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The Oracle Room of the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

The Strange Power of Ancient Acoustics

any esoteric and spiritual teachers have inside a chamber, legendary for exceptional used architectural techniques to boost “super- Mlong claimed that our ancient ancestors sound behavior, known as the Oracle Room. acoustics.” Glenn Kreisberg, a radio frequency possessed a science of sound, now lost, which During testing, a deep, male voice in a spectrum engineer with the research group, made it possible to do many things which range of 70 – 130 hz stimulated a resonance observed that in the Hypogeum, the “Oracle baffle us today. Some researchers, like the late phenomenon throughout the Hypogeum, Chamber ceiling, especially near its entrance, John Michell, have argued that the ancients creating what was described as a “bone-chill- and the elongated inner chamber itself, ap- were able to use their mastery of chanting and ing effect.” Sounds continued to echo for up pear to be intentionally carved into the form acoustics to levitate heavy objects to build to eight seconds. Archaeologist Fernando of a wave guide.” Similar design elements are many gigantic structures which still stand, Coimbra reported that he felt the sound also employed in the building of today’s state- and which our modern technology would be crossing his body at high speed, leaving a sen- of-the-art recording studios. hard-pressed to duplicate. While no one has sation of relaxation. Project organizer Linda Eneix says, “If been able to prove ancient levitation, new re- Sound in a Basso/Baritone range vibrates we can accept that these developments were search is demonstrating that the ancients cer- in a certain way as a natural result of the en- not by accident, then it’s clear that Hal tainly knew a great deal about sound, which vironment in the Hypogeum, just as it does Saflieni’s builders knew how to manipulate a we have only recently relearned. On the in Ireland’s Newgrange passage tomb, mega- desired human psychological and physiologi- Mediterranean island of Malta researchers in lithic cairns, and any stone cavity of the right cal experience, whether they could explain it the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, a 5,000-years-old dimensions. or not.” underground temple, have detected the pres- It is clear that five thousand years ago For more informationformat go to www.ar- ence of a strong double resonance frequency the builders of the Malta temple intentionally chaeoacoustics.org.g. Einstein’s Brain Was Nothing Special, Says New Study

he special nature of Einstein’s made from other, completely or- cal brain. The question for mate- Sheldrake: mind exists in a kind Tbrain, long claimed by reduc- dinary, brains. rialistic science is: if mind doesn’t of forcefield both within and tionist science, has been de- The study is a major blow come from the brain where does without the body. It is a receiver bunked. In a new study by to the orthodox no- it come from? The of intelligence, like a television or psychologist Terence Hine of tion that mind or study seems con- radio is for signals originating Pace University, Einstein’s brain intelligence is sistent with elsewhere. To look for intelli- proved to be nothing special, at strictly a the view of gence in the brain is like looking least in terms of its physical char- function scientists for little performers within one’s acteristics. According to Discover of the like Ru- television set. news, blind tests with unlabeled physi- pert This is not to suggest that slides made from Einstein’s brain much intelligenceg can be found were no different than slides on television.n.

10 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 107 Subscribe or Order Books, DVDs and Much More! ASTRONOMERS FIND EVIDENCE for PLANET X— More Than One

ccording to the late Zecharia Sitchin beyond the orbit of . The orbital align- Athere is an undiscovered planet which ment of these objects has suggested that they makes periodic passes through the solar sys- are influenced by the presence of yet unseen tem and has contributed mightily to the his- planets. Brazilian astronomer Rodney Gomes tory of Earth. He called it ‘Niburu.’ Sitchin reported in May that his calculations showed was, by no means, the first to speculate about the presence of a planet four times the size an unknown “Planet X.” The Lowell observa- of Earth lying beyond the orbit of Pluto. In tory in Flagstaff, Arizona, was originally es- June, Carlos and Raul de la Fuente at the tablished in the hope of explaining anomalies Complutense University of Madrid in Spain in the orbit of Uranus which Lowell believed re-examined the data and concluded that, not must be caused by an unknown trans-Neptun- only must there be a planet such as proposed ian planet. Today the possibility of a Planet by Gomes, but that there must be an even X is alive and well among astronomers. The bigger planet still further out which is influ- latest notion, in fact, is that there could be at encing the first one. That such objects could least two such planets. have remained undiscovered for so long, we The clues which science is following are are told, is quite understandable. in the orbits of some unusual rocky objects Rocks Show Traces of Another Planet

races of another world have been found Ton our moon, but not very much. Theia According to a new study published in collides the journal Science, a team led by Dr. Daniel with Herwartz, of the Universtity of Cologne, in moon Italy, has finally found traces of another planet in the rocks brought back by Apollo like near collisions with other planets have astronauts in the 1960s. Previous attempts to happened often since the dawn of civilization. find such material had failed. Some scientists The moon, wherever it came from, he argued, are hailing the new data as vindication for the was a recent arrival. Such monumental events, conventional Theia theory of Moon origins. he was convinced, account for the amnesia According to this view, the Moon was formed which still cripples the human race. when a hypothetical planet called Theia col- Even more controversial explanations for lided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago. Scien- moon origins have come from researchers like tists advocating other theories, however, say Christopher Knight and Alan Butler. In their that the material discovered is not sufficient book, Who Built the Moon, they argue that to prove the point. the perfectly balanced and geometric relation- The Theia hypothesis may sound like a ship between the moon and Earth indicate catastrophist idea, somewhat similar to those that it was consciously and intelligently con- of the late Emanuel Velikovsky. The big dif- structed and placed in an ideal orbit to sup- ference is over when such events may have oc- port life on Earth—it is not a randomly curred. The establishment thinks that the occurring natural object. moon has been with us since long before hu- For more on the catastrophic history of mans and civilization first appeared. Ve- our solar system, see the article by Martin likovsky believed that catastrophic episodes Ruggles on page 42.

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• BY SCOTT CREIGHTON he long-simmering debate surround- ing quarry marks found in the Great Pyramid in 1837 by British explorer Colonel Howard-Vyse and his team, wasT returned to a full boil in June, 2014, when we reported (in Atlantis Rising #106) damn- ing new evidence taken directly from Vyse’s handwritten journal. The Colonel’s own notes establish a powerful case that—in a bid to con- nect the Great Pyramid to Khufu, a fourth dynasty Pharaoh of ancient Egypt—fraud had been perpetrated. The famous Khufu car- touche, on which mainstream Egyptology re- lies to date the Pyramid, is, clearly, at least partly, a forgery and the notion that the Great Pyramid is no older than 4,600 years has been thrown into doubt. As a consequence of that investigation further questions arose concerning the facsim- ile drawings of the cartouche which Vyse had commissioned by one of his assistants, J.R. Hill. In these facsimile drawings we found Center spread exposé, Atlantis Rising 106 further evidence of Vyse’s fakery. Hill’s Orientations down (rotated 180°), and sometimes sideways During some other unrelated research in (rotated 90°). Using these drawings as the 2013, I had been sent copies of three of Mr. frame of reference (head to the top of cham- Hill’s facsimile drawings by Dr. Patricia Usick ber, feet to bottom), we are presented with ev- of the British Museum. In studying these, I idence revealing how Vyse, instinctively, drew felt there was something odd about them but, the glyphs which he observed in the cham- at the time, I couldn’t quite put my finger on bers, and their specific orientation relative to what it was. In April, 2014, after our rdiscov- the axis of his body—in short, he drew what eries in Vyse’s journals, I contacted Dr. Usick, was in front of him. What he saw and main- asking if she could send me scanned copies tained in his journal drawings was the actual of Mr Hill’s other drawings (28 in all) in order orientation of what he observed. to be able to test my argument. Unfortu- Khufu Cartouche in Vyse diary So the question must be asked: given the nately, Dr. Usick explained to me, there were other examples in his journal, why then did no digital scans or photos of the other Hill The Lie of the Landscapes Vyse suddenly decide to draw the three Khufu facsimiles and the only way I would be able This piece of evidence comes from some- cartouches we find in his diary some 90° to see them would be to arrange an appoint- thing that is so obvious, no one ever actually from how this cartouche actually appears in ment with her at the British Museum, which notices it or, if they do, think it has little rel- the chamber? Are we detecting here, perhaps, evance. a clue as to how Vyse first saw the Khufu car- British It may seem a small point, but we have touche and, thus, why it takes this orientation Museum noticed that the orientation of all three in his written journal? Did Vyse simply copy Khufu cartouches which appear in Vyse’s writ- what he had found elsewhere into Campbell’s ten journal representing the find in Camp- Chamber and then, without thinking through bell’s Chamber is horizontal, which begs the the implications, rotate the original by 90 de- question: why should this be when the actual grees, placing the glyph vertically in the cartouche in Campbell’s Chamber is verti- chamber creating a contradiction with his cally oriented (i.e., at 90° to Vyse’s drawings)? horizontal journal entries? When we examine Vyse’s entire journal, Admittedly, this particular line of reason- we learn that he has drawn other hieroglyphs ing may seem somewhat obscure, but, remark- which are oriented correctly, just as he would ably, we find that the pattern is emulated in have observed them in the various cham- the facsimile drawings of Vyse’s assistant, J.R. Continued on Page 59 bers—sometimes upright, sometimes upside- Hill.

See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74 Number 107 • ATLANTIS RISING 23 ANCIENTANCIENT WWISDOMISDOM The Mysterious Meaning ofMyths

Could They Be Telling Us More than We Realized?

• BY WILLIAM B. STOECKER

herehere iiss bbutut a finefine lineline betweenbetween wwhathat constitutesconstitutes a mmythyth aandnd wwhathat cconsti-onsti- tutestutes a legend.legend. Generally,Generally, mythsmyths areare attemptsattempts ttoo eexplainxplain ssomethingomething ((likelike Tdayay andand night,night, forfor example,example, oror thethe seasons),seasons), Robin Hood Catches generally by invoking supernatural causes. a Ride from Friar Tuck Legends are typically accounts of the deeds (Illustration by Louis of heroes and gods in the remote past and are Rhead, 1912) often based on some kernel of truth. For ex- ample, the Atlantis legend seems to be based on prehistoric civilizations on the (now sub- merged) continental shelves, which were dry the legendary character may be a fusion of blance to Puck, a mythical fairy (or demon) land during the last major glaciation due to these two men, and possibly others as well. who dwelled in the forest and, being a trick- lower sea levels. In recent decades, more and For a time during the Middle Ages in ster (like the Norse god Loki or the more evidence has accumulated proving that England, the term “Robin Hood” (sometimes Amerindian Coyote), had a Jekyll and Hyde there were cities in those regions long before spelled “Robyn Hode”) was applied to prac- personality—he could help or harm people de- the dawn of recorded history. What is hard tically all outlaws. Originally, Robin Hood pending on his mood. to explain is the enduring appeal of certain was said to be a yeoman, or small farmer; men Puck was also known as Robin Goodfel- myths and legends even in the modern world; of this class were actually required to train low, and his German version was called it is as if the old stories resonate with some with the longbow, and it is they who were “Hodekin.” Remember that Robin Hood was deeply buried racial memories. Equally mainly responsible for English victories at the “Robyn Hode” in earlier versions of the story. strange, there are myths and legends more or battles of Crecy, Agincourt, and Poitiers. Bear The Medieval Mayday games (celebrated on less manufactured in modern times that, nev- in mind that a man could be declared an out- the first of May) included plays based on the ertheless, turn out to have some basis in fact law for supporting the wrong political faction Robin Hood legend; and Mayday, or Beltane, or to have some deep, symbolic meaning. or for poaching deer. As the legend devel- was a pagan holiday associated with witch- For example, the legend of Robin Hood oped, such characters as Friar Tuck, Little craft. Centuries later the Bavarian Illuminati continues to inspire books and films. A man John, and, eventually, Maid Marian, were were officially founded on May first, and it called Robin Hood actually lived in Wakefield added. Robin Hood was elevated into the aris- would become a holiday celebrated in Com- in Yorkshire in the late thirteenth and early tocracy and moved from the thirteenth cen- munist countries. Even Robin Hood’s Lin- fourteenth centuries, and an outlaw named tury to the twelfth, and portrayed as loyal to coln green clothing and his residence in a Roger Godberd operated in Sherwood Forest King Richard the Lionhearted, and in rebel- forest suggest the elfen or fairy folk, who were in the thirteenth century; he was declared an lion against his brother John and the Sheriff often depicted as having green skin or cloth- outlaw for having supported the rebellious (shire reeve) of Nottingham. But, from the be- Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort. In fact, ginning, the character bore an uncanny resem- Continued on Page 31

See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74 Number 107 • ATLANTIS RISING 29 HIGHER DIMENSIONSNSIONS rroundingounding her. As a girl she ffoundound missingmi domestic imple- mments,ents, mmissing animals, and • BY JOHN CHAMBERSERS mmissingissing ppeople; sometimes she kknewnew wwhenhe friends or family had ne day, the Pulitzerlitzer aabruptlybruptly turned up in unex- Prize-winning jjour-our- ppectedected pplaces.l In her adulthood nalist Upton Sinclairnclair tthishis qqualityuali could express itself (1878-1968), wwhoho iinn ppainfulainful ways. Call of the Wild wroteO an exposé of the mmeat-eat- authorauthor JackJa London was a close packing industry (The Jungle)le) soso ffriendriend ooff the Sinclair’s. 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BornBorn in a Baltimore board- the predicament he was in, aandnd the Case for a Non-Material Reality iinghousenghou to a ne’erdo-well fa- said, “Come, let’s make an ex-x- ttherher aand a martinet mother, periment. Lie down here, andnd UUptonpto didn’t start school describe the paper to me.” SShehe ddecidedecided nnot.ot. BBut,ut, inin ttheirheir ttroublesroubles ttoo hherer aandnd aaskedsked ttillill hhee was ten; a doctor had Sinclair did so. His wwifeife MentalMental RadioRadio, SinclairSinclair ttriedried ttoo hherer fforor aadvice.dvice. OftenOften sheshe camecame wwarnedarned hish mother that her bril- took his hand and after a mo- ffigureigure ooutut wwhichhich ofof Mary’sMary’s per-per- aawayway fromfrom tthesehese ddrainingraining een-n- lliantlyi l precocious boy ran the ment of concentration said, “It’s ssonalonal characteristicscharacteristics ccontributedontributed ccountersounters withith tearstears inin herher eyes.e es rrisk of his brain’s outgrowing his in the pocket of your gray suit.” to the paranormal gifts she did From her girlhood on, Sin- body if he learned anything Sinclair thought that was impos- have. He noted that Mary had a clair wrote, this capacity for ex- more. Once in school, Sinclair, sible; he had thoroughly searched “too tender heart,” writing that, treme empathy enabled who would eventually write close that coat. But his wife got up, “The griefs of other people over- Mary/Craig to locate all manner to hundred books, including a found the coat, and extracted the whelm Craig like a suffocation.” of things, almost as if that empa- dozen plays, quickly leapt ahead. missing note from a pocket. Sin- People, often total strangers, con- thy extended to the nonliving He graduated from Columbia clair hadn’t looked hard enough. stantly and instantly poured out physical world immediately sur- before he was twenty, having This might seem like a read all the classics and learned minor event in itself, but Mary Upton Sinclair Runs for Govenor of California German, French, Italian, and tracked down innumerable ob- Greek. jects this way. In Sinclair’s office Already in his late teens Sin- miles away, his secretary had mis- clair had described himself as placed some typewriter compo- “apocalyptic and messianic.” nents; Mrs. Sinclair was able to Fifty years later he told the New remotely view, through Sinclair’s York Post he was “a religious mind, the location of the missing man to the extent that I am sure components. Mary constantly this universe can’t be by acci- and inadvertently “saw” what her dent.” In his autobiography he husband was thinking or reading. wrote that he often experienced The phenomenon was so pro- a sort of religious fervor, and nounced that she wondered if that if he had been religious he some controlling force in her would “have seen Saints and own mind weren’t enabling her Martyrs, or Stigmata.” to make her husband think or Upton Sinclair’s first two read what she wanted, and even novels were dreamy, poetic, and reach out for certain books and not well-received. 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32 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 107 Subscribe or Order Books, DVDs and Much More! THE OTHER SIDE true open-minded skeptics. I knew the nasti- ness was coming. This hits people where they live. I knew full well, but hoped people would at least do their homework. There have been very shallow attacks. People get riled up—it rattles cages right where they live.” A renowned academic neurosurgeon who had spent over 30 years honing a main- stream scientific worldview, Alexander’s cage was rattled when in November 2008 he got an early morning wake up call. The 4:30 a.m. arousal wasn’t an emergency at the hospital; it was a searing headache that sent him first to the tub in search of relief, then into con- tinuous seizures, which sent his wife Holley to the phone to call 9-1-1. Over the ensuing seven days, his vital signs declined so dramat- ically that doctors factored his recovering to even a vegetative state at nearly zero. An ex- tremely rare form of bacterial meningitis had invaded his central nervous system, effectively shutting down his brain function and destroy- ing his neocortex. During the near-fatal coma, Dr. Alexander says he entered a realm of un- conditional love and experienced profound awareness of the nature of the universe, one populated by angelic beings and a resonant, omnipotent, omniscient presence he refers to as ‘Om.’ He hopes Proof of Heaven conveys that “this radiant state of total acceptance of who we are is our birthright, and we can tap into it from this earthly plane.” Since the book’s phenomenal success, Alexander has been on the road constantly, doing some- thing he loves to do—speaking to audiences Graduating from Kindergarten Dr. Eben Alexander Speaks of Lessons Learned While ‘Dead’

• BY CYNTHIA LOGAN subsequent pollinglli off a llarger group off onlineli about revelations from his coma experience listeners revealed Dr. Alexander and his part- that elucidate the nature of consciousness. uring a recent debate about the ner, Psychologist and MD, Dr. Raymond Enjoying what he considers a rare gift—relax- nature of consciousness on Na- Moody, winners by a wide margin.) The dis- ing with his family at home in Charlottesville, tional Public Radio’s popular cussion posed this question: If consciousness Virginia—he took time out to share his forum, ‘Intelligence Squared,’ Har- is just the workings of neurons and synapses, thoughts with Atlantis Rising. vardD neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander asked how do we explain the phenomenon of near- “The book was a necessary step to get Yale School of Medicine Academic Neurolo- death experiences? Is an existence after death the story out there, but my preference is to gist, Dr. Steven Novella to state the first sen- ‘real’ and provable by science, or a construct travel and speak,” he confides. Still, writing tence that might explain how the physical of wishful thinking about our own mortality? hasn’t completely taken a backseat; he’s just brain creates consciousness (‘the Hard Prob- The topic is a hot one, fueled in part by finished his second book, tentatively titled lem of Consciousness’). “You can’t,” said Alexander’s runaway bestseller, Proof of The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion Alexander triumphantly; “no one can.” Heaven. The author says he was prepared for and Ordinary People are Proving that the (Though the live audience voted Novella and the critics (Esquire ran a particularly snarky World Beyond Is Real. Available in early No- physicist Sean Carroll of the California Insti- piece that was rebutted in detail by Interna- vember, it addresses the convergence of tute of Technology winners of the debate, tional Association for Near Death Studies re- searcher, Robert Mays). “I wrote Proof for Continued on Page 36

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n May of this year, Mars photographed by NASA’s Vikingng One—the European non- 1 obiter, along with the apparentent profit organization which ruins of a city nearby. Contro-ro- aims to send a team of four versy over the meaning of thathat ANCIENT Ion a one-way trip to Mars, in discovery has raged ever since.ce. 2024—announced the selection of Dismissed as a trick of light andnd 705 candidates chosen for the shadow by NASA, the monu-nu- daring mission from a pool of ments of Cydonia have yet re-re- 200,000 applicants. The chance fused to be fully dismissed, andnd NUKES to be one of first to set now some scientists have argueded foot on the Red Planet, is appar- that not only did Mars host an-an- ently irresistible to many, even cient civilized life, something likeike ON when there will be no chance of what we find on Earth, it maymay MARS return to the home planet. If the also have been a place of deathath MarsOne project succeeds, its in- also like what we have seen oonn trepid voyagers will fulfill an an- Earth. cient quest, but they may not be the first intelligent beings to set Dr. John foot on Martian soil. Brandenburg Since at least the nineteenth century, the possibility of life on Mars has been one of the great preoccupations of life on Earth. Ever since telescopes have been able to provide enough resolu- tion to identify surface features, there have been those convinced that Mars, like Earth, could be inhabited. In 1877 Italian as- tronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli made maps of apparently long straight lines on Mars which he called canali and named after rivers on Earth. His Italian term was translated to English as Dr. John Brandenburg is a ‘canal,’ and led to the popular senior propulsion scientist at Or- notion of a civilized Mars. The bital Technologies Corp., and au- idea later became a staple of sci- thor of the 2013 book Life and ence fiction, most notably in Death on Mars: The New Mars H.G. Wells, The War of the Synthesis. He has assembled Worlds in 1897 featuring an inva- compelling evidence that about sion from Mars. 180 million years ago, Mars was the site of a nuclear explosion— one which wiped out much of The Face at what existed on the surface, leav- Cydonia ing the red-colored, desert planet we find today. While many scien- tists, including geological expert and astronaut Harrison Schmitt, agree that such an event could have occurred, most think it would have been a natural event. Brandenburg, though, thinks the evidence defies natural explana- tion. Dr. David Beaty, NASA’s Mars program science advisor, told Fox News he finds Branden- burg’s evidence “intriguing and fascinating” but he wants a Mars probe to investigate the possible About a century later the site. idea took a dramatic new turn The evidence for a nuclear with publication of The Monu- event appears to radiate from a ments of Mars by Richard hot spot over the northern Mare Hoagland. A gigantic and enig- Acidalium region, an area which matic humanlike face gazing up includes Cydonia. “The spectrum • BY MARTIN RUGGLES from the Cydonia plain had been of krypton and xenon isotopes

42 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 107 found in the Mars atmosphere, particularly xenon 129 and kryp- Shoemaker ton 80,” Brandenburg told At- approaching lantis Rising in a recent interview, “are both produced by nuclear explosions, the xenon 129 di- rectly from fission of uranium 238, and thorium by high energy fusion neutrons, and the krypton 80 by intense neutron bombard- ment of the soil.” Mars mete- orites found on Earth come from subsurface rock and, relative to Earth rocks, are depleted in ura- nium, thorium and potassium, all radioactive elements. However, gamma rays from the Martian New Light surface, as measured by both Russian and American spacecraft, show much higher levels of radi- on the Red ation from two particular hot spots. This adds up to the signa- Sahara have inspired similar con- largest of the asteroids in 1801. Planet’s ture of two possible nuclear jecture. In India, the ancient San- The notion that the events. The data has been con- skrit epic poem, the resulted from a planetary colli- Dark PastPast ffirmedirm and in May of 2013, was Mahabharata included accounts sion is known as the ‘Disruption ppublishedublished iinn Science Magazine. which sound very much like de- Theory,’ though it has been sum- Mars,Mar at that time, be- scriptions of ancient nuclear war- marily rejected by mainstream sci- lieveslieves Brandenburg—before fare. Such possibilities were taken ence. New evidence, however, is beingbein attacked—was in very seriously by Robert Oppen- forcing mainstream science to re- somethingsom like Earth’s heimer, father of the modern consider many ideas once dis- BronzeBro Age. He has no atomic bomb. missed as fringe. ideaide who the attacker may Strangely, the evidence for haveha been. That is one of nuclear destruction on Mars Ancient Life on Mars theth reasons he believes we seems to, at least partially, cor- In 1986, long-time Mars re- nneede to travel to Mars and roborate accounts coming from searcher Brandenburg, who co-au- sseeee if any records may have many once derided sources. Ac- thored with Monica Rix Paxon bbeeneen left. cording to the late Zecharia the book, Dead Mars, Dying For years, the possibility Sitchin, ancient Sumerian records Earth, became the first scientist ooff ancientanci nuclear explosions on tell of the destruction of a planet to stand before a scientific con- EEartharth hash been a subject of much known as by a rogue ference and announce the hy- sspeculation.pecul Evidence of intense planet called Niburu. A 1988 pothesis that a paleo-ocean once hheateat and high radiation from book by Donald W. Patten called existed on Mars. At the time the over 5,000 years ago has been and the Old Tes- idea seemed absurd to the main- found in the Mohenjo Daro re- tament theorized that a planet stream planetary science. How- gion of Pakistan. Unexplained de- called Astra collided with Mars ever, recent visual evidence from posits of of glass in the Egyptian after breaking into pieces, much the Mars Global Surveyor—of as the comet Shoemaker-Levy did past flowing water and of an before hitting Jupiter in 1994. ocean shoreline supported his Many esoteric traditions, such as claim. Perhaps the most telling Theosophy, have long held that evidence of the paleo-ocean was the asteroid belt between Mars from recent images from the and Jupiter is the aftermath of a Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter collision between a planet known (MOLA), which showed a huge as Maldek and Mars. Whether topographical depression in the this might have led to some kind Northern Martian Hemisphere of nuclear event on Mars is un- where the ocean, covering ap- Nuclear clear, but many intuitive sources proximately one-third of the sur- Destruction have long held that Maldek was face of Mars, was located. in the destroyed by the nuclear The presence of this large Mahabharata weaponry of a civilization gone body of water on the surface of mad. Such assertions are easily Mars, claimed Brandenburg, tells found on the Internet. us a great deal about the planet’s Usually, known by the name history. For example, the pres- ‘Phaeton,’ this hypothetical world ence of liquid water reveals that was also known as the ‘fifth temperatures on Mars, currently planet.’ The search for the fifth ranging from –137° to +16° F, planet was originally proposed by were at one time above freezing. German astronomer Johann Elert This is a remarkable fact. Here a Bode after the discovery of Ceres, Continued on Page 68

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eleportation is an idea team at the Neils Bohr institute of quantum information, like the example, if one particle of an en- that captures our imagi- teleported information stored in polarization or spin of a single tangled pair of particles has a nation with it’s fantastic a laser beam into a cloud of photon, and are the analog to the clockwise spin on a certain axis, possibilities. The con- atoms half a meter away. In 2012, classical bit in computing. There the spin of the other particle in Tcept of moving an object from researchers in China made a tele- are some, however, who believe the pair will be counterclockwise. one place to another without portation record, transporting a there are virtually no limits to A change in one of these parti- having to travel between them photon 97 kilometers. In Febru- what may be possible. Professor cles results in an instantaneous has been a common thread in sci- ary of 2014, European physicists Ronald Hanson, one of the re- change in it’s pair, regardless of ence fiction as a way to bridge were also able to teleport quan- searchers from the Netherlands, the distance between them. the depths of interstellar space, tum information through ordi- has said that nothing in our cur- To achieve teleportation time, and other dimensions. nary optical fiber. rent understanding of the laws of using entanglement, two qubits, Today, major scientific institu- The most recent success on physics fundamentally forbids B and C are brought together tions are running trials on the this front was reported by Profes- the teleportation of large objects, and entangled. Then they are sep- teleportation of mat- arated; object B is ter and energy. The al- taken to a sending most unbelievable station and object C potentials of this re- Could Instant is taken to a receiving search are exciting station. At the send- the minds of even ing station, object B practical physicists. Travel Be Coming is scanned with ob- The term tele- ject A, which is the portation was coined Our Way? object we’re wanting by the writer/re- to teleport. This re- searcher Charles Fort sults in object B in 1931 to describe being in one of four anomalous appear- possibile states, which ances and disappear- are encoded as classi- ances that have a cal bits in an electri- long history in folk- cal signal. At this lore. In the past, this point qubits A and B idea was not taken se- are disrupted by scan- riously by scientists ning and essentially because it seemed to destroyed. The two violate classical classical bits can then physics. Even with be sent through some the acceptance of classical means of quantum physics, communication such teleportation still as a laser or a coaxial seemed to violate the cable to the receiving uncertainty principle • BY PATRICK MARSOLEK station. At the receiv- which claims that the ing end, since a ma- measuring of an ob- nipulation was ject could never cap- already performed on ture all of it’s information, since sor Ronald Hanson and a team including humans. “What we are object B at the sending station, it is disrupted in the process. If of researchers at Delft University teleporting is the state of a parti- object C has already been af- an object could never be fully in the Netherlands, showing for cle,” Prof. Hanson has said. “If fected and is in one of four pos- known then no copy could ever the first time that it is possible to you believe we are nothing more sible states. Whichever of the be teleported to another location. teleport information encoded than a collection of atoms strung four states is encoded in the two Yet in 1993, a team of researchers into subatomic particles between together in a particular way, then classical bits, and that informa- at IBM lead by Charles Bennett two points three meters apart in principle it should be possible tion, is applied to object C, re- showed how using a paradoxical with 100% reliability. The Delft to teleport ourselves from one sulting in an exact replica of feature of quantum physics team made this breakthrough place to another.” He goes on to object A. known as the Einstein-Podolsky- into reliability by trapping entan- say, “In practice it’s extremely un- Albert Einstein, Boris Podol- Rosen (EPR) effect, quantum tele- gled electrons in diamonds at likely, but to say it can never sky and Nathan Rosen described portation was possible but only very low temperatures and shoot- work is very dangerous.” in 1935 the now famous “EPR if the original object being tele- ing them with lasers. The dia- What’s making this research paradox,” claiming that this en- ported was destroyed. Their paper monds act as very tiny prisons possible is the phenomenon of tangled behavior should be im- opened the door to more robust for the electrons, holding them quantum entanglement. Entan- possible, since it violated the and practical teleportation re- in place long enough to reliably glement is a physical phenome- local realist view of causality. Ein- search. communicate a shift of the state non whereby the quantum state stein is famously quoted as de- Since then, as the validity of of the linked electrons. of some pairs or groups of parti- scribing this as “spooky action at quantum physics have become Most scientists believe this cles cannot be described inde- a distance” with which he was more accepted, physicists have kind of teleportation could never pendently—they are entangled, very uncomfortable since it sug- been progressing with teleporta- become anything resembling the sharing one quantum state. The gested a faster-than-light connec- tion research working with funda- fictional form of teleportation measurement of the properties of tion. As I discussed in the last mental particles. In 1998, and the transmission of physical entangled particles, such as posi- issue of AR, there are currently physicists at Caltech successfully matter because it’s limited to tion, momentum, spin, and po- different theories about how the teleported a photon. In 2002, a sending qubits. Qubits are units larization, are all correlated. For universe is constructed which can

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