Don’t Eat Popcorn?
Did you all know I went to the same University as Stephen King? I used to see him walking around campus and getting a beer after school, he taught English for awhile. What I always loved about his horror stories was his sense of humor. While I am no match for his creative genius, my particle can potentially create enough horror on its own and I will try to be the funny one.
As an engineer I know that by itself, natural gas does not burn, did you know that? It needs a source of oxygen as well as a source of ignition. So let’s say it is Sunday afternoon and you are getting ready to watch the big football game. You have a bit of indigestion from that big Mexican food meal last night creating a little extra gas. You have been belching off and on all day.
Game time is in 5 minutes and you sit down in your favorite chair along with a bag of popcorn and a cold one. The popcorn is that fluffy buttery kind so you wolf it down. What you don’t realize is that all of that air in the popcorn has now mixed with the natural gas in your stomach to create a mixture in the 5%-15% range which is required for natural gas to ignite, if it only had an ignition source.
You are 30 seconds away from kickoff and unfortunately for you, weeks before our favorite black hole sun had a bad spell and ejected a weakly interacting massive energetic particle at the Earth. It came screeching into the atmosphere, already traveling at 500 miles/sec and it ACCELERATED due to its ion engine. It arced across the Pacific Ocean and entered into Earth and orbited with Earth’s black hole center of mass and popped back up…underneath you. It was traveling so fast and was so small that it probably would have passed through you with little or no effect except that it carried an electrical charge and also had an intense localized bubble of radiation.
It was this electrical charge that, when passing through your stomach, ignited the natural gas and air mixture in your stomach and, well you know, SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. It takes a crematorium 8 hours @ 2000 F to finish off a body. The intense heat from the particle might also catch the fat cells on fire in your body and pretty much finish you off, especially if it orbited for a period of time. You might be caught in that bubble of intense radiation and it might not have a dramatic effect on the surroundings outside of the bubble. Many of the documented cases have shown this phenomena. Here is a documented case in Florida.
What are the chances? I would say normally you should have bought a lottery ticket that day because the chances would be much better of winning the lottery than getting struck by a particle. Now, during times when the density of orbital dark matter is high on our planet due to the sun or a comet having a bad spell all bets are off.
The game started as usual with one less fan cheering…
Godspeed
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Dark Matters a Lot 
Wow…such a great explanation for such and unexplainable phenomenon. I hope someone is listening.
I think they are…
That could be a good thing or a bad one.
Lots of uncertain health benefits to stay away from the fluffy kind. A little butter is OK…
Pretty cool. Your particle seems to be a magic bullet, my friend;)
I never did like popcorn anyway.
So, do you figure there are any elements that may offer protection from your particle? Is it even theoretically possible?
If a large enough particle stream orbited through the earth in the “right” place, could it be responsible for concentrations of certain mineral deposits? via LENR transmutation, possibly? I wouldn’t expect it to supercede normal/conventional geological processes, but it may form a part of the larger picture.
Black Hole Sun
It is going to be very hard to get rid of this stuff.
It does react gravitationally if you could catch up to it you might be able to divert it off coarse from the sun, the earlier the better.
If you could generate a very energetic dark matter particle beam maybe you could annihilate it…It would trigger lots of cosmic rays…
Yes, that is why I called it God’s Particle. It transmutes elements in its path via beta decay & LENR. The most stable stream will be at the center of a sinkhole. It can also mutate biological entities in its path in the same way. I believe if the mutation is an advantage it might take hold. If it mutates and forms a cancer that is detrimental, well so be it. Since comets have dark matter nuclei, this is how they spread life through the universe. It has nothing to do with snow and ice. They can transmute any particles that reach their surface.
Other than mass and orbit and number of nuclei, I am not sure there is that much difference between a comet, a moon, a planet, and a sun. They all have dark matter nuclei in my model. I believe our view of how micro black holes or dark matter reacts is wrong. Their small surface area severely limits them from collapsing lots of matter, instead they shred it into protons and electrons and other cosmic stuff around them.
Thank you. You’ve given me more to think about.
Also, if you hit it from the side with any type of matter in space it will turn towards you as its shoots its ion tail out the opposite side, scary stuff… Problem is that it is fast moving and a very small target… Plus you will get rid of our weather at the same time and may trigger droughts…
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