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Trevor Collins

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
11575 total appearances

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

Yeah, yeah.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

And especially once you get to relativity, once things start traveling near or at the speed of light, game over, man.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

I think when a photon... Okay, I don't want to speak out of turn because a photon moves at the speed of light and because of that, time essentially freezes.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

So a photon, I think, collides with its destination at the same time as it's emitted in a weird way relative to the particle.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

I don't want to speak out of turn.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

Relativity gets very weird when you go to the speed of light.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

There's essentially like a singularity at that.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

I'm geeking out.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

Sorry, I'll get back to what we're talking about.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

Basically, what's happening is, you know, you take a magnifying glass into the sun and you move it down to a piece of paper.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

You take that normal light and you focus it into something stronger that could maybe help you create a fire.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

It's possible that the magnifying glass in this case is some sort of celestial object

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

taking background noise and amplifying it to the point that when we get it here on Earth, it sounds outlandishly loud.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

And so again, it's just like a freak accident of nature kind of thing that we just happened to hear.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

That's what that theory is kind of saying.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

But all in all, over 100 studies have been conducted over the same region of sky.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

No answers have ever been like fully agreed upon.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

There's obviously leading theories.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

Right.

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Wow! Signal | We Caught a 72-Second Signal From Space, Then It Disappeared

But nothing has proven what this signal is.