Galactic Flaring

It has long been known that the center of galaxies are prone to flaring, with huge outbursts of radiation. However, it was not until May of this year that a galactic flaring event was observed for the Milky Way, when radiation in the infrared spectrum shot up by 75 times that of normal levels.

Super-massive black hole

The consensus explanation for this involves a hypothetical super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. However, the existence of such an object is theoretically dodgy. It’s also in contradiction with observations made back in 2014. Back then, a large object, probably a gas cloud, passed the center without anything happening.

The Electric Universe paradigm is therefore a better source of plausible explanations. In this model, charged plasma, and a high density of charged bodies in the center of galaxies, combine to produce flares, electric pinches and discharges. The list of possibilities is no longer restricted to astronomic unicorns.

Galactic super-waves

But regardless of explanation, the observations fit the galactic super-wave theory proposed by Paul La Violette. Namely that our galaxy flares up every now and again, with violent outbursts producing super-waves of cosmic radiation.

While the Milky Way’s recent flaring is unlikely to qualify as a super-wave, it may be strong enough for astronomers to test some of the predictions made by La Violette. We may for instance see an up-tick in high energy cosmic radiation coming from the galactic center.

Looking for stellar flaring

But the center of our galaxy is 52850 light years away from us. So, particles will have to travel at 99.999% of the speed of light in order to strike us within months from the initial visible flare.

The vast majority of particles will strike later. Particles traveling at 99% of the speed of light will arrive 528 years into the future, and those traveling at 90% will arrive a full 5285 years into the future. We can therefore only hope to detect the most energetic particles in our lifetime.

However, we may be able to see what is in store for us by observing stars closer to the center of our galaxy, where events will unfold sooner, and at a brisker pace.

La Violette predicts that stars will flare up as a direct consequence of being hit by a super-wave. We should therefore be able to see some evidence of this due to the recent flaring at the galactic center. There should be a shock wave, as it were, in which stars flare up when hit by the bulk of cosmic radiation.

This will allow us to calculate more accurately the time and intensity of any flaring we may experience on our own sun in some distant future.

Rapid end of the great ice age

If we’re lucky, we may get some clues as to what happened at the end of the last great ice age when the ice caps that had built up over more than 100,000 years melted away over a mere 6,000 years.

The speed with which the melting happened is remarkable in its own right. But what makes it even more remarkable is that this happened despite the Younger Dryas cooling event. A catastrophe that plunged the planet back into the ice age for a period of 1,000 years.

Conventional thinking sees the Younger Dryas as an anomaly in an otherwise steady warming event. But it could also be that all grand ice-ages end in this way. Because a two stages melting event fits well with what we know about cosmic rays. Namely that they come in two different types.

There are highly energetic particles that travel at near light speeds, and then there are lower energy particles that travel at lower speeds.

A super-wave will therefore produce two flaring events on stars as it moves trough the galaxy. First, there’s a short lived shock when high energy particles hit the stars. Then, there’s a more prolonged epoch that happens when the less energetic particles arrive.

Conclusion

If we see two stage flaring on stars close to the center of our galaxy, we will have come a long way in confirming the super-wave theory. It will also go a long way towards explaining the events at the end of the last great ice age. Because it will lay out the following timeline:

1. Galactic super-wave hit our solar system 16,000 years ago
2. The first wave of particles peaked 15,000 years ago
3. The gap in radiation reached a minimum 13,000 years ago
4. The bulk of lower energy particles reached Earth 12,000 years ago
5. We are currently basking in the warm afterglow of the super-wave

By United States Geological Survey – https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1386a/gallery2-fig35.html, Public Domain, Link