{"id":2978,"date":"2012-04-12T00:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2012-04-11T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T08:36:37","slug":"crab-pulsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/04\/crab-pulsar-2978.html","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicists: Crab Pulsar is Ultra-Powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It amazes me how contradictory orthodox scientists can collectively be. When discussing the future of our planet, they typically regard their current understandings to be <em>certainties <\/em>that are set in stone. A good example is that we are not close enough to any potential supernova for harm to come to us. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">But that&#8217;s not fact<\/span>, that&#8217;s an opinion based on a very short period of observations. So while I hear cosmic doomsday scenarios being dismissed all the time, I also come across many instances where scientists admit they have a lot to learn.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2980\" href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/04\/crab-pulsar-2978.html\/crab_nebula\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2980\" title=\"Crab_Nebula\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Crab_Nebula.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Crab_Nebula.jpg 250w, http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Crab_Nebula-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Crab_Nebula-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pulsar at the centre of the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crab_Nebula\">Crab Nebula<\/a> is a veritable bundle of energy. This was now confirmed by the two  MAGIC\u00a0 Telescopes on the Canary island of La Palma. They observed the  pulsar in the very high energy gamma radiation from 25 up to 400  gigaelectronvolts (GeV), a region that was previously difficult to  access with high energy instruments, and discovered that it actually  emits pulses with the maximum measurable energy of up to 400 GeV \u2013 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>at  least 50 to 100 times higher than theorists thought possible<\/strong><\/span>. These  <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2012-03-powerhouse-crab-nebula.html\">latest observations<\/a> are difficult for astrophysicists to explain. &#8220;There  must be processes behind this that are as yet unknown&#8221;, says Razmik  Mirzoyan, project head at the Max Planck Institute for Physics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if they can be wrong about pulsars by a factor of 100, then surely they could also be wrong about the intensity or frequency of cosmic rays, solar storms, supernovas, comets and all the rest? If they could admit to uncertainties, then perhaps more people could prepare for the worst, rather than trusting the untrustworthy assurances of the experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It amazes me how contradictory orthodox scientists can collectively be. When discussing the future of our planet, they typically regard their current understandings to be certainties that are set in stone. A good example is that we are not close enough to any potential supernova for harm to come to us. But that&#8217;s not fact, that&#8217;s an opinion based on a very short period of observations. So while I hear cosmic doomsday scenarios being dismissed all the time, I also come across many instances where scientists admit they have a lot to learn.<\/p>\n<p>The pulsar at the centre of the famous Crab Nebula is a veritable bundle of energy. This was now confirmed by the two  MAGIC\u00a0 Telescopes on the Canary island of La Palma. They observed the  pulsar in the very high energy gamma radiation from 25 up to 400  gigaelectronvolts (GeV), a region that was previously &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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