There is an over 90% likelihood that a superwave will arrive in the next 400 years, with a finite chance that one could arrive in the next decade. Currently, radio astronomers are monitoring the cosmic ray synchrotron radiation activity of the Galactic core on a daily basis. They report their findings regularly in IAU (International Astronomical Union) circulars. For the time being the Galactic core appears to be continuing in its quiescent state. However, it is possible that its level of activity could change in the blink of an eye. A superwave might arrive just as suddenly as a gamma ray burst. To prepare for this eventuality, an early warning system needs to be set up and a plan of action needs to be put in place. In this way, should there be signs of a significant core outburst and concomitant superwave cosmic ray arrival, the proper organizations around the world could be promptly notified so that the proper precautions are taken. In this way, the impact of such an event could be drastically reduced.
More public education is need to increase the general awareness about the phenomenon and its potential threat to the Earth so that ways might be found of minimizing the effects of a superwave should one arrive. More scientific papers need to be presented on research on this subject and media coverage of the subject is needed. Astronomical and geological research needs to be conducted to learn more about this phenomenon. For example, a more detailed analysis needs to be made of the concentrations of beryllium-10 and cosmic dust present in the ice age portion of the Earth's polar ice record which could be remnants of earlier superwave passages.
In regard to the superwave EMP problem, there is a need to develop an awareness about this phenomenon so that if it does occur, nations in possession of nuclear devices do not misinterpret it as an aerial nuclear detonation attack. Also there is a need to develop emergency plans to implement measures that will minimize the impact of a superwave's EMP on power and communications networks. Recently, the U.S. National Research Council made a step in the right direction by publishing a report entitled Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts which describes hazards to modern society that could occur should we experience a large magnitude solar storm, similar to the 1859 Carrington event solar flare. The report is relevant from the standpoint of preparedness for a superwave hazard because many of the adverse effects it describes are the same as those that would occur during the arrival of a superwave, even one of relatively low magnitude. The Starburst Foundation had warned the National Research Council and other government agencies about such hazards in their 1989 public outreach project on superwaves. Efforts need to be made to develop and implement user based alternative electrical energy generators so that the factories, hospitals, offices, and residents can disconnect from the electrical power grid. The Starburst Foundation supports efforts to achieve this objective.
Essay by Dr. John Bloomer, Ph.D., Aerospace Engineer
Dr. Paul LaViolette is a very quiet, modest, soft-spoken, humble and unassuming, scientist... but like the boy with his finger in the dike, he could be forgiven if he were loud, bombastic, insistent, rude and intemperate - because his message most emphatically means life and death, survival versus oblivion, opportunity grasped over against an accelerating nightmare of the elements of Nature periodically gone wild. The Galactic disaster he alone has discovered and documented, recurs once every 13,000 years. Concatenating astronomy, physics, geology, meteorology and archeology, he finds a ubiquitous, grim and irrefutable true story of stark terror told by astrology, myth and legend: The Core of the Galaxy routinely explodes, leading to circumstances that in the past have resulted in mass extinctions - and we're presently somewhat overdue.
Averting Impending Extinction of Our Civilization by a Recurrent "Superwave" from the Galactic Center
by John H. Bloomer
President, Discraft Corp.
(advanced aerospace science & technology)
1990 S.E. 157th Drive, Portland, Oregon 97233
(503) 251-6914January 2, 1998
To: Fellow-denizens of planet Earth
Ladies & Gentlemen:
Evidently, we face the ultimate survival test for our civilization. Dr. Paul LaViolette has determined that indeed both our species' recent history and that of the crust of our planet, have been both gradual and catastrophic. However, the catastrophes are of first and most immediate concern, since they relate to periodic "superwaves" or volleys of cosmic rays from the Galactic Center itself. The Galactic Center is an incredibly superdense region only about as big as the sphere enclosing Jupiter's orbit: it is about 23,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.
Superwaves appear normally to endure for up to hundreds or thousands of years, dating from the time of first arrival of superwave cosmic-ray showers in the Solar System, as shown by recent Russian ice-core samples from the midst of the Continent of Antarctica. As shown by LaViolette, they characteristically, result, in a chain reaction of violent events -- effects which in combination, it appears, can pose a serious hazard to human and most other crustal life on Earth.
Apparently, our civilization -- alike earlier ones -- could be destroyed by such an event, as matters stand, if we don't successfully defend ourselves. When? Evidently unknown. Tomorrow is possible. Or a hundred years from now. Or a thousand. We do seem to be somewhat overdue on an average scale.
It appears that cosmic-ray volleys travel at nearly light speed -- meaning we will have little or no warning, perhaps only minutes, of their imminent arrival. The volley or volleys with our civilization's name on it would already be well on its way from the Galactic Core. From the time a superwave hits, we should have about four months maximum warning before the first of a chain of irreversible worst effects strike -- an effect which inevitably will then precipitate all the others both singly and in combination.
Four months, as matters stand today, would not be nearly enough time to ward off a superwave's progressive, inexorable, devastation of our civilization and our environment (planetary surface):
We need to defend not only our planet, but logically the first line of defense is the Solar System itself. Because superwave-induced changes in the Sun will cause some of the worst damage to the human species unless we avert them by somehow shielding the Solar System. For example, due to drastic, superwave-caused, solar-flare activity increase, central electrical power all over the globe could immediately and permanently be cut off. Solar flares could increase by factors of many hundred times, covering the Sun, as cosmic dust invades the solar system and the Earth's atmosphere, initiating a permanent, everyday, day-long darkness along with great heat from dramatically increased infrared radiation. This heat will initiate great drying, conflagrations, sweeping the planet -- grass, trees, homes and forests will be burned -- while great ocean evaporation proceeds to return as torrential downpours then the snow and ice of a New Ice Age (this in fact seems to be the mechanism initiating Ice Ages -- they begin with, are precipitated by, cosmic dust brought in by Galactic Core superwave volleys). In the heating period preceding the Ice Age, mountain glaciers and the ice caps will undergo drastically increased melting rates, possibly initiating devastating floods.
Clearly drastic advances in the sciences of aeronautics and astronautics are not only desirable, but they are absolutely urgent and imperative.
Reference: Earth Under Fire, by P. A. LaViolette, 1997, 2005 (Bear & Co., Rochester, VT).
Paul LaViolette (P. L.) attempts to address some questions below.
From an email he received 1/16/06:
Dr. LaViolette and/or Staff at Starburst Foundation:
Could it be that the solar sunspot activity that peaks every 11 years in our solar system is a reaction to a mini galactic superwave/ripple that hits our solar system at the same time? and if so, could a review of the 11 year sunspot cycles for increases in intensity (over however many sunspot cycles data has been collected) show a trend toward increased likelihood of a big event?
It would seem that if the sun spot activity and output of energy from two or more consecutive 11 year cycle solar events showed an exponential upward curve trend in intensity that the third or fourth following 11 year cycle might be the big one, no?
P. L.: In the past, I had wondered whether the 11 and 22 year solar cycle may be related to long-period gravity potential fluctuations emanating from the Galactic core. The subquantum kinetics physics theory links gravity potential to genic energy production rate, and hence to solar output. That is, about 10 to 15 percent of the solar output is predicted to be of non-nuclear origin arising from photon energy blueshifting. The energy spontaneously generated through photon blueshifting is what I term genic energy. The rate of photon blueshifting and hence of genic energy production is predicted to correlate with the ambient value of the G potential.
More negative gravity potential is predicted to create more supercritical conditions in the reactive ether which in turn increase the rate of photon blueshifting. So in theory cyclic changes in the G potential generated at the Galactic center could produce a cyclic effect on solar luminosity and possibly the level of sunspot activity. But there are no detectors I know of that will measure the ambient value of the gravity potential, particularly levels varying as slowly as 11 years peak to peak.
Gravity wave detectors are of no help since they are designed to measure force, not potential, and forces that vary over short time scales (e.g., minutes).
So it is difficult to test this hypothesis. Also the mother star Sgr A* at the center of the Galaxy has a mass of about 4 million solar masses as compared with 10 billion solar masses for the Galaxy's central bulge. So even a large 50% variation in the mass of Sgr A* would produce only a 0.01% change in the local G potential or a change of one part per million in the Sun's G potential (the Sun's G potential being 50 times larger in magnitude than the Galaxy ambient).
Since genic energy luminosity is about one tenth of the total solar luminosity, one would expect to see a change of only a tenth of a part per million in the Sun's overall luminosity. The Sun's luminosity instead changes by about 0.1% over one solar cycle. So it seems more likely that this solar cycle variation is due to processes intrinsic to the Sun and not to the Galactic center. If there were such a Galactic center effect, one would expect to see subtle cyclic variations in other stars that have a similar 11 and 22 year cycle period. But I don't know that there is any evidence of this.
I don't deny that there are ongoing gravity potential fluctuations coming from the center of the Galaxy that may affect the Earth. As I mention in Earth Under Fire, in the 1970's Dr. Joseph Weber at the University of Maryland claimed to have detected gravity waves with his gravity wave antenna and claimed that they emanated from the direction of the Galactic center. But his results were not believed by the scientific community. Also Townsend Brown reported changes in electro-gravitic force that had a correlation with the orientation of the zenith to the Galactic center.
In 1987, during the peristroika period, Starburst Foundation researcher Paul LaViolette spearheaded the first US-Soviet ice core exchange. This resulted in closer ties between U.S. and Soviet ice core programs. LaViolette's initial intention was to obtain ice samples from the new deep ice core that had been drilled at the Soviet base in Vostok, Antarctica. Previously there was no way for U.S. researchers to receive samples from the Soviets due to the ongoing cold war. After sending several letters to the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in Leningrad (St. Petersburgh), and one letter to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, LaViolette received a letter in May 1987 from the head of the Soviet polar program laboratory agreeing to provide LaViolette with samples and also suggesting that the U.S. and Soviet Union consider an exchange of polar scientists between their two Antarctic bases, Vostok and the Amundsen Scott Station.[1]
The Division of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) had also received a copy of this same letter, but the NSF division director had apparently not responded to the U.S.-Soviet exchange opportunity that was being offered to them, even after having received a June 1st notification call from LaViolette. The Division of Polar Programs did not realize that they had an important opportunity before them until after LaViolette had called up their office a second time in November of that year and pointed out to one of their personnel certain key passages in the Soviet's letter; see telecon transcript.[2] News of this exchange and of LaViolette's trip to pick up the Vostok ice samples was covered the following year in the science section of the Oregonian (June 9, 1988 issue).[3]
Some months later, assisted by funding from a Starburst donor, LaViolette prepared two insulated ice chests and set out to pick up the samples he had been promised. He travelled to Rotterdam, Netherlands where he rendezvoused with the Soviet vessel Akademic Federov on its way back from Antarctica. He loaded the samples in insulated chests cooled with dry ice and gel packs and flew them to an ice core storage facility at the U.S. Geological Society facility in Denver.
Soviet vessel Akademic Federov moored in Rotterdam
Ice samples stored in the Federov's refrigerated hold
Chests of ice samples being unloaded from the Federov
