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SCIENTISTS BAFFLED BY MYSTERIOUS SHIELD PROTECTING EARTH FROM BEING OBLITERATED BY THE SUN
News Release : Dec 1, 2014 : University of Colorado

"Somewhat like the shields created by force fields on 'Star Trek' that were used to repel alien weapons, we are seeing an invisible shield blocking these electrons. It's an extremely puzzling phenomenon." -Professor Daniel Baker

"But you, LORD, are a shield around me..." –Ps. 3:3

(Boulder, CO)—A team led by the University of Colorado, Boulder, has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called "killer electrons," which whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms. (Graphic Credit: Andy Kale, University of Alberta)

The barrier to the particle motion was discovered in the Van Allen radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped rings above Earth that are filled with high-energy electrons and protons, said Distinguished Professor Daniel Baker, director of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). Held in place by Earth's magnetic field, the Van Allen radiation belts periodically swell and shrink in response to incoming energy disturbances from the sun.

As the first significant discovery of the space age, the Van Allen radiation belts were detected in 1958 by Professor James Van Allen and his team at the University of Iowa and were found to be composed of an inner and outer belt extending up to 25,000 miles above Earth's surface. In 2013, Baker—who received his doctorate under Van Allen—led a team that used the twin Van Allen Probes launched by NASA in 2012 to discover a third, transient "storage ring" between the inner and outer Van Allen radiation belts that seems to come and go with the intensity of space weather.

The latest mystery revolves around an "extremely sharp" boundary at the inner edge of the outer belt at roughly 7,200 miles in altitude that appears to block the ultrafast electrons from breeching the shield and moving deeper towards Earth's atmosphere.

"It's almost like theses electrons are running into a glass wall in space," said Baker, the study's lead author.

"Somewhat like the shields created by force fields on Star Trek that were used to repel alien weapons, we are seeing an invisible shield blocking these electrons. It's an extremely puzzling phenomenon."

A paper on the subject was published in the Nov. 27 issue of Nature.

The team originally thought the highly charged electrons, which are looping around Earth at more than 100,000 miles per second, would slowly drift downward into the upper atmosphere and gradually be wiped out by interactions with air molecules. But the impenetrable barrier seen by the twin Van Allen belt spacecraft stops the electrons before they get that far, said Baker.

The group looked at a number of scenarios that could create and maintain such a barrier. The team wondered if it might have to do with Earth's magnetic field lines, which trap and control protons and electrons, bouncing them between Earth's poles like beads on a string. The also looked at whether radio signals from human transmitters on Earth could be scattering the charged electrons at the barrier, preventing their downward motion. Neither explanation held scientific water, Baker said. (Photo: Courtesy Patrick Campbell/CU-Boulder)

"Nature abhors strong gradients and generally finds ways to smooth them out, so we would expect some of the relativistic electrons to move inward and some outward," said Baker. "It's not obvious how the slow, gradual processes that should be involved in motion of these particles can conspire to create such a sharp, persistent boundary at this location in space."

Another scenario is that the giant cloud of cold, electrically charged gas called the plasmasphere, which begins about 600 miles above Earth and stretches thousands of miles into the outer Van Allen belt, is scattering the electrons at the boundary with low frequency, electromagnetic waves that create a plasmapheric "hiss," said Baker. The hiss sounds like white noise when played over a speaker, he said.

While Baker said plasmaspheric hiss may play a role in the puzzling space barrier, he believes there is more to the story. "I think the key here is to keep observing the region in exquisite detail, which we can do because of the powerful instruments on the Van Allen probes. If the sun really blasts Earth's magnetosphere with a coronal mass ejection (CME), I suspect it will breach the shield for a period of time," said Baker, also a faculty member in the astrophysical and planetary sciences department.

"It's like looking at the phenomenon with new eyes, with a new set of instrumentation, which give us the detail to say, 'Yes, there is this hard, fast boundary,'" said John Foster, associate director of MIT's Haystack Observatory and a study co-author.

Source:http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=15040

wonderful miracle

D harder the scientists research..d mre confused dey get......dia are mre unexplained happenins around d world than d explained ones.......God's
rili grt..Allahu Akbar

If u study science deeply enuf...u'l be pushed towards blivin in d existence of d Supreme being..Allah

I donbeliev-it

tobechi20:
wonderful miracle

lol..go check the meaning of miracle

sulmeza:
D harder the scientists research..d mre confused dey get......dia are mre unexplained happenins around d world than d explained ones.......God's
rili grt..Allahu Akbar

If u study science deeply enuf...u'l be pushed towards blivin in d existence of d Supreme being..Allah

I'm waiting for the christians and Jews to tell you that the Supreme being isn't Allah but Yahweh

If you base your faith on the unknown....you become ridiculed when it is understood...just a friendly advice.

Whatever is not known, god did it. Whatever is known however, god did not do.

Bmart:
I donbeliev-it

Why?

Waiting for war to start between the Christians,Muslims and atheists

*sipping zobo*

everyday new discovery

Ok

Ok

God is wonderful, and some people will say there is no God.

Scientists are BAFFLED.

This smacks of sensationalism. An 'invisible' barrier that was discovered since 1958, are gases supposed to be visible distinguished professor?

I can save them the trouble, it is God at work. When the time comes, the earth wll be destroyed by His leave.

God is great

There is a GOD WHO IS THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH,drop your science and get to know HIM

G

Mysterious force protecting the earth? Wow! Its crazy to imagine cuz I schooled on Mars.

nobilis:
I'm waiting for the christians and Jews to tell you that the Supreme being isn't Allah but Yahweh

I'm waiting for somebody to tell me what yahweh means? What does it stand for?

!

Definately, God almighty is great and worthy to be worshipped.

So Scientists have only just discovered Tinubu's toll gate in Outer Space.

Did you guys think Lekki was Tinubu's only target?

Any E.T. or Alien midget wishing to visit Earth must san'wo

No time for nonsense. Eko o ni baje o

Nm

The earth is still a mystery to us we are yet to understand it, science can only explain 1% the remaining 99% is still unknown.






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The Heavens and the Earth are God's handwork
and He 'll always protect his own

(Singing)
God of wonders, beyond our galaxy.
You are holy, holy.
The universe declares Your majesty.
You are holy, holy... (Song by Chris Tomlin)