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Old September 24th 06, 08:05 PM posted to sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.engr
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Default PSR B1931+24 slows down more rapidly because aliens have a machine

### quoting http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/brakingpulsar/
Part-time pulsar yields new insight into inner workings of cosmic
clocks

Astronomers using the 76-m Lovell radio telescope at the University of
Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory have discovered a very strange
pulsar that helps explain how pulsars act as 'cosmic clocks' and
confirms theories put forward 37 years ago to explain the way in which
pulsars emit their regular beams of radio waves - considered to be one
of the hardest problems in astrophysics. Their research, now published
in Science Express, reveals a pulsar that is only 'on' for part of the
time. The strange pulsar is spinning about its own axis and slows down
50% faster when it is 'on' compared to when it is 'off'.

Pulsars are dense, highly magnetized neutron stars that are born in a
violent explosion marking the death of massive stars. They act like
cosmic lighthouses as they project a rotating beam of radio waves
across the galaxy. Dr. Michael Kramer explains, "Pulsars are a
physicist's dream come true. They are made of the most extreme matter
that we know of in the Universe, and their highly stable rotation makes
them super-precise cosmic clocks. But, embarrassingly, we do not know
how these clocks work. This discovery goes a long way towards solving
this problem."

The research team, led by Dr. Michael Kramer, found a pulsar that is
only periodically active. It appears as a normal pulsar for about a
week and then "switches off" for about one month before emitting pulses
again. The pulsar, called PSR B1931+24, is unique in this behaviour and
affords astronomers an opportunity to compare its quiet and active
phases. As it is quiet the majority of the time, it is difficult to
detect, suggesting that there may be many other similar objects that
have, so far, escaped detection.

Prof. Andrew Lyne points out that, "After the discovery of pulsars,
theoreticians proposed that strong electric fields rip particles out of
the neutron star surface into a surrounding magnetised cloud of plasma
called the magnetosphere. But, for nearly 40 years, there had been no
way to test whether our basic understanding was correct."

The University of Manchester astronomers were delighted when they found
that this pulsar slows down more rapidly when the pulsar is on than
when it is off. Dr. Christine Jordan points out the importance of this
discovery, "We can clearly see that something hits the brakes when the
pulsar is on."

This breaking mechanism must be related to the radio emission and the
processes creating it and the additional slow-down can be explained by
a wind of particles leaving the pulsar's magnetosphere and carrying
away rotational energy. "Such a braking effect of the pulsar wind was
expected but now, finally, we have observational evidence for it" adds
Dr Duncan Lorimer.

The amount of braking can be related to the number of charges leaving
the pulsar magnetosphere. Dr. Michael Kramer explains their surprise
when it was found that the resulting number was within 2% of the
theoretical predictions. "We were really shocked when we saw these
numbers on our screens. Given the pulsar's complexity, we never really
expected the magnetospheric theory to work so well."

Prof. Andrew Lyne summarized the result: "It is amazing that, after
almost 40 years, we have not only found a new, unusual, pulsar
phenomenon but also a very unexpected way to confirm some fundamental
theories about the nature of pulsars."

### end quoting http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/brakingpulsar/

I needed to quote the above so that I can reply line per line to the
underlying false methodology and false presumptions of the scientists
above in that article.

They presume pulsars are "neutron stars" when in fact, most if not
every pulsar is a alien civilization machine built to communicate.

Sadly, as every new type of pulsar is reported, these poor scientists
are stretching physics into science fiction and the outer limits of
logic.

All that needs to be discovered is that one of these strange pulsars is
in a line with another strange pulsar, two pulsars, nearby one another
and where one shuts down for a month, the other is signalling to the
first. When one changes frequency and waits for the message to be
changed in frequency by the second, is proof that these are alien
machines.

So in the next post I will counter line for line the presumptions in
the above.

It is a shame and pity, that if the scientists in the above spent as
much time in figuring out how to build a machine that we can "pulse"
our neighbors in the cosmic skies with radio waves, that we would be
closer to an explanation of pulsars than this convoluted logic in the
above report. Granted, humanity is only able to build a primitive
pulsar at first because, well, we are not so advanced as intelligent
life, for we are the young dummies in our cosmic corner of the skies.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

 




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