Could the Earth in Billions of years be consumed by our own sun? Outside of the giant Red Star our sun will become there is one more possibility where our orbit will decay over time and become closer and closer to the sun to it's demise. We have see this of late via Kepler-1658b. The following article is from interestingengineering.com and written by Chris Young:
"The planet, Kepler-1658b, will soon be engulfed in the flames of its own sun.
In a world first, astronomers observed an exoplanet — a planet outside our solar system — whose orbit is decaying to the point it will soon be engulfed by the flames of its host star.
The new discovery sheds light on the incredibly slow process of planetary orbital decay. It is the first glimpse at a planet so near its demise due to the decay of its orbit, a press statement reveals.
Kepler-1658b nears a fiery end
Scientists believe that the Earth could eventually be eaten up by the Sun billions of years from now. Until now, though, scientists hadn't observed another planet so close to meeting a fiery death by its own sun.
Thanks to the new observations, the scientific community can now analyze the exoplanet, called Kepler-1658b, to test theories about orbital decay and the very late stages of planetary evolution.
"We've previously detected evidence for exoplanets inspiraling toward their stars, but we have never before seen such a planet around an evolved star," explains Shreyas Vissapragada from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and lead author of a new study detailing the observation. "Theory predicts that evolved stars are very effective at sapping energy from their planets' orbits, and now we can test those theories with observations."
The scientists, who published their findings in a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, discovered the exoplanet using the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which launched into space in 2009.
Kepler-1658b is a hot Jupiter planet, meaning it naturally has a close orbit to its host star. To be precise, Kepler-1658b is located about an eighth of the distance between the Sun and Mercury.
Scientists calculate infinitesimal orbital decay
Astonishingly, the new study shows how the scientists calculated that Kepler-1658b's orbital period is decreasing by an incredibly slow rate of roughly 131 milliseconds (thousandths of a second) per year.
Calculating that minuscule change required 13 years of observation using Kepler, the Palomar Observatory’s Hale Telescope in Southern California, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope, or TESS.
All of these observatories captured transits, which is the term used for the amount of time it takes a planet to cross between its host star and Earth, leading to a very slight dimming in the light received from the star.
The scientists point out that the orbital decay of Kepler-1658b is caused by tidal forces between the planet and its host star, causing it to slowly travel inward.
"Now that we have evidence of inspiraling of a planet around an evolved star, we can really start to refine our models of tidal physics," Vissapragada says. "The Kepler-1658 system can serve as a celestial laboratory in this way for years to come, and with any luck, there will soon be many more of these labs."
The researchers wish to carry out follow-up observations using TESS, which launched into space in 2018. They also hope to uncover other examples of planets nearing a fiery demise on the surface of their host star due to orbital decay."
So there you go doom for Earth via orbital decay, or be consumed by the red star when our sun runs out of fuel. Either way in time our lovely planet will be no more Billions of years from now. The question is will mankind survive that long and be elsewhere? Or have the technology to change this? I believe there is always hope.
Reference: https://interestingengineering.com/science/alien-planet-spiraling-toward-doom
I have lost a lot of faith with the Medical Community and the Governments over the last several years, but there are a few good things that can raise above the corruption and the pushing of drugs a new approach to heal people. The following is from www.gaia.com and written by Hunter Parsons that does not involve any drug or pushing an ineffective so called vaccine that the drug company is not held accountable in any way but they use sound! The use of sound can regrow bone tissue! Here is the story:
"The future of regenerative medicine could be found within sound healing by regrowing bone cells with sound waves.
The use of sound as a healing modality has an ancient tradition all over the world. The ancient Greeks used sound to cure mental disorders; Australian Aborigines reportedly use the didgeridoo to heal; and Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowls were, and still are, used for spiritual healing ceremonies.
Recently, a study showed an hour-long sound bowl meditation reduced anger, fatigue, anxiety, and ...
Not a fan of a Defense Agency studying Anti-Gravity and other Exotic Tech, but if the commercial world and make this technology cheap that will change our world yet again. The following is about three minute read and from www.gaia.com. The below was written by Hunter Parsons:
"Wormholes, invisibility cloaks, and anti-gravity — it’s not science fiction, it’s just some of the exotic things the U.S. government has been researching.
A massive document dump by the Defense Intelligence Agency shows some of the wild research projects the United States government was, at least, funding through the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program known as AATIP.
And another lesser-known entity called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program or AAWSAP
The Defense Intelligence Agency has recently released a large number of documents to different news outlets and individuals who have filed Freedom of Information Act requests.
Of particular interest are some 1,600 pages released to Vice News, which ...
As our technology gets better we are discovering more about the history of mankind and pushing the timeline back further and further. The following article is from www.gaia.com and written by Michael Chary that discusses this new find that changes the historical timeline:
"Over the past decade, there have been a number of archeological revelations pushing back the timeline of human evolution and our ancient ancestors’ various diasporas. Initially, these discoveries elicit some resistance as archeologists bemoan the daunting prospect of rewriting the history books, though once enough evidence is presented to established institutions, a new chronology becomes accepted.
But this really only pertains to the era of human development that predates civilization — the epochs of our past in which we were merely hunter-gatherers and nomads roaming the savannahs. Try challenging the consensus timeline of human civilization and it’s likely you’ll be met with derision and rigidity.
Conversely, someone of an alternative...
Not sure if you have heard of a show on YouTube called "The Why Files". If not you should check it out it is interesting and has some humor with it on different subjects. Last weeks was on a different theory how the Universe works and how main stream Science is attempting to shut it down like is always seems to do if it goes aguest some special interest. Today it is akin to what happened to those who questioned the Earth was the Center of the Universe that main stream so called Science all believed during the Renaissance period, They called any theory that the Earth was not the Center of the Universe misinformation. Does this sound familiar today? People laughed and mocked people like Leonardo da Vinci, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg Purbach as crack-pots, conspiracy theorists, nut-jobs and they were suppressed and even imprisoned for their radical thoughts and observations. Again it sounds like today in so many ways. In any event this is a good one to ponder and see even if a bad idea ...
Seemingly chaotic systems like the weather and the financial markets are governed by the laws of chaos theory.
We all have heard about chaos theory, but if you have not or have forgotten what chaos theory is well here you go from interestingengineering.com:
"Chaos theory deals with dynamic systems, which are highly sensitive to initial conditions, making it almost impossible to track the resulting unpredictable behavior. Chaos theory seeks to find patterns in systems that appear random, such as weather, fluid turbulence, and the stock market.
Since the smallest of changes can lead to vastly different outcomes, the long-term behavior of chaotic systems is difficult to predict despite their inherently deterministic nature.
As Edward Lorenz, who first proposed what became commonly known as the Butterfly Effect, eloquently said, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.""
You may have heard the term about chaos theory as a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil,...
I for one have lost trust in Medical Doctors due to COVID and reflection that they seem to push pills for everything and untested so called vaccines that is using a unproven technology because the Government and the Medical Boards of the State told them to. There are a very few exceptions. Thus they do not address the key problem just prescribe more and more pills to keep you alive an sick longer for them and Big Phama to profit from you. Will AI do any better? Well that depends on what was used for the training of AI. If it also pushes pills and vaccines without question then you have the same problems noted above. However, if the AI Training includes all possible forms of treatment and they zero in on the right issues for the true problem then there is possibilities they would be way better than most of the current Medical Doctors today.
The following is from an article from interestingengineering.com and written by Paul Ratner:
"A new study looks at how accurately AI can diagnose patients. We interview the researcher, who weighs in on AI's role ...
