than our own sun, an estimated 5 billion years old, much younger, as well as our own planet Earth.

These are very hot, bright stars of spectral type B, much hotter and about 10 times more massive than our sun, spectral G. If you are not away from the interstellar gas cloud, or nebula, from which they formed. Remains of this nebula is readily apparent in photographs of the group. It was suggested that this nebulosity fog, shining with the light of the stars in, is what has led to the myth of the PHOTON belt.

Study of proper motions of these stars, or their movement through space, have shown that they are in the process of dispersion. There is no evidence that these stars orbiting Alcyone, as shown in the diagram. It must also be said that there was no evidence for a planet to one of these stars. It may well be that planetary systems May evolve around some of these stars, but it must be remembered that these are very young stars and planetary formation May also a lot longer than stellar education. It seems unlikely that habitable planets have time to get there. 78 million years is a very short time on the cosmological or geological time scale.

It is very gratifying to think of our planet from the darkness and into the light, although I do not believe that our nocturnal fauna would agree. It is much better for all of us to enlightenment in us. Such enlightenment can not be imposed by external forces. A flood of photons from the Pleiades is not the world, nor is it its inhabitants into enlightened Atmosphereans. We must solve our problems ourselves.