Quark Stars and a New State of Matter?

Peter,

Dense Disk and Torus Funnel at the Centre of the Circinus Galaxy (13 Mar 2014)

Although there is now a much clearer picture of a torus than before, there are some puzzles remaining: For example, both the dust disk and the polar dust have a temperature of about 300K (~30°C, i.e. about room temperature). Surprisingly, there is no evidence for hotter dust towards the centre as would be expected for a centrally heated dust distribution.

"The presence of both a bright disk-like component and a more extended polar dust component at a similar temperature were not predicted by the present models of active galactic nuclei", concludes Gerd Weigelt, director at the MPIfR and head of the research group for infrared astronomy.

Your galaxy evolution theory will need to incorporate the latest findings.

Alan

Alan,

It doesn't 'incorporate' but rather 'predicts', and has been for some time. I have pointed this out, but nobody seems terribly interested.

The reason nobody else has predicted exotic dark matter within stars and planets is that it's gravitational effects put is around not 'in' such bodies. Unless it has some other kind of gravity!

Fermions (vortices, as your 'corkscrews') have almost zero EM profile (are 'dark' to spectroscopy) but very high coupling co-efficient (refract light effectively), so are ideal. (strictly also positrons and protons, making the 'pure space-plasma' actually found). We also find a lot out there, and know the Higgs process and moving mass produces them. What's wrong with those looking I really can't imagine!

I agree there are many assumptions, but the trick is picking the RIGHT ones to discard!

Best wishes

Peter

PS. Early short paper here, now vastly expanded and evidenced; Cyclic evolution.

Peter,

We have considerably differing world-views but with the common feature of helical structures. I'm convinced of self-interacting dark matter at the center of moons, planets and stars.

Good luck with your work.

Alan

Gravity investigated with a binary pulsar

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 at the radioastronomy laboratory in Cambridge, England (Nobel Prize 1974 to Antony Hewish). What was new about the Hulse-Taylor pulsar was that, from the behaviour of the beacon signal, it could be deduced that it was accompanied by an approximately equally heavy companion at a distance corresponding to only a few times the distance of the moon from the earth. The behaviour of this astronomical system deviates greatly from what can be calculated for a pair of heavenly bodies using Newton's theory. Here a new, revolutionary "space laboratory" has been obtained for testing Einstein's general theory of relativity and alternative theories of gravity. So far, Einstein's theory has passed the tests with flying colours. Of particular interest has been the possibility of verifying with great precision the theory's prediction that the system should lose energy by emitting gravitational waves in about the same way that a system of moving electrical charges emits electromagnetic waves.

This Hulse-Taylor pulsar could be used to test for the anisotropic graviton model of gravitation as an alternative to Einstein's relativity.

Alan

Notice how the explanation for the large difference in precession between the binary pulsar and mercury is comparable to my explanation for mercury's anomalous precession relative to the other planets. (See post Feb 28)

The discovery of the binary pulsar

Hulse's and Taylor's discovery in 1974 of the first binary pulsar, called PSR 1913 16 (PSR stands for pulsar, and 1913 16 specifies the pulsar's position in the sky) thus brought about a revolution in the field. We have here two very small astronomical bodies, each with a radius of some ten kilometres but with a mass comparable with that of the sun, and at a short distance from each other, only several times the moon's distance from the earth. Here the deviations from Newton's gravitational physics are large. As an example may be mentioned that the periastron shift, the rotation of the elliptical orbit that the pulsar (according to Kepler's first law from the beginning of the 17th century) follows in this system, is 4 degrees per year. The corresponding relativistic shift for the most favourable example in our solar system, the above-mentioned perihelion motion of Mercury, is 43 seconds of arc per century (this is less than a tenth of the very much larger contributions to the perihelion motion caused by perturbations from other planets, chiefly Venus and Jupiter). The difference in size between the shifts is partly due to the orbital speed in the binary pulsar, which is almost five times greater than Mercury's, and partly due to the pulsar performing about 250 times more orbits a year than Mercury. The orbiting time of the binary pulsar is less than eight hours, which can be compared with the one month our moon takes to orbit the earth.

An asteroid with rings and likely shepherd moon is only 250km across and the new dwarf planet 450km across is described as:

Trujllio and colleagues estimate that the new dwarf planet is relatively small -- about 450 kilometers (280 miles) in diameter, which less than the driving distance from Philadelphia to Boston. It's probably ball-shaped, he said.

So why is this not a major planet such as Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars? Trujillo explains that a bona fide planet is big enough that other objects in its orbit will be sucked into it gravitationally. A dwarf planet is not big enough to become gravitationally dominant; it's too small to pull in objects in the area of its path.

There's a discrepancy here.

Also, the similar inclinations of the two distant objects could be due to the exotic dark matter hypothesis rather than a 10x super-earth planet:

In the most speculative part of today's announcement the astronomers noted that 2012 VP113 shares a similar inclination in its orbit to the previously discovered Sedna,which Trujillo also had a hand in discovering, and which was originally termed 2003 VB12. They suggest that a much larger planet's gravity could be corralling both objects.

They suggest that this as yet unseen gravitational sheep dog would be huge: perhaps 10 times the mass of the Earth, and orbiting a few hundred times further from the sun than our planet. Such 'Super Earths' are now routinely found around other stars. To find one in our solar system would constitute as much of a shake up as the discovery of Uranus, Neptune or Pluto did back in 1781, 1846, 1930 respectively.

A really interesting discovery.

Hi Georgina and thanks. I'm predicting that further discoveries in the outer solar system will reveal a problem with basic Newtonian gravitational mechanics. If a shepherd moon is confirmed for the 250km diameter double ring asteroid then this will be a blow to the basic assumptions of gravitational attraction. Additional self-interacting exotic dark matter at their cores will be needed to resolve the issue imo.

It would also account for the similar inclinations of the two outer dwarf planets. If many more are discovered then I predict a greater distribution around the plane of angular momentum of the solar system.

All the best,

Alan

Wow, there's a connection between gravitational resonances and organic matter:

Dwarf Planet Discovery Could Help Show Life's Spread Through Solar System

He found that those resonant objects that are embedded in the Kuiper Belt are full of this ultra-red material, indicating likely organics. On the edge of the belt, some of those objects also still have the material, showing that it is somehow leaking into the inner Solar System. Those that are quite far away, however, show none of the material.

Sedna and 2012 VP133 are well beyond the boundaries of the Kuiper Belt. Sheppard's new paper argues that they are part of the edges of the Oort Cloud, a theorized icy collection of objects extending thousands of AUs away from Earth. (The Oort Cloud is perhaps best known for being the supposed source of many comets that fly into the inner solar system.)

(Is the Oort Cloud a source of dark matter? The dark matter halo hypothesis fits with the idea of dark matter at the core of Oort Cloud objects)

My discussion with Peter earlier led me to predict annihilating dark matter at the galactic centers.

Here's recent evidence that this is jut the case in our own Milky Way:

Fermi Data Tantalize With New Clues To Dark Matter

The ill fated MH370 passenger plane could have been affected by the 'cosmic rays' produced from annihilating dark matter at the Earth's core. These would have affected the electronics of the aircraft. These emissions would be responsible for equatorial terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) in general.

Astronomers observe corkscrew nature of light from a distant black hole

My discussion with Peter earlier led me to predict annihilating dark matter at the galactic centers.

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Azad,

Certainly electron-positron (fermion) pairs annihilating, as wherever they're propagated. I've found no reason that, along with the significant free proton fraction, (=pure plasma n=1) this spectroscopically 'dark' medium now found can't perform all the functions of 'dark matter'.

If anybody knows of any falsifiable reasons please advise.

Many thanks

Peter

PS Azad; Your links' lead nowhere. Click on 'link help page' just above the dialogue box here and follow the instructions, (NOT repeating the http: in the brackets). But I also think the address is incomplete.

Peter beware of grey aliens. Scroll down a bit to see Alan Lowey post April 3, 2014 and compare. You may ask Jason for help if you can't recognize grey aliens.

Akinbo,

I see them. Can you adjudicate? The deal was no big advances till 2020 to give us a chance to get our house in order. I see the need to 'feed' in' the new way of thinking gradually so by 2020 the paradigm change process is possible to start. These things do take cosmic time!

I think their view is that in case we're NOT ready by 2020 it's be dangerous to start a ball rolling now that can't be stopped. I'm convinced it's more an uphill than downhill process. Or am I being a bit 'previous'?

As one whose had at least an initial glimpse, what's the fair solution? What with ISIL, Ebola, the Chinese etc I do see they have a point. (I hope Ebola's nowhere near you).

Do you think it may be them messing with your electricity? lol.

Best wishes

Peter