Star Tau Ceti is only 12 light years away, and has a 4.3 earth mass "superearth" planet in the habitable zone for life. Gilster says "we will be able to make a spectroscopic analysis of the atmospheres of the five planets." "If we discover a biosignature indicating life is present, this will clearly make such a planet a priority for any future probes, possible in the next two decades."
The first rogue planet discovered by infrared telescope is only 100 light years away, and lacks a parent star. Scientists believe it might be a brown dwarf or "failed star" that lacks fusion, blurring the distinction between planets and stars. They believe that many more rogue planets exist and can be found. If so, freely wandering rogue planets very likely proliferate in the interstellar medium of galaxies. Intelligent life can evolve on a freely wandering roaming rogue planet without a star, because liquid metals like magnesium oxide are in a phase change or superstate where a strong magnetic field can shelter the planet, much like our sun protects earth from deadly radiation with its magnetic field. Alien surface crawlers might thrive where liquid nutrients rise and fill lakes suppling their drinking needs.An actual living super-earth free roaming rogue planet sized object could evolve, primarily composed of superstate liquids, and supporting smaller lifeforms inside and on its surface.
liquid metallic-silica based life on a super-earth planet
It seems foolish to presume that life must come into existence and evolve on a non-living planet. Symbiotic activity is necessary for a complex life form to exist, with innumerable smaller living things inside and upon it. Just as there are plants and animals, and many smaller cells composing a larger organism, so too would life forms more readily evolve, perhaps like symbiotic parasites on an entire living planet. Supercritical liquid metals besides magnesium oxide, ooze inside super-earth planets. Common rocky silicate minerals become liquids under high temperature and pressure, including quartz, silica or SiO2, and perovskite or magnesium silicate. About 200 or 1/4 of over 800 alien exoplanets discovered so far are super-earths. Unimaginably new thinking has become necessary to understand super-earth planets. Different temperature and pressure conditions, and amounts of metallic elements, would lead to a rich astrochemistry for super-earth planets that can support extremely diverse types of life. Silicon based life should thrive in many super-earth conditions, far better than on Venus.
Super-earths, rogue planets, and brown dwarf stars have supercritical states, and are self-similar size invariant objects similar to galaxies having magnetic fields.
Phase changes of matter are fractal boundaries, endpoints or cutoffs to fractal organization. Blood crystals analog the coastline on earth, and the earth is often referred to as a "living planet."
The largest living organism on earth is not the whale, but a honey mustard fungus monster growing in Oregon, that is 1,500 acres in size, and 3 feet deep beneath the surface. The only way to detect this huge earth life form is by seeing huge honey mushrooms growing. Such a life form could conceivably take over the entire surface of a planet, which evolves into a living planet by symbiosis.
A "magneto-spin alignment mechanism" causes magnetized disks and jets to align with the spin near the center, and farther away to reorient with the outer disk.
Stanford University team McKinney, Tchekhovskoy, and Blandford showed in these computer simulations that magnetic field lines form spirals aligned with the axis of rotation of a phony black hole. Birkeland currents are responsible in outer space. If the magnetic field becomes strong enough, the accretion disk can align with the black hole's rotation axis. They propose "material pulled into the center region causes a stronger buildup of magnetic fields that ultimately controls the spin of the accretion disk, and the direction of the jets."
Videos of the "Magneto-spin alignment mechanism" by the Stanford University team McKinney, Tchekhovskoy, and Blandford :
Birkeland currents twisting into filamentary plasma knots shapes galaxies
Birkeland currents twist gas and (orange colored dust) together into vast thin magnetically confined (orange colored filaments). Stars form like beads on strings inside these filaments. Clear evidence of magnetic fields forming stars.
Electrical Birkeland currents and polar jets carrying electricity are visibly identifiable inside knotty gaseous plasma filaments, around Fleming 1 planetary nebula. Symmetric jets that weave into knotty, curved, fractal filamentary patterns are shaped by Birkeland currents throughout the universe.
The video shows higher details. Magnetized rings of gaseous plasma are clearly seen twisting around the electrical Birkeland current jets. Jets are confined by twisting magnetic fields. Has the highly controversial unexplainable jets of Fleming 1, finally been solved?? It's left up to you what to believe.
Holographic microscopy techniques can enable future telescopes to study cosmic holograms in outer space. Thomas Ditto writes "The laws of physics will allow scaling up hologram production to hundreds of meters in length, to build a newly designed double diffraction telescope. Variable pitch gratings of the type that focus are typified by holograms that have a spherical wave as their object and a plane wave as their reference. This creates a variable pitch that is chirped in wavelength according to a hyperbolic function, by using grazing incidence equivalent for holographic microscopy.
Thomas Ditto writes "We introduce double diffraction in an embodiment with a new type of primary objective grating (POG) as an alternative to telescope mirrors. The acquisition of spectra can reach into the millions of objects per observation cycle." "Scaling up would be a sensible goal, since more spectrograms can be taken with greater resolving power." "The holographic primary is appropriate for a static pose of the POG. With plane gratings motion along the axis of diffraction is possible even over a kilometer scale POG, using a venetian blind architecture. Segments can be tilted gradually to change incidence angles over small excursions. Such precise movement is possible using piezo pistons. Objects (galaxies) could be tracked for the period the angular excursion would allow, that might be tens of seconds. In the other dimension, any POG can be moved off its strict east/west line." Holographic microscope enables 3D surface acquisition
Quantum entanglement of holograms by linking together the electric currents of two superconductors.
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