Canaries in the Coal Mine

Humans have an advantage. We live in a compressible fluid, the atmosphere. The gasses of the atmosphere expand and contract all of the time, much of it due to orbital weakly interacting massive particles, as I have found… Unless we end up directly in one of the massive particle’s orbital path, such as those unfortunate to live in New York and New Jersey where Sandy particle and her friends made their presence known, we go about our daily lives mostly oblivious to the orbiting particles’ presence other than watching the news at night and listening to the weather forecast or admiring a rainbow now and again.

Our friends in the oceans and lakes however, are in a more unforgiving environment. Water is a non-compressible fluid which transfers sounds at high speeds for long distances. I remember one 4th of July in Maine on the lake around 1970. I had a cousin who threw cherry bombs into the lake during the festivities. I noticed the next morning many fish were washed up on shore or floating on the surface where he had been dropping his man-made depth charges.

A weakly interacting massive particle travelling through the ocean at 250 miles/second might have the same effect. The bow shock created on the leading edge of the particle would send a sound wave into the surrounding waters, which would propagate for miles. If you happen to be a mammal such as a pilot whale that relies on sounds for communication and navigation, the presence of one of these particles orbiting through the nearby waters, if it did not injure you, might force you to seek shelter from the shrieking particle in shallow waters, a recipe for disaster.  Since those orbiting particles can spend days, weeks or months orbiting, the animals may feel trapped.

As I have mentioned in a previous post, the mass beaked whale stranding on the Greek island of Corfu had all the signatures of an orbiting particle, a low frequency (10-15 second period) whistling sound heard by many people near the stranding.  I realize some of these are blamed on Navy sonar, but our particle friend would trigger the same effect.

These ocean and lake fish and mammals will be our canaries in the coal mine. During periods of high infiltration of orbiting dark matter particles, we will see more of them washing up or seeking refuge from the screeching particles and getting trapped on shores. Research has also shown that whales tend to flee an area with active earthquakes. I don’t blame them, although you would think they might be mostly protected in the oceans.  If my theory is correct, since my orbiting particles can orbit for days, weeks or months BEFORE triggering earthquakes through beta decay, you would expect to see strandings BEFORE the earthquakes happened. LOOK WHAT HAPPENED 2 DAYS BEFORE THE CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKES.

I previously posted a blog on fish kills after on lake Erie this summer after waterspouts.  If waterspouts are caused from an atmospheric disturbance, why are they killing so many fish?

In a severe event on Earth, there will be no place to hide from these massive orbiting particles and unfortunately our ocean friends are at a disadvantage to begin with.

Godspeed

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