SIR MARTIN REES: LIFE AMONG STARS
Death and destruction are not exactly foreign themes in cosmology. Black holes can rip apart stars; unseen dark energy hurtles galaxies away from one another. So maybe it's not surprising that Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal, sees mayhem down on Earth. He warns that civilization has only an even chance of making it to the end of this century. The 62-year-old University of Cambridge astrophysicist and cosmologist feels so strongly about his grim prognostication that last year he published a popular book about it called Our Final Hour.
The book (entitled Our Final Century in the U.K.) represents a distillation of his 20 years of thinking about cosmology, humankind and the pressures that have put the future at risk. In addition to considering familiar potential disasters such as an asteroid impact, environmental degradation, global warming, nuclear war and unstoppable pandemics, Rees thinks science and technology are creating not only new opportunities but also new threats. He felt compelled to write Our Final Hour to raise awareness about both the hazards and the special responsibilities of scientists.
This article was originally published with the title Doom and Gloom by 2100.
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Add CommentEffects attributed to the twin darks are merely effects of electromagnetics (EM). Consider that protons of ionized plasma are a positive magnetic energy, and that interactions of protons creates EM energy, and that protons are capable of conducting EM energy. When a swirl of ionized plasma is in a cloud of ionized plasma, and the lines of force (LF) that circle from the swirl's one pole to the other; being magnetic; then free protons would magnetically adhere to the LF to a thickness of the availability of protons and to the energy in the LF; which LF would then be an EM conductor field line (EM-FL).
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLooking back to the opening moments of the material jetting into the universe, it had loads of heat, pressure, pos. protons and neg. electrons, interactions and swirls of ionized plasma. Therefore the products were held together in the first 380,000 year long collimated stream by segments of electromagnetic circles and their toroids of magnetism, which more product would have been in like segments separated by asymptotic freedom. The lead end of a collimated stream would be first to de-energize into a jetting free toroid, which eventually mushrooms out. Each jetted away segment adds to the now tenuous mushroomed gas, until gravity adds into the highly active ionized plasma with the beginnings to the Big Bang event..
With each Big Bang moment creating more EM energy, making larger still toroids with EM circles and their magnetisms, after the illumination and expanding moments one would have one segment for each fusion reaction moment. When incoming energy could no longer maintain the EM energy, then the load of ionized plasma, galaxies, stars and other heavenly bodies and gasses would have lost their containment system, and so entities with like magnetics would repel from like energied objects, thus causing any entity not captured in the energies of a star, galaxy or galaxy cluster to repel away. That also means galaxies would repel away from each other, if they weren't held in place by a cluster's main black hole's energies.
As far as lensing goes, each portion of an EM circle in a universe wide toroid, would have a load of protons magnetically attached, so, with large runs of captured tenuous pos. gas on an EM entity, one has a clouding effect, C/W its own gravity. Those loaded with proton parts were termed to be Super Cosmic Strings, as described by cosmologists in Astronomy mag. Collector’s Edition 2006 Before there was light.
Summarize: Electrons held the universe together by EM energies created separate segments wherein a super galaxy cluster reigned supreme with its products resembling USA interstate highways. When no more energy jetted to the universe, then its central Coronal Axis could supply no more energy sufficient to hold products as before. So, the expanding apart system was in effect. No dark energy or matter required for any of this model!