According to new research, there is a magnetic tunnel that connects opposite sides of the sky, and the ground craft we’re traveling in is inside.
The study of astrophysicists at the Dunlap Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto is one of the most fascinating of the decade. According to the models they made, we travel through space inside a tunnel, formed by long, magnetized, parallel filaments, connected to each other. The entire Solar System, according to astrophysicists from Toronto, is in the middle of this tunnel.
“If we looked at the sky, we would see this tunnel-like structure in almost every direction, that is, if we had eyes that could see radio light,” explains Dr. Jennifer West, an astronomer at the Dunlap Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics , from the University of Toronto.
Eyes to see radio waves. At the moment, the view doesn’t quite reach us. However, scientists are beginning to detect the invisible.
If we think of our Milky Way, we recognize it as a sort of more or less flat cake, and the Solar System (with the Earth among its assets) at one end of that cake. Astrophysicists in Toronto discovered that outside the Milky Way, above and below the cake, and in the vicinity of our Solar System, there are two “doors”, one above and one below. They are two extraordinarily bright, magnetized radio structures connected to each other. One above and one below in our sky, connected by long filaments, a tunnel?
Tunnel entrance and exit doors
The entrance and exit doors of the tunnel are the north polar spur and the region of fan, two large-scale bright radio structures that are come over on opposite sides of the sky.
The North Polar Spur, or polar note, is actually an arc, a huge ridge of hot gas that emits X-rays and radio waves. We could think of it as a huge rainbow over the galaxy. The rainbow starts near Sagittarius and extends to Scorpius, Lupus and beyond Centaur.
The southernmost fan region of the galaxy extends beyond the Arm of Perseus.
These structures are about 350 light-years away from us and about 1,000 light-years long. These dimensions are beyond what the human mind can imagine. It is impossible to count the number of Earths that would fit in the north polar spur, because the resulting number would be so large that we would again deal with an incomprehensible number. We are talking about the immensity.
Illustrated map of the Milky Way galaxy with the position and size of the proposed filaments; The inset shows a more detailed view of the local surroundings and the position of the local bubble and various dust clouds nearby. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt, SSC & Caltech / J. West
Dr. West and her colleagues believe the two structures are connected. Both are composed of charged particles and a magnetic field and are shaped like long strings.
His team built a virtual model that represents what the sky would look like from Earth if we could observe radio waves, which are emitted by both structures.
The model gave them back a huge tunnel that includes the Solar System.
“It’s amazing to imagine that these structures are everywhere whenever we look at the night sky,” says Dr. West.
O results of his work was published in Astrophysical Journal.
And where are we going?
In February 2008, NASA used its Deep Space Network to broadcast “Across the Universe” by the Beatles throughout the universe. The music traveled at 300,000 kilometers per second towards the North Star, located about 431 light-years from our planet. “Nothing is going to change my world,” says the song’s chorus. Where are we going? What’s on the other side of this tunnel? If we are actually traveling aboard Earth, the destination seems unimportant. The life of a human being, on this scale, is infinitely insignificant.
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JL West and cabbage . 2021. A unified model for the north polar spur and fan region: a bundle of filaments in the local galaxy. ApJ , in press; arXiv: 2109,14720