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The staggeringly complex LHC ‘atom smasher’ at the CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland, will be fired up to its highest energy levels ever in a bid to detect – or even create – miniature black holes.

If successful a completely new universe will be revealed – rewriting not only the physics books but the philosophy books too.

It is even possible that gravity from our own universe may ‘leak’ into this parallel universe, scientists at the LHC say.

The experiment is sure to inflame alarmist critics of the LHC, many of whom initially warned the high energy particle collider would spell the end of our universe with the creation a black hole of its own.

But so far Geneva remains intact and comfortably outside the event horizon.

Indeed the LHC has been spectacularly successful. First scientists proved the existence of the elusive Higgs boson ‘God particle’ – a key building block of the universe – and it is seemingly well on the way to nailing ‘dark matter’ – a previously undetectable theoretical possibility that is now thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe.

But next week’s experiment is considered to be a game changer.

Mir Faizal, one of the three-strong team of physicists behind the experiment, said: “Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects [breadth and length] can exist in a third dimension [height], parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions.

“We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.

“Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.

“This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.

“This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.

“As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.

“We have calculated the energy at which we expect to detect these mini black holes in ‘gravity’s rainbow’ [a new scientific theory].

“If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity’s rainbow and extra dimensions are correct.”

When the LHC is fired up the energy is measured in Tera electron volts – a TeV is 1,000,000,000,000, or one trillion, electron Volts

So far, the LHC has searched for mini black holes at energy levels below 5.3 TeV.

But the latest study says this is too low.

Instead, the model predicts that black holes may form at energy levels of at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions and 11.9 TeV in 10 dimensions.

Source: News Hour
http://www.newshour.com.bd/2015/10/18/scientists-at-large-hadron-collider-
hope-to-make-contact-with-parallel-universe-in-days/

New York, NY – Movie goers might have seen the various scary Hollywood horror versions of this terrifying early American ghost story,,but until recently the chilling haunting and poltergeist case that transpired in rural Yalobusha County, Tennessee back in 1817 has never been properly examined or consequently explained. The full story is recounted in the newly released The Bell Witch Project: Poltergeists, Ghosts, Exorcism, and the Supernatural in Early American History, co-authored by popular talk show host and parapsychologist Paul Eno and published by Global Communications. In addition, during the month of October the A&E Network will premier what has all indications of being a hot new series titled Cursed: The Bell Witch.

The Bell Witch Project details the story of the Bell family, who were subjected to a long and frightening siege at the hands of a “monster” that invaded their home. The haunting ultimately gained an international reputation that has lasted to this very day.

The events began when John Bell, a highly respected farmer in a rural community called Adams, was confronted by a strange dog-like creature that suddenly appeared out of nowhere and than vanished. There soon followed strange, unexplainable noises in the house, sounds like knocking on doors and windows, wings flapping against the roof and animals fighting and scratching. As the noises became more intense, the family tried desperately to find the source, but to avail. One night the spirit began to speak, introducing itself with hysterical, mocking laughter and calling itself “Kate.”

From then on, Kate never ceased to speak, arguing theology, teasing, tormenting and spreading gossip. She seemed to know intimate details about everyone and took great delight in pestering the household at will. When asked why she had chosen to torment the Bell family, the spirit said she was a witch conjured by the late Kate Batts, an eccentric old woman who had placed a deathbed curse on John Bell for cheating her husband in a business deal some years before. Kate unleashed all hell on John Bell, throwing dishes and furniture at him as well as pulling his nose and yanking his hair. She yelled at night to keep him from sleeping and snatched the food from his mouth as he ate.

Andrew Jackson, the future president, had heard about the widely publicized witch and paid a visit to the Bell home to see for himself. He is said to have left the next morning saying he would rather fight the British in New Orleans than have to fight the Bell Witch. As for John Bell, after years of physical abuse from Kate, he died. His funeral was attended by hundreds of friends and curiosity seekers who could hear Kate laughing and mocking the family, even singing in her triumph.

But the eerie story of the Bell Witch is only a prelude to things even stranger. According to paranormal investigator Paul Eno, America has in general had a long history of fascination with the supernatural. For example, in the six New England states, in the years between 1770 and 1900, vampires were said to inhabit bodies of the dead and to prey only on members of their own families. In one case, a father petitioned the town council for permission to dig up the body of his 23-year old daughter because she was rising from the grave each night to drain the lives of her eight brothers and sisters. It was believed the body of the vampire must be exhumed and the bones broken to prevent its moving about. Also, the heart must be burned and ailing family members might be aided by inhaling the smoke from the fire or eating the ashes.

Eno also writes about a possible early cause for the Salem witch hysteria in Massachusetts: the 1692 invasion of the nearby town of Cape Ann by what came to be called the Specter Leaguers, seemingly an army of ghosts or demons. The intruders were impervious to lead or steel and could show themselves first in one place, then in another. They threw stones and beat upon barns with clubs. These specters appeared both night and day, dressed in white and carrying “bright guns,” though they acted more like hooligans than soldiers. Some feared an attack by the Indians, the French, or worse, while others believed it was an invasion by demons and that the Devil was loose in Cape Ann.

To round out the vampire and demon stories, Eno discusses a poltergeist incident that took place in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1850. A retired minister and his family were haunted by strange effigies, made from the family’s clothing, that appeared out of nowhere. Objects began to move around the house, with forks, spoons and knives being launched from places where no one was standing. The nighttime hours were filled with rapping, knockings, voices, screams and other bizarre sounds. By finally conducting a séance, the minister made contact with the poltergeist, who told the beleaguered reverend that it was a spirit in hell enduring torment for the sins it had committed in life. It said it had been troubling the minister’s household “for fun.”

And to think it all started with the Bell Witch and went on from there!

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Contact Paranormal Expert Paul Eno Directly Paul@BehindTheParanormal.Com

 
ABOUT PAUL ENO: One of the most dependable paranormal investigators, Paul Eno has had a distinguished career as a newspaper and magazine reporter and editor. He is the author of seven books including Footsteps In The Attic and Faces At The Window which are considered classics of the paranormal genre. Paul has appeared multiple times on “Coast To Coast AM” with Art Bell and George Noory, as well as appearing on the Travel, Discovery and History Channels. Paul’s unusually long experience in the field (nearly 45 years), his hair-raising adventures with famous hauntings, along with his unique theories about the paranormal and its meaning for our understanding of the world and ourselves, make him a major draw on the talk show and lecture circuit. He co-hosts, along with his son, Ben, a weekly radio program called “Behind the Paranormal” that boasts an estimated three million listeners. Those wish to interview Mr Eno should contact him directly at Paul@BehindTheParanormal.Com

To find out more about Paul Eno and his work, go to: www.newenglandghosts.com

The website for his radio show is: www.behindtheparanormal.com

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In the Northern hemisphere’s sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the harp that accompanied poetry in ancient Greece, from which we take our word “lyric.”

Between these constellations sits an unusual star, invisible to the naked eye, but visible to the Kepler Space Telescope, which stared at it for more than four years, beginning in 2009.

“We’d never seen anything like this star,” says Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

Kepler was looking for tiny dips in the light emitted by this star. Indeed, it was looking for these dips in more than 150,000 stars, simultaneously, because these dips are often shadows cast by transiting planets. Especially when they repeat, periodically, as you’d expect if they were caused by orbiting objects.

The Kepler Space Telescope collected a great deal of light from all of those stars it watched. So much light that Kepler’s science team couldn’t process it all with algorithms. They needed the human eye, and human cognition, which remains unsurpassed in certain sorts of pattern recognition. Kepler’s astronomers decided to found Planet Hunters, a program that asked “citizen scientists” to examine light patterns emitted by the stars, from the comfort of their own homes.

In 2011, several citizen scientists flagged one particular star as “interesting” and “bizarre.” The star was emitting a light pattern that looked stranger than any of the others Kepler was watching.

The light pattern suggests there is a big mess of matter circling the star, in tight formation. That would be expected if the star were young. When our solar system first formed, four and a half billion years ago, a messy disk of dust and debris surrounded the sun, before gravity organized it into planets, and rings of rock and ice.

But this unusual star isn’t young. If it were young, it would be surrounded by dust that would give off extra infrared light. There doesn’t seem to be an excess of infrared light around this star.

It appears to be mature. 

And yet, there is this mess of objects circling it. A mess big enough to block a substantial number of photons that would have otherwise beamed into the tube of the Kepler Space Telescope. If blind nature deposited this mess around the star, it must have done so recently. Otherwise, it would be gone by now. Gravity would have consolidated it, or it would have been sucked into the star and swallowed, after a brief fiery splash.

Boyajian, the Yale Postdoc who oversees Planet Hunters, recently published a paper describing the star’s bizarre light pattern. Several of the citizen scientists are named as co-authors. The paper explores a number of scenarios that might explain the pattern—instrument defects; the shrapnel from an asteroid belt pileup; an impact of planetary scale, like the one that created our moon.

The paper finds each explanation wanting, save for one. If another star had passed through the unusual star’s system, it could have yanked a sea of comets inward. Provided there were enough of them, the comets could have made the dimming pattern.

But that would be an extraordinary coincidence, if that happened so recently, only a few millennia before humans developed the tech to loft a telescope into space. That’s a narrow band of time, cosmically speaking.

And yet, the explanation has to be rare or coincidental. After all, this light pattern doesn’t show up anywhere else, across 150,000 stars. We know that something strange is going on out there.

When I spoke to Boyajian on the phone, she explained that her recent paper only reviews “natural” scenarios. “But,” she said, there were “other scenarios” she was considering.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish an alternative interpretation of the light pattern. SETI researchers have long suggested that we might be able to detect distant extraterrestrial civilizations, by looking for enormous technological artifacts orbiting other stars. Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern is consistent with a “swarm of megastructures,” perhaps stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star.

“When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright told me. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”

Boyajian is now working with Wright and Andrew Siemion, the Director of the SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. The three of them are writing up a proposal. They want to point a massive radio dish at the unusual star, to see if it emits radio waves at frequencies associated with technological activity.

If they see a sizable amount of radio waves, they’ll follow up with the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, which may be able to say whether the radio waves were emitted by a technological source, like those that waft out into the universe from Earth’s network of radio stations.

Assuming all goes well, the first observation would take place in January, with the follow-up coming next fall. If things go really well, the follow-up could happen sooner. “If we saw something exciting, we could ask the director for special allotted time on the VLA,” Wright told me. “And in that case, we’d be asking to go on right away.”

In the meantime, Boyajian, Siemion, Wright, the citizen scientists, and the rest of us, will have to content ourselves with longing looks at the sky, aimed between the swan and the lyre, where maybe, just maybe, someone is looking back, and seeing the sun dim ever so slightly, every 365 days.

Source: The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-
star-in-our-galaxy/410023/

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Video of a mysterious cityscape in the clouds hovering over a Chinese city has gone viral this week. And explanations for this startling video range from a secret NASA project to an elaborate hoax to an actual atmospheric phenomenon.

Experts hesitate to say the video is real. "It looks almost too good," says Peggy LeMone, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

"[But,] if it is real, it's called a superior mirage, which just means it's an upward projecting mirage," says Jill Coleman, an atmospheric scientist at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. It could be something called a fata morgana, she says, which is a certain kind of atmospheric mirage.

To get a fata morgana, you need cold dense air near the ground with a layer of warmer air above it, Coleman says. This is called a temperature inversion, since it's the reverse of what usually happens in the atmosphere. They usually occur over large bodies of water since the air tends to be relatively cooler close to an ocean or lake surface, but can form over land too.

This kind of layering will bend light rays as they pass from one air mass into the next. Those light rays are bent in such a way that our brains are tricked into thinking an object is higher than it really is. (Learn about other weird atmospheric phenomena.)

And since a person's perspective can alter the appearance of a fata morgana, the further away from an object a person is, the taller the object will appear, says Coleman.

That's likely why in the video, "the city looked like it was floating on cloud nine," she says. It would probably have looked very different to someone standing in the center of the city.

A fata morgana is why people can sometimes see ships "flying" through the sky or a "wall" of water dominating the horizon. In fact, this type of mirage could be how the myth of the Flying Dutchman—a ghost ship that sails the high seas—got its start. And according to historian Tim Maltin, a fata morgana could have contributed to the sinking of the Titanic.

Coleman looked at atmospheric conditions over Jiangxi and Foshan, China, during the time the video was supposedly shot. "They did have temperature inversions going on during that time period," she says. And some of the buildings in the city below the clouds look similar to what shows up in the sky. So Coleman thinks the video could be real.

Fata morganas can be quite common in certain parts of the world as long as conditions are right, says LeMone.

They're common in polar regions, says Teresa Wilson, a graduate student in physics at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, in an email. "But [they] can happen anywhere." People have even seen fata morgana in the Strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily.

LeMone hasn't ever seen one in person, but she's seen the reverse—a reflection of the sky on the road—plenty of times. That kind of mirage is known as an inferior mirage because the light rays bend in such a way that our brain thinks an object is lower than it actually is.

"You can see some pretty cool things in the atmosphere," LeMone says. "You just have to watch for them."

This isn't the first time strange "cities" have been seen floating over areas in China.

Residents in Huanshan City in East China were stunned after a giant mirage of a 'ghost city' towered across the skyline.

The apparition appeared in June, 2011 after heavy rainfall and humid conditions along the Xin'an River. Tall buildings, mountains and trees appeared to rise up through the ghostly mist that had descended over the river at dusk.

Amazed residents recorded the footage with some even suggesting that it could have been a 'vortex' to a lost civilisation.

The pictures have baffled experts who visited the city to check that there were not actually any of the building already there.

'It's really amazing, it looks like a scene in a movie, in a fairlyland,' said one resident.

She said that a number of similar sights had been seen recently although this one was the most spectacular.

A number of mirages have previous been reported in China. In 2006, English-language paper China Daily published four images of what it said were mirages off the coast of Eastern China's Shandong province.

Recently, a picture of a similar looking mirage in the sky taken at the coastal town in southern England have been posted on Facebook.

The weird formation is much further away in the Hastings scene, but a similar skycap can be made out.

One was taken by resident Natasha Marie’s mother-in-law, who was snapping coastal scenes during sunset.

However, the sky city was later seen forming in the distance, with much speculation about what the alien object could be.

One person who saw the pictures from both sides of the globe said: “This is crazy, what is going on? Is it the same city? Is this some sort of sign?”

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Often with urban legends, there’s the story and there’s the truth. That’s what makes the tale of Fairfax County’s Bunny Man so eerie, so bizarre and so downright creepy. While there are several variations of the urban legend splashed across the furthest reaches of the Internet, the true story of the Bunny Man may actually be even weirder. “A creepy guy, on Halloween, dressed oddly, throwing hatchets at people…it’s just too bizarre to possibly be true,” says Fairfax County Archivist Brian Conley, “But it is.”

For four decades, the legend of the Bunny Man has captivated Northern Virginia fear-seekers. Conley first heard the tale when he was an area youngster in the 1970s. It showed up in a 1973 University of Maryland undergrad’s class paper. It has been told and retold by local teens for years. While the legend has evolved and changed through the years, it follows these lines: In the early 20th century, deep in the woods that divided the town of Clifton from Fairfax Station, there was an asylum for the insane. At some point, the asylum closed and the residents were piled into a bus bound for Lorton Prison. On the way there, the bus swerved and crashed. Many of the convicts escaped, but were caught—save one, Douglas Grifon. While searching for him, authorities found a trail of half-eaten, gutted bunnies with many hanging from what was then-called Fairfax Station Bridge. For months, the police searched for Grifon, but he was never found. Then, on Halloween night, several teens were hanging out under the bridge. At the stroke of midnight, they were attacked. The next morning, they were found hanging from the bridge, gutted like bunnies. To this day, it’s said that if you are at Bunny Man Bridge at midnight on Halloween night, you too will meet the fate of those teens and rabbits.

“It is a helluva good piece of creative writing,” Conley says about what he thinks is the most widely known version of the story—an account that follows this narrative from “Timothy Forbes” on castleofspirits.com. He specifically cites historical inaccuracies for why the account is false—like that Lorton Prison wasn’t open until 1916, there’s no Fairfax court record of Douglas Grifon and the “old Clifton Library” (where the article’s author tells skeptics evidence exists) never even existed.

A constant trickle of Bunny Man questions re-engaged Conley’s interest in the story. “I got tired of saying I don’t know,” he explains. It took nearly a decade of research, but in 2002, he published what has to be considered the foremost paper on the subject. What he discovered is that the real story is even more bizarre than the legend.

On October 18, 1970, the Washington Post reported that Air Force Academy cadet Robert Bennett and his fiancée were sitting in a car on the 5400 block of Guinea Road in Fairfax around midnight near Bennett’s uncle’s house when “a man dressed in a white suit with long bunny ears appeared.” He yelled at the couple that they were on private property and he had their tag number. Then, he threw a wood-handled hatchet through the front car window. Luckily, neither of them was hurt.

Two weeks later, the Bunny Man showed up again about a block away from his original sighting, according to a October 31 Washington Post article. Private security guard Paul Phillips spotted the man-beast on the front porch of a new, but unoccupied house. He was holding an ax. In the piece, Phillips recounted what happened next: “I started talking to him and that’s when he started chopping.” Taking several swings at a pole on the porch, he threatened Phillips, “All you people trespass around here. If you don’t get out of here, I’m going to bust you on the head.”

Conley continued to dig. He tracked down the police and investigation reports that confirmed that the Fairfax County police looked for a male in his late teens or early 20s dressed as a bunny. But the police were unable to turn up anything conclusive, writing, “After a very extensive investigation into this and all other cases of this same nature, it is still unsubstantiated as to whether or not there really is a white rabbit.” The police deemed the case inactive.

Conley was also able to track down the still-married couple that had the hatchet thrown at them. While they didn’t particularly want to talk about the 45-year-old incident, they did confirm it happened. They shared vivid details, Conley says, as did the aunt who helped them after the incident. “She remembered very clearly combing glass from the shattered glass window out of this girl’s hair,” says Conley.

To this day, no one knows who the Bunny Man was or what motivated him. Conley knows that any theory he has is pure speculation, but he thinks it could be related to an elderly man—a “curmudgeon,” says Conley—who owned the property that the couple was supposedly trespassing on. Although the man had died a year or two earlier, maybe a younger family member took up his cause. Perhaps it was just a person who didn’t like the development in the region going on at that time. Additionally, if the Bunny Man was in his early 20s in 1970, then he likely would still be alive today, “unless he got careless with his hatchet,” jokes Conley. As of this writing, no one has come forward and admitted to being the notorious Bunny Man.

Today, the story of the Bunny Man has overtaken the actual truth. There was no murder, no asylum for the insane, and not even a bridge. Conley thinks the Fairfax Station Bridge, which Google Maps now even calls Bunny Man Bridge, was nothing more than a a nearby local teen party spot and a creepy-looking (and potentially dangerous) bridge that got incorporated into the story. Even the town of Clifton has fully embraced the legend with T-shirts and a haunted Halloween attraction.

While the legend maybe more horrific, frightening and blood curdling, the truth is just as bizarre. “If there was ever a story that was really ripe to grow and get a little bit strange, it has to be the Bunny Man,” says Conley, “It’s our own homegrown urban legend.”

Source Washingtonian
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/history/the-scary-weird-
somewhat-true-story-of-the-fairfax-bunny-man.php