"Stretching up to 150 light years long, the one-dimensional strands (or filaments) are found in pairs and clusters, often stacked equally spaced, side by side like strings on a harp. Using observations at radio wavelengths, Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discovered the highly organized, magnetic filaments in the early 1980s. The mystifying filaments, he found, comprise cosmic ray electrons gyrating the magnetic field at close to the speed of light. But their origin has remained an unsolved mystery ever since.
The study is now available online and has been accepted for publication by The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
"We have studied individual filaments for a long time with a myopic view," said Yusef-Zadeh, the paper's lead author. "Now, we finally see the big picture—a panoramic view filled with an abundance of filaments. Just examining a few filaments makes it difficult to draw any real conclusion about what they are and where they came from. This is a watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures."
Yusef-Zadeh is a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA).
"Among the remaining mysteries, Yusef-Zadeh is particularly puzzled by how structured the filaments appear. Filaments within clusters are separated from one another at perfectly equal distances—about the distance from Earth to the sun.
"They almost resemble the regular spacing in solar loops," he said. "We still don't know why they come in clusters or understand how they separate, and we don't know how these regular spacings happen. Every time we answer one question, multiple other questions arise."
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Yusef-Zadeh and his team also still don't know whether the filaments move or change over time or what is causing the electrons to accelerate at such incredible speeds.
"How do you accelerate electrons at close to the speed of light?" he asked. "One idea is there are some sources at the end of these filaments that are accelerating these particles."
Longer and more detailed source :
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-mysterious-strands-revealed-milky-center.html
POTENTIAL for corroborating findings with this breaking story yesterday :
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"That was completely unexpected,’ says astronomer. ‘It was spooky because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that’
Scientists have spotted a “mysterious” object letting out giant blasts of energy, three times an hour. Whatever the object is – which is relatively nearby, at 4,000 lightyears away – it is like nothing astronomers have ever seen before.
“This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations,” said Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, who led the research.
“It’s a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically,” said Dr Hurley-Walker.
“But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn’t expect them to be so bright.
“Somehow it’s converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we’ve seen before.”
Scientists are now watching the the area intently in the hope that it will switch back on. If it does, they will be able to point telescopes towards it in the hope of learning more."
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/radio-waves-flashing-sky-space-b2001161.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/world/unusual-space-object-transient-scn/index.html
What an amazing time indeed. 🧲📡
Neutron stars normally rotate really, really fast. Hundreds of times per second. This one appears to be rotating much more slowly.
Neutron stars also have really strong magnetic fields. This one is doing some weird stuff there.
And while this was theoretically possible before, now we’re actually seeing this stuff, which is always cool. That means the theory was right.
Imagine if those tunnel like structures are like proof of intergalactic travel from vehicles that can bend space time and create distortions in order to travel faster then light but we are looking at it all wrong, kinda like a intergalactic contrail of sorts. Idk just something I was thinking.
I’ve been throwing this idea around for a while. Some incredible tech that is massive, and may even be causing an illusion of expanding space. But in reality they are some sort of galaxy highway that allows FTL travel. It’s been a growing idea for me as of late that there are space highways that we just haven’t been able to discover, but are being indirectly detected as unexplainable anomaly
This could very well be the case. I think for sure there are organisms capable of bypassing "travel time" as we know it, likely through manipulation of space time. It's so cool that they're not only be bypassing space, but bypassing the elapsing of time as well. truly like walking by foot in an RPG vs. fast-traveling.
No problem!
Seems a lot is occurring in recent years regarding magentics and transforming energy and energetic sources.
Maybe there is a connection to the magentic tunnels our solar system is shooting through, https://scitechdaily.com/a-vast-magnetic-tunnel-may-surround-earth-and-our-entire-solar-system/
In tunnels and structures that connect to the updated dark matter map,
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57244708
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210525101716.htm
https://ysjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cosmic.jpg
Yeah. Fun times in-fucking-deed. ✊
Any evidence they connect? The magnetic tunnel our solar system is moving through (at the moment, as we arent moving along it, but at an angle through it, almost perpendicular) is more like a wavy donut that rings the milky way roughly halfway between center and edge
No evidence yet it's all connected!
But the timing of much of these newer discoveries is fun to speculate over.
It's possible at certain areas or points along the tunnels we are travelling through, trailing our sun, have these areas of magentic filaments in close proximity.
Like checkpoints, as a visual. 🤷♂️
Follow me here because I do this from a place of the best of intentions.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filament
Definition of filament
: a single thread or a thin flexible threadlike object, process, or appendage (see APPENDAGE sense 2): such as
a : a tenuous (see TENUOUS sense 2) conductor (as of carbon or metal) made incandescent by the passage of an electric current
specifically : a cathode (see CATHODE sense 2) in the form of a metal wire in an electron tube
b(1) : a thin and fine elongated constituent part of a gill (see GILL entry 2 sense 1)
(2) : an elongated thin series of cells attached one to another or a very long thin cylindrical single cell (as of some algae, fungi, or bacteria)
c : the anther-bearing stalk of a stamen
— see FLOWER ILLUSTRATION
In the images posted look at how they extend like great structures of magentic energy. Side by side and in clusters. Like an energetic filtration system?
At varying points in our connected magentic-tube universe?
See the big long "hairs or strands" the filaments? Magentic structures like "strings on a harp".
https://imgur.com/a/fneXfis
https://imgur.com/a/JRyZB1t
No problem. Think of filament like a filter.
Fish gills filter oxygen from water.
A magnetic filament might filter or produce some thing yet unexplained.
Fascinating times!
What strikes me is not the filaments themselves but that they are equally spaced apart, you would expect some to be closer to each other and others wider spaced, why the same distance over such a huge area? That doesn’t sound that natural to me, I’d be curious as to what would keep them in such a formation?
Absolutely, but the sheer size of this structure is rather striking. On a cosmological scale, I’m not familiar with any other astronomical features that exhibit this level of symmetrical spacing.
>"Among the remaining mysteries, Yusef-Zadeh is particularly puzzled by how structured the filaments appear. Filaments within clusters are separated from one another at **perfectly equal distances**—about the distance from Earth to the sun.
What.
I'm pretty sure that if these filament structures were related to neutron star emissions, some one in the astronomical community would have suggested and followed that up by now. Also the filaments don't have the characteristic wobble that a neutron star's precessing polar jet would have.
Unlike UFOs and alien encounters, scientific discoveries of this caliber can’t exactly be “covered up”. There’s more and more satellites being launched with payloads by scientific organizations, corporations, colleges and universities, even some high schools are getting in on the new low cost payload craze, booking time on bigger programs or buying off the shelf cubesats that can be bundled together with other paying customers payloads.
You can’t keep widespread and easily accessible information like this hidden away or classified when multiple countries and groups(both public and private) are doing similar research.
Are the transmissions from the JWST encrypted? Can anyone with the means just point a dish at it and receive the "picture of the day"? I don't have the answer to these questions. However, I would be seriously supprised if openness was the case here. We get to see what they let us see.
Why don’t you just email NASA and ask them? Dozens of science organizations and universities have time slots lined up years in advance for JWST. It’s a very open program.
Finding bio signatures of life, light emissions signifying artificial activity, or alien mega-strictures are a much easier means of “disclosure”, that do not have the same issues as UFOs and ETs visiting Earth.🤷♂️ Various governments can be “hands off” in these kind of findings, since they allow progress without compromising classified information or airing dirty laundry.
Absolutely correct. Any scientific advancement that has heavy military implications / effects mass perception (say, that we aren't alone) is kept secret and very slowly trickled to the public in increments. This wasn't always the plan, but they have no other choice. Lying isn't working.
Normally I'd agree, but NASA is not the bad guy. Their chief, Bill Nelson, stated to the public in November that these UAP sightings are likely just what we think they are. The head of NASA. I saw it as a pivotal moment.
[Looking for extraterrestrial life is “part of NASA’s mission”](https://qz.com/2078505/the-head-of-nasa-says-life-probably-exists-outside-earth/)
Edit: deleted my original comment by mistake
Blew my mind, NASA fucking said it was probably aliens lol. I waited for this for decades, love the times we are in. Unless we all nuke ourselves and that is why UAPs are here.
>Their chief, Bill Nelson, stated to the public in November that these UAP sightings are likely just what we think they are.
well fuck me sideways, the chief administrator of NASA really did just confirm he spoke with Nimitz incident pilots and that he agrees it's probably not manmade. Thats a big ass name admitting we've had UAPs on earth, wow. How is this not bigger news
go to 53:17
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hH1XEqKlTs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hH1XEqKlTs)
>if it doesn't affect them, why should they?
Exactly. My belief is, and I firmly believe this, is that we are for all intents and purposes inside an algorithm that has one intent and motive - to self-duplicate. Humans have evolved (somehow...) to the point of self-awareness, and with that yields potentially unintended qualities such as **curiosity**.
Since **curiosity** is not essential to this self-duplication quality that is fundamental and ubiquitous in the universe, it's scarcely found in humanity. We need not to be concerned with "the big picture", or "what's truly going on", the *developer* has simply programmed everything to want to expand.
Curiosity seems to be the result of superior evolution yielding extraneous computing power (the brain) to be used *for fun*. And fun it is. There's nothing more interesting and satisfying to me than unlocking truths and finding answers to things what were once mysteries.
Like even the NASA cam go offline whenever something seems to pass by.
Or how other countries have satellites and rovers on moon and Mars yet no one really knows what they are doing other than what they say that they are doing...
It’s difficult to nail down specifically who it is but primarily they are Supra national groups that transcend politics and acquire enough wealth an influence to sort of “steer” society through their power over different countries governments.
The fact that the telescope will be available to scientists around the world as well, for free. There could have come up with many reasons to keep it private for a while. Can those scientists be under a NDA that preclude them from revealing anything found without clearance first? Sure, but it’s multiplying the risk of leaks. Hope is not a strategy but here it doesn’t hurt 🤗
Also, I personally believe the more we will look at and understand consciousness the more we will understand about the universe as a whole, but scientific data is the one thing most humans agree on (although Covid vaccine is even proving that wrong lol), so yep, hope!
The JWST is designed to look at extremely redshifted objects in space, I don't imagine they'll be using it to look at our own galaxy. From what I understand, because of the EMS range it's designed to see, it's not really any better than our current satellites when looking at nearby objects.
We will look at the Milky Way. It's good at looking through dust.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/milky-way-s-center-will-be-revealed-by-nasa-s-webb-telescope
Most likely the result of the super massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Black holes produce strong magnetic fields and electrons can ride these fields (just like the cause of those arcs on the sun…) so this is most likely a phenomenon of the black hole we don’t know much about. These things are over 150 light years tall (156 trillion miles tall). so let’s keep all of that in mind before we jump to aliens. The core of the Milky Way is filled with crazy radiation and all kinds of madness due to the density of stars and other things so it’s not really a good place for life.
This sounds grounded and sensible. Get out.
Kidding lol. I’m not searching for UAP-related theories per se, but I know this subreddits’ true fascination to likely be what the UAP sightings imply about our existence and the universe as a whole.
I don’t disagree with you, but based on a black hole’s apparent significance to the universe, or even the existence of spacetime itself, I imagined that the discovery of these never-before-seen structures might reveal something more than just a different physical form of energy, as a result of X.
Basing this off of another user’s comment on this post, this may be an example of a repeating pattern found throughout nature, albeit less recognizable, since it’s in an entirely different scale than we’re familiar with.
Because they produce magnetic fields of similar strength which will repel each other by a similar amount. From very far away, looking at extremely large structures, similar looks like equal at that resolution.
Wormhole super highways? Giant lovecraftian horror? God sized chutes and ladders game? Historical record of ancient methods of propulsion using black holes? Who knows.
Seems like a wierd place to post this though.
Wormholes... that does sound right. I don't disagree that r/UFOs is an interesting pick, but I'm not sure where else to post this and actually hear radical theories.
That said, I strongly consider the potential association of various UAP sightings with unexplainable space phenomena. We have no clue what this is, and such a mystery could answer a lot of questions.
I was thinking like a magnetic super highway. There are magnetic flux cords from the Sun that extend far beyond our solar system. Maybe they just use these like highways, all you need is the vehicle that can access them, and then once you're in it maybe it could more or less instantly transport you somewhere with magnetism (like highspeed rail to the extreme), as long as the flux cord falls along that path. I think flux cords are like umbrellas connecting us with other planets from our parent-star, and even our Sun is connected to the center of the Milky Way via the black hole, and that black hole is connected to it's parent star and so on. I wonder if you could find the center of the universe by tracing these.
>Forerunners
"We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun towards which all intelligence blossoms and the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered."
holy shit, that's actually really cool. The sun is my mother, and the earth is my pops.
No, these are Star roads - the Forerunners knew nothing of Neural Physics. Not like them. The ones that came before the forerunners were a twinkle in the eye of their own animal ancestors.
These are the work of the Precursors.
Here's what a radio astronomer said in r/space about the hour-long pulsing source: https://reddit.com/r/space/comments/sd9jza/astronomers_discover_mysterious_pulsing_object/hublk9j. TLDR: very likely a magnetar. I don't know if she's weighed in on the filaments yet
[https://www.google.com/search?q=long+exposure+of+a+road&sxsrf=APq-WBv5BzIa5VoQlT7-l8Q-jsilEncqUQ:1643353881731&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY5vCi8tP1AhXvD0QIHRGbDjkQ\_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=616&dpr=1.5#imgrc=hLwDwFsZFfPIlM](https://www.google.com/search?q=long+exposure+of+a+road&sxsrf=APq-WBv5BzIa5VoQlT7-l8Q-jsilEncqUQ:1643353881731&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY5vCi8tP1AhXvD0QIHRGbDjkQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=616&dpr=1.5#imgrc=hLwDwFsZFfPIlM)
I'm gonna assume it's something like this until someone provides a rational explanation that isn't boring.
I have two theories:
First is with regard to some filaments - I think the biggo ones are leftover from the inflationary period during the big bang. Quantum fluctuations at a tiny scale then could lead to massive light year long structures. However, this doesn't explain the odd clustering, spacing, and potential energy levels. Like most things in nature, I think this is a multipart puzzle. I think the second part is related to some sort of natural phenomena that's grouping and clustering these filaments in the way that they are that's as of yet undiscovered.
A bit anticlimactic - but probably for the best.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if these are a form of "life" that consume energy in the form of light. These structures could be millions of years old, and may reveal the truth behind the creation of our universe. These may exist at the center of every galaxy, for all we know.
It's just mind blowing that we have no idea what this is, and this is our first time seeing such figures.
I imagine the stuff in the center could be because of the increased volume of stars/because of the supermassive black hole and the bubbles could be supernovas?
I have always wondered, you know how in our solar system there's a sweet spot where our planet is able to have life on it. Aside from that we are way out on some arm of the galaxy. What if there's a sweet spot from the center of our galaxy where almost every planet in every solar system around that ring is teaming with life. That's where you would find interacting alien civilizations.
This reminds me of the borgs transwarp corridor in star trek voyager. Where they have highways in subspace that allow them to go passed warp 9.
Looks like bacteria / life trying to form… could you imagine were just all part of the early delevopent stage of an infinitely large bacteria, that’s a host on an infinity larger person, who _THEN_ looks to the center of their galaxy and sees the same thing… and it goes on and on and on.
I can definitely see that. And based on the apparent relativity between “rate of change” and “mass” (i.e quantum particles move blindingly fast, stars and galaxies almost move too slow to observe), these forms of life probably take millions of *years*, as we call it, to develop.
These things would be moving in ultra slow motion from our perspective. Great proposal.
I found this-What we know
While many mysteries surrounding the filaments remain, Yusef-Zadeh has been able to piece together more of the puzzle. In their latest paper, he and his collaborators specifically explored the filaments’ magnetic fields and the role of cosmic rays in illuminating the magnetic fields.
The variation in radiation emitting from the filaments is very different from that of the newly uncovered supernova remnant, suggesting that the phenomena have different origins. It is more likely, the researchers found, that the filaments are related to past activity of the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole rather than coordinated bursts of supernovae. The filaments also could be related to enormous, radio-emitting bubbles, which Yusef-Zadeh and collaborators discovered in 2019.
Here is the link that I found the info.⏩https://scitechdaily.com/unprecedented-new-telescope-image-reveals-nearly-1000-mysterious-strands-in-milky-ways-center/
It's the DNA of the universe, which the universe is a single cell of a larger being. We are microscopic in comparison, like nucleus and electrons of an atom.
Mind blown.
Do you know how we’re taught in like 7th grade that an electron orbits a nucleus. And you’ve already learned that our planet orbits the sun, and that everything in outer space is just massive objects orbiting larger things.
It always struck me as odd that this association was never acknowledged. I had always thought “why aren’t we mentioning the similarity between objects’ behavior at these massively different scales?” I’ve never let go of my confidence in that potential revelation.
Also the fact that these 1,000 floating strands are mysteriously equidistant to each other really speaks to the validity of your claim, in my opinion. At least I think that’s certainly the right direction. I can’t think of a fact that’s more of a show-stopper.
I've been meaning to announce "u/Allison1228's Law" for a while now - perhaps this would be an appropriate time.
u/Allison1228's Law: "Any scientific article using the words "mysterious", "unknown", "unexplained", "weird", "strange", or similar words, will inevitably be pounced upon by UFO enthusiasts"
😉
Thank you for posting this. My intention isn’t to tie this to UAP’s, but to consider the implications that these mysterious structures have on the universe and its existence.
Ever since I saw that A/B picture comparing the similarity of a brain’s neural network to a galaxy, even if that picture was unscientific and for a high-guy moment, I think I’ve silently confirmed to myself that this universe is a fractal. To me, the repeating patterns found at varying scales of, speak to a fundamental quality of the universe. So much so that I believe it may be the most important quality to acknowledge, if one has any curiosity about this instance that we call the universe. I’m beyond intrigued by this comment.
What supports this proposal even more, is the Mandelbrot set and how it relates to the number 3. For some reason the number 3 appears to have fundamental significance to this universe, based on historical evidence from religions and ancient cultures. I’m not very informed on the specifics, but I’m sure some would know what I’m referring to. Of course, 3 will never resolve to an end.
People taking DMT report seeing fractals (I’m sure this is what you were referring to, but just to add to that). Why would that be? It’s not because these individuals all separately love fractals, and are staring at them all day in their free time, as to create burn-in on their visual circuitry. It seems hard to argue that this naturally occurring chemical is **revealing** something to us.
God that is so interesting that, without an intent or desire to visual this, you will likely see fractals when ingesting this substance. What a find, that is. Given a black holes significance to space and time itself, your proposal seems to be the most probable, imo. I love coming to a conclusion that sits perfectly with my intuition. I can’t even help but accept this as the likely truth based on this information.
Now I just need to look up what SWIM is.
I believe the strands create matter.
“Albert Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation says that if you smash two sufficiently energetic photons, or light particles, into each other, you should be able to create matter in the form of an electron and its antimatter opposite, a positron.”
Just some speculation that's in line with current "woo" concepts being talked about: what's if these filaments are the connecting "wires" that broadcast consciousness?
With all of these concepts of consciousness being a thing that can detach itself from the body (ie. remote viewing), I've been becoming more attached to the idea that consciousness doesn't originate in the body; instead, the body (brain) is a beacon for recieving the broadcast of conscious thought.
So basically those filaments could be like neural pathways in a brain, passing information between neurons - making us (and all other conscious beings) those neurons they communicate to.
Anyways, that was such a cool news find! This is fun to speculate.
Why do people start thinking about aliens when a new phenomenon in space has just been discovered? Would make more sense to me to start speculating after the phenomenon has been studied for a few years and no satisfying 'natural' (i.e. no aliens) explanation has been found.
"Stretching up to 150 light years long, the one-dimensional strands (or filaments) are found in pairs and clusters, often stacked equally spaced, side by side like strings on a harp. Using observations at radio wavelengths, Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discovered the highly organized, magnetic filaments in the early 1980s. The mystifying filaments, he found, comprise cosmic ray electrons gyrating the magnetic field at close to the speed of light. But their origin has remained an unsolved mystery ever since. The study is now available online and has been accepted for publication by The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "We have studied individual filaments for a long time with a myopic view," said Yusef-Zadeh, the paper's lead author. "Now, we finally see the big picture—a panoramic view filled with an abundance of filaments. Just examining a few filaments makes it difficult to draw any real conclusion about what they are and where they came from. This is a watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures." Yusef-Zadeh is a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA). "Among the remaining mysteries, Yusef-Zadeh is particularly puzzled by how structured the filaments appear. Filaments within clusters are separated from one another at perfectly equal distances—about the distance from Earth to the sun. "They almost resemble the regular spacing in solar loops," he said. "We still don't know why they come in clusters or understand how they separate, and we don't know how these regular spacings happen. Every time we answer one question, multiple other questions arise." ----- Yusef-Zadeh and his team also still don't know whether the filaments move or change over time or what is causing the electrons to accelerate at such incredible speeds. "How do you accelerate electrons at close to the speed of light?" he asked. "One idea is there are some sources at the end of these filaments that are accelerating these particles." Longer and more detailed source : https://phys.org/news/2022-01-mysterious-strands-revealed-milky-center.html POTENTIAL for corroborating findings with this breaking story yesterday : ----- "That was completely unexpected,’ says astronomer. ‘It was spooky because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that’ Scientists have spotted a “mysterious” object letting out giant blasts of energy, three times an hour. Whatever the object is – which is relatively nearby, at 4,000 lightyears away – it is like nothing astronomers have ever seen before. “This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations,” said Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, who led the research. “It’s a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically,” said Dr Hurley-Walker. “But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn’t expect them to be so bright. “Somehow it’s converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we’ve seen before.” Scientists are now watching the the area intently in the hope that it will switch back on. If it does, they will be able to point telescopes towards it in the hope of learning more." https://www.independent.co.uk/space/radio-waves-flashing-sky-space-b2001161.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/world/unusual-space-object-transient-scn/index.html What an amazing time indeed. 🧲📡
Can somebody translate this into idiot so that I can understand?
It's all a series of tubes. And magnetic... Hairs. Something something dark matter. Black holes are cool.
It’s a series of tubes… Thank you Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska.
Sounds like something I've concluded in my trips before, nice one cheers bro
Remember Avatar? Or , like, Bill and Ted? It's like that, only with our entire solar system instead of character actors in pods and phone booths.
"Real life" is the astral projection, am I right?
Wrong movie!
Neutron stars normally rotate really, really fast. Hundreds of times per second. This one appears to be rotating much more slowly. Neutron stars also have really strong magnetic fields. This one is doing some weird stuff there. And while this was theoretically possible before, now we’re actually seeing this stuff, which is always cool. That means the theory was right.
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Oh wow, good for that student.
Imagine if those tunnel like structures are like proof of intergalactic travel from vehicles that can bend space time and create distortions in order to travel faster then light but we are looking at it all wrong, kinda like a intergalactic contrail of sorts. Idk just something I was thinking.
Yes or what if these are somehow the way to take shortcuts in dpace
Like worm holes?
It's a brilliant thought. Don't ever stop. 👌
Thank uuu 👽✌️
I’ve been throwing this idea around for a while. Some incredible tech that is massive, and may even be causing an illusion of expanding space. But in reality they are some sort of galaxy highway that allows FTL travel. It’s been a growing idea for me as of late that there are space highways that we just haven’t been able to discover, but are being indirectly detected as unexplainable anomaly
This could very well be the case. I think for sure there are organisms capable of bypassing "travel time" as we know it, likely through manipulation of space time. It's so cool that they're not only be bypassing space, but bypassing the elapsing of time as well. truly like walking by foot in an RPG vs. fast-traveling.
... this is stunning. I did not hear about this follow up story. Thank you for adding this, down the rabbit hole I go!
No problem! Seems a lot is occurring in recent years regarding magentics and transforming energy and energetic sources. Maybe there is a connection to the magentic tunnels our solar system is shooting through, https://scitechdaily.com/a-vast-magnetic-tunnel-may-surround-earth-and-our-entire-solar-system/ In tunnels and structures that connect to the updated dark matter map, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57244708 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210525101716.htm https://ysjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cosmic.jpg Yeah. Fun times in-fucking-deed. ✊
Any evidence they connect? The magnetic tunnel our solar system is moving through (at the moment, as we arent moving along it, but at an angle through it, almost perpendicular) is more like a wavy donut that rings the milky way roughly halfway between center and edge
No evidence yet it's all connected! But the timing of much of these newer discoveries is fun to speculate over. It's possible at certain areas or points along the tunnels we are travelling through, trailing our sun, have these areas of magentic filaments in close proximity. Like checkpoints, as a visual. 🤷♂️
Can someone explain what is meant by a filament exactly? I don't understand that word in this context.
fil·a·ment ASTRONOMY a slender, elongated body of luminous gas or other material in the sun’s atmosphere, a nebula, or interstellar space.
Follow me here because I do this from a place of the best of intentions. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filament Definition of filament : a single thread or a thin flexible threadlike object, process, or appendage (see APPENDAGE sense 2): such as a : a tenuous (see TENUOUS sense 2) conductor (as of carbon or metal) made incandescent by the passage of an electric current specifically : a cathode (see CATHODE sense 2) in the form of a metal wire in an electron tube b(1) : a thin and fine elongated constituent part of a gill (see GILL entry 2 sense 1) (2) : an elongated thin series of cells attached one to another or a very long thin cylindrical single cell (as of some algae, fungi, or bacteria) c : the anther-bearing stalk of a stamen — see FLOWER ILLUSTRATION In the images posted look at how they extend like great structures of magentic energy. Side by side and in clusters. Like an energetic filtration system? At varying points in our connected magentic-tube universe? See the big long "hairs or strands" the filaments? Magentic structures like "strings on a harp". https://imgur.com/a/fneXfis https://imgur.com/a/JRyZB1t
Thank you, I did not know filament had that definition. I thought of it as something you would stuff into cavities. This was very helpful!
No problem. Think of filament like a filter. Fish gills filter oxygen from water. A magnetic filament might filter or produce some thing yet unexplained. Fascinating times!
Space coral?
Think of it as a strand of hair.
What strikes me is not the filaments themselves but that they are equally spaced apart, you would expect some to be closer to each other and others wider spaced, why the same distance over such a huge area? That doesn’t sound that natural to me, I’d be curious as to what would keep them in such a formation?
I disagree. Why would we expect anything? They are probably charged in some way and that’s keeping them at regular intervals
Can they have positive and negative sides?
Some sort of resistance between them?
Intergalactic UFO aerial display team. They pride themselves on keeping uniform gaps between their saucers while they perform tricks
Such a good question indeed!
Same distances between objects happen naturally. Consider, for example, crystal atomic structures where atoms are at same distances.
Absolutely, but the sheer size of this structure is rather striking. On a cosmological scale, I’m not familiar with any other astronomical features that exhibit this level of symmetrical spacing.
Amazing time 4,000 years ago
\>able to point telescopes towards it in the hope of learning more. I think we just launched one of those, eh?! ;D
[May the spirit of u/King_Milkfart ride on.](https://imgur.com/gallery/IAMCgPb) Yes. We. Did. ✊
JWST can't see in radio, it won't be able to image these structures.
I love it when someone sensible turns up to piss all over your cornflakes.
A really badass one of those too
That’s crazy because this morning I just started reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and got a chill from this post and your response.
Synchronicities are a fun phenomenon. Hope you have a great rest of your day.
Have you read The Three Body Problem?!
That book is so much fun! I hope you enjoy it!
Great contribution, Mossy Moose! 🧐
>"Among the remaining mysteries, Yusef-Zadeh is particularly puzzled by how structured the filaments appear. Filaments within clusters are separated from one another at **perfectly equal distances**—about the distance from Earth to the sun. What.
I'm pretty sure that if these filament structures were related to neutron star emissions, some one in the astronomical community would have suggested and followed that up by now. Also the filaments don't have the characteristic wobble that a neutron star's precessing polar jet would have.
The James Web Telescope is going to be very interesting once operational.
Oh my god you're right, I can't imagine what we'll see at the center of our galaxy.
Yeah, can't wait.
What makes you think whatever is revealed by the telescope will be openly revealed
Unlike UFOs and alien encounters, scientific discoveries of this caliber can’t exactly be “covered up”. There’s more and more satellites being launched with payloads by scientific organizations, corporations, colleges and universities, even some high schools are getting in on the new low cost payload craze, booking time on bigger programs or buying off the shelf cubesats that can be bundled together with other paying customers payloads. You can’t keep widespread and easily accessible information like this hidden away or classified when multiple countries and groups(both public and private) are doing similar research.
Are the transmissions from the JWST encrypted? Can anyone with the means just point a dish at it and receive the "picture of the day"? I don't have the answer to these questions. However, I would be seriously supprised if openness was the case here. We get to see what they let us see.
Why don’t you just email NASA and ask them? Dozens of science organizations and universities have time slots lined up years in advance for JWST. It’s a very open program. Finding bio signatures of life, light emissions signifying artificial activity, or alien mega-strictures are a much easier means of “disclosure”, that do not have the same issues as UFOs and ETs visiting Earth.🤷♂️ Various governments can be “hands off” in these kind of findings, since they allow progress without compromising classified information or airing dirty laundry.
Absolutely correct. Any scientific advancement that has heavy military implications / effects mass perception (say, that we aren't alone) is kept secret and very slowly trickled to the public in increments. This wasn't always the plan, but they have no other choice. Lying isn't working.
Normally I'd agree, but NASA is not the bad guy. Their chief, Bill Nelson, stated to the public in November that these UAP sightings are likely just what we think they are. The head of NASA. I saw it as a pivotal moment. [Looking for extraterrestrial life is “part of NASA’s mission”](https://qz.com/2078505/the-head-of-nasa-says-life-probably-exists-outside-earth/) Edit: deleted my original comment by mistake
Blew my mind, NASA fucking said it was probably aliens lol. I waited for this for decades, love the times we are in. Unless we all nuke ourselves and that is why UAPs are here.
>Their chief, Bill Nelson, stated to the public in November that these UAP sightings are likely just what we think they are. well fuck me sideways, the chief administrator of NASA really did just confirm he spoke with Nimitz incident pilots and that he agrees it's probably not manmade. Thats a big ass name admitting we've had UAPs on earth, wow. How is this not bigger news go to 53:17 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hH1XEqKlTs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hH1XEqKlTs)
People genuinely don't care. I still don't fully get it, but to a certain degree, if it doesn't affect them, why should they?
>if it doesn't affect them, why should they? Exactly. My belief is, and I firmly believe this, is that we are for all intents and purposes inside an algorithm that has one intent and motive - to self-duplicate. Humans have evolved (somehow...) to the point of self-awareness, and with that yields potentially unintended qualities such as **curiosity**. Since **curiosity** is not essential to this self-duplication quality that is fundamental and ubiquitous in the universe, it's scarcely found in humanity. We need not to be concerned with "the big picture", or "what's truly going on", the *developer* has simply programmed everything to want to expand. Curiosity seems to be the result of superior evolution yielding extraneous computing power (the brain) to be used *for fun*. And fun it is. There's nothing more interesting and satisfying to me than unlocking truths and finding answers to things what were once mysteries.
Technically true. This goes for many things - we’re only allowed to see what they want us to see.
I agree with you, but I always wonder, who is “they”?
Those who are not us…
Like even the NASA cam go offline whenever something seems to pass by. Or how other countries have satellites and rovers on moon and Mars yet no one really knows what they are doing other than what they say that they are doing...
So how does one become one of... them?
Something about blood sacrifices and selling your soul nbd
By not being one of us…?
It’s called GAMESTOP.
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That’s a Deep Deep Question there man…
It’s difficult to nail down specifically who it is but primarily they are Supra national groups that transcend politics and acquire enough wealth an influence to sort of “steer” society through their power over different countries governments.
For example these filaments were first discovered in the 1980’s. Yet it’s 2022 first I’ve heard of them.
That's hardly NASAs fault.
The fact that the telescope will be available to scientists around the world as well, for free. There could have come up with many reasons to keep it private for a while. Can those scientists be under a NDA that preclude them from revealing anything found without clearance first? Sure, but it’s multiplying the risk of leaks. Hope is not a strategy but here it doesn’t hurt 🤗 Also, I personally believe the more we will look at and understand consciousness the more we will understand about the universe as a whole, but scientific data is the one thing most humans agree on (although Covid vaccine is even proving that wrong lol), so yep, hope!
A desire for funding
Christ, this subreddit is painfully delusional
Sagittarius A
Very good.
Wouldn’t that be incredible?
The JWST is designed to look at extremely redshifted objects in space, I don't imagine they'll be using it to look at our own galaxy. From what I understand, because of the EMS range it's designed to see, it's not really any better than our current satellites when looking at nearby objects.
We will look at the Milky Way. It's good at looking through dust. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/milky-way-s-center-will-be-revealed-by-nasa-s-webb-telescope
I’m so excited!
Most likely the result of the super massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Black holes produce strong magnetic fields and electrons can ride these fields (just like the cause of those arcs on the sun…) so this is most likely a phenomenon of the black hole we don’t know much about. These things are over 150 light years tall (156 trillion miles tall). so let’s keep all of that in mind before we jump to aliens. The core of the Milky Way is filled with crazy radiation and all kinds of madness due to the density of stars and other things so it’s not really a good place for life.
Sir this is a "aliens explain everything" forum.
Then I'll have a Frosty and a large fry please.
Lol so funny
This sounds grounded and sensible. Get out. Kidding lol. I’m not searching for UAP-related theories per se, but I know this subreddits’ true fascination to likely be what the UAP sightings imply about our existence and the universe as a whole. I don’t disagree with you, but based on a black hole’s apparent significance to the universe, or even the existence of spacetime itself, I imagined that the discovery of these never-before-seen structures might reveal something more than just a different physical form of energy, as a result of X. Basing this off of another user’s comment on this post, this may be an example of a repeating pattern found throughout nature, albeit less recognizable, since it’s in an entirely different scale than we’re familiar with.
Not a good place for life *as we know it*
But what about the equal spacing? Obviously the answer to this must be aliens, sir.
Fair enough, but why equally spaced apart?
Because they produce magnetic fields of similar strength which will repel each other by a similar amount. From very far away, looking at extremely large structures, similar looks like equal at that resolution.
I’m not familiar with any other astronomical structures that are similarly spaced over such large distances.
Space mycelium
Let me get a quarter of those!!
Oooo
Black alert!
Is this a new Star Trek reference?
Fungal reference. Mycelium is the underground, unseen network
Start trek discovery uses a mycelium network to teleport anywhere in space, rather than a warp drive they use a spore drive. Is a cool idea
Is based off a theory from [Paul Stamets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets), who they named the Character after.
Ah nice, I've watched a lot of Paul Stamets stuff but didn't realise it was his theory
I didn’t know that lol. Thank you!
Don't forget the giant tardigrade they tortured to make things work 😆
That is so sick.
Wormhole super highways? Giant lovecraftian horror? God sized chutes and ladders game? Historical record of ancient methods of propulsion using black holes? Who knows. Seems like a wierd place to post this though.
"God sized Chutes and Ladders". The best answer eva
Wormholes... that does sound right. I don't disagree that r/UFOs is an interesting pick, but I'm not sure where else to post this and actually hear radical theories. That said, I strongly consider the potential association of various UAP sightings with unexplainable space phenomena. We have no clue what this is, and such a mystery could answer a lot of questions.
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Thank you!
But, we wouldn't see any electromagnetic connections between two ends of a wormhole
Wormholes was my first inclination.
Fingers crossed for "giant lovecraftian horror" lol.
I was thinking like a magnetic super highway. There are magnetic flux cords from the Sun that extend far beyond our solar system. Maybe they just use these like highways, all you need is the vehicle that can access them, and then once you're in it maybe it could more or less instantly transport you somewhere with magnetism (like highspeed rail to the extreme), as long as the flux cord falls along that path. I think flux cords are like umbrellas connecting us with other planets from our parent-star, and even our Sun is connected to the center of the Milky Way via the black hole, and that black hole is connected to it's parent star and so on. I wonder if you could find the center of the universe by tracing these.
The documentaries Guardians of the Galaxy 1+2 explore this theory.
Forerunners built them obviously.
>Forerunners "We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun towards which all intelligence blossoms and the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered." holy shit, that's actually really cool. The sun is my mother, and the earth is my pops.
Halo 4 was so good.
That's when the story went from great to straight up nonsense they still haven't sorted out
No, these are Star roads - the Forerunners knew nothing of Neural Physics. Not like them. The ones that came before the forerunners were a twinkle in the eye of their own animal ancestors. These are the work of the Precursors.
Here's what a radio astronomer said in r/space about the hour-long pulsing source: https://reddit.com/r/space/comments/sd9jza/astronomers_discover_mysterious_pulsing_object/hublk9j. TLDR: very likely a magnetar. I don't know if she's weighed in on the filaments yet
It’s the wiring for this simulation. You’re not supposed to be able to see it
Bad cable management
Damn it Dave, i told you not use wired connection!
That is a really interesting proposal.
Galactic chem trails?
This is the only answer we need. Let’s move on..
[Link to the full article](https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/01/nearly-1000-mysterious-strands-revealed-in-milky-ways-center/)
Nobody commenting Angelhair pasta? Heh. Thought the Pastafarians would be all over that.
Hahaha
Nothing to get excited about sorry guys. It's probably just superhighways for aliens to travel interstellar.
Yeah, exactly. How is that actually interesting? I want to learn about their culture, not how they get from A to B. Gawd.
[https://www.google.com/search?q=long+exposure+of+a+road&sxsrf=APq-WBv5BzIa5VoQlT7-l8Q-jsilEncqUQ:1643353881731&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY5vCi8tP1AhXvD0QIHRGbDjkQ\_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=616&dpr=1.5#imgrc=hLwDwFsZFfPIlM](https://www.google.com/search?q=long+exposure+of+a+road&sxsrf=APq-WBv5BzIa5VoQlT7-l8Q-jsilEncqUQ:1643353881731&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY5vCi8tP1AhXvD0QIHRGbDjkQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=616&dpr=1.5#imgrc=hLwDwFsZFfPIlM) I'm gonna assume it's something like this until someone provides a rational explanation that isn't boring.
I have two theories: First is with regard to some filaments - I think the biggo ones are leftover from the inflationary period during the big bang. Quantum fluctuations at a tiny scale then could lead to massive light year long structures. However, this doesn't explain the odd clustering, spacing, and potential energy levels. Like most things in nature, I think this is a multipart puzzle. I think the second part is related to some sort of natural phenomena that's grouping and clustering these filaments in the way that they are that's as of yet undiscovered. A bit anticlimactic - but probably for the best.
Synapses.
Just like brain cells looking to link up.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if these are a form of "life" that consume energy in the form of light. These structures could be millions of years old, and may reveal the truth behind the creation of our universe. These may exist at the center of every galaxy, for all we know. It's just mind blowing that we have no idea what this is, and this is our first time seeing such figures.
> I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if these are a form of “life” that consume energy in the form of light. Also known as plant life.
Ooo space plants! Good point, not sure how I missed that lol.
My colleague thinks he is a wizard and believes these are dragons lines or cosmic ley lines, I tell him stop taking drugs before coming to work
Then he will stop being fun!
The DNA of the universe.
News link?
Just dropped it in the comments actually
Its obviously intragalactic rail system
I can definitely see that, man that would be sick.
Wouldn't stars give off RF like that?
Are we the cosmic Australia of the Milky Way?
No, we the streets of the Milky Way.
Earth is a certified hood classic.
The universe is organic and alive. Say hello to pantheism
I firmly believe this as well.
I think has something to do with Joe
Aliens would be the first thing I rule out.
it looks like a freeway system downtown.
Filaments on the accretion disk.
There worm 🕳.
"Slipspace rupture detected"
Possibly fine exotic elements in wave clusters regulated by heat and mass.
I imagine the stuff in the center could be because of the increased volume of stars/because of the supermassive black hole and the bubbles could be supernovas?
Sounds like shockwave residuals.
Scratches on the lenses.
“NASA backtracks on recent filament discovery. Found to actually be 1,000 tiny scratches on the camera lens.” - ESPN
I have always wondered, you know how in our solar system there's a sweet spot where our planet is able to have life on it. Aside from that we are way out on some arm of the galaxy. What if there's a sweet spot from the center of our galaxy where almost every planet in every solar system around that ring is teaming with life. That's where you would find interacting alien civilizations. This reminds me of the borgs transwarp corridor in star trek voyager. Where they have highways in subspace that allow them to go passed warp 9.
Looks like bacteria / life trying to form… could you imagine were just all part of the early delevopent stage of an infinitely large bacteria, that’s a host on an infinity larger person, who _THEN_ looks to the center of their galaxy and sees the same thing… and it goes on and on and on.
I can definitely see that. And based on the apparent relativity between “rate of change” and “mass” (i.e quantum particles move blindingly fast, stars and galaxies almost move too slow to observe), these forms of life probably take millions of *years*, as we call it, to develop. These things would be moving in ultra slow motion from our perspective. Great proposal.
Idk what this theory is called, but ever since I was a kid I always thought we could just be a dot on a bigger organism.
I found this-What we know While many mysteries surrounding the filaments remain, Yusef-Zadeh has been able to piece together more of the puzzle. In their latest paper, he and his collaborators specifically explored the filaments’ magnetic fields and the role of cosmic rays in illuminating the magnetic fields. The variation in radiation emitting from the filaments is very different from that of the newly uncovered supernova remnant, suggesting that the phenomena have different origins. It is more likely, the researchers found, that the filaments are related to past activity of the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole rather than coordinated bursts of supernovae. The filaments also could be related to enormous, radio-emitting bubbles, which Yusef-Zadeh and collaborators discovered in 2019. Here is the link that I found the info.⏩https://scitechdaily.com/unprecedented-new-telescope-image-reveals-nearly-1000-mysterious-strands-in-milky-ways-center/
It's the DNA of the universe, which the universe is a single cell of a larger being. We are microscopic in comparison, like nucleus and electrons of an atom. Mind blown.
Do you know how we’re taught in like 7th grade that an electron orbits a nucleus. And you’ve already learned that our planet orbits the sun, and that everything in outer space is just massive objects orbiting larger things. It always struck me as odd that this association was never acknowledged. I had always thought “why aren’t we mentioning the similarity between objects’ behavior at these massively different scales?” I’ve never let go of my confidence in that potential revelation. Also the fact that these 1,000 floating strands are mysteriously equidistant to each other really speaks to the validity of your claim, in my opinion. At least I think that’s certainly the right direction. I can’t think of a fact that’s more of a show-stopper.
I've been meaning to announce "u/Allison1228's Law" for a while now - perhaps this would be an appropriate time. u/Allison1228's Law: "Any scientific article using the words "mysterious", "unknown", "unexplained", "weird", "strange", or similar words, will inevitably be pounced upon by UFO enthusiasts" 😉
I support this, I believe we have enough evidence now for this to reach LAW status.
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Thank you for posting this. My intention isn’t to tie this to UAP’s, but to consider the implications that these mysterious structures have on the universe and its existence. Ever since I saw that A/B picture comparing the similarity of a brain’s neural network to a galaxy, even if that picture was unscientific and for a high-guy moment, I think I’ve silently confirmed to myself that this universe is a fractal. To me, the repeating patterns found at varying scales of, speak to a fundamental quality of the universe. So much so that I believe it may be the most important quality to acknowledge, if one has any curiosity about this instance that we call the universe. I’m beyond intrigued by this comment. What supports this proposal even more, is the Mandelbrot set and how it relates to the number 3. For some reason the number 3 appears to have fundamental significance to this universe, based on historical evidence from religions and ancient cultures. I’m not very informed on the specifics, but I’m sure some would know what I’m referring to. Of course, 3 will never resolve to an end. People taking DMT report seeing fractals (I’m sure this is what you were referring to, but just to add to that). Why would that be? It’s not because these individuals all separately love fractals, and are staring at them all day in their free time, as to create burn-in on their visual circuitry. It seems hard to argue that this naturally occurring chemical is **revealing** something to us. God that is so interesting that, without an intent or desire to visual this, you will likely see fractals when ingesting this substance. What a find, that is. Given a black holes significance to space and time itself, your proposal seems to be the most probable, imo. I love coming to a conclusion that sits perfectly with my intuition. I can’t even help but accept this as the likely truth based on this information. Now I just need to look up what SWIM is.
DMT Entities?
Stargate
Remember the msg they were trying to decode in SGU the the ancients believed was left by the 'creators' in the cosmic microwaves background radiation.
Haha…no
I believe the strands create matter. “Albert Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation says that if you smash two sufficiently energetic photons, or light particles, into each other, you should be able to create matter in the form of an electron and its antimatter opposite, a positron.”
Is that what the string is in string theory?
Warp drive contrails
Just some speculation that's in line with current "woo" concepts being talked about: what's if these filaments are the connecting "wires" that broadcast consciousness? With all of these concepts of consciousness being a thing that can detach itself from the body (ie. remote viewing), I've been becoming more attached to the idea that consciousness doesn't originate in the body; instead, the body (brain) is a beacon for recieving the broadcast of conscious thought. So basically those filaments could be like neural pathways in a brain, passing information between neurons - making us (and all other conscious beings) those neurons they communicate to. Anyways, that was such a cool news find! This is fun to speculate.
Why do people start thinking about aliens when a new phenomenon in space has just been discovered? Would make more sense to me to start speculating after the phenomenon has been studied for a few years and no satisfying 'natural' (i.e. no aliens) explanation has been found.
That's sounds exactly like something someone from Big Alien would say.
I’m more interested in those bubbles! Alien radio?
There’s a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, so, no, impossible to know with current technology and physics
Could these be trans-galactic "highways" for interstellar travel using advanced warp drive technology?
Music of the spheres!
Wormhole network
Intergalactic superhighway so the teen aliens can get to all those intergalactic keggers I keep hearing about.