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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
http://www.rense.com/general20/probe.htm Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space By Robert Matthews Science Correspondent The Telegraph - London 2-11-2 A space probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics. Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that the probe has revealed a new force of nature. Dr Philip Laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said: "We have examined every mechanism and theory we can think of and so far nothing works. "If the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and spacecraft navigation," said Dr Laing, of the Aerospace Corporation of California. Pioneer 10 was launched by Nasa on March 2 1972, and with Pioneer 11, its twin, revolutionised astronomy with detailed images of Jupiter and Saturn. In June 1983, Pioneer 10 passed Pluto, the most distant planet in our solar system. Both probes are now travelling at 27,000mph towards stars that they will encounter several million years from now. Scientists are continuing to monitor signals from Pioneer 10, which is more than seven billion miles from Earth. Research to be published shortly in The Physical Review, a leading physics journal, will show that the speed of the two probes is being changed by about 6 mph per century - a barely-perceptible effect about 10 billion times weaker than gravity. Scientists initially suspected that gas escaping from tiny rocket motors aboard the probes, or heat leaking from their nuclear power plants might be responsible. Both have now been ruled out. The team says no current theories explain why the force stays constant: all the most plausible forces, from gravity to the effect of solar radiation, decrease rapidly with distance. The bizarre behaviour has also eliminated the possibility that the two probes are being affected by the gravitational pull of unknown planets beyond the solar system. Assertions by some scientists that the force is due to a quirk in the Pioneer probes have also been discounted by the discovery that the effect seems to be affecting Galileo and Ulysses, two other space probes still in the solar system. Data from these two probes suggests the force is of the same strength as that found for the Pioneers. Dr Duncan Steel, a space scientist at Salford University, says even such a weak force could have huge effects on a cosmic scale. "It might alter the number of comets that come towards us over millions of years, which would have consequences for life on Earth. It also raises the question of whether we know enough about the law of gravity." Until 1988, Pioneer 10 was the most remote object made by man - a distinction now held by Voyager 1. Should Pioneer 10 make contact with alien life, it carries a gold-plated aluminium plaque on which the figures of a man and woman are shown to scale, along with a map showing its origin that Nasa calls "the cosmic equivalent of a message in a bottle". |
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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
On 5 Oct 2006 15:37:43 -0700, "Sound of Trumpet"
wrote: http://www.rense.com/general20/probe.htm Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space By Robert Matthews Science Correspondent The Telegraph - London 2-11-2 A space probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics. And your point is...? -- "O Sybilli, si ergo Fortibus es in ero O Nobili! Themis trux Sivat sinem? Causen Dux" |
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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
This is really exciting research. If the effect is real, it could
indicate the need for revision our theories of gravity -- and that, in turn, is likely to have repercussions on other theories (dark matter comes immediately to mind). However, what's really astonishing is the level of ignorance required to read this article, and then type a subject line like "Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered". How can you read about an acceleration of 6 mph per century, and not see that this would be absolutely no impediment to interstellar travel? |
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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
Sound of Trumpet wrote: http://www.rense.com/general20/probe.htm Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space By Robert Matthews Science Correspondent The Telegraph - London 2-11-2 A space probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics. The force - if it indeed exists is tiny - NOT enough to shatter "Dreams Of Travel To Stars " so your title is completely misleading and deceptive. Cheers, Mark. |
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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
raven1 wrote:
And your point is...? Not that the probe has discovered where the dark matter starts... no, but instead that when C. S. Lewis wrote about "God's quarantine regulations", he didn't know the half of it! God knows how clever humans are at getting around limits. After all, He destroyed the Tower of Babel. "Heaven, even the heavens, are Gods; the Earth He has given to the children of men" - and so the probe is just now bumping into the firmament! Those Weekly World News stories about the Hubble Space Telescope taking pictures of angels in Heaven, while perhaps not true, are, apparently, not utterly implausible. John Savard |
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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: MysteriousForce Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
raven1 wrote: On 5 Oct 2006 15:37:43 -0700, "Sound of Trumpet" wrote: http://www.rense.com/general20/probe.htm Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space By Robert Matthews Science Correspondent The Telegraph - London 2-11-2 A space probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics. And your point is...? -- "O Sybilli, si ergo Fortibus es in ero O Nobili! Themis trux Sivat sinem? Causen Dux" Apparently, on top of his head. |
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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
wrote in message ups.com... raven1 wrote: And your point is...? Not that the probe has discovered where the dark matter starts... no, but instead that when C. S. Lewis wrote about "God's quarantine regulations", he didn't know the half of it! God knows how clever humans are at getting around limits. After all, He destroyed the Tower of Babel. "Heaven, even the heavens, are Gods; the Earth He has given to the children of men" - and so the probe is just now bumping into the firmament! Those Weekly World News stories about the Hubble Space Telescope taking pictures of angels in Heaven, while perhaps not true, are, apparently, not utterly implausible. Interstellar travel is a waste of time, the only thing 'out there' is the past. John Savard |
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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
In article .com,
"Sound of Trumpet" wrote: http://www.rense.com/general20/probe.htm Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space By Robert Matthews Science Correspondent The Telegraph - London 2-11-2 A space probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics. Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that the probe has revealed a new force of nature. Dr Philip Laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said: "We have examined every mechanism and theory we can think of and so far nothing works. "If the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and spacecraft navigation," said Dr Laing, of the Aerospace Corporation of California. Pioneer 10 was launched by Nasa on March 2 1972, and with Pioneer 11, its twin, revolutionised astronomy with detailed images of Jupiter and Saturn. In June 1983, Pioneer 10 passed Pluto, the most distant planet in our solar system. Both probes are now travelling at 27,000mph towards stars that they will encounter several million years from now. Scientists are continuing to monitor signals from Pioneer 10, which is more than seven billion miles from Earth. Research to be published shortly in The Physical Review, a leading physics journal, will show that the speed of the two probes is being changed by about 6 mph per century - a barely-perceptible effect about 10 billion times weaker than gravity. Scientists initially suspected that gas escaping from tiny rocket motors aboard the probes, or heat leaking from their nuclear power plants might be responsible. Both have now been ruled out. The team says no current theories explain why the force stays constant: all the most plausible forces, from gravity to the effect of solar radiation, decrease rapidly with distance. The bizarre behaviour has also eliminated the possibility that the two probes are being affected by the gravitational pull of unknown planets beyond the solar system. Assertions by some scientists that the force is due to a quirk in the Pioneer probes have also been discounted by the discovery that the effect seems to be affecting Galileo and Ulysses, two other space probes still in the solar system. Data from these two probes suggests the force is of the same strength as that found for the Pioneers. Dr Duncan Steel, a space scientist at Salford University, says even such a weak force could have huge effects on a cosmic scale. "It might alter the number of comets that come towards us over millions of years, which would have consequences for life on Earth. It also raises the question of whether we know enough about the law of gravity." Until 1988, Pioneer 10 was the most remote object made by man - a distinction now held by Voyager 1. Should Pioneer 10 make contact with alien life, it carries a gold-plated aluminium plaque on which the figures of a man and woman are shown to scale, along with a map showing its origin that Nasa calls "the cosmic equivalent of a message in a bottle". Could it be fluid dynamic drag, due to traveling through the miniscule solar atmosphere way out there? There is, after all, some interstellar gas there. |
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"Scientific" Dreams Of Travel To Stars Shattered: Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:25:37 GMT, Orval Fairbairn
wrote: In article .com, "Sound of Trumpet" wrote: http://www.rense.com/general20/probe.htm Mysterious Force Pulls Back NASA Probe In Deep Space By Robert Matthews Science Correspondent The Telegraph - London 2-11-2 A space probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics. Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that the probe has revealed a new force of nature. Dr Philip Laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said: "We have examined every mechanism and theory we can think of and so far nothing works. "If the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and spacecraft navigation," said Dr Laing, of the Aerospace Corporation of California. Pioneer 10 was launched by Nasa on March 2 1972, and with Pioneer 11, its twin, revolutionised astronomy with detailed images of Jupiter and Saturn. In June 1983, Pioneer 10 passed Pluto, the most distant planet in our solar system. Both probes are now travelling at 27,000mph towards stars that they will encounter several million years from now. Scientists are continuing to monitor signals from Pioneer 10, which is more than seven billion miles from Earth. Research to be published shortly in The Physical Review, a leading physics journal, will show that the speed of the two probes is being changed by about 6 mph per century - a barely-perceptible effect about 10 billion times weaker than gravity. Scientists initially suspected that gas escaping from tiny rocket motors aboard the probes, or heat leaking from their nuclear power plants might be responsible. Both have now been ruled out. The team says no current theories explain why the force stays constant: all the most plausible forces, from gravity to the effect of solar radiation, decrease rapidly with distance. The bizarre behaviour has also eliminated the possibility that the two probes are being affected by the gravitational pull of unknown planets beyond the solar system. Assertions by some scientists that the force is due to a quirk in the Pioneer probes have also been discounted by the discovery that the effect seems to be affecting Galileo and Ulysses, two other space probes still in the solar system. Data from these two probes suggests the force is of the same strength as that found for the Pioneers. Dr Duncan Steel, a space scientist at Salford University, says even such a weak force could have huge effects on a cosmic scale. "It might alter the number of comets that come towards us over millions of years, which would have consequences for life on Earth. It also raises the question of whether we know enough about the law of gravity." Until 1988, Pioneer 10 was the most remote object made by man - a distinction now held by Voyager 1. Should Pioneer 10 make contact with alien life, it carries a gold-plated aluminium plaque on which the figures of a man and woman are shown to scale, along with a map showing its origin that Nasa calls "the cosmic equivalent of a message in a bottle". Could it be fluid dynamic drag, due to traveling through the miniscule solar atmosphere way out there? There is, after all, some interstellar gas there. Kind of hard to imagine them missing something like that, but it might be that the solar atmosphere is twice as dense as was throught at that range. You know: two hydrogen atoms per cubic meter instead of one. -- Putsch: leading America to asymetric warfare since 2001 Not dead, in jail, or a slave? Thank a liberal! Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to. For the finest in liberal/leftist commentary, http://www.zeppscommentaries.com For news feed (free, 10-20 articles a day) http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/zepps_news For essays (donations accepted, 2 articles/week) http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/zepps_essays a.a. #2211 -- Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
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