{"id":1340,"date":"2014-12-10T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T19:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.austrinus.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2022-11-21T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T00:31:29","slug":"cinturon-fotones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austrinus.com\/en\/cinturon-fotones\/","title":{"rendered":"Photon Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00ab24 continuous hours of light for 2000 years\u2026\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The photon belt is a story that rivals the one also mentioned in astronomical errors.\u00a0Hercolubus<\/a>, 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:<\/p>\n

Pseudoscience says...<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Science says...<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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 \u201cquantum\u201d 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 \u201cring,\u201d \u201cbelt,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"The Pleiades are a young star cluster (they date back ~100 million years) and our Sun had its origin much earlier, ~5 billion years ago. Our star revolves around the center of the Milky Way over a period of 225 million years, heading towards the constellation of Sagittarius (looking towards it you can see the center of our Galaxy).<\/p>\n

The Pleiades are 380 light years away from us, and we cannot speak of "revolving around Alcyone" because of the practically non-existent gravitational influence of this star on us. And even if we were to "revolve" around them (the Pleiades), we would not revolve around a particular star but around a common centre of gravity, as happens with galaxies, star clusters or binary and multiple star systems.<\/p>\n

Among some issues that are totally incoherent, according to this theory, is \u201cthe halting of the Earth\u2019s rotation.\u201d If the Earth stops rotating around its axis, the most immediate effect is that one hemisphere of the planet would quickly be scorched (the one \u201cpointing\u201d toward the Sun), while the other would freeze (the one \u201cpointing\u201d toward cold space); \u201cthe oceans would boil, great hurricanes would ravage the planet, all objects on it would gain weight due to the absence of centrifugal force\u2026\u201d In short, a fact like this would definitely be very deadly in the short term, so much so that we would not even have time to observe this photon belt\u2026 which by the way, photons have never been seen to be capable of stopping the rotation of a planet, nor of giving rise to hurricanes or similar catastrophes.<\/p>\n

24 continuous hours of light for 2,000 years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"It is not specified what that \u201clight\u201d would be like, but if we imagine it to be something that provides as much luminosity and heat as our Sun, we are again in trouble. I imagine that the 24 hours of light would be because we would supposedly be surrounded by a halo of light, but that light would have a devastating effect on the planet. We would not feel more tanned or illuminated, but the continents would burn and the oceans would melt; humans would perish, and even if that \u201clight\u201d were not as powerful as the Sun, having 24 hours of light would cause severe alterations in our circadian rhythms. However, if a photon belt were very close to us, it would be seen without problems by professional and amateur astronomers, since it is supposedly such a powerful source that it can contain the entire planet. But there is no belt in sight\u2026<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Relationship with Earth phenomena?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another important aspect to highlight is that this "theory" attempts to support our alleged approach to this belt with certain phenomena that currently occur on Earth, such as auroras, the melting of the poles or earthquakes and tsunamis due to geomagnetic alterations. The auroras (boreal and austral) are a normal phenomenon that occurs due to the impact of the solar wind against the Earth's magnetic field, and since the magnetic North and South are practically located at our geographic poles, the auroras appear at latitudes close to those points. An increase in auroras (or their appearance at latitudes further from the poles) is directly related to solar activity, which when increased causes this and other rather harmful phenomena, such as damage to some artificial satellites or blackouts in power stations. However, the auroras and these phenomena have no relation to a photon belt\/source of gamma rays.<\/p>\n

\"\"The melting of glaciers, as many will know, is part of a natural terrestrial process that has been accelerated by global warming, whose biggest culprit is human irresponsibility by contaminating the atmosphere with industrial gases and chemical agents such as CFCs. Likewise, earthquakes and tsunamis have not been correlated in any way with any alteration of our magnetic field.<\/p>\n

It is known that our field weakens around 10% annually and moves at a rate of 10~40 km in this same period, but this does not mean that our magnetic protection is seriously altered or is the cause of these natural phenomena, the explanation of which is There is more to it in the process of plate tectonics that has punished our planet throughout history.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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