Photon Belt

«24 continuous hours of light for 2000 years…»

The photon belt is a story that rivals the one also mentioned in astronomical errors. Hercolubus, sometimes even talking about both as related phenomena. The truth is that this story could at most aspire to be a good science fiction story, with apocalyptic characteristics, a lot of terror, and human despair in the face of a phenomenon that is about to fry us all, without us being able to do anything to stop it. . Below I relate the facts of this abominable story that has nothing of science, but a lot of fiction:

Pseudoscience says...

Our Sun is actually part of a larger solar system whose central star is Alcyone (located in the Pleiades cluster of the Taurus constellation); A total of twelve suns orbit around it, and surrounding the central star there is an area (a belt) that has a certain photon radiation, so strong that it would be capable of melting the poles, stopping the Earth's rotation, making the planets dance uncontrollably. our magnetic field and having 24 hours of light in a row for 2000 years; and we are about to enter this photonic belt.

Science says...

First of all, photons are fundamental and indivisible particles. They are actually the minimum amount of energy that light can carry, since it is quantized (that is, located in a physical system where there is a “quantum” or minimum value that can take a certain magnitude; in the case of light, its minimum value is the photon). When talking about photons with a lot of energy (such as those mentioned in the photon belt), in the astronomical field we could mention what happens with gamma rays, considered the most energetic photons of all (these are formed by the annihilation of an electron and an antielectron). Given this, we would have to say that, if there is some highly energetic zone (called a “ring,” “belt,” etc.) where the Pleiades are located, it is probably only a source of gamma rays. Gamma rays, on the other hand, do not represent any danger to humans here on Earth. Our atmosphere is powerful enough to retain this radiation when it reaches the planet and not let it in, because it occurs at a great distance from us.