Aniruddha Live(FB)-Parallel Universe and ANITA
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Date: 6th June, 2020
Hi friends, Good evening. The newspapers
are filled with news that makes us feel bad. The cruel death of a pregnant elephant,
the death of George Floyd, the issues of racism, violence and looting in a
nation that claims and tries to set the benchmark of tolerance for all others and
of course the ever-increasing death count from the pandemic to cite just a few.
We also lost our beloved film maker Basu Chatterjee.
Even though terribly saddened by the
unfortunate events all around I am not going to talk about any of these today.
I am going to talk about an entirely different topic.
How many of you have been intrigued by the
idea of a parallel universe? There is a
lot of science and science fiction that has invested heavily in the idea of
parallel universe.
In quantum mechanics a parallel universe
is said to be a universe theorized as existing alongside our own, although
undetectable.
In science-fiction
or fantasy it is a world conceived of as coexisting with and having certain
similiarities to the known world but different from it in some fundamental way.
Well, very recently, a NASA experiment has indicated the
possibility of a parallel universe. The ANITA and IceCube experiment of NASA in
the Antarctica was responsible for the detection of the cosmic ray shower that is
key to this new discovery.
ANITA.or ANtarctic Impulsive Transient
Antenna, is a radio telescope, designed by NASA which is used in detecting
ultra-high energy cosmic-ray neutrinos from a scientific balloon flying over
Antarctica. It is the first NASA observatory for neutrinos of any kind.
The instrument involves an array of radio antennas attached to a helium balloon which flies over the Antarctic ice sheet at 37,000 meters. The launching details are as below:
- ANITA-I was launched from McMurdo, Antarctica in 2006.
- ANITA-II, a modified instrument with 40 antennas, was launched from McMurdo Station in 2008.
- ANITA-III, which was equipped with systems to improve sensitivity by a factor of 5–10, was launched in December 2014.
- ANITA-IV was launched in December 2016 and it was loaded with tuneable notch filters and an improved trigger system.
For the people not accustomed with
neutrinos -they are basically a very high energy subatomic particle that is
very similar to an electron, but has no electrical charge and a very small mass.
Even though neutrinos are one of the most
abundant particles in the Universe, they are incredibly difficult to detect
because of their very little interaction with matter.
Neutrinos constantly bombard Earth and as
per some estimates emerging from studies, 100 trillion neutrinos pass through
your body every second. Don’t worry though, they pose no threat to us and pass
through most solid objects without anyone even noticing. In fact, that is why
they are so very difficult to detect.
Even though the neutrinos rarely interact
with matter, if they do smash into an atom, they produce a shower of secondary
particles we can detect, which allows us to probe where they came from in the
universe. The NASA detector has detected neutrinos that have energies on the
order of 1018 eV that were capable of producing radio pulses in the ice and
were thereby detected.
This is extremely exciting discovery guys. However, you may be glad to know that the
concept of parallel universe exists in both Hindu and Muslim scriptures. It’s a
joy to see certain ideas of ancient Indian seers and sages being validated by
the most advanced form of science today. A lot more is yet to come. It may not
be an overstatement to say that in the near future we may find scientific basis
for a lot of things that we still believe to be miracles.
Anyways, that would be all for now. You
can get the matter of this video in my blog article. I have provided the link below.
That is it for now friends. Do check my blog and check out my eBooks.
See you soon. Till then take care and stay
safe. BBye.
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