The mysterious Dark Flow and the Beta Universe

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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080923-dark-flows.html

As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered.

Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon "dark flow."

The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude.

When scientists talk about the observable universe, they don't just mean as far out as the eye, or even the most powerful telescope, can see. In fact there's a fundamental limit to how much of the universe we could ever observe, no matter how advanced our visual instruments. The universe is thought to have formed about 13.7 billion years ago. So even if light started travelling toward us immediately after the Big Bang, the farthest it could ever get is 13.7 billion light-years in distance. There may be parts of the universe that are farther away (we can't know how big the whole universe is), but we can't see farther than light could travel over the entire age of the universe.

......"The structures responsible for this motion have been pushed so far away by inflation, I would guesstimate they may be hundreds of billions of light years away, that we cannot see even with the deepest telescopes because the light emitted there could not have reached us in the age of the universe," Kashlinsky said in a telephone interview. "Most likely to create such a coherent flow they would have to be some very strange structures, maybe some warped space time. But this is just pure speculation."

Strange structures, warped space and time, and a region that is sucking whole clusters of galaxies, to.. where?

All this brings to mind Kenneth Grant's writings, starting with Hecate's Fountain, about a hostile Beta Universe (as opposed to our Alpha Universe). It cannot be easily transposed to science, since it is, you know, magick, but I read the article with the same old question: Have the artists, magicians and crackpots through the ages unveiled significant, majestic, life-as-you-know-it changing truths, only to be laughed at, ridiculed, alienated?

The same question popped in my head long before I read Valee's Passport to Magonia, and it refuses to go anywhere.

Would a localized inspection at the origins of this dark flow reveal the being called the Sentinel guarding the entrance to madness and Godhood?

But more importantly, when will the time come when all data and theories unite into one, all-explaining unity? I am a firm believer that, given enough time, this will come to pass. Mankind's craziest visionaries will be thought of again, this time with respect, and that will be enough..

They live among us (Orb followup synchronicity)

“The tiny probes I’m talking about will be so inconspicuous that it’s no surprise that we haven’t come across one. It’s not the sort of thing that you’re going to trip over in your back yard. So if that is the way technology develops, namely, smaller, faster, cheaper and if other civilizations have gone this route, then we could be surrounded by surveillance devices.”

Paul Davies quoted by Technoccult, also citing several studies on yhe possibility of microscopically organized life, even on a quantum level.
So, it is possible (it has always been possible, it is just that now science has begun to ponder the possibility) that alien life forms have always been with us. It is possible that they landed, but nobody took notice. The slow moving behemoths occupying the planet had no chance of even thinking about the scale, or even the time-frame of the alien intelligence. They are just too fast to be caught. Just not as fast a s a flash on a camera.
Tiny orbs, specks of dust displaying intricate patterns, dismissed as focal artifacts end depth of field plays. Tiny crafts, tiny beings, large scale consequences. Now, that's a trip..

Orbs and their reality (or ours)

Reading an article about orbs, the mysterious lights sometimes appearing in photographs, I was reminded of how little we know of the world surrounding us. Let's face it: Despite using fancy words like quantum shift, planes of existence, perichoresis and particle index of refraction, our perception of the reality surrounding us is at best fuzzy. Orbs could be the most overlooked phenomenon ever, providing glimpses on the 11th universe impaling our own, according to the m-theory of quantum physics. Or they could be little windows to the Middle Kingdom, the home of the Faery. Or they could be the souls of the dead. Or they could be tiny short-lived portals. Or they could be anything.
Most likely they could be particles of dust catching the light, but that cannot be proven either. Oh the irony. Being an image professional, I have never seen a lens that can focus on a couple of meters, and still show the intricate detail of an object millimeters from the lens in all its fractal beauty. Or a flash bulb that can make a dust particle shine like a small sun but still leave white objects semi-dark. Or dust that can refract light and create a lens flare, where sources of light fail to do so.
I know nothing conclusive about orbs, but it seems that nobody else does anyway..
Image and explanation (if you like) at http://www.diepart.com/164401.html

UPDATE: Follow-up on orbs: http://t-incognita.blogspot.com/2010/10/orbs-and-invisible-thread.html

Mythical Mayan Underground Found (or so they think)

Archaeologists again think they have found the mythical underground passage to Xibalba, the Mayan equivalent of a legendary underground city, imhabited by superheroes and Gods. Xibalba is supposedly the place they vanished into when their civilization came to an abrupt end around the Middle Ages.
Let's see. What they found is a bunch of caves, submerged or not, some temples, some offerings, some bones. And of course the find is not the only one of it's kind, since the Yucatan peninsula is filled with enormous cave systems and Mayan remnants of worship.
The Xibalba myth is similar to the Acheron ancient Greek Myth, the Greek Underworld where Hades, the god of the dead lived along with heroes and demigods. But the myths have similarities of passage as well, complete with paranormal guard-dog, Indiana Jones - type obstacles and more.
The question here is this: Why did those people locate their mythical entrances on sites so easily explored, and clearly not leading anywhere? It's not that the ancients where not good explorers or easily intimidated by hardship, as proven by their presence in the remotest and most desolate of locations.
Was it that they dared not venture in a place clearly marked as sacred? Did they blindly believe their own myths? Or was it something else entirely?
Could it be that the caves where "open" only under certain circumstances, or on specific dates?
If such a thing as a portal to somewhere else exists, and is influenced - as ancient traditions state - by earth currents and proximity to water, would it be eternal?
The portals (known as Einstein-Rosen bridges in physics) if they where ever there, seem to have been long gone from these places, leaving only the meagre offerings of the people. And if they are gone from there, they must be relocated somewhere else, mustn't they?
How close to home could they be? And would we know?

Explosions in Canada and strange crafts everywhere...

Strange explosions near the Arctic regions of Canada, recorded by seismologists everywhere , black smoke, meteorites (!), UFO's, dead whales and unidentified submarines hanging around the area. Not a known hotspot, Baffin Island may be just the tip of the iceberg (no pun intended).
UFO and paranormal activity has risen in the past few months, with dead bigfoots (), countless UFOs taped and photographed all over the world, a mass extinction event concerning amphibians, and of course, a UFO crash complete with Men In Black, Black Cars and a full recovery operation in Needles, California.
Is it me or is it getting weird on this planet?

Tunguska Incident is 100 years old.

Yes, it's been a 100 years since the famous Tunguska incident. And although the scientific community (the mainstream, that is) maintains that the only plausible cause for the event must have been a meteorite 40 meters across, over the years numerous researchers proposed various alternatives, the most popular being the alien craft explosion theory, the mini black hole theory, and last but not least the Nikola Tesla Death Ray theory.
Coincidence that Tesla was working at his Death Ray at the time, and destroyed all his notes immediately after the Tunguska incident? Maybe it is...

Ancient Underground Structure in Slovakia - Lost forever?

“I froze in amazement - there stands something like a large, black silo framed in white limestone formations. It is a glass-smooth flank of a seemingly man-made structure. Even the thought of a tower-sized artifact embedded in rock in the middle of an obscure mountain is bewildering.” - Antonin T. Horak (Diary Entry), October 23, 1944

I came across this research page, referring to a vast underground structure a Partisan fighter used for hiding during WWII in the Tatra Mountains area in Slovakia.
Allen Hynek was involved until his death, and Ted Phillips took over for an expedition in 1999, of which the report on the web page is unfinished..
Now, I'm a sucker for caves and underground cities and secret hideouts and ancient alien artifacts. And I blame Indiana Jones for that. Never mind..
But this story had something genuine about it, distinguishing it from crappy internet mysteries and comic-inspired stories.
The story is well highlighted, with plenty of historical records, and the only room for doubt is whether the old man misinterpreted a normal cave for something artificial with strange properties. His report mentions polished walls, shafts, strange substances on them, and even a warm wall with a humming like a turbine (!) heard behind it.
What impressed me the most was his report of stalactites and stalagmites in all the passages, blocking his way and scratching him. He had to break off some big chunks to pass. Now, a carstic structure like a stalactite grows about a centimeter each century. You can tell where I am going with this. He also discovered some bear bones in there, where no bear could fit...
It all sounds very familiar, resembling closely the Pendeli Cave story I have followed closely for decades, down to the artificial tunnels from thousands of years ago and the strange feeling of awe.. I hope the Tatra Mountains cave does not have the fate of the cave of Pendeli, with the military and bizarre fractions of the NATO destroying everything in sight, while conducting weird and useless structures..
I will have to write to the people on the web page, to find out if there is an end to the story...

UPDATE: I contacted Ted Phillips and he informed me that a dedicated website, projectmoonshaft.org , will be up later this month, to accompany a new expedition to the Tatra Mountains in September and to offer info and video.