Danny Jones Podcast - #365 - Space Weather Expert: Pole Shifts, NASA Cover-ups & Super Flares | Stefan Burns
Episode Date: January 19, 2026Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Stefan Burns is a geophysicist and YouTuber investigating solar activity/space weather, planetary alignments, and g...eophysical energetic events so we may all better understand the quality of the energies of the Solar System and the Earth. SPONSORS https://mizzenandmain.com - Use code DANNY20 for 20% off. https://rhonutrition.com/discount/danny - Use code DANNY for 20% OFF everything. https://amentara.com/go/DJ - Use the code DJ22 for 22% off your first order. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS @StefanBurns https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo https://www.earthevolution.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Massive solar flare is coming 00:01:58 - The biggest solar event in history 00:03:34 - Miyake events & the younger dryas cataclysm 00:05:24 - What happens during a super flare 00:07:20 - The Carrington Event of 1859 00:11:38 - Geophysics explained 00:16:09 - Telluric currents at ancient sites 00:20:00 - Marine seismograph machines 00:25:26 - The geophysics job industry 00:29:19 - Uncovering Japanese POW remains in California 00:32:56 - Modern GPR tech (ground penetrating radars) 00:36:30 - Magnetic field surveying for minerals 00:38:24 - South Atlantic anomaly 00:44:49 - Measuring historic magnetism in pottery 00:49:48 - How the southern Atlantic anomaly is affecting us 00:52:59 - Magnetic pole flips 00:58:53 - Radiation belts around the planets 01:02:42 - What happens if the magnetic poles flip 01:05:05 - Evidence for super volcano in the Arctic 01:10:05 - Space weather & solar wind 01:14:38 - Tools to detect solar storms 01:17:46 - Could a magnetic pole shift "reset" humanity? 01:23:10 - Reason for mass extinction events 01:24:56 - Sudden warming periods 01:32:14 - Our weather is becoming more volatile 01:40:14 - MIT plasma fusion scientist who died mysteriously 01:45:12 - Earthquake lights 01:51:41 - How nuclear testing changed the Earth 01:59:26 - Anti-matter & the big bang 02:03:26 - NASA debunks big bang theory 02:09:40 - 3I/ATLAS 02:19:08 - New photos of 3I/ATLAS 02:23:08 - OSIRIS-REx mission & the building blocks of life 02:26:01 - The younger dryas hypothesis 02:31:34 - Why Atlantis may have been in the Azores 02:37:07 - New scans beneath the Pyramids 02:45:31 - Pyramid chemical manufacturing theory 02:53:02 - Schumann resonances 03:03:15 - Humanity's cycles of consciousness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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All right, Stefan. Thank you for coming, dude. I'm excited to talk to you.
Thank you. Great. I see my X-Feed is littered with these types of posts. There's a sunspot. There's a solar flare. There's a double solar flare. There's all these things happening. These coronal mass ejections that are going to like, you know, cause a cataclysm or something like this. And nothing ever happens.
Yeah, there's this interesting, because I cover this in my videos and I talk about it and it's just an interest in mine.
Because originally I was focused on the geology and then the geophysics of the earth.
And naturally I had to start studying the space environment to understand what was happening here to a better degree.
And so as a result, I learned about this and I make a video saying, hey guys, we have a solar storm coming in.
This is the forecast.
Let's say we do see it launch.
It's like guarantee we're going to get hit.
We have a G3 storm.
A lot of people will be like, oh, here he is calling for the end of the world again.
It's like, well, guys, I never said that.
It's just like this, we have a solar storm coming in.
But there's something about the mix of it being epic in scale because it is a massive explosion on the sun, which is many times the size of the Earth.
So it's fundamentally epic in scale paired with also a lack of education as to these things.
and even added a third of some people taking these events
and then twisting them into a doomsday narrative
and having done that for a long time,
that creates this convergence of people thinking
that the moment there's a solar flare, we're all doomed.
But that is like we could have what we call a super flare
and we don't know how that would affect the earth.
But in terms of is that going to happen tomorrow
or we would need a gigantic,
sunspot-like, unbelievably large. And we would have clear optics on that. And we're not seeing that
right now. But it could happen. What is the biggest solar event that has impacted the earth the
most, like in recorded history that you're aware of? Yeah, there was a really bit, well, this is kind of
a complex question. But in 1859, there was a Carrington event. That was a really big solar flare.
and kernel mass ejection impact and a really strong geomagnetic storm.
We've had other Carrington-level solar storm impacts since then, 1872, 1921.
We kind of got lucky in 1972.
It didn't have the right magnetic field configuration, but it was strong enough to set off
these landmines at Vietnam.
Whoa.
Yes, that's an interesting one because they just deployed these landmines off the coast of
Vietnam, then we had this super fast solar storm impact, but again, the magnetic field wasn't
conducive for a really strong, like magnetic storm where the magnetic field is going nuts, but it's
still enough of a shock impact just because of the velocity and the density that these sea mines
like went off. That was 1971. We had a close miss in 2012. Some people know about that. But those are,
let's say, a Carrington level event. There's solar storm impacts that are less than that, like what
happened in May 24. That was a big solar storm impact, actually multiple in a row that triggered
what's known as the Mother's Day storm or the Gannon Storm. This is May 10th of the 12th of
2024. During the solar maximum, that was big, but that's quite a bit weaker than like a
Carrington level impact. But if you go back, we have these isotope records where we see these
radioisotopes jump up dramatically, like carbon and
beryllium, and we don't exactly know what causes that go up.
It could be a solar storm impact.
That's the most likely candidate, but it could be cosmic in origin.
They're called Miyaki events.
And so if it is solar and origin, then that's classified as a super flare,
and that is about 10 times bigger and scale and stronger scale in general,
if not even like up to two orders of magnitude stronger, 100 times stronger.
So those would be the largest.
But in terms of us having really hard data on that, we don't.
So 775 AD, we had a really powerful Miyaki event.
You can go back through the record.
We had some really powerful ones.
They kind of come in clusters, it seems.
But going further back, there's also a really powerful Miyaki event that we're starting
to get good data on right around the border of the Younger Dryas event.
So that's kind of interesting because it, like, lines up pretty closely with wind.
that cataclysm went down.
And there's some people that talk about there being a solar trigger for the younger
driest and then other people talk about, you know, a comet trigger.
Maybe it's just orbital cycles and Blankovic cycles and such.
Right.
I think it was a convergence of factors.
But yeah, the point is that we can see a small solar storm come in and let's say
trigger a G3, G7magnetic storm.
That's a moderate to strong one.
we can see a Carrington impact, how that would affect technology and like satellites and power grids and more nowadays, we don't really know.
Then we could have a super flare and that certainly wouldn't be good.
What would happen during a super flare?
That, well, we don't really know because these power systems and tech and everything has been hardened quite a bit.
But I do have a feeling that if we had a super flare, like we had a really big super flare, we'd probably,
lose a lot of satellites. So it'd be like a giant EMP. That's if that's exactly what it is.
It comes in so fast. Not only is there a massive electromagnetic pulse, which can cause a lot of
satellites to undergo what's known as deep dielectric charging. They can short circuit.
You also get the upper atmosphere of the earth to actually energize and raise up. And so the
density of the atmosphere increases in some aspects. And so these satellites in low Earth orbit,
all of a sudden encounter more drag and as a result of that they will often lose their altitude and
burn up whoa and so we see we've we have quite a bit of data there in terms of starlink in terms
in terms of there being just regular solar storm impacts and then we see some star lengths are falling
out at rates greater than maybe Elon would hope for but they're always launching more and more up
so they're kind of replenishing but if you had a super flare like a real legit superfluous
directly aimed at Earth impacted, I think probably the majority of satellites would go down.
We don't know, but that's probably what would happen because it'd be so far beyond what we've experienced.
We already see what we're, we already see the effects of what's been happening.
And it can be pretty severe with some of these smaller solar storms.
And then power grids, I think there are certainly to be blackouts globally, but maybe not one massive global.
blackout, but isolated, maybe larger. It's hard to say, but it would, it would be a huge black swan
event. What happened, can you, like, lay out what happened during the Carrington event? Like,
how bad were we affected by that? We weren't that affected technologically because we only had
telegraph lines. This was the 1700s, 1800s? 1859. 1859. Yeah. And that was the first solar
flare that was observed on record.
Carrington, this British
chap, was looking at the sun
and he saw it start to flare
and then he ran to go grab
like an aid or something to tell them.
And he actually missed seeing the peak
of the event, like that one minute where
it's really going nuts. And he came back.
This is what they've kind of been able to reconstruct
historically.
But that,
he saw effectively the flare.
They estimated it was up to
like a X-65.
flare there's different categorizations it's log merhythmic so you go from let's say C to M to X those are the
three highest that's a 10x jump each time and if you have an X65 then that's 65 times more than X1
so a huge jump that's some of the estimates are in that zone it could have been less we don't know
we don't have the modern tools of characterizing these events back then as we do now sure but
in less than 24 hours I think it's about 16 hours or so maybe less
than that it wasn't more than 12 we had this impact come in and all of a sudden
telegraph stations were catching fire and lines were like melting and there were some
reports where they disconnected the power and they were still able to operate their
machines because as that solar storm hits you have a whole bunch of high energy
particles this is really the if we really zoom out and look at the earth as a
whole we have to be very thankful that we have a magnetic field because that protects
us from high energy particles from space cosmic or
solar. And if we didn't have that, things would not be good. If you want to colonize the solar system,
you got to figure that out because most planets don't have a magnetic field or moons, for example.
Right. I mean, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, they have magnetic fields, but they also generate
their own super high energy particles. So the radiation is... Mars has a magnetic field, doesn't it?
Just crustal anomalies. No globally generated magnetic field. Oh, whoa. Yeah.
There's ideas that you could put a big magnet in front of Mars
and keep it in line with the sun
and basically create an artificial magnetosphere,
but I'm not so...
Is that one of the biggest issues with colonizing Mars?
It'd be a big one, yeah, yeah, it'd be a big one,
because Mars is still close to the sun.
There's also like the fact that I don't think
a lot of us realize just how close the Earth is to the sun.
One astronomical unit, we think Mars and Venus and Mercury
are closer and they are.
But Jupiter is at five. That's actually still very close. Saturn's at 10. Uranus is at 20. Neptune's at 30 astronomical units. It drops off quite a bit when you go that far out. But when you're at 1AU, you're getting like really walloped. So we have a strong magnetic field on Earth. It's actually very strong if you look at kind of the solar system scale. Mercury's field's one one hundredth the strength. It's very very, very minor. Venus doesn't have a magnetic field. Mars doesn't have.
one. Why do we have such a strong magnetic field? Because we have a lot of internal processes
within the planet. Our planet is very active and alive, whereas Mars seems to be dead geologically
for the most part. They did register like a magnitude 4.6 earthquake on Mars in 2022, I believe.
So that's pretty big. But, you know, we get like magnitude 9-5s and probably larger.
But we have a lot of active processes. And there's a lot of.
of the research in geophysics across time has been trying to figure out how earth has been able
to maintain its energy and heat for billions of years. And so there's, it's kind of like earth in
many ways is a macrocosm of life. We don't really know how it keeps going and replicating, but it does.
And that generates the magnetic field, these geodynamo processes. And I think there's probably some
other factors involved as well. Interesting. So for people who aren't familiar, can you,
basically lay out what geophysics is,
what the idea of this is and how you got into all this stuff?
Yeah, geophysics is just examining the physics of the earth.
And you could broadly apply this to the other plants as well.
Maybe the quantifier geo goes away at that point.
I'm not sure.
But there's a lot of Enerject processes unfolding on the planet.
A classic example is that there's an earthquake.
And there's some just event that occurs underground, a fault slips.
You have a movement in the crust and that releases a tremendous amount of energy as seismic
waves.
This is a sound energy that radiates out.
There's broadly three different types.
You have P waves, S waves, and surface waves.
So it's a compressional wave, a shear wave.
And then these rolling surface waves where most energy is.
And some people actually feel that.
So that's like a well-known geophysical energy.
But then you also have the magnetic field, and you have these telluric currents, these electric currents that pulls through the earth.
Those are really interesting because we really don't know too much about them.
There's lunar rhythms to that.
There's solar rhythms to that.
Those are greatly enhanced during a solar storm impact and a geomagnetic storm.
You have these tiller currents don't just go through the crust of the earth.
They also go through the oceans.
The oceans are very conductive.
I think most people in this field aren't thinking about the oceans enough in that regard.
And these electric currents are also pulsing through the upper atmosphere, the ionosphere,
which is how they get induced into the Earth's surface in many ways.
So all these combine create this geophysical system that's multi-layered and also interconnected.
And what happens in the space environment affects what happens in the atmosphere
and in the surface and even down into the core.
Just to what degree, what's the significance, how so.
These are all in some aspect open questions,
not completely open, because we're not clueless,
but we're also probably more clueless than we are educated
and super deep understanding as to what's happening.
I think in general, I mean, my kind of thought in general for this
is that we really are,
pretty new to understanding
just exactly
how the energetic system on earth
works and I think
it's much more alive and you could say even
conscious than most people
attribute their that
to the earth at all
because a lot of people
to see the earth is kind of like a dead thing
but again like how is
it still sustaining itself after billions
of years whereas Venus
has just become a hot house and Mars is
dead and right
There's a lot of unique properties to the earth, and it seems, well, across time, people thought of as intelligent.
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Yeah, it's interesting, too, how the Tulleric current.
in certain parts of the world
will directly correlate
with like lightning strikes
you know with like the upper ionosphere
and like thunderstorms and this kind of things
and like rain and lightning
and the charge in the earth
being directly correlated
with all this stuff it's just wild how
it does seem like it's it is alive
that's my impression
and if you go to a lot of these ancient sites
have built been built in those areas
and if you're
you go to them, you kind of feel it.
I mean, we're resonant with the Earth.
Our brain waves are the same frequency and strength as Schumann residences,
which are one of the byproducts of all these geophysical energies.
These are frequencies of about 8 Hertz, 14 Hertz, 20 Hertz, 26, 33, 39, 45.
They fade as you go up higher in frequency.
But that's the same brainwave architecture that our brain uses.
And if you go to those sites,
there seems to just be kind of a change that you experience,
especially if you're more sensitive.
Tolar currents are interesting because the positive energy accumulates
in topographically elevated areas,
so like hills and mountains will accumulate a positive charge.
And if you have a change in the charge of the surface,
you're affecting the flow of energy going through the atmosphere,
the atmospheric electrical current,
because the ionosphere is in general pretty,
stable in terms of its electric potential.
A lot of this is also, we also
think mostly, like
the mainstream, I guess you can say, are just
people's understanding is that they
look at this often just from a magnetic
perspective, but I think the electric
perspective is really
also just as important.
I mean, they're two sides of the same thing.
So, looking at the
electric field dynamics is really important.
And so
I think just across time,
people felt these areas intuitively and happened to start building things there or I think there was also a deeper connection and understanding to this in the past but we're starting to reclaim that I guess you could say so what made you get interested in geology in the first place um you know I guess I just liked being outside and yeah I just always had fun you know I was originally going to be a history major uh for
and then I took a geology class and I just did really well at it.
I was like, this is great.
And the more I've gotten into it, the deeper I've like a connection I felt to it.
And I guess I just have a really macro brain.
I just like to see the really big picture.
And I think one of the best things that I've done is through the study of geology,
I've developed a sense of geologic time and that broad time horizon,
you know, building those neural connections to kind of grasp at that as best as possible,
best as possible. It's helped me in a bunch of other ways with smaller time dimensions.
And then from that, it's fairly easy to branch off into the space environment and cosmological
environments and not get totally lost because if your mind is set on just the daily frequency,
it's going to be hard to grasp some process that unfolds over a billion years, let's say.
And I don't think it's easy for anyone to do, but if you train that, it gets a little easier
at least.
And so I just, I just think it's fascinating what the earth is and what we don't know about
it still and maybe what the ancient people knew a little bit more in certain aspects and
what's there still to be discovered.
I mean, it's also fascinating the amount of minerals and natural gases you can extract from
the earth.
How do we come up with the, how did geologists come up with the hypothesis that like this is
where we can go drill for oil?
Yeah, that's mostly based off of.
of seismic reflection, marine
seismic reflection mapping.
So they'll take a boat out and they have a whole bunch of
sizer graphs, basically like these seismic
toe, well, these tow cables
where they have a whole bunch of seismographs in them.
And then they have this massive like sound pulse, like sonar pulse.
They'll drag it like under the water?
No, it's at the surface.
Okay.
Though they can be submerged at depth a little bit too.
But generally they're floating at the surface.
And then they're using these massive sonar pulses.
And as a result, you'll get these reflections off of the different layers.
Yeah.
Oh, whoa.
So it goes into the rock, into the surface, like underneath the ocean floor.
Yeah, hydrophones is the better term to use.
But, yeah, you'll get first reflection off of the boundary between water and sediment.
And then you'll get different reflections and off different layers.
And those are pretty easy to categorize.
So there's a lot of processing that goes into it.
But if you get good data, the cross sections are really quite illustrative.
And you can see what's hard rock, what's sediment, for example, there.
You see that, like, kind of sediment cap in the valley.
But you can use that to...
So this is all, like, sound type stuff, like sound technology?
Yeah, that's all seismic.
So you're not really using much in terms of, like, for example, magnetic field,
exploration for oil and gas.
It's almost all seismic.
Sometimes you'll do some mapping with like telerics, like magnetotillelux, but that's typically
on land.
But there's all these different tools that we have.
We can look at gravity and gravitational anomalies and like the variations.
To understand the subsurface, we can look at, of course, seismic.
We can look at telurics.
We can look at the magnetic field.
Those are the main ones.
There's offshoot of those.
But the key with geophysics is to put at least two of those together and see if they agree, at least on some sort of anomalous result, you could say.
Because if they both point to the same area saying, hey, this is a little different, then you have a pretty good sense that there's probably something there.
If you use just one technique, then it may show something, but it could just be fluke, noise, anomalous, whatever.
So that's, if you're, if you're ever tracking this stuff and someone's come out with like a discovery or something and they're using geophysics, it you have to, if there's not two methods being used at least, then you should just look at it, you know, closely and not just immediately take it at base value.
Because that's a common thing.
Oh, we just did this one method and like how you do the survey matters.
like I think they did this seismic survey of the the sphinx a while back some people have talked about
this and they found this you know void under like one of the paws I guess I can't be the end-all
be-all definitive answer on this but looking at the way they laid out the survey if you don't have
sizergrams over that void area and you're only getting it from the side of the sphinx it's going to be
hard to get good resolution where you think you're looking there's certain rules that you can
follow and maybe there's something there but it wasn't confirmed with other methods as well so
sometimes you have to be careful with those results because it is very indirect everything's super
indirect with geophysics so you have to pile these techniques together and when they all confirm
something then you're good to go right or with the marine seismic we've been doing it so long
and they have so many results that these marine seismologists are really good now and they can just look
got across and like boom there's your oil drill baby so and then they go in with the horizontal
drilling and they can that they use the magnetic field off horizontal drilling yeah for fracking
oh okay yeah they'll drill down but they keep track of where that drill bit is in many aspects
like sometimes they'll use the magnetic field they need these ultra high resolution magnetic field
models and measurements so then they can track where it is because you can pick that up anywhere
on the earth. It doesn't matter where you are, you can measure the magnetic field. And so if we have a
super high-res model, which different government agencies release at a regular update frequency,
if they need to change it quickly because the magnetic field has changed quickly, then they'll do that
update. That will allow them to precisely pinpoint. They're exactly there in that stratum,
that layer, and you're good to go. We're right on the area that we found earlier with the
But it's always a gamble, right? It's not always 100%.
Yeah, I don't know what the
Yeah
I'm sure it's always a risk
Like when you're drilling
I mean I don't know shit about the oil industry
But I watch a TV show about it
I imagine that there's a huge risk
Like when you're
You know taking all that equipment
And risking all that money to like go like set up a drilling up
Because I mean I've heard stories of
Like the the wells that they have
In Venezuela and they take years to drill them
So
I can't imagine. Do you have any like former friends or acquaintances that you went to school with who got hired by big oil companies?
I'm sure I do. One of my buddies in San Diego, he's a Venezuelan. And he actually is in marine seismic. And so he processed in all the data and everything.
No way. There's a lot of, yeah, there's a lot of geophysics that's being done in South America, people from Brazil, Venezuela.
because it's a field that has a lot of opportunity in it.
It's also very interesting.
It's dynamic.
And so a lot of people get into that.
And then if you're a geophysicist,
you can kind of go anywhere in the world if you want to.
If you are more on the research side,
there's tons of conferences everywhere.
So it's really a pretty cool industry field niche
that is really always in demand,
doesn't experience like setbacks.
When there's recessions, for example, there's always typically, I mean, there can be big booms and busts with oil and gas, but there's always demand for Earth's resources.
That's never going to go away.
And so our understanding that Earth is basically only going to go forward with time, as I see it.
Maybe you'd have to have some sort of cataclysm to take us off line, I guess, for that to stop.
But there's this need for society continue for there to be increased.
geophysical understanding, geologic understanding of our planet.
Or else if we don't have the resources we need, it's, you know, all of a sudden we're stagnant.
How many other geophysicists do you speak with or do you keep in touch with?
A few. Not too many, honestly. I'm kind of in my own bubble with my research and stuff,
but every now and then I'll touch base with, you know, acquaintances. And I want to get back.
Does I compare notes or anything or talk about?
Well, I'm a little different in the fact that now I make a lot of educational videos
and I explore a lot of kind of offshoot ideas for geology, geophysics, space weather.
And also most geophysicists, let's say, aren't really concerned about space weather unless
they're like doing a magnetic field survey and they're not going to get good data if there's a geostorm
because the magnetic field's going nuts.
So they may learn a little bit about it then,
but unless their interest takes them there,
they're probably not going to learn about that.
So there's these kind of silos in the sciences
where people just stick in their one box,
and very few people venture to explore the others.
But I feel like if we're going to understand things
to a better degree, we kind of need to go interdisciplinary.
But the normal workforce doesn't reward you
for learning about this thing.
If you're a magnetic field surveyor
and what is learning about solar activity
how's that help you or your paycheck.
But I've been able to kind of buck that trend
by extracting myself from the normal system
and just floating on top of the ocean
of internet interest in education and such.
And so I've free reign to...
Did you have a traditional job in geology
before the YouTube stuff?
Yeah, before I launched into YouTube, I was doing a lot of field work out of California.
And then also I've had two main geology jobs before I just launched into my own research and video production.
The first one was a lot of field work in around the Bay Area, but also further abroad.
San Francisco.
Yeah.
And then so that was a lot of seismic surveys and a lot of ground penetrating radar.
I was using that a ton.
I'm really good with GPR.
though I haven't done it recently, but...
For what applicant?
Like for what?
So there were some archaeological investigations that we did.
One in particular was...
This was pretty cool.
There was a Japanese POW who was buried in one of the, like, marine camps or I think it's like...
It's the one in Monterey, California.
one of the military bases there.
They train soldiers and everything.
I don't remember the exact name of it, but it's in Monterey.
And they buried them there, and the Japanese wanted to bring them back.
And so there wasn't really much for the remains,
but they knew the plot where he was because there was like different headstones.
And so they hired my company,
and I was the guy sent off to do a GPR survey of that location
to try to find those specific remains
because they didn't want to dig up the whole thing.
It would be a whole crazy thing.
And they probably chose me because I can get very detailed.
So I finally tuned the settings on the device we had
to get the most data possible.
And it was kind of tough conditions because it was raining.
And when you have clay soil, it's wet,
it basically absorbs all the energy.
So it's hard to get good data.
But I was able to find some anomalous signatures with the GPR.
And then they dug there.
and turns out we were right on, they got the POW.
You found it.
Yeah, and that was the first, that was like a really big event too,
because it was the first time, from what I remember them telling me,
it was like the first time the Japanese had come over to do this sort of like ceremony.
It was like a big ceremony between the two to then get those remains
and then bring them back to Japan.
So that's one example.
A lot of work was also done looking for utilities,
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So for GPR, how do you do that?
What do you, like, fly a drone?
you fly a plane, fly a kite,
how does it work?
You can fly a drone.
I don't think they have GPR from planes,
definitely not kites now,
but they do have drone-based GPR, which is cool.
Okay.
But generally you want the antenna
to be as close as surface as possible
because this is a,
basically it's a low-frequency antenna.
You can almost think of it like a radio dish.
And that's broadcasting electromagnetic waves
into the ground.
And it's also looking for reflections
on those. So a lot of the physics is the same, whether it's electromagnetic or whether it's sound
waves, right, seismic or GPR. It's the same deal. And different frequencies will give you
different depths of penetration and certain geologic materials or even man-made materials like asphalt,
for example, will behave differently. How does water affect this? That's a big thing too.
Cool thing with GPR is these electromagnetic waves pass through ice super easily. So that's how they've done a
mapping of, for example, like Greenland and other places like that, because they can go through
the ice, like many kilometers, many miles. And so they can get really good data there with these
low frequency antennas. They had dragged those behind those, like, massive, it's not snowmobile,
but, you know, those big snow vehicles that they'll drive. It's almost like a tank. So
GPR works on that principle, and you get these waves to reflect off the layers, and then you can
look at that and there's a lot of
yeah
oh wow okay that's a pretty
interesting one well yeah you see
oh so that thing in the front is the is the device
looks like it yeah
I've never seen that wild
but they a lot of a GPR
now is done for a road scanning
to find let's say like
potholes and such that could be a good example
so there's tons of applications for
this and it's cool to see it grow
now they're doing the UAV
GPR right because you can cover
really vast areas with that quickly. But the difficulty is that you're now, you get to fly it close
to the ground, yet they count for the elevation changes. Right. So you need a high resolution map of
the topography, which usually involves LiDAR. And then you also do get a dissipation of the signal
and a reflection off the surface of the ground. So ideally, it's typically right close to the ground,
and you're dragging that kind of sled or box. But there's tons of ways to do it. It's a huge
field and they keep finding more and more utility for it. Would there, would there be a way to do it
well out of an airplane or would that be too far from the surface? Like we weren't we don't have that
kind of technology yet. Will we ever be able to do that, do you think? Um, I think it would have to be a low
enough frequency for that. And there's also the issue of maybe the plane is moving a bit too
fast to accurately get
the nice reflection. I mean, this is
light, so it's pretty quick.
But there is an aspect of
a lot of this
data processing and just collection
where you need enough stacking of data points.
If you just get like one or two data points,
your signal to noise ratio
isn't good enough. So you want to be
able to hyper-stack this, for example.
And yeah,
I'm not sure. There's probably people
that have experimented
at a minimum with GPR from a
plane. But I know with the with UAV tech, that's a big area of exploration. They do a lot of
magnetic field surveying with planes. And they do that for mineral exploration. Like that's a very
Oh really. Yeah. Especially up in Alaska and Canada. The magnetic field is correlated with
minerals in the ground. Yeah, because a lot of minerals are either they either alter the, uh,
the magnetic field locally. Like they have their own.
own magnetization to them or they are associated with magnetic minerals and just let's say geologic layers
in their creation let's say so you may not be looking uh I mean I don't have an example off
top my head just there could be some sort of mineral that's not magnetic but maybe it comes with a lot of
magnetic minerals normally so you look for that signature
And then a lot of minerals also come from, for example, like past impacts, which is interesting.
So that will usually leave a magnetic signature.
So if you get this impact coming in and then that creates remnant magnetization and also perhaps, let's say it's an asteroid, it has a whole bunch of magnetic minerals in the first place.
Often it's those deposits which are super enhanced compared to normal.
And when it comes to mineral exploration and mining and stuff, often it's just a percentage equation.
If you don't have a handsmith that's high enough,
it doesn't become economically feasible.
Sure.
Whereas like some of the gold production in Nevada
and other spots around the world,
it's like just barely feasible
because they're crushing up so much tonnage of rock
just to get like a gram of gold,
but because the price is there and, you know,
it's just feasible.
But if all of a sudden you bumped it up 10 times,
they'd be like, let's go.
Right.
So they look for those impacts often
or geologic features
which naturally condense
to refine whatever they're looking for.
What's the deal with this South Atlantic anomaly?
Are you familiar with that?
Yeah.
There's some sort of like hole in the electric field there,
like somewhere in the Atlantic, like Southern Atlantic Ocean.
Yeah.
Off the coast of Brazil, an easy way to think about it.
This isn't exactly, exactly precise.
But if you think about Rio de Janeiro,
that's effectively the center of the magnetic anomaly.
It's the largest magnetic anomaly.
Oh, interesting.
So you can find an image of it, Steve, or like a illustration.
Yeah.
And so this is where the magnetic field on the earth is the weakest,
and quite a bit so.
It has been growing, it has been weakening at a rate that is measurable
in the human time frame of years to decades.
So it's pretty significant.
If you look at the history of magnetic anomalies,
there is quite a rich observational record of positive.
and negative magnetic anomalies that are transitory.
So they exist for, let's say, 200 years, 300 years.
Oh, interesting.
So we don't fully know how long this magnetic anomaly is there.
And the physics of it's pretty complex.
The general idea is that there are these patches of reverse flux
that are deeper within the earth near the core mantle boundary.
The core is where the magnetic field is generated for the most part.
I also think that there may be some magnetic field generation in the man.
and further up, but that's a whole different conversation.
But if you have this patch of reverse flux that is canceling out the positive flux, let's say,
like the positive magnetic field, and then this one's coming in with the, let's say, negative magnetic
field field, they're just going to equalize.
And so the overall field strength would be greatly reduced as a result.
And so that's what we see with the South Atlantic anomaly.
And as a result of that magnetic field being so much weaker, the strongest magnetic field on the planet is Antarctica,
with the south magnetic pole.
Right.
Or rather the magnetic pole in the southern hemisphere.
It's actually a positive magnetic pole.
But regardless, that's about 67,000 nanotusla, which is a...
How much again?
67,000 nanotasla.
67,000 at the south pole.
Yeah, or we could say it's 0.67 gauss.
There's different, you know, varies of values that you can use.
But at the South Atlantic anomaly, it goes down to like 22,000 nanotela.
or 0.22 gauss.
That's like a third,
a third as much.
It's,
it's really quite weak.
So you get a lot of cosmic rays
that come in there.
That affects satellites.
That eats up like most of South America.
Yeah,
that's the reason why
they're all dancing
and going crazy down there.
You think that's it?
I do, actually, yeah.
First time went to Brazil,
it is definitely different down here.
How long has that anomaly been there?
That we don't know.
We have some data.
So the first good magnetic...
When were we able to first start
measuring it. Yeah, exactly. So we first started gaining relative magnetic field measurements,
either in the late 1600s or certainly in the early 1700s. And that would be where they take
a magnetic field measurement in their location. This is mostly by ship, right? And then they would track
it as they, you know, navigated across the globe. But it would be fixed that location. Then we developed
absolute magnetic field measurements around the middle, 1800s.
It's like 1830 or so.
And since then, we deployed more and more of these stations
to be able to get good magnetic field measurements
across time that are absolute in scale.
So everywhere it can be compared to each other.
Whereas with the relative stuff,
it's hard to piece it together.
Also across history, we've had really good coverage
of the northern hemisphere versus the southern hemisphere
because most of the land masses in the north,
most of the populations in the north,
and most of the ocean surveys were in the north.
So our mass,
that we reconstructed from the historic data for the 1700s and even earlier have very
limited coverage where the South Atlantic anomaly is. There is evidence that it existed during
this time, but it's you can't really go really beyond that in terms of saying it. Some
people think it's been around for like hundreds of thousands to millions of years. I'm not
so sure about that because we've seen positive flux magnetic anomalies.
that have popped up suddenly and then gone away.
The 11thine Basin, Western Europe, Hawaii, Japan,
a lot of these places have experienced
where the magnetic field suddenly strengthened dramatically.
The field strength, as I said,
at its strongest right now, Antarctica, 67,000 nanotuzla,
there's evidence from the 117,000 basin
where it was like 120, 130,000 nanotuzla.
But that was just like a transitory place.
Where is that?
It's like Israel and...
Lebanon and that whole area.
Whoa.
And the magnetic field was stronger back 1,000 AD and then also 1,000 BC.
Those are the two rough dates where the magnetic field overall was stronger.
That can be tracked a few different ways.
You can measure the remnant magnetization of, let's say, like a lava flow.
Oh.
Because these lava flows, you know, magma has a lot of metallic minerals in it, like magnetite,
titanium magnetite.
And so they will, upon cooling,
lock in the direction and strength
of the magnetic field.
But we also have limited
llama flows. We don't have global coverage.
Right. You don't have a lava flow of every
single point on the planet. So you
can do a lot with that. Interesting.
That's probably the most useful.
You can also record the
remnant magnetization and the
intensity direction, all that stuff
from just magnetite
or other magnetic minerals that's
settle out in sedimentary layers, it'll be very, very low density, you could say, because you
have a whole bunch of, let's say, like, quartz settling out, which isn't magnetic. But if you do a
drill through, let's say, a lake floor and you get that, that tube of sediment, then you can
kind of chronicle the magnetic field that way. So that's another one to add. It's like a proxy, basically.
Yeah. What was going on with the magnetic field? That's another good one to add in. And then the,
The one that I think is the coolest is anytime you fire up pottery, you're also generating
effectively a magnetic signature at the time that the pottery cooled at.
Because what happens, there's something known as the curry point, whereas if something heats
up these magnetic minerals, if they heat up beyond about 650 Celsius, I believe it is, they lose
their magnetization.
So if they recorded a prior magnetic field measurement, if you heat them up, they lose it,
and then they cool down, they'll lock in whatever the new one is.
At the time of, let's say, for the pottery, time that it was fired and cool down.
So we have archaeo-intensity data from all these pottery shards that we find across the world.
And so we have really good coverage of the magnetic field measurements, for example, the 11 team,
because there was so much, you know, pottery and civilization across the years.
And talking to Matt Bell recently, and he's, you know, he's a potter.
Pottery freak because he has all the Egyptian vases and everything.
And he said that something about them now finding pottery that goes back like 10,000, 12,000
plus years, like way further back than beyond Gobeke-Tepe.
So I'm not sure if they've done any Archeo-intensity data recovery from that.
But if they start, because you have to take a little bit of it and damage it.
But if we do that, we could get even more information, high quality information.
on Earth's magnetic field going back in time.
Could you carbon date that?
I guess you could.
I guess there could be carbon in like clay, right?
Maybe it's a little bit.
Yeah, I'm not exactly...
Like traces of it maybe?
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know exactly how they date these shirts.
Depending on what it was made of.
Yeah.
They definitely do radioisotope dating on this,
whether it's carbon or otherwise.
Old as pottery.
I'm not even going to try to say that.
20,000 years old, though.
Yeah, 20,000.
20,000. Where was it?
Oldest pottery
found yet dated about 20,000 years.
Both Gian Rendong. There you go.
Fucking, you nailed that. I think so.
Nice.
Jean Rendong and
go ahead and try that one.
You Cheyenneon.
You chanyan. There you go.
The Euchangyon caves show
early use of pottery by hunter-gatherer communities in China.
You wonder if those were fired or whether
they were just, they took like
wet clay and just molded them, let them air
dry. Right. Because if you fire it, then you'll get that magnetic signature at the moment.
So go down, Steve. It says that those caves in China are the oldest of the growing number of sites
which support the origins of pottery as having occurred, not just in the Japanese island of
Jamaon culture of 11 to 12,000 years ago, but earlier in the Russian far east and south China,
whoa 18 to 20,000 years ago
Yeah that pushes it back
I was aware of the bananas dude
As aware of the Japanese stuff
But this must have been what Matt was referencing
Or even further back
I mean he's he's definitely super interested in all this
But if they start dating that
Then that's gonna be really
Really useful information
I had a guy on recently
A
What was Max's specialty?
He was just a
He had nuclear physicists.
Nuclear physicist who did analysis on those vases that Matt Bell gets, the granite ones.
And he basically, I don't know if he proved it, but he's pretty confident that they're all modern.
Like they were made in like modern factories or they were used using some sort of like machining, like modern tooling or whatever.
And they weren't like the, they were super precise ones that see.
like impossible they weren't from like super ancient times and he's he's also been on match show so
it's a super interesting stuff yeah it's been a cool story to watch because it's it's one of the few things
with this ancient history community and those that have interest there that you could see the ideas
and then the scientific method get applied and then kind of now the results in discussion following it
and there's going to be more to that i'm sure yeah but a lot of the
A lot of the ideas that float around just in general, let's say, and the zeitgeist and on the
internet and everything, they just kind of remain unproven.
And no one takes the initiative to explore it more.
And so it's been cool seeing multiple independent groups and people look into that.
Yeah.
And kind of some sort of conclusion on it.
Yeah, it's been fascinating.
Especially people like Max, who is able to, you know, shatter his own dreams by disproving
it because he wanted that to be real.
So back to that Southern Atlantic anomaly.
What, like, how does that affect us?
Like, what, is there, is there any sort of implications on that to the rest of the Earth or that area of the world?
So the implications right now are that if satellites fly through that area, they often get hit with more high energy cosmic particles or
during a really intense solar storm impact, more high energy particles from the sun.
We'll get through there.
Yeah, and that can affect the electronics and such.
But in general, it doesn't seem to be that big of an issue from that aspect.
In terms of the biology, that's really interesting, something we don't know much about.
But the more you learn about bioelectricity and everything, we see how we're connected to all these energies.
I mean, we're in resonance with the earth across the board.
So you're really getting multidisciplinary now.
Yeah, so there's a lot of interesting stuff there,
but we don't have much like data on that you could say in terms of like the direct impact,
let's say on the South Atlantic anomaly and, you know, heart attacks in Brazil.
Sure.
That would be interesting data.
We see a connection between heart attacks and GMINC storms and other things like cardiovascular issues,
but there's some like really precise, detailed stuff that we just don't have data on.
A lot of crazy UFO stories from Brazil.
We just had a crazy podcast about that last week.
I had a dream where this is like maybe 18 months ago, 24 months ago,
where the UFOs, the aliens announced themselves in Brazil.
Oh, God.
And I woke up, I was like, that makes sense.
Oh, dear.
There you go, peeps.
There you go, folks.
Yeah, it was odd, but I was like, that makes sense.
I could see them being like, hey, well, this is no different than what we already have.
because it's really so culturally diverse there.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
But in regards to your, so that's with the Atlantic anomaly,
like the real world implications now,
not really too crazy.
But if it continues to weaken,
if it continues to expand,
then it could be a sign that we're undergoing a geomagnetic excursion,
which if that was to continue,
could translate into a full geomagnetic reversal,
where the magnetic field actually flips.
Oh, Jesus.
And there's kind of a few ways of tracking that.
The three main ways, I guess you could say,
would be what's the overall field strength for the Earth?
And that needs to drop to a certain level, it seems,
for the excursion to really kick off.
And right now we're well above that threshold
that's been identified,
but doesn't mean we can't continue to weaken.
You know, the magnetic field has been weakening
since our high 1,000 AD, about 1,000 years ago.
So it's gone down since then, but still historically very strong.
But if it continues the weekend, then we have to kind of be mindful of that.
But this is like geologic time.
It's unlikely to occur within our lifetime.
But I also am like, hey, who the heck knows?
And then there's also where are the actual magnetic poles?
Because we have the North and South Pole.
But they start to really move like well outside.
of their historic areas of, let's say,
the Arctic and Antarctic circles,
then it's like, okay, we should be mindful of this.
Well, they do move, like, pretty quick.
They move, like, a couple, like, how long,
a couple feet a year?
Is that right, Steve?
We looked at this recently.
Oh, way faster than that right now.
Oh, really?
Right now, the magnetic pole in the northern hemisphere
is moving about 40 kilometers per year.
40 kilometers per year?
Yeah.
Whoa.
Yeah, so that's moving really quickly.
And there's some ideas as to why,
because there's some changing magnetic field dynamics
between North American and Siberia,
which is interesting.
But that is a quick movement.
Right now, the magnetic pole in the northern hemisphere
is almost exactly on top of the actual North Pole.
So while it's been moving quickly,
it's almost perfectly in the Arctic Circle
in terms of its positioning,
whereas the magnetic pole in the southern hemisphere
during the same time frame
has moved away from the true south pole,
like the rotation axis,
to be just slightly outside of the Antarctic Circle,
but it's only moving about 10 kilometers per year,
and it's doing it tangent to the Antarctic Circle,
whereas the magnetic pole in the Northern Hemisphere
is kind of moving towards the lower latitude zones,
like it's moving towards Siberia,
still off the coast in the Arctic Circle,
where there's all the sea ice.
over Gokkel Ridge,
but it's starting to...
Some people are worried about it
actually moving into Siberia
and then moving down like over India,
for example.
The magnetic pole.
Yeah.
There's some ideas that, you know,
if it accelerates even more,
that it could be there pretty quickly.
And that, you know,
if accelerated enough, it could.
But it's been de-accelerating
over the past 10 years, roughly.
Okay.
Because it accelerated up to 60 kilometers per year.
Now it's down to 40.
but still very fast.
But the magnetic poles moving are also an indication of what's happening to the magnetic field.
And then you can measure specific components in magnetic field because you have like a regular bar
magnet's called a dipole.
So there's two poles to it, the north and south.
Earth's magnetic field is not exactly a dipole.
It's about 90, 95% dipole, but there's these higher order modes.
So like a quadrupole, which is interesting because it brings the magnetic field in at the equator as well,
not just looping like this from north to south,
but quadrupole actually brings in at the equator as well.
It's four lobes.
That makes up a good portion of Earth's magnetic field as well.
That's a good graphic.
Which one?
That one or the other one in white.
But to the right, that one right there.
That's a good one as well.
Oh, cool.
And so what happens during excursions is the dipole field strength
diminishes greatly and actually goes away.
And what we're left with, this is what the evidence suggests,
is that then we're left with the quadrupole,
the octopoles, the higher order modes,
which make up only 5, 10% of the overall strength.
Those don't seem to change.
Then the dipole re-emerges in the reverse polarity.
And with an excursion, it aborts.
So it may get all the way to that flip,
but then it re-emerges with the polarity it had,
whereas with the full reversal,
it'll actually take on this new polarity, but that dipole field needs to go away for that to occur.
And so then all you're left with is a quadrupole, and that would have really interesting implications
in terms of space weather, because now you have the magnetic cusp also not only in the high
latitude zones, but also at the equator. So anywhere along the equator, you get blasted
with solar energy at that moment in time, whereas right now it's funneled mostly to the Arctic
circle, the Antarctic Circle. That's why they see
crazy Aurora up in Northern Europe, for example.
Yeah. Or we
don't really get Aurora down the South
Atlantic anomaly, but we get a lot of those high
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Yeah, this is a really great graphic.
So does this tie into
this seems like it could be connected to the what's it called the van allen radiation belts yeah
so the van allen radiation belts are directly tied tied to the um the magnetics magnetosphere of the
earth and like solar wind right yeah so we have our sun which is we we kind of don't know what
it is inside but we know it's surrounded by this sheath of plasma super high energy plasma
And then we have our interplanetary environment.
So that radiates out from the sun.
And we have an overall heliosphere, which is made up with plasma.
That the sun is always pumping out plasma.
It creates this larger magnetic field and also this plasma sphere, which we call the heliosphere.
Effectively, every magnetic field contains plasma within it.
Because if you look at Jupiter, for example, it has a very strong magnetic field.
It also has a really powerful plasma sphere.
So we don't call them Van Allen Belt.
there. I guess you could, they could be Jupiter's Van Allen belts or Jupiter's radiation
belts, but the radiation environment within Jupiter's magnetic feel are insane. It's like really,
really high. Really? Yeah, it's, it's way more intense than Earth. Why is that? Jupers magnetic
field is just to have a stronger magnetic field. It's like five or ten times stronger than Earth.
It's super, super strong. So you get huge amounts. And then you also have like, for example,
here showing I.O. I.O. is a volcanic planet's blasting stuff into
Is it a moon?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Volcanic moon that's blasting stuff into orbit around Jupra, which then gets ionized.
But every magnetic field effectively also has a plazosphere.
And what happens is that they are particle accelerators.
These magnetic fields accelerate particles, the speeds near the speed of light.
So they go relativistic.
And as a result, they contain a tremendous amount of energy because the faster they travel,
the more energy they have.
If the mass stays the same.
And it doesn't, it's not linear.
like exponential and how that goes up.
So, and Jupiter's is actually so powerful that we observe what's known as jovian flux
in our interplanetary environment.
So every 13 months, we enter into this arrangement with Jupiter magnetically where we're connected
and we get this burst of jovian electrons, which we call jovian flux.
And it's a very specific energy spectrum, which is how we identified it to be in Jupiter
and not solar in origin,
but we orbit around the sun, of course, 12 months.
Jupiter does 12 years,
and so it's moved 112th of its distance in one year.
So that's why it's 13 months,
because as we orbit around, it's moved 112,
so we need another month to catch up to that magnetic configuration.
But we see particle acceleration with Jupiter
and massive amounts of radiation there,
and we have that here on Earth, too,
with our radiation belts.
And so our magnetic field is also accelerating these particles
and it's being fed and replenished all the time
by these solar storm impacts
or solar wind that connects to Earth in a preferential way,
like a conducive way,
will recharge our plasma sphere.
And then that plasma often will precipitate down into our planet
and drive these geomagnetic storms.
So it's a really complex system.
Yeah.
And so it gets wild because then how does that affect
the Tolaric currents?
And how does that affect maybe the geodynamo?
And at what time scale are you considering?
Is it just the hourly, daily time scale?
Or you think how does maybe space weather affect the geodynamo over thousands of years?
These are all open questions in many ways.
Getting back to what you were just explaining about the north magnetic pole shifting down into Siberia or like India.
What would happen if that happened?
well the the main thing to be aware of as it relates to the movement the magnetic poles is that if earth's well so i'm sure that there's a wide range of possibility that's happened over earth's geologic time frame we have quite limited data on that terms of modern data it's almost non-existent compared to the geologic time frame so in general though if the magnetic poles were to move well outside their normal ranges
then that's an indication that the field strength is diminishing
and that magnetic pull really doesn't become that great of a measure of what's happening anymore
because the overall field is weakening in general.
The dipole field is going away.
So you're going to have a lot of places where you could say the magnetic field is going in vertically.
Like there would probably be multiple magnetic poles that could pop up.
But when the dipole field is strong, you have two clear magnetic cusp
and two clear places where the magnetic field is going in vertically to the earth.
But as the magnetic field diminishes, that can kind of just get thrown into flux.
So it's a useful measure, but in some aspect, if we're really undergoing an excursion,
it kind of becomes less useful because they can really float around really quickly
because the whole field itself is so chaotic and turbulent.
Like the sun undergoes a magnetic flip about every 12 years.
that's the solar cycle.
And during that time,
there's tons of places on the sun
where the magnetic field
is kind of slicing back in
and it's going to be multiple magnetic fields.
It wouldn't really affect it.
We wouldn't really notice it.
I mean, we would definitely be able to track this
and it would affect us,
but it's not the,
I guess what I'm getting at,
it's not the best way to track
what's happening with the magnetic field,
like just the location of these magnetic cusp.
It's not the best way.
I think probably better is to track
the dipole,
the quadrupole ratio and then also the overall field strength. But as that pole moves,
you're going to have energy flux moving with that cusp. So one interesting thing I've talked about it,
talked about, and this is, you know, speculative, but we have evidence of there being a super
volcano in the Arctic. This is the slowest part of the mid-Atlantic ridge is called Gokkel Ridge,
and it cuts from effectively fall barred up to the Arctic Ocean. And at the very end,
end of Gokal Ridge, there is a giant caldera that's been identified. It was first identified in
1999 and it's huge. It's like this massive depression in the seafloor there. And this is oceanic
crust that's already thin. And normal mid-ocean ridge where the plates are being generated are
spreading apart pretty quick to four centimeters per year. At Gokul Ridge, it's like one centimeter
per year. And at the bottom of Gokul Gondera, it's like 0.6 centimeters per year.
like six millimeters per year so it's super slow the best idea of what generated this huge caldera like
40 kilometers across 80 kilometers wide roughly somewhere in that zone 1.2 kilometers deep
is a giant super volcano eruption and the the dating evidence goes back to about 1.1 million years
that there was a massive super volcano event that ejected about 3 000 cubic kilometers of
material dry rock equivalent and yellow and yellow
Yellowstone was like last time it really had a big one was 1,000 cubic kilometers.
So this is up there with some of the biggest volcanic eruptions ever observed.
Tobo would be another huge one.
But right now the magnetic field in the northern hemisphere, that cusp, because that's
where the field's going vertically in.
So the energy flows down those field lines.
These particles are guided by the field lines.
If you have a neutral particle, it's not affected by magnetic fields because it's neutral.
So if it's like a neutron, we'll just go out in a straight line.
But the moment it takes on charge, the magnetic field is so much of a stronger force in gravity, it will guide the flow of that particle.
So right now we have the magnetic pole moving over Gokkel Ridge.
And if there is still a super volcano system there, which there's evidence that there is,
we just had a huge burst of seismic activity there in 1999 and three new volcanoes were generated
that created pyroclastic flows under the ocean like they they retrieve pyroclassic glass at depth
which is insane to think about um and the fact that gawkel ridge is still super slow in its spread
that that seems to be how some of that energy gets released rather than it's just being purely through
the spreading of the tectonic plates that some of it accumulates in these underwater underground
magma reservoirs and then explosive releases and they sampled the you know these samples from
that volcanic event that occurred in 1999 shows that the CO2 is the CO2 ratio is like super enhanced
compared to normal it's like 13.5% versus normal like 1.5%. So when that finally depressurizes,
it's super explosive, way more than normal.
So, I mean,
crazy.
It's a whole rabbit hole.
But we've seen the magnetic pole circle through the Arctic
quite a few times now.
That's just in the past 2,000 years,
it's done loops through the Arctic.
That's what some of these lake bed sediment cores show,
is that it just kind of like circles through the Arctic.
But what does the magnetic pole moving over?
over this massive energy reservoir,
you know, magma reservoir due.
Because you're having more high energy flux come in.
Now a lot of that's gonna interact at the atmosphere level,
but now you're generating electric currents,
you know, these tolerant currents,
then induced down into the ocean,
they induce down into the surface.
And I just think that there's probably a reason
why one of the biggest super volcanoes
that we've identified on Earth
is right where the magnet pole normally hangs out.
Doesn't mean we're gonna have it explode
when it crosses over in like the next 10 years.
But it's certainly just interesting to think about.
What is the, is there any like consensus on when this super volcano last erupted?
Yeah, about 1.1 million years ago.
1.1 million years ago.
Yeah. So the last big eruption, there's really not that much research has been done on it.
Because it's all fairly new.
And yeah, so it's good to take a step.
back and to, you know, not get carried away with things. But yeah, it's just one of these examples,
I think, that you can look at to maybe better understand the space to Earth connection.
Because we have a ton of data showing how certain flows of plasma in our magnetic field of the
plasma sphere, you know, further out in space, like the radiation belts. Yeah.
Influences to alert currents actually flowing through the surface.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I'm new to this, but like, just the term space weather seems so bizarre.
Like, how can there be weather in the void of space?
Well, that was the thing.
Back in the 1940s and 50s, they thought space was a void.
Yeah.
They didn't really think that there was plasma flying around.
And they thought that when the sun had a big solar flare and launched out of solar storm,
we all of a sudden went from a void to a big, you know, impact of plasma.
But what we found out, the moment we put probes out there is that there's always plasma in the
interplanetary environment and therefore there's the, you know, solar wind and interplanetary magnetic
field.
But there can be big changes.
Sometimes it does become almost a complete void.
And weird things happen to the Earth when we go through those patches of super, super, super low density solar wind.
a good example is that right around the time like when I'm talking like weeks or months here I'm talking like days to hours with the magnitude 9.1 great to Hokku earthquake March 11th of 2011 Japan we had a super big drop in the solar wind density like an anomalous drop and then we had that earthquake go off so and there's other connections there too there's other big earthquakes that have lined up with these
huge decreases in the in the solar wind density.
Not every time, but it's just kind of coincidental
that that's happened in more than once.
So what contributes to more or less solar wind density?
If you get a big solar storm to launch,
that will create a spike in the density
because it literally creates like a shock wave,
like that EMP talked about.
Yeah.
That'll hit.
And what happens if it's fast enough,
or some of these solar wind structures that can exist,
like these high-speed streams,
is it will sweep up plasma in front of it
because it's traveling very fast.
Let's say it's traveling 1,200 kilometers per second,
and the regular solar wind is 400 kilometers per second.
So it'll sweep all this stuff up,
and then there'll be the actual bulk of the plasma behind it,
but then behind that will just be basically nothing
until a new solar wind structure sweeps by
and replenishes that part of the interplanetary space with plasma.
So with really big storms or some of these special solar wind structures like high-speed streams,
you can have these huge gaps in the solar wind density.
Right.
And sometimes we don't know why they occur.
Like there's been...
So behind at the back end of these solar storms that come through, there's like a void
of very low density solar wind.
And somehow that equals more of all.
volcanoes and earthquakes.
Yeah, there's that the solar storm dynamic, that often seems to play out.
The strongest connection between space weather and earthquakes seems to be for these more
structured solar wind dynamics where they're called these high-speed streams and those seem
to be better correlated with earthquakes rather than sometimes just these big solar storm impacts.
But either way, it's a lot of.
It all, there's too many odd things that occur if you keep track of this.
If you keep track of all the different things, the space weather, the earthquakes of
volcanic activity, there seems to be not coordinated pulses, but there's definitely like pulses
of activity and then there's periods of quiescence and it's not necessarily just homogenous
and completely random.
And often when there's a big space weather impact coming in, we also happen to see like a
clustering of high magnitude earthquakes.
And then we often see that occur also with planetary alignments and such.
So it gets kind of wild, but I think this is just us coming to a better understanding of
how all these factors play together and in ways that we may not really know yet.
Well, the sun is like burping and belching all the time, right?
Yeah.
Except during solar minimum.
When it's pretty, it's pretty quiet and happy.
Yeah.
And we go through long minimums.
So like sometimes we'll have these grand minimums that last 50, 100 years.
It can last a long time.
And so what sort of tools are people like you using to detect or predict these solar storms or things like this?
Are you just looking at the sun?
And you can predict it by just looking at the sun and what happens with the sun like ejections or solar flares or whatever?
Is it all come from the sun?
Well, so Miyaki events, if you go back to super flares,
and these records of Miyaki events.
The researcher's name was Miyaki,
which is why they're called that.
She first detected these huge radioisotope spikes and tree rings,
looking at trees and such.
They've detected a whole bunch of them now.
We don't know 100% whether those are solar or cosmic in origin.
Right.
They could be cosmic.
Oh, coming from other systems.
Somewhere.
A lot, if you look at the cosmological environment,
a lot of plasma gets focused into jets.
We have these astrophysical jets.
across a variety of scales.
So we see sometimes at the center of galaxies,
they emit these jets of plasma outwards,
traveling super fast.
We see with gamma ray burst,
whereas actual light photons at the highest frequency gamma rays,
sometimes those come focused in jets
and impact the Earth.
Like we had the largest gamma ray burst ever detected
back in October of 2022.
The research is indicating that that was a very
focused jet a gamma rays that hit us from two point something billion years away.
Whoa. Billion light years away. So we see these this sort of jet activity exists in our
astrophysical or astronomical environment across different scales, galactic, interstellar, etc.
And so it is possible that if some, let's say, nearby supernova occurred and it was lined up in
such a way that it shot its jet out at us when that hit, that could also create a Miyaki event.
Those are the two main ideas.
It could be super flare, some sort of cosmic event where you have some, it's from outside our star
system, but still significant enough to cause this massive increase in radioisotopes and energy
and more.
Then I also think that there's a possibility could come from within the earth itself, though
I don't know how that would occur.
Sure.
But I don't think we can just say that it's not a possibility.
That makes sense.
Those are the three main things, sun, earth, or cosmos.
Okay.
And maybe it's a convergence of all three.
Like we see with these geomagnetic excursions that they seem to be correlated in time
with the sun undergoing a period like multiple grand solar minimums.
So there seems to be this coherence you could see.
say and this resonance between the sun and the earth and when the sun is undergoing these periods
with very low activity that's when earth magnetic field decides to flip got it at least that's what
the recent data suggests for like the lachamp excursion where they they looking at radioisotope data
but the thing is what's up with all the fear like all the crazy hypotheses and then theories i
here online about like the pole flip could reset humanity yeah like everyone says that this could be
like a cataclysm yeah it well so during an excursion so like the lachamp excursion the field strength
went down to like 5% of what it is now for about 100 years roughly that's about the time frame
and about the field strength and that would mean that if you're out and about you're receiving
a huge amount of cosmic radiation and
And that's not going to be good.
Also, if there is this connection between grand solar minimums and geomagnetic excursions,
during a grand solar minimum, you're not getting these big super flares or solar storms or whatever,
to solar flares in general, but still pumping out most of its energy,
which is most of the irradiation from the sun is infrared, visible, and then also ultraviolet.
Right.
And ultraviolet, you know, can break DNA bonds and, you know, single strand breaks, double strand breaks, mutations, all that.
So if you had a geomagnetic excursion like the Lachshamp, which is when the Neanderthals died out, and the field strength is at 5%, you're letting in a ton more cosmic radiation.
The sun is still pelting you with UV light as well.
So it's going to be fairly traumatic.
We had a megafauna extinction in Australia at that time.
You know, big animals can't hide from this stuff.
When are we talking again?
This is about 42,000 years ago.
Oh, okay.
40, 44,000.
It's roughly in that zone.
I think that is why those cave systems in Turkey exist, if you're aware of those.
You're talking about the cave they found underneath that house?
I'm not sure about the house, but they have this elaborate cave system in Turkey.
that's thousands of years old.
I don't remember the specific name.
So you can find a Steve.
Yeah.
But a lot of people have different ideas
as to why that exist.
But if you have a geomagnetic excursion,
the cosmic rate,
like you can feel this stuff,
right?
When the sun's really active
and you go out or just going from,
let's say,
Nebraska down to Mexico,
you're like, wow,
I can really feel the sun on my skin.
Darren Kuyu?
Talking about Darren Kuyu?
Darren Kew is the one they found
under that house.
They like, they like dug under the house and they found this giant cave system.
It was like a giant man-made ant hill.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, that's what you're talking about.
Yeah.
Okay.
And so I think that that could exist specifically be during these sort of events where you would literally feel the energy hitting you and it would not be pleasant.
And over time, you would see health effects from that.
And so it makes sense that you would take shelter underground.
Right.
And this is a long period of time too.
How long do you think?
It's like 100 years.
And that's just where it's at its absolute minimum
for the field strength.
You know, it's gonna be about a thousand years
of where the field's very weak.
So it's a long enough time for that to make sense.
Whereas some of the ideas that people have
is that it's a big solar storm,
like a super flare coming in
and they run to the caves.
That's like a three day thing.
Like, and you don't have a heads up on that.
It's not something like, okay, this is clearly a factor.
Let's work around it.
So when you're saying this could have lasted 100 years,
What you're saying is it could have been like different day to day.
Like there could be days where it was like safe to walk around.
This wasn't just like a consistent 100 year period of like super intense radiation hitting the earth.
No, it would be.
Oh, it would be constant.
In general, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, it's hard to say without being there and getting the data.
Sure.
I mean, we're speculating wildly.
But in general, for the shop excursion, we see that the field strength dramatically, like dramatically weakened.
And so you know that that would be factor.
Same amount of UV light,
if you did have all these grand solar minimums.
And then a ton more cosmic radiation,
which is going to cause mutations and more.
So something like that makes perfect sense.
And it's a long and a time period
for that to be a feasible engineering project
that makes sense to devote resources to.
It's not just a, like why would you have that
for a super flare you don't even know it's coming?
Yeah, well, I never understood.
I've heard the explanations
that these things were to protect people against floods.
But why would you want an underground cave if you're getting flooded, right?
Like, I never really understood that.
And they claimed that the rock doors could have blocked the water,
but I don't know if I buy that.
I don't, I don't understand how this underground, Darren Kou,
how you could survive underneath that when there's like mass,
like tons of flood water surging above you.
It would just go down there, I would think.
I mean, I haven't been there.
I mean, I like to go to these sites so I can speak about them.
This is not accurate.
I don't think this is accurate, Steve.
I don't think that's what it looks like.
Oh, yeah, that's Cape Codeo.
Okay, yeah, yeah, something different.
That's volcanic caves also in Turkey?
Whoa.
Christian churches inside these caves?
Huh?
Tough.
Yeah, volcanic tuft is easy to carve out.
Yeah.
So that makes sense.
Hold that thought.
I got to take a leak real quick.
We'll be right back.
There's so many possibilities for like what could have caused extinction events in the past.
You know, like is it comets?
Is it volcanoes?
Is it solar flares?
Is it all the above?
Who knows?
But it's fun to, it's fun to speculate.
You know, like some of these structures.
Like this had to have been.
Like, why else?
they dig these underground cities unless it was to escape something, right? And also,
it to live without sunlight for an extended period of time has got to be super unhealthy.
You would imagine that there wouldn't be long-term health effects living on
underground. There has to be some health reason that outweighs that I would think.
Exactly. I don't think it's climate. That's a very important.
Very well stated.
I don't think it's climate because, yeah, it gets hot there, but we don't see people in Turkey
living in these underground cave systems right now.
No.
And actually, back five, six, seven thousand years ago, it was probably quite a bit nicer there, right?
Really?
Well, I mean, you had the, back during the ice age, Turkey was probably a great place to live
because it was quite a bit colder.
It's still a very nice place, but it gets hot there during the summer, or like Egypt, for example.
but 6,000 years ago, Sahara was still green.
Right.
So in terms of it being like absolute scorching desert
and that's people go there to live in cooler conditions,
I mean, maybe.
I think it's probably doing multiple things at once.
Have you ever seen those?
A couple years ago, we had Randall Carlson in here
showing us this graph of all the ups and downs
that the climate has been through for millennia.
And it's like there's these insane.
He was using it to illustrate like the younger dryest,
the time period of the younger dryus,
how like we went from super cold to super hot.
And there was these huge spikes like at the beginning at the end of the younger
dryas and all the stuff and like how the temperature has been just up and down forever.
And he was showing like during I believe.
I mean, it's been a while.
I don't know if this is, I'm recalling it correctly.
But I believe he was showing like during.
the medieval period, it was like super warm, like even warmer than it is now.
Are you familiar with this?
Yeah, the medieval warm period.
Right.
And how much, do you know how much warmer it was like than it is now?
So you can find that graph, Steve.
It was not homogenous.
So a lot of the warming was concentrated in places like Iceland, Northern Europe, Greenland.
It was much warmer there.
Like much warmer than it is in the current day.
That's why it was easy for them to go and settle those.
locations. So it wasn't the the warming was really concentrated some of these high
latitude zones. It was not homogenous around the planet, but there was a
distinct warming event. Interesting work that was and some some connections put
forward by my buddy Max, Max Raymond. I have a podcast with him on my channel, but he
looked at the record of supernova explosions and also the medieval warm period and there's
like a pretty tight correlation in time between us receiving seeing these supernovas, which
if we're seeing it, we're gaining some energy from that.
Just how much, what type, what's the significance, it's hard to say.
Right.
But there is this connection in time because we had three big supernovas that we saw at the
early, early, I guess, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th century.
Like the famous one's 10504 AD.
But then we see this distinct warming that occurred immediately after.
that. But I mean, there's records of that from the Chinese, the Japanese across the board.
But effectively, I mean, that's the crab nebula that was formed. But that was such a bright and
powerful supernova explosion that it was like immediately one of the brightest things in the sky for
months. So, I mean, a huge event. And it didn't occur that far away, right? There's supernovas that
occur in other galaxies and nowadays we can detect them. But for us to see it, it's going to be,
it's got to be fairly close to us.
And he's connected these repetitious nova or supernova events to, I think they're called
like Dansberg-Oschgird cycles, these random swings in the climate.
I'm sure when you're with Randall, you're probably talking about those because you
sometimes see these dramatic leaps up in the temperature of the earth based off of the records
from Greenland and Ice Corps stuff.
right um that do not line up with milancovic's orbital cycles and residences so the question is like
what's creating like this massive sudden two degree increase in global temperature and uh you can
look at the some of these supernovas and these nebula have multiple rings to them and so you know
the velocity of the expansion then you and you also know the distance that's a that's also an equation
and you kind of need to figure out
is how far away they are.
But you've put those two together,
you can get a sense of when the explosion occurred
or explosions in time.
And so Max, my buddy Max, he lined them up.
He's like, this is kind of interesting.
Like they line up in time with these sudden warming events.
Interesting.
So I mean, you can't,
I wouldn't like stand on top of the hill
and tell everyone that's 100% the case.
But I think-
Go to that one on the left, Steve.
where it has the actual
yeah that one click on that one
but I think we should be thinking about
our environment here on
Earth
in a more
interplanetary and
interstellar sense I think those
outside forces and the environment
that we're in matters a lot more than we currently
think what do you mean
by that I think I think the
surround I think our star
and also our surrounding
cosmos has a much more
direct impact
on the earth and therefore like our living conditions then we may think other you know
may initially think if the younger dryce was caused by a common impact like some of these
things are fairly you can kind of get sense for them like a giant comet coming in and
impacting we've seen this in the movies but if if this a supernova connection or even
novas that are strong enough and they have their jets aligned with us you know if that
has an impact on the earth. That's a little bit less tangible, but I think we should consider these
things. Totally. This is an interesting graph. I've never seen. I've never seen this one before.
So from 100 AD, or from like zero to 100 AD was the Roman warm period. So it looks like it was
about a degree, a degree warmer maybe Celsius than the dark ages, which was from,
Well, they have a, it's a little bit off there,
but it's from basically like 300 to
a thousand.
So is that right?
It's saying it's one degree cooler?
From eight to nine?
I'm guessing.
Okay.
Yeah, we go through these oscillations.
That's wild.
But one degree globally
is a big, like,
it's a big, is it
is this global?
Because if it's global, then
Yeah, it doesn't. I don't think it specifies if it's global, but I can't imagine one degree would make much of a difference.
It depends. And again, these warm periods are not homogenous in nature. So it's not that the entire Earth experiences the warming or cooling uniformly. It's specific pockets of the Earth. Yeah. Yeah.
It's interesting, though, that the medieval warm period seems to be even warmer by maybe a half degree than the Roman warm period.
You know, because the medieval period is so interesting because like there, I mean, that's when human beings like created like the most incredible like architecture and stuff like that over in Europe.
And, you know, you have like more art and architecture and crazy stuff.
But also, you know, like I'd be curious to see what the temperature was like even in the classical period.
You know, I don't know if we have any.
I'm sure we have a ways of a fig determining.
that. See what that was. Let's see what the like classic ancient Greece. Yeah yeah yeah yeah
like the classical period all around like the Near East and that part of the world. Yeah it doesn't
go far enough back. Doesn't go far enough back. Huh. I wonder why I've seen some graphs though I mean
I weren't a cooling period now right? Well overall the the earth is warming but in general I think the
the safest thing that you could say is that our climate and weather is becoming more volatile.
So we're seeing...
Really?
Yeah, I mean, for example, in December, there is a huge heat anomaly over the United States,
though like the Yukon, Canada, Alaska, that was excluded.
They had a huge cold snap there.
Also, like, Maine was quite a bit cold.
But like here and also Texas and a lot of the heartland, the U.S., had tons of temperature
records broken for December.
meanwhile Moscow like right now has had one the biggest like polar blizzard cyclones of all time and the snow is piled up like crazy so overall global temperatures are going up the Arctic is warming like three four times faster than other spots but in general there's just more volatility across the board that's that's my take home because what we see is sometimes we get these sudden changes in
in temperature. So like we could be on this warming, but I wouldn't be surprised if all of a sudden
we have a cold snap that comes in because we're in an interglacial right now. That doesn't seem to
be the trend, but trends sometimes suddenly reverse. But if we want to be prepared for the future
and just kind of understand where we're going, then the bigger thing to be aware of in my mind is
that we're just seeing increased volatility, stronger storms, more frequent, and locations that we typically
wouldn't have storms, at least with our recent record. I guess one of the big things I really want
people to be mindful of is that a lot of our data doesn't go back that far. I mean, let's say like
1850, right, for a lot of our climate records, a lot of our geologic records, like the solar
records. I mean, the space age started in like the 50s, so a lot of that space data only goes back
to like 1950 really. So we have in our seismic data for earthquakes, you know, we have,
some data going further back because we found the fault trace and the slip and we can reconstruct it.
But in terms of like good seismic data, like 1900, these data sets are almost meaningless in a geologic sense.
I mean, they're super useful and we get good information out of them, but 10,000 years of data or 50,000 years of data, that's still just a drop in the bucket for the earth, which is millions and millions and billions of years old.
So I think it's important not to draw too many.
definitive conclusions as to this is the only these are the only possibilities that exist for the
earth one of the craziest things to me is it's so hard to know what's really going on with the earth's
climate and the and and all this this whole topic it's so hard to know what's going on because it's
like it comes with so much political baggage yeah like there's nobody who has a take on the
climate that is not attached to their political ideology or like how what they
label themselves out.
Except maybe me.
Yeah, right.
That's because I see,
my first principle is I want to understand what's happening.
So,
and well, politics,
I mean, the whole thing's stupid.
So, like, I could care less about either side.
But I just want to understand what's happening.
So we know that this,
like our sun,
the star in our system is the main driver
of climate.
Because if that was all of a sudden to go away,
earth would all of a sudden be very cold.
dark, it would not be a fun place, right?
It would change everything.
If we're close to the sun,
we receive a lot of light radiation from the sun.
That's our total solar irradiance,
about 1,370 watts per square meter
of energy coming in.
That changes across the solar cycle.
Total solar radiance doesn't change that much.
We can say it goes from like 1,370
to 1,374 in terms of total solar radius
because most of that energy is infrared, optical,
or visual light and then also UV.
But we get distinct changes in x-ray light,
extreme ultraviolet light.
Also radio frequency light goes up quite a bit in intensity
during solar maximum versus solar minimum.
But that's the main driver of the climate.
Then there's what's happening with the Earth
and her own changes, let's say,
like water vapor in the atmosphere and the hydrological cycle.
And then there's what are we doing
to alter those systems with,
anthropogenic greenhouse gases and stuff.
And for some reason, some people are like, oh, it's just CO2, and our sun doesn't affect the climate at all.
And then other people are like, oh, CO2 does nothing.
It's just the sun.
It's like it's a combination of all these factors.
Right.
And they're probably going to vary in their significance at times too.
Sure.
Of course we contribute to the carbon and the atmosphere, like the CO2.
Of course we contribute to it.
Is it enough to literally like,
create a new ice age or not a new ice it,
but like to warm up the earth and melt the ice caps to where like
it's going to change the earth.
Like I don't know.
But it's just like I said,
it's just so volatile and there's no middle ground in this kind of stuff.
And it's hard to like hear a nuanced take on what's really happening.
I see I see articles all the time that the ice caps are growing.
Right.
Like the ice sheets are getting bigger right now.
And, you know, depending on what website you go to, you can find a different scientific take on what's happening.
Well, yeah, I mean, December would be a good example because some outlets were probably reporting about the huge cold snap that hit the Yukon and parts of the U.S.
Meanwhile, other outlets, we'd only cover the huge warming trend that hit, you know, the heartland in most of the United States.
Right.
You know, Europe's a whole different place, but other parts of the globe.
But yeah, it's unfortunate that...
Look at this NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures.
How is that possible?
An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice.
But this increase documented in NASA satellite data is a temporary anomaly rather than an indication that global warming has reversed, scientists say.
Yeah.
The problem with all this shit is that it.
it's just so entangled with money.
You know?
Yeah.
There's all these little financial entanglements in science that make it screwy, which sucks.
That's with everything.
Yeah, money's kind of a crazy thing, which is, I mean, I'm not perfect.
And, you know, I've made mistakes.
And I'm sure in 10 years, I'll look back at certain things I've said or thoughts I had.
And as new data comes out, I'll be like, okay, this is my new.
revised idea on this. But I do like the fact that I've taken myself out of any kind of
constricting influence by just kind of becoming independent and, you know, by educating others
publicly online, people like that enough that it keeps me afloat and great. I think we need more
independent voices. I think we need more independent data collection networks. Like one of my long-term
life goals at this moment of time is to create like a global observatory for geophysical and solar
data and more. So we're not reliant just on government organizations. One of your questions
earlier is where do you, where do I track this stuff? And, you know, we get a lot of great
data feeds from NASA and NOAA and other space and government organizations.
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But there's often political interests there and conflicts of interest.
And I mean, there's some things that just sometimes you're like,
why are they not speaking the truth about this or why are they not addressing this thing that occurred?
Why are they assassinating plasma physicists?
Yeah, weird stuff, dude.
Yeah, the MIT.
Dude, how crazy is that?
I saw some stories about that.
I don't know what to think.
There's just so many crazy takes.
on that on that MIT guy he was MIT a MIT plasma physicist right yeah Italian guy and I think he was like 43 44
and he was on the cusp of like of uh like he had recently like cracked something I heard so he was uh
I mean I know another full story but he was a the director of plasma and fusion science at MIT right
plasma and fusion and he was specifically looking into understanding
turbulence in fusion reactors.
Because plasma is really interesting.
It's a force-ated matter.
It's the most energetic form of matter
because it's highly ionized.
And therefore, you're playing with a lot more electromagnetism
than you are with solids, liquids, or gases.
And plasma doesn't really like to cooperate or behave.
So the whole nuclear fusion discussion is interesting
because when you create plasma,
it often likes to bend,
back in on itself and undergo these instabilities and it doesn't really like to cooperate.
And so with a fusion reactor, they're effectively creating this plasma.
They want to condense it down to a point where there's such a high concentration,
density of these ions like hydrogen, that they eventually do run into each other and then,
you know, fuse to form a helium.
But if you can't get the thing to condense down the first place, you're not going to have
success with your fusion reactor.
And so plasma seems to resist these dynamics.
And so you need really powerful magnetic fields to confine it.
But plasma is also generating its own magnetic fields.
And so you create all this turbulence.
So again, I don't know this guy's full life work,
but he was specifically looking into plasma turbulence.
And that would be a very important thing to understand
as it relates to fusion and being successful with that.
And I read something about it being like a personal vendetta,
the guy who murdered him.
But dude, I don't believe anything nowadays.
After the whole, especially like with that Boeing whistleblower situation,
then the guy gets whacked or, you know, I just saw this.
There was multiple guys who got whacked with the Boeing thing, wasn't there?
Like a bunch of like key witnesses that were getting ready to do depositions
and like the day before they died.
I think it's more than one, yeah.
Yeah.
And then also, I mean, I don't know, but this guy just released a YouTube video that he cracked the Coca-Cola recipe.
I saw that.
Reverse engineered it.
I'm like, dude.
I would be worried if I were you because like really though.
Coca-Cola is going to send out their assassins.
I mean, it's kind of tongue-in-cheek, but like after you just see when there's big money and big interest and there's monopolies and such.
Yeah.
You've got to be kind of mindful of these things.
Yeah, the plasma stuff is super interesting because you don't really learn about plasma in school, do you?
You kind of learned about all the other states of matter,
but the plasma one's the weird one.
Because it's so it's true that
it was at like 99%
of the universe is made of plasma?
That's what they say.
Yeah. I mean, our space environment
is a mix of plasma
and then also neutral gas.
But it's interesting.
Well, yeah, I mean
99.9% would be
because most of the masses contain
within stars.
And stars are highly energetic, so they're
plasma. Right, right. But when you talk to a lot of astronomers or just listen to what they say,
often they're not talking about plasma. They're talking about gas, they're talking about dust,
but for some reason, yeah, these made up things, which we don't have evidence for, dark energy,
dark matter. Like they're trying to, they're creating new variables to fill in their theory and
their equation, which probably is broken to begin with. Sure. That's my thought at least. I think we'll
have a paradigm shift in our understanding of some of these things cosmologically in next five,
10, 20 years. I don't think dark matter, dark energy will survive. I don't think the big,
and I don't think Big Bang will survive. I'm not an expert like, you know, end all be, but I think
sometimes we get too entrenched with our ideas and, you know, there's other explanations that were
put forth at the time, matter, anti-matter balance that would explain a lot of these things more
elegantly, but because maybe someone has personal beef with someone else, it doesn't take off.
These dynamics exist in life.
But yeah, 99.9% of the universe is plasma.
We don't really understand it.
People don't really talk about it.
Like, is it just in space?
Is it also here on Earth?
We see with earthquakes, especially land-based ones, sometimes these earthquake lights.
Oh, yeah.
Those are wild, huh?
Yeah, really cool.
We don't have that much footage.
of them because we need it to be at night. It needs to be a big enough earthquake and needs to be
a land-based earthquake. Sometimes, like in New Zealand, I think it was 2017, 2018. It's like a big
magnitude 7-something. We see these, you know, flashes of green, blue light coming up.
They often get mistaken for like UFOs too. There's a Marfa, Texas, I think. There's a lot of
these earthquake lights that come out of the ground. There's something, what is it about Marfa,
that makes it super super conducive for all these earthquake lights.
Am I just because there's lots of underground seismic activity?
There's this NASA physicist, I believe, retired now,
named Friedman, Friedman Freund.
That guy's great.
Yeah, you're familiar with him?
Yeah, so he's the one.
He came up with this hypothesis that the igneous rock underneath the earth
when it grinds together because it has this charge in the igneous rock.
And when it grinds together, it somehow produces enough energy to shoot these earthquake lights out of the ground.
And he came up with the idea of using that as like an early warning detection for earthquakes, right?
Yeah, his big thing was, if we zoom out, was really understanding electric circuits and the subsurface.
And so what he called rock circuits.
And he did a lot of laboratory testing and then also looking at observational data.
but when you put certain rock types under mechanical strain,
they generate all of a sudden electric charge,
now flow in a circuit.
And a circuit is bounded by the conductivity of the materials.
So if you can all of a sudden increase the conductivity of some of the circuit pathway,
that will increase the energy flow dramatically if that potential energy exists.
And so one key example that he pointed out was this earthquake that struck Sanofi,
Jose, the Bay Area, South Bay, from the Calaveras Fault in 2005, I believed.
I think it was a magnitude 5.1, is that or 5.5. Either way, you know, not the biggest earthquake,
but they noticed in the hour, and that's where he was based off of the NASA AIM centers,
right there in the South Bay. Yep.
So he had access all this data. There's a widespread network of conductivity sensors,
atmospheric conductivity sensors across the South Bay.
And before that earthquake occurred,
all the sensors in that area went up to their highest value
and then went offline.
So the atmospheric conductivity went up dramatically.
We don't know how high
because it went off the capability of the sensor to read
and then the earthquake occurred.
Whoa.
So his idea was that there was a huge ionization event
that came up from the subsurface
that was able to increase the electrical connectivity
of where we live, the boundary layer
in the troposphere, which is very resistive, right?
It's a very dense atmosphere where we are at the surface,
but very low conductivity.
If that can all of a sudden become conductive,
now you have a really strong ability to close a circuit
across a vast distance
because you can connect one place to another.
And if there are electric circuit dynamics
involved with earthquakes, which I mean, that's 100% where I am based off my research.
And he just said the earthquake lights are great.
Observational data supports that.
Then that could be dynamic at play.
And so the connectivity sensors all went crazy and then totally, you know, topped out.
And then boom, magnitude 5.1 earthquake.
And then they cooled back down afterwards.
But that's not even that big of an earthquake.
There's Loma Prieta magnitude 6.9, 1989.
They happen to put a magnetic field sensor
in the Santa Cruz Mountains, I think just about seven miles
away from the epicenter, which is the surface directly
above the hypocenter.
And they notice these magnetic field fluctuations
across a variety of frequencies leading up
to the Loma Prieta quake.
So this is like Schumar Reson's frequencies,
which are like zero to
to 50 Hertz. This is extremely low frequencies, even lower than that, like 0.01 to 1
hertz, magnetic field fluctuation. So the Earth is way more complex and interconnected. The
1964, the Great Alaskan earthquake, magnitude 9.2. The founder of the company used to work for,
his name is Sheldon Brynter. This is Geometrics. He was a maverick. He actually was the guy who
discovered the Olmec heads.
What?
No way.
Yeah.
So by horseback, he had a magnetometer and he would, I mean, the Mexicans knew roughly
where they were.
Yeah.
But they were buried down quite a bit.
So he went out there and he'll be in California.
He's not that far away.
And he did these magnetic field surveys and he found the anomalies associated with the
old mech heads.
They dug them up.
And unfortunately, not that many people know about him.
But he then started to get into some really interesting fields.
in terms of like the connection between magnetic fields and magnetosomes and all timers and all this
stuff. I met him just like a couple months before we passed away November 2019 because he showed up
for the 50-year reunion for Geometrics, the anniversary. And he was in great health then.
Anyways, what was his name? Sheldon Briner. Sheldon Briner. B-R-E-I-N-E-R. Yeah, a really interesting
guy. A lot of cool research he's done. I look to him as a bit of like a guiding, like. A-R-R-E-I-N-R-E-R-R-E-R.
He had, you know, he was basically at the front line of magnetometer technology back in the 50s and 60s.
And yeah, there's a photo with him in the Olmec heads.
Oh, wow.
Look at that.
That's bizarre.
Yeah.
And so he had a magnetometer setup in Portolo Valley where he lived.
And he noticed these long period significant magnetic fluctuations that occurred with the 1964
for Alaska earthquake.
He was also picking up on his magnetomer
all the nuclear testing that they were doing Nevada.
When that was all still basically top secret,
he was checking his data, he's like,
what the heck was this magnetic pulse right here?
Like this is strange.
It's like, oh, actually they're doing nuclear testing nearby.
Not only that, we were detonating nukes
in the atmosphere in outer space.
Yeah, yeah, I think that's Starfish Prime,
if I recall correctly.
They were trying to blow a hole in the Van Allen belts
or something.
If you look into the GVV's,
physical observations done around all the nuclear testing, it's really insane. Because what happens
is you have this, you know, fizzile material, eventually they moved to, you know, fusion bombs,
but you have this fissile material and you're immediately creating a shock wave of plasma afterwards,
but you're also generating all these, you know, a bunch of particle flux, a lot of them being
neutrons. And so these neutrons are not affected by magnetic fields. They fly straight out, but they decay
into a variety of other particles,
the main one that were interested in would be electrons.
So you have this explosion,
then the neutrons fly out,
and the moment it decays into an electron,
with the other stuff too,
but the electron is now governed by the magnetic field.
And the magnetic field connects one part of the planet to the other.
So there's these conjugate magnetic points that exist.
And so the electrons can then flow from that location,
to the other side.
And so they noticed with a lot of these nuclear testing
and these blasts that were done,
that all of a sudden there'd be Aurora
on the other side of the planet.
And they were trying to figure out why.
And so the idea is this particle cascade dynamic.
Whoa.
And the neutrons decay quickly,
there's enough of them that do probabilistically
get out far enough to then deposit their electrons,
the stream of electrons,
in certain orbital levels
that then will feed back to that
complete other side of the planet.
So we were really basically
messing around with the Earth in a big way.
Back with all the nuclear testing.
I don't think those energetic effects
have wrapped up.
I think that's still working its way
through our Earth energy system, you could say.
But not too much research
has been done on that now, and there's also a bit
of amnesia there, and I think there's also
some cover-ups that have been done and such.
But some really
crazy dynamics existed.
He was tracking this all back in the day.
And he had an open mind.
So when he saw this,
people had much more open minds
back in the 50, 60, 70s.
That's my impression,
reading the research
and talking to some of these people.
Now, I heard you talk about
this guy named Hans Alfin
or something like this.
He's like a plasma scientist.
Yeah.
What was he?
So is he still alive?
Fortunately, no.
I've thought about how
if they trained some like
AI model on him how that would be nice.
But of course, it wouldn't actually be him.
But he was a very open-minded astrophysicist.
And he was really against the Big Bang.
And very, you know, if you read into his books,
you get a sense of the history of astronomy and astrophysics,
and that helps you understand where we are now.
Because back in the day, and still to this day,
They had a lot of ideas and theories, but they weren't built off of observations.
And then we started sending probes into space and actually collecting data, which then disproved a lot of these ideas.
For example, the vacuum of space.
Right.
They thought Earth's magnetic field was shaped a certain way.
It's just basically a very simple dipole magnetic field because there's nothing to influence it.
Then we actually sent probes out into space and we realized that the magnetic field is more like a teardrop.
It has the magnetot tail behind it.
There's all these structures, the magnetopause,
and it's very complex, depending on the solar wind dynamic,
it can change, like it's not a simple dipole field.
But a lot of people were, according to what he was writing,
I've been reading his books, and they're great.
But they were like dead set, oh, this is the structure,
this is how it looks.
Then when we actually got the data,
well, no, it's actually quite a bit different.
It's a lot more complex and this is how it is.
So a lot of theories have,
that first mindset and his thoughts were well I think that what we see with our
earth the magnetosphere and what we see in interplanetary environment should be
taken because those are the best observations that we have and then also our
experiments with plasma in the lab that should be the basis for our theories for
areas that we can't access directly in situ which would be interstellar and
With the cosmic environment, the interstellar environment, you can get, you know, visceral images,
or you can get images of light.
So all the different frequencies, gamma, x-ray, whatever, right, going down to radio.
You can use that to guide your kind of assessment because we see, like, for example, structure to galaxies.
We see structure to galactic clusters.
They form these filaments and such.
So it's like, where do we see filaments in our Earth environment?
Do we see filamentary structures within the plasma sphere?
Yeah, we see the aurora.
They form these ribbons and filaments of plasma.
If we see that in the Earth environment,
we're also seeing these filamentary structures
at the cosmic environment.
There's probably some base physics
that works across all the different scales
that's fractal in nature.
And so that was really his mindset
was work off of the plasma experiments
and the observational data we have in the lab,
also what we're observing in space,
and then build out from that, not just, oh, I had this idea,
and let's just create some math that, you know, makes it look cool,
but isn't based off of any observational data.
And as more data's come in,
a lot of these ideas that were taken as gospel have, you know,
reached a chopping block, but not all of them.
A lot of them are still there in use.
And, you know, not all, it's not like every single idea we have is wrong.
But certainly there's a lot of inertia to ideas and not, you know, not all these theories are what the reality is.
We're always going to be coming up with new and new and better, better understandings of things.
But I just think his mindset of thinking was really right on it because it was just very logical.
It wasn't fanciful.
And I think more people should read his work.
I mean, he's well known, but there's this phenomenon that occurs where you have like a scientist and they come with all these ideas, but then they're kind of only known for one thing.
And so he's known for waves traveling through plasma.
They're called Alvin waves, and there's a whole bunch of different types.
So he's really well known for that, but he's not really well known for some of his other ideas for the cosmos, like, for example, matter, anti-matter symmetry.
You know, one of the big things in astrophysics is,
why is there this matter, anti-matter imbalance?
Why we only see matter, but we're not seeing antimatter.
That just kind of strikes me strange that if you have these things generated
in equal amounts, and that's what stipulated with the Big Bang,
how could one overcome the other in the first place?
And they say there's some part of, you know,
some quantum particle physics that explains that, but I don't know,
my spidey sense goes off.
What is antimatter?
It's effectively the opposite of matter, but you wouldn't really be able to tell what antimatter is until annihilation occurred.
Because when matter and antimatter come into contact, they just immediately create energy.
So there's nothing left over other than just pure energy.
It's the most energetic thing that we know of.
Like a matter-antimatter collision is incredibly energetic.
So what was his take on the Big Bang?
Well, he didn't think the Big Bang
is what happened.
His idea was that there was more of a steady state
to the universe.
And to keep it really simple
is that you have a matter,
antimatter balance
and we don't know exactly at what level
you start to encounter antimatter.
I mean, it gets kind of wild, his ideas.
But for example,
Our sun and our solar system could be matter.
We don't know if serious is anti-matter.
You know, serious A, series B, or Alpha Centauri and Proxima-Centari.
We don't know if those stars are matter or not.
They could be anti-matter because the light, there's not.
We can see them, right?
Yeah, there's not light and anti-light, though.
So they're just generating light.
There's no way we can tell until we actually kind of get close enough to sample.
But maybe the, maybe the, maybe the, maybe the, R matter, and instead,
you get these interstellar pockets of matter and antimatter.
So it's a star cluster that's all antimatter
and another star cluster nearby that's matter.
Or maybe it's even at the galactic scale
that you have this division.
He was even talking about, you know,
there being antimatter chunks in the sun
that generate solar flares and it gets kind of wild.
But at the boundary between matter and antimatter,
you're going to have annihilation,
which is an extremely energetic process,
which generates gamma rays.
And as a reason,
result of that collision, there's going to be a natural repulsion between the two. And so they're
going to spread out. And then a lot of that galactic flux, the cosmic, you know, the gamma rays
will get absorbed into other mediums and stuff. So it may be kind of hard to detect. But that
could explain some of the cosmic flux that we see in the environment. But his idea was that gravity
would bring these different pockets of matter and antimatter together over time. And
And then annihilation would become a process that outweighs them and force,
which then pushes them apart again,
which then would diminish the amount of annihilation that's occurring
because these boundary layers that exist.
Because they're now far enough apart.
There's a low enough flux of matter hitting antimatter.
You know, this cushion that exists is now very low energy.
That then gravity starts to bring them back in together.
And now you get more annihilation,
and you get this rhythmic pulsing to the universe across time.
Oh, interesting.
And so the universe could be, let's say, 50% smaller at one point, I don't know, like 10 billion years ago, let's say.
Yeah.
And then it expands out and eventually contracts, and it expands, it contracts, expands.
And that was his, in general, to keep it really simple, that was his idea as to the universe.
And, you know, we're not really going to be able to get good data on that until, you know, we actually get probes well beyond our solar system.
Voyager 1 and 2 are still basically right at the edge of our heliosphere.
So we haven't gone to Alpha Centauri and, you know, set foot down and be like,
oh, what the heck is this?
So it's a lot of, I dislike his mindset of build off of what we have and then go forward
with that.
And we'll get a lot more answers as to antimatter as these particle accelerators are able
to produce more and more of it.
And we can do more testing of it, you could say.
but we don't have any direct measurements of it.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Did you see that there was a recent post that I found
and there was a paper attached to it
where I think it was the James Webb
detected some galaxies or something
that were like they were so big.
They were like super massive galaxies
that they would have to have been like,
it like throws off the whole timeline
of the consensus of like the Big Bang.
Did you see that?
Yeah, they just keep pushing things back.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just personally, I mean, the big.
See if you can find that paper, Steve, the James Webb super massive galaxy discovery.
The big thing with the Big Bang is there's this cosmic background microwave radiation.
Exactly, yes.
And they kind of like, okay, well, this is here and we have this inflation to the universe.
Then let's just wind the clock back and it comes to a singularity.
but if there's other dynamics like for example this pulsing that we discuss you could wind it back
but then maybe it doesn't actually go all the way to a singularity like maybe you should stop winding the
the volume the clock back at certain point because it actually doesn't go beyond that so it's like
a lot of assumptions that have been made but I don't know I just explores the open mind I'm just a young chap who's
interest in this yeah I feel like I have a fairly good spot
mighty sense. And I think it's good to ask questions.
Is this it? This is March 2025.
This is the, the announcement.
Oh, okay. Is this on, this is on the NASA website? Oh, yeah, NASA.gov.
So let's see what the summary of the top says.
Using a unique infrared sensitivity of NASA's James,
Space Telescope, researchers can examine ancient galaxies to probe secret
of the early universe now.
An international team of astronomers
has identified bright hydrogen emissions
from a galaxy in an unexpectedly early time
in universe history.
The surprise finding is challenging researchers
to explain how this light could have pierced
the thick fog of neutral hydrogen
and filled space at that time.
The James Webb Telescope discovered
an incredibly distant galaxy J-A-D-E-S-Z.
How do they come up with these names?
Z-1-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3.
3-1 observed to exist just 330 million years after the Big Bang.
And images taken by Webb's N-I-NERCAM near infrared camera as part of James Webb's space
telescope advanced deep extra galactic survey. Researchers use the galaxy's brightness in different
infrared filters to estimate its red shit, right, it's red shift, which matches. See, I had a dude on
here recently I was trying to show this to me and he was trying to tell me this.
was like some crook pseudoscience, but this is on NASA's website.
So this thing is so old and so big, they have to push the timeline back because of the red shift.
I mean, they do incredible work.
And if you look through some of the, like this book that I'm reading right now by Hans Oliver,
it was co-published with NASA, but it's from like the 80s.
So there was a much more open-minded spirit of invent.
investigation back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. And there have been variety of people like
Friedman Frund, who, you know, looked into rock circuits and the electromagnetic dynamics of
earthquakes, and he was with NASA. So, you know, it's not like they're all closed-minded people,
but I think when it comes to what's presented to the public, there's this filtering that's done.
And I guess that makes sense, but it's kind of just we're going to show the things that
we're the most certain about, I guess.
But some of the things that are presented that they're the most certain about, I'm like,
I'm just not so sure about that.
Just because a lot of people in the room are saying the same thing doesn't mean they're all right.
Right.
I've seen that play out so many times in history.
So, yeah.
There's a, there's a lot of really cool things, though, that come out of NASA, that come out of NOAA,
a lot of amazing people that work there, USGS.
So like it's just that these organizations kind of grab a lot of these people.
And I see things becoming more decentralized in the 21st century.
So I think we'll see more people like chart their own course and do their own independent research.
Yeah, but it can lead.
The problem with that too is it can lead in the opposite direction where it's like nothing that the science and like the academic science or these whatever.
you want to call them so-called gatekeepers say is true.
Like everything they say is a lie.
And everything's a cover-up and everything's a conspiracy
and everything is not what it seems.
And it's like,
it just becomes this crazy cult-type mentality that people have,
especially online.
Tell me about it, bro.
That's why, like, that's why psychology.
I mean, I'm not a psychologist,
but you have to learn a little bit about it
because you just see it play out in front of you.
And if you want to not be,
I don't know if you don't want to be a sheep you got to kind of spend a little bit of time and all these different things and to learn about them
because it's important and you see well it's crazy I mean just you know to use a recent example of that
three eye Atlas it was like you know you saw like incredible division online of what this thing could have been you
you had either it was a space alien spaceship coming from you know some other star system uh or or or
it's just a comment, right? Like, there's no in between there. It's become this game of questioning
people's motives instead of actually interpreting the data and attacking the substance of what is
happening. And, you know, when you're just reading stuff online or like watching YouTube videos,
and you don't really have the time to like look at this stuff and like look at the raw data and come to
some sort of conclusion. It's like, you know, all you can do is just rely on other people's interpretations
and stuff. And oftentimes you're going to get that wrong. Yeah. How much have you, how much have
you've been tracking the Three-Eye Atlas story? Because I've been doing a ton of research there.
I haven't really. I heard that. So Avi was telling us that it was like December 16th was when it was
going to be closest to Earth, right? And that was the time that we were going to have like the best
shot at it to figure out what it was. And I haven't heard anything about it since. Have you been
tracking it? Yeah. I mean, it popped into a view, you know, June 1st or July 1st. We first caught our
glimpse of Three-Eye Atlas and then I jumped on that pretty quick because it was interesting. But
Yeah, it became this bifurcated, you know, kind of oppositional warfare between there's, you know,
four million draconian soldiers on this thing versus it's just a comet.
Meanwhile, our definition of a comet is built off of just, you know, I don't know, like 50, 100 years of observations.
Sure.
And some historic, you know, eyewitness viewing.
But space is so much more vast and dynamic than we know.
So to call everything just a comet is a little short-sighted because comets have a fairly low bulk density.
It's mostly ice and these volatile gases that are turned into ice like CO2 ice and methane ice.
And they start to vaporize effectively as they get close to the sun.
But one of the key things is that they're kind of fluffy and they have a low density to them.
3A Atlas has shown some signatures that it's not just that.
It's had these tightly collimated jets.
So that Sunward Facing Tail is one of those.
It extends out quite a bit, and it's not just like a shotgun super diffuse.
It's fairly tightly collimated.
And we've also seen jets come off other locations of it.
I mean, we've seen this like jets before with comets and such.
But 3A Atlas certainly is different.
And one of the things that we see in space is that you often get jets when there is a central body that's rotating, that's magnetized.
That seems to be a key factor in the production of jets.
So if you have a rotating central body and it's magnetic, as a, you know, an endogenous magnetic field,
that can create the structure to collimate these flows of plasma.
So we see that certain galaxies, you know, you have the same.
centrally rotating core of the galaxy. It's highly magnetic because it's made up of all these
stars and whatever, maybe black holes. You have these jets coming off of that. Supernova's, same
thing. So there's some evidence that this is kind of what I think based on my research that
3i Atlas may have a level of magnetization to it. There's even some processes that can occur
in interstellar space due to the processing of cosmic rays that would generate magnetite in situ,
which is magnetic. And so if 3x3,
Yeah, Atlas does have a strong magnetic field, and it is rotating.
We know it's rotating, but how fast is still kind of open.
They say it's like 16 hours.
I think it actually may be rotating faster than that, but there's no hard data on that.
But there's really not that much data on this thing in general.
Right.
We haven't been observing these interstellar objects for very long.
Like this is the third one, right?
Yeah, and since it came in super fast, like how did it get that speed, right?
Its trajectory through this solar system, while very unusual in terms of,
of it being aligned with the ecliptic plane, passing close to Mars, and then passing close to Jupiter in March,
that is just kind of a random thing, unless it is, you know, intelligent by nature, like it was planned.
But there's always weird trajectories that you can drop.
So the speed, though, is key.
It's traveling super fast.
What gave it that velocity, or at least relative velocity to us?
Well, if it was interstellar, right?
You could, how would we know?
like we don't like we don't know how fast interstellar objects typically go do we i mean we have
three to measure so exactly if it's coming from some other star system would have had more time
to gain momentum maybe or how is ejected yeah so there's a lot of different ideas but i mean
one idea is that you could have maybe a planet just get uh through tidal forces just totally
fractured apart it passes too close to a uh a very like let's say like a red dwarf that just
rips the planet asunder. And if it's Earth, you know, Earth has a significant inner core.
It's made of iron and also nickel and it's magnetic, like all this stuff. You could have a chunk
of that perhaps fly off. And if that's going on fast enough speed and it has magnetization already,
you don't just lose that. Right. There has to be a process for that to get lost.
Then that could, you know, if this thing is compositionally different and that also have a much
higher bulk density.
The bulk density of that would be like
eight grams per centimeter cubed,
whereas water is one.
The common bulk density is roughly about
one gram per centimeter cube.
You know, it could be dramatically different.
We haven't landed a probe on it.
We've landed probes on comets before.
We've done some missions like the Rosetta mission,
but we didn't do that with three-a-atlas
because it kind of came out of the blue, too quick.
But...
Going super fast.
Super fast. So there's a lot of unknowns,
but yeah, just to throw a label of comet
on it, I think is premature.
So we call it a interstellar object.
But then also to take the word of, you know, I think these people are amazing in the spiritual
community like channelers and psychics and all that.
I think there's a lot of cool stuff there.
But to take the word of a channeler who's like, there's four million draconians there.
And then, and that's 100% your perspective going forward.
I don't know.
That's also the exact same as this person saying it's just a comet, just on the other.
side.
And so I made a lot of videos about exploring all the different perspectives and guaranteed every
video I made, some people were, you know, thrashing me online for saying, I can't believe
you think it's a comet.
I mean, I'm calling an interstellar object.
And other people say, I can't believe you're not, you know, recognizing that's 100%
alien filled with trachonian soldiers.
I'm like, guys, I'm just presenting all the different ideas in the middle interstellar
object.
but people see what they want to see.
So was NASA able to get like a super detailed image of it on December 16th when it came
as close to the Earth as it was going to get?
Are you aware of that?
And then what were we able to analyze from that?
So there were weird things that happened.
I mean, we had this government shutdown in October.
And they weren't releasing the images that was like the Mars orbiter or whatever.
Yeah.
And see, Loeb, he really pulled.
humped up this Mars or Constance orbiter imagery.
Like if you,
and he's also edited a lot of his blog posts.
Who?
Avi.
Has he?
Yeah.
So,
because there are certain things that he said,
which I mean,
rightfully he edited them because they turned out to not be,
I think got a little carried away at times.
One of them was,
um,
with the,
the Mars rover,
it has a mask can that looks at basically the,
the sky every single night in general.
And,
um,
there were some weird things that we've seen.
and one of the images is Phobos,
but the internet community took it and said,
that's 3-I Atlas.
He posted...
It was a moon?
Yeah, and so he posted that,
and then he went back
and edited the article later,
which is fine.
It's good to be, you know,
accurate rather than leaving that up.
But does he leave, like, a footnote
saying that he made an edit?
I don't know about that.
But he, I mean,
going from basically probably August
through September,
he was talking big about the Mars
reconnaissance orbiter
or the high-rise camera.
We'll get our high-rise camera.
highest resolution look will be able to focus in on that nucleus see exactly what it looks like and um and then
when i actually got the imagery he's like oh i'm not surprised it doesn't look that great but you know there's
there's this thing with public communication whereas if you're building if you're communicating
you have to expect that people are going to sometimes take that information maybe they don't hear your
future updates you have to be very uh clear and nuanced with your communication i feel like and um the imagery
got from NASA was the highest resolution imagery we got, but there was a lot of improper communication
with it because these amateur astronomers, which were doing amazing work, getting an imagery of
three-out-allus, they're looking at the whole thing. The tail, the coma, you're not seeing the
nucleus because the coma is so thick, you know, this envelope of gas, dust, plasma, everything.
They're seeing the whole thing. NASA was zoomed in on the coma. And so that's why it looked like
a blurry blob. Right. Because you're not seeing the tail.
or anything, you're punched in on the coma.
Yeah.
But they did kind of a poor job at telling people about this because, you know, they were very
adamant though.
It's just to comment and they had this whole press conference and, you know, they did some
weird things too, which I kind of questioning why they behaved a certain way.
Who NASA?
Yes, there's some oddities across the board.
But in general, they did give us our highest resolution, but people also, they want certain
things so they wanted this to be you know some starship and when the imagery came out that it wasn't
was that the image Steve yeah so I got I got two sets of images for you so this one right here is the
Hawaii telescope Subaru telescope in Hawaii that took this on December 13th yeah and it's just
this fuzzy ball okay that's great and then here's a more cooler one whoa
from I'm guessing one of the space stations.
Oh, this is a G3 Allis, so.
Oh, it's a different one.
Oh, yeah, it's 2024, October 1st.
That's so cool.
Oh, it says 2025 here.
Okay, well, then never mind.
But that's what a typical comet looks like.
Right.
This one's super cool.
Wow.
But yeah, so that one's got a typical tail of a comet, right?
That's R2 Swan.
But then this is three eyes.
There's no tail on this one, really.
Now that one's probably pretty punched in.
We're saying it's only 10 arc seconds across.
So that's a pretty high-resolutional look at the coma.
And the thing is, is that these telescopes, that's what they do.
They don't take good wide-view pictures of space.
If they want to get that, they have to take multiple pictures
and then create a, like, a mosaic and stitch them all together.
Right.
And if they're only focused on understanding the coma and the nucleus,
you don't need to see the tail.
but NASA probably should have taken some time to get those wide angle views because that's what everyone wanted
and they're accusing them of all this crazy stuff and there's some weird things happening so it's not helping them by them not doing the work you could say
but to answer your question yeah Hubble started taking a lot of imagery of three-outlas up to this moment in time so starting
November December and up now they've been taking a lot of imagery of it but still
and the raw state hasn't been processed
except by a few amateur astronomers
are processing the Hubble data,
which is showing these jets go off,
which is some of that observational evidence
that maybe 3A Atlas is magnetized.
And the Rosetta mission by ESA,
the European Space Agency,
when they flew a probe around
this comet that they were tracking,
they actually picked up
a magnetic field around it
that typically had a strength of 30 to 50 nanotessla.
But when it,
a solar storm hit it, it went up to 300 nanotesla. So a comet, a traditional, you know,
regular comet can already have a pretty significant induced magnetic field. So you can imagine
if the object itself, let's say 3i Atlas, like has remnant magnetization to it and it is spinning
fairly rapidly, then you could create the conditions for these sort of astrophysical jets.
And what we see across the scales is that there is a fractal nashiretics.
nature to reality in the universe.
And so if we're seeing astrophysical jets at the galactic scale and at the interstellar scale
and at the sometimes the actual, you know, a single like star exploding at the supernova scale,
why can't we have jets with maybe a smaller object?
Hmm.
So there's a lot of interesting things there.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's wild.
It's a big mystery.
I don't know what it is.
I think it's a unique.
It's exiting.
It's exiting our solar system.
now, right? It's like on its way out.
Yeah. Yeah, it's leaving now
and it would have to do something dramatic
for that to change because it's again, it's moving
so quickly.
About 65, 66 kilometers
per second right now, roughly.
You know, it's sped up with its closest
approach to the sun, it's perihelian to 68.
Because gravity is actually accelerating
as it gets closer to the sun.
And then that deviates its course a little bit.
Right, it's got like an arc.
The fact that only deviated a little bit
It shows you just how fast it's going.
Yeah.
Because most comets, they'll have a huge deviation in their orbit.
But three-I-A-Alis was just like, eh,
it wasn't even 45 degrees.
It was probably 15, 20 degrees.
Yeah, we had this gentleman all the other day
who was explaining to us, there's this NASA mission
where they sent a probe to land on an asteroid.
And I can't remember the name of the asteroid now.
Benu.
That's what it was.
Oh, you're familiar with this one.
And I think the goal was to like,
they were like looking for life on the asteroid
or something like that or consciousness
or something like this.
They found a ton of organics, amino acids.
They found these gums, which are from what I know,
like weird assemblages of amino acids.
So not exactly-
Osiris Rex was the name of the mission, yeah.
Yeah, not exactly proteins like we know them,
but they found more of the ingredients for life
than they expected, and this is a B-type asteroid,
which compared to other types of asteroids,
specifically like D-type asteroids,
are less enhanced in these organics.
And the asteroid belt is made up of,
like there's multiple distinct populations
within the asteroid belt in terms of composition,
but also in terms of where they're from.
So there's objects that have come in
from outside the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper belt.
So trans-Neptunian objects have come into the asteroid belt and found a home there.
And it seems that there's higher concentrations of organics and amino acids and things like this
when you go further away from the sun.
Because sunlight kind of processes these compounds and degrades them, it seems.
But the interstellar environment seems to be more conducive to creating or preserving them and or both.
Yeah.
So we have objects in our asteroid belt that have come in from the Kuiper belt and found
home there.
This is a B-type asteroid, which is like a standard normal asteroid.
If they landed on a D-type asteroid or if they send a probe out to maybe one of these
objects floating well beyond Neptune, who knows what they might find.
It's really quite exciting stuff and full of open possibility.
but we haven't found, as far as I know, we haven't found, like, complex proteins yet.
They found these what they called gums.
Gums.
Which are, I guess it would be proteins because they were like amino acid assemblages,
but I guess they're different than standard proteins that we know.
Maybe the folding is different.
Right.
So, but yeah, cool, really cool stuff.
So, I mean, there's a lot of great stuff that's being done.
And that's why I think it's kind of toxic when you when you just look at everything and say, oh, it's all nonsense. Space is fake, right? It's all a conspiracy. Yeah. You know, that doesn't help anybody. How seriously, how serious do academics take the like the whole younger dryest hypothesis? Is that, do they just brush that off as pseudoscience or do, in your experience, like real academic geologists,
and people like this take that hypothesis seriously?
I can't really answer that question
because I wasn't even aware of that when I went to school.
You never talked about it.
It wasn't a topic of discussion.
Maybe if I'd taken a master's or PhD,
but then you start to specialize.
And so I think a lot of these,
I think in general,
unless you have an innate interest in it
and research into whatever the topic is yourself,
a lot of people just kind of go with whatever the idea
that's floating around.
And so a lot of your community members or academia
and professor friends or whoever,
all with this kind of repeating the same thing,
then you probably just go with that.
And it kind of takes some initiative
to research into something yourself in depth
to come to a more nuanced view.
In these hours,
academic fields, it just seems to be like there's not as much curiosity into this kind of stuff.
But like the reason I'm asking that is because I, you know, in that black mat layer that they found
in the strata of the earth, there was like the like little nanodiamonds and and certain metals
that you would find in comets and asteroids, right?
Yeah, the micro evidence.
Yeah.
So I was, I recently had Randall on my show and we just talked about all this stuff.
And I was actually on his as well.
But, yeah, he's,
Randall Carlson's looked at the macro evidence,
geologic structures.
And, you know,
he relayed this spiritual experience he had
when he was a teenager
of seeing the actual water flowing down
these massive gorges.
And he says,
like a visceral spiritual experience
that guided him to then investigate
what he does now,
10 years after it happened.
Right.
And I think there's a lot to that.
I don't think that should be
just immediately dismisses,
like some mind fantasy, you know, sometimes the best ideas. I mean, that's a huge question.
Those, those scablands, those channeled scablands in the Midwest, you know, his theory on it is that
there was like a billion quadrillion tons of water flowing through that or something because
there was the like the Laurentide ice sheet that was above that, that somehow like melted instantaneously.
upon impact of some sort of comet or a bunch of comets,
melted it in this quadrillions of tons of water,
started flowing through and carving out those channeled scablands.
And if you look at it and you zoom out and you think about that,
it does look like that, right?
Here's like a close-up version.
Yeah.
And if you really zoom out, like a lot of the land in that part of the country.
And even if you want to go into like Southern California area,
It looks like it's the bottom of the ocean, like a bottom, like an ocean floor, you know.
So there's something to it.
There's definitely something to it.
The universe is fractal.
So sometimes you're going to see at bigger scales.
And the larger processes, sometimes the harder it is for us to like grasp it with just kind of like visualizing it or more.
And evolution used to be thought of is just like, you know, a slow, steady, homogenous process.
but we know that there's periods of punctuated equilibrium
where there's rapid evolution that occurs
because there's some force that causes rapid evolution.
And then there may be, you know,
more steady grind of evolution for 50,000 years,
and then in 500 years it's really rapid
because maybe some disease outbreaks
or there's some new pressure placed on the island
or whatever it is.
I think the same is for geology.
And so the thing with these, you know,
channeled scablands and Randall's idea and other people too is what deliver the energy to melt
the Laurentide ice sheet so quickly. Right. The traditional idea is that you had, I think it's Lake
Algeese. I think that's right. That's sitting at the base of the Laurentide Ice sheet. There was an
ice dam and then that broke down. Right. Exactly. And that flooded out. But based off of Randall's
geologic trips all throughout that area over.
decades, right? He's like, that's not big enough. That's not significant enough. And it did go away
quickly. We have the climate data show that the younger drives was a massive, you know, basically
pulse of volatility for a thousand years or so. And he also talks about this isostatic rebound
effect that would have happened. Like if the ice sheets would have melted because there's weight that they
put on each end of the earth, right? And that somehow keeps us in some sort of rotation or keeps us
balance somehow and if all that ice melts, all of a sudden the earth crust will expand
and create this isostatic rebound.
Yeah.
Are you familiar with that?
That's been measured in Canada and the location and even like down to the Great Lakes
and such.
So where the Laurentide ice sheet was, there is this active uplift.
Though it's, you know, certainly slowing down now as compared to when at first, you know,
the ice sheet first melted.
But his interesting idea, which recently, um, um,
got put on my radar when I was talking to him,
is that if you have one location,
you know, now having this rebound,
there's likely going to be another location
that's having this depression.
So he thinks the Azores
is that location.
That's why he thinks that perhaps Atlantis was there.
Because if you look at the bethymetry data
for the Azores,
it's actually quite deep.
And so if you were to drop sea level 400 feet,
which is where it was during the last size age,
it doesn't really create like a plateau.
But you had the Laurentide ice sheet over North America.
Then you also had a very large ice sheet over Europe, specifically like Scandinavia.
Right.
And that's two points of the plate junctions for the Azores because you have the North American plate,
European plate.
Then you also have the, I believe it's the African plate meeting there.
Or, yeah, you can maybe pull up the plate tectonics of the Azores.
But either way, you have this plate junction, triple plate junction there.
And if two sides of that are experiencing this rebound, right, off to the edges, then at that junction perhaps is where you're having this subsidence occur.
And that would then explain it because if the iso-stack rebound for North America where the ice sheet was is, you know, 1,000 meters, 2,000 meters, because it was that depressed, then this...
That would have somehow made the Azores sink?
Yeah, maybe now because there's this equalization that's occurring.
they're now sinking.
Think of like if you have a plate,
you know, the ice sheet weighing down on the corner,
these plates seem to be more structurally,
yeah, the African plate.
So these plates seem to be more structurally intact and rigid
than kind of maybe we currently think.
Right.
And so at the edge, that would perhaps lift up,
raising the Azores into a bit of a plateau,
and then when those ice sheets go away,
now they would sink back down.
And what we have is what's been left.
Right.
This is just an idea, but I do think it's worth considering.
It's captured my interest because we know that, you know, rebound and subsidence exist.
Right.
And it can happen quickly.
In the Central Valley in California, they're pumping the aquifers like crazy for all the almonds and farmland there.
And there's places where it's dropping like a foot a year, like two feet per year, like rapid subsidence because they're draining the water tables.
Wow.
And that's just from like pumping water out from aquifers.
I mean, imagine kilometers high, like Game of Thrones style ice sheets, even bigger, right?
It's totally different dynamics that we just don't have a concept of in the modern day.
Yeah, didn't Randall go and like look at the go to the Azores and like explore it?
I don't know how many trips he's done there.
But when I talked to him just recently, I mean, he was just there like, I think November 25.
So just recently he did a trip there to look for geologic evidence of some of his ideas.
I haven't been there myself.
But I think there's a little bit of truth in all these ideas that are floating around.
And there's a lot of conspiracies attached to them, which can be fun.
But I'm more interested in finding those truth gems, you could say,
and seeing how they fit together and getting a better sense of the past.
Because if you truly want to understand the future,
then we need to see what's occurred in the past
and kind of maybe see the direction that's leading us.
And you're not going to do that
if you're affiliated with one side or the other.
It's just the sun causing the climate.
It's just CO2.
You're never going to get to the truth that way.
You're just going to fool yourself.
Yeah, you have to be interdisciplinary,
kind of have a hand and a little,
touch a little bit of all of it, right,
to have a real, like,
broad picture of what's going on.
Yeah.
And,
and,
you know,
we're tribal at the end of the day.
So I think a lot of people,
they really need,
like community,
society,
they need a tribe.
Maybe I'm bit of the outside of the fact that,
you know,
I'm pretty chilling.
I don't,
great.
If I have friends,
cool.
If I don't have that many friends,
whatever.
Like,
I'm more focused on,
uh,
seeing these bigger patterns.
Mm-hmm.
And,
um,
I don't need to fit in.
Right.
Really.
I think there's a lot of things where you fit in.
It's not to your benefit, actually.
Anyone that gets,
anyone that's contrarian, for example,
in the stock market,
let's say it's going up, up, up,
and it's about to have a crash.
No one knows that yet.
You know, Michael Burry,
he puts in the big short,
worked out very well for him.
Not so much sense, though.
Yeah, now everything's a big short for him.
Right, right.
But these just kind of ideas like just, I think a lot of it's programming, just learning to kind of separate yourself from that.
And this requires a lot of internal reflection to see what your processes are.
Yeah.
And it's an inner journey that we're all taking and some people maybe do it faster than others and different paths of exploration.
But I think a lot of the problems in the world will be solved if more people look internally.
Yeah, totally.
Well, you spend a lot of time on YouTube and you're exposed to a lot of these crazy rabbit holes.
Did you pay any attention to that recent scan beneath the pyramids where those guys, those Italian dudes, said they found these big cylindrical shafts that go kilometers under the earth?
This is interesting because we're starting to see the like the hive mine coalesce around the idea and make it more solid.
and it's really interesting.
I was at Cosmic Summit last year
where they were and they presented.
Fortunately, I didn't get to see their presentation,
but I've read some of the research on that sort of data collection.
You know, they're using satellite pairs in space.
They're doing radar measurements,
and with super high precision,
they're measuring the differences.
But there's a lot of factors that go into it,
like the polarization of the wave,
the timing of it,
even the atmospheric factors.
like distortion of the radio waves, all this influences that data.
And so I'm just in kind of default skeptical is not the right word, but cautious as to any interpretations that are made because, you know, they presented some pretty
like astounding, compelling results that are like very detailed.
Yeah.
In this data collection method from what I know because being in all the geophysics stuff, you know, I'm able to read that paper.
and for the most part understand it.
And that's still reading, I'm like, this is, you know, this is pretty out there.
So for the average person, they're not going to be able read that research paper.
So they just got to take it for-
They just look at the AI remake.
They're like, holy shit.
There's elevators under the pyramid.
They got to take it by faith.
So it's, I don't know what the deal is there.
The geology probably is conducive because it's a lot of like sandstone, limestone stuff.
Exactly.
Probably is conducive for that for having these structures.
I mean, they're talking about massive, massive structures.
Have you seen the raw data?
I mean, they have the raw scan data.
Yeah, it's quite a bit different than the 3D abstractions that they show.
Quite a bit different, even from not even talking about the AI renders that other people have done.
Yeah.
But quite a bit different from those Italian dudes, their render of it.
Yeah.
Like he, they scan the Coffrey pyramid, the central pyramid.
And they show like seven king.
chamber, sized chambers in the center of it. And we know for a fact that they're not there.
Hadiday presents in the red corner the undisputed, undefeated weed whacker guys.
Champion of hurling grass and pollen everywhere. And in the blue corner, the challenger,
Extra Strength, Hannity. Eye drops and work all day to prevent the release of histamines
that cause itchy allergy eyes. And the winner,
knockout is Padiday.
Paraday. Bring it on.
So, like, why are they showing seven different
Kings chambers inside that central pyramid
when that whole thing has been explored
and there's, we know for a fact that those aren't there,
you know?
It's interesting. It's from space.
It provides, like, a broad view.
If it was to stimulate a rigorous and robust,
let's say seismic and resistivity survey of the geese plateau, then that would be amazing.
Like if that's the end result of all this, that'd be great.
Because we could get high resolution data for the geese plateau in a way that provides
maybe not irrefutable, but pretty conclusive proof of voids and structures underground if we
use that combination.
Again, two methods, seismic, which has a huge track.
record of success for for exactly these sort of investigations right then even better in some
aspects resistivity where you're measuring the electric current flowing between different
electrode pairs and then you track that across depth and time and all these
different frequencies and you get that data and that shows void structures or
tunnels or things of that nature very well you did a widespread 3D seismic and
resistivity survey the Giza plateau you could pretty definitively be like yes
there's something there or no much more
more so than this radar data from space.
Right.
The SAR data.
Yeah, there was a lot of squirrely stuff that was happening with those with those
SAR data and even like their first analysis like their descriptions of it and like
their descriptions of their scan of the Kauffray pyramid and why they couldn't detect the
the shafts that go underneath that central pyramid in their first paper they described
that reason being they can't go.
that deep into the bedrock, right?
So you read a lot of these papers yourself?
Oh, we recently had like a,
this guy on here, Jeffrey Drum,
who has a,
he lives in Giza,
like right by the pyramids.
And he's been there, like, on the ground
studying this stuff for years now.
And he's a great YouTube channel
called Land of Chem.
And like he's been hyper-focused on this stuff,
reading papers.
Those Italian guys invited him
to their first,
little presentation that they did in the beginning of 2025.
And he was there asking questions and like one of his biggest questions was like,
how come in your first paper when you scan the Coffray Pyramid you explained that the reason
you couldn't find the shaft under the Coffray Pyramid was because you can't see that deep
into the bedrock.
Now you're doing this and you're saying you have kilometer deep shafts underneath the bedrock.
And and you know, to the Italian guys credit, they weren't coming up with some crazy excuse.
They were just saying we don't know.
I don't know.
They were saying they don't know.
So there's definitely a lot of very strange questions there about that.
And like again, like he was show like Jeffrey, we came here and he was showing us the raw data, like the raw scans of what they were able to do.
If you can find those, Steve of those shafts.
And it's just to me, it doesn't make sense how they were able to jump from that raw data to their 3D render.
Maybe there's something there I don't understand.
I'm sure there is a lot.
I don't understand about this.
Yeah, looks just like it.
Well, this is a, yeah, so that is supposed to be on the right, a side view of the great pyramid, I believe.
Find that and then that's, you know, the one on the right, right there, that vertical one, Steve.
That's supposed to be the shafts under the pyramid.
And if you look at that next to there, yeah, go to that one in the middle, Steve.
Yeah, that one right there.
The other thing to be mindful of, because this data is very similar to GPR data.
It's actually effectively GPR just at a much larger scale, lower frequency, you know, from space, but it's still electromagnetic waves.
What's the polarization?
What's the frequency of this stuff?
With GPR, there's like a million ways to process it.
Depending on what filter you put on it, you know.
Ideally, you kind of learn how to process the data and you do it as objectively as possible, but it's not that difficult to all of a sudden make one quote-unquote anomaly pop out
versus another based off of like what your cutoff is for the colors like even just the color scheme
how they what colors show up for what values just even changing that can all of a sudden make
that look radically different but the end result the person who sees that just in a five second
scroll on social media right they're just interpreting the colors that they're seeing they're not
obviously seeing you know five different color renderings and that's like the most basic of things
We could go through all the different filtering options that exist, low frequency, cutoffs, high frequency, all this stuff.
So these guys published a paper for peer review, I believe.
And they're trying to get, they're waiting to see if it's going to get published.
Okay.
But I'm not sure if it's going to be.
And their hope is to be able to get permission from Egypt to do more excavation and figure out what's going on there.
But Jeffrey, who lives in Giza, he's saying that he knows people in the antiquity.
department of Egypt and they're all super angry that these guys did this without like consulting them.
So he's saying that those guys are never going to be get permission to move a grain of sand
on Giza because of that because they did this sort of like cowboy style, even though it's from
like satellites, right? Like technically it's they're not like violating any laws or anything.
I guess the fact that they did it the way they did without even talking to the Egyptians.
their they got their panties in a bundle.
But it's interesting either way.
Have you been to the pyramids?
Never.
Oh, it's crazy.
I want to go.
You've been?
Yeah, back in 23.
It's funny because I was watching ancient aliens.
Oh, yeah?
And it just is just like something put on while eating like, I don't know, lunch or something.
But they visited the temple of Assis in the Oswan area for that show.
And they just, it was only like a 30 second clip.
but I was like, oh my God, like I need to go there.
So like a month later, I'm there.
Because I was free reign, like, you know, basically Lone Ranger.
I could do whatever I want.
So I flew there and there's only a 10-day trip in Egypt,
but Luxor, Oswan going to Giza and also some of it.
I saw like, I went to five pyramids.
You know, this guy you're talking about, you know, he lives there.
But even just in that trip, like, you can feel the energies.
like there's all the symbology it's you know a lot of the shapes and structures and like sacred
geometry it influences the energetics of the environment and so egypt seems to be just loaded
with that yeah and then all the intention put into these temples and sites over not only hundreds
but thousands of years seems to leave like a long lasting powerful energetic imprint and then
there's people that have reported certain
certain shrines
will create like weird symptoms like
or electromagnetic interference with like cameras and stuff
really there's I don't remember which stone it is
there's like one temple that has this
this special stone that causes weird reactions
with technology and even some people
will feel really weird around it really
I think it's a it's like a rock carving
of the lion goddess
Is that a segment maybe?
I can't recall exactly,
but there's people that have talked about that.
So there's like weird things there for sure.
And if we find out that there were,
you know, maybe structures under the pyramids,
I wouldn't necessarily be surprised.
One of the things that Jeffrey is saying
is he thinks there,
he doesn't know for a fact,
but he has discovered iron veins
around the edge of the pyramids.
And he thinks it's very possible
that there's natural iron.
iron vein deposits underneath those pyramids.
He has an elaborate theory on how the pyramids were basically chemical processing plants.
And his theory incorporates all of the pyramids, not just the great pyramid.
And how they would have used like ammonia and sulfur production by basically using like the natural resource.
of the earth to create these chemicals, which could be applied for things like agriculture
or even metallurgy. So he has like the, you know, it's kind of like an out there hypothesis,
but it does, it makes rational sense. You know, it's not like, it's not aliens and it's not
tombs. It's kind of like a little bit of an in between that makes a lot of sense. And he spent a lot of
time in those pyramids. They even, he even showed a guy who made a one, was it like one 20th
one to 20 scale model of the red pyramid and it was was it ammonia they were processing in the red
pyramid i don't remember i believe it was a moaning it was high pressure it was like a high pressure
chemical processing and they replicated it with all the chambers of the red pyramid in like a
in like a small model and they were able to replicate it and the thing but the model exploded
because his theory is that like all of the blocks that are stacked on top of it were
and in that perfect symmetry of that pyramid
is supposed to be able to contain that pressure
and that high pressure creates those chemicals.
It's wild.
It's deep.
It takes a lot of a lot of time
for him to explain it and to understand it,
but it makes so much sense, man.
Yeah, I'm aware of some of his work
because I started watching part one of his interview
with Matt Bell,
who did like a nine-hour podcast with him.
Yeah.
And I'm like, I'll get through this,
but I haven't finished.
part one yet.
Yeah.
There's part two.
There's part three.
But he started laying out a lot of groundwork as to ancient sites and their use.
And yeah, like high points form these positive charges because they naturally accumulate
there and lightning strikes.
Exactly.
The Tolar occurrence and the lightning strikes have a lot to do with it.
And he connects that to different sites around the world.
It's very interesting.
Yeah.
If we were to go to another planet and colonize another planet, the first thing we would do is
build factories there so we can manufacture our own stuff. We wouldn't bring all of our own stuff.
We would figure out how to utilize the resources of that planet or that moon or whatever it was
to be able to manufacture. Like utilize the resources that are already native to that location and
figure out how to build and create all the new stuff there. And if there was some sort of
civilization that was coming here to colonize Earth, well, that's exactly what those pyramids were.
They were using the natural resources of the earth to do things like agriculture and metallurgy and that kind of stuff.
And he incorporates it in everything.
There's crazy theories out there to like, you know, was this some sort of like Tesla machine, right?
A free energy machine.
Right.
And then it doesn't incorporate all the pyramids.
It just incorporates the Great Pyramid.
What's interesting about his theory is that it doesn't just incorporate all of the pyramids in Egypt.
He also can tied into all the pyramids in South America and Central America and Mexico.
And he connects the dots between all of it.
And it's just so compelling, man.
It's hard to ignore.
If we really want to figure out what was happening and why these are created,
you have to think about there has to be some payoff for that.
I mean, you're not going to create these things for no reason.
There's got to be, it's got to be some reason.
And it's got to kind of be universal across time.
And something that would be fairly easy to figure out.
Or you have like,
you just see it clearly,
observationally,
like some of the first
let's say rocks
that were thrown in a fire
all of a sudden you get copper out of them.
You're like, oh, you know,
that happens frequently enough
around the globe that all of a sudden
copper smelting
kind of popped up everywhere,
roughly the same time,
some places earlier than that
because, for example,
Michigan they have like float copper
that's on the surface.
So they had those tools earlier,
but you kind of needed to
be something like that.
Where anyone can
kind of figure it out.
And I would need to look more into his stuff.
But certainly anything that is related to agriculture is probably going to be closer
to it than something that's totally fanciful.
Right.
And yeah, there's just a lot of unusual things of like technology being replicated around
the world at the same time.
Yeah.
Which is kind of bizarre.
I don't think you need, though, like, some explorers of a lost civilization transmuting those ideas outwards necessarily to explain that.
I don't know how familiar you are with the Schumar Residences, maybe a little bit.
Not super.
Yeah, these resident energy fields that exist on Earth that are generated through lightning strikes, primarily.
There's like 50 every second or so around the world.
And they produce energy across the entire light spectrum.
Sometimes even gamma rays.
Like a super bolt, it'll be so strong you can produce gamma radiation.
But of course, we see the visible light when we see lightning strike.
So it's producing visible light.
If you get close enough to one, you can feel the heat from it.
That's infrared, the thermal.
It produces ultraviolet, extreme ultraviolet, x-ray.
But those quickly get absorbed into the atmosphere because they're very high frequency.
but it also produces radio microwave frequencies.
So you can pick that up.
And when there's a big thunderstorm overhead,
that can kind of scramble the lower frequencies
in the radio microwave band.
But the frequencies going from zero to 50 hertz
are such a low frequency
that they don't get absorbed easily into the atmosphere
or even into the ocean or the surface.
So they form these standing waves.
And specifically, 7.8 hertz is a,
approximately the frequency and therefore the wavelength of the circumference of the earth.
Because the earth's circumference is 40,000 kilometers.
You take the speed of light, which is 300,000 kilometers per second, you get 7.5 hertz as the
frequency. And what we see is that at about 7.8 hertz ranges from 7.2 to 8.5, 8.6 or so.
but at that frequency, we see an elevation in power
as compared to all the nearby frequencies,
let's say like 6 Hertz or 10 Hertz.
Those aren't elevated in power,
but 7.8 Hertz is and it's consistently elevated in power.
Then 14 Hertz is a second mode.
So a higher frequency.
It's also harmonic with the Earth.
Not as much power is the first mode,
the foundational, but still elevated over normal.
Then mode 3, 4, 5.
that's the same architecture frequency
as our brainwaves,
which I touched on at the very beginning,
and they have the same strength.
So Schumar Residences are measured
in the Pico-Tesla range,
which is very, very, very minute.
So 1,000th of a nanotuzla.
And Earth's magnetic field is like, you know,
23,000 is 67,000 nanotazas.
So these are extremely minor variations.
But when we measure brainwaves,
they also come in at the exact same range
in Pico-Teslas.
So if you have the same strength and frequency, that means there can be resonance between them.
Because if one was stronger than the other, though the same frequency, then one would be considered noise and the other would be considered signal.
So if the Schumontresidences were 10 times weaker than brain waves, maybe there's a mechanism to extract information from that, but the signal of our brainwaves would be 10 times stronger.
So it'd be difficult to get any data out of that.
but they're exactly the same strength and frequency,
then the brain could theoretically grab information
from the Schumann residences because energy is information.
There's always information encoded into any energy waveform.
So if we have this natural resonance with the Earth that we evolved with,
it's probably going back to our evolution.
It's kind of a pretty deep thing,
But that could then perhaps be an explanation for this dissemination of ideas that pop up all at the same time.
Because if one person figures something out and, you know, they're thinking about this and maybe that just permeates into the Schumann residences and then, you know, it's the speed of light.
So eight times per second, this thing's pulsing for the foundational mode.
Then someone in South America, the other person's in Asia, you know, it could happen maybe the same day.
All of a sudden, like, they just get hit with an idea.
Everyone's had that experience.
Yeah.
where they just get hit with an idea and it doesn't feel like yours right it just feels like external like whoa okay yeah
especially if you do any sort of like psychedelic then you really explore into these fields and you realize that you know consciousness is a lot more open expanded than we think it is is this like a different
approach to morphic resonance like ripper shell drake's idea is this is like a was he talking about the the yeah it's all this this would be the
the actual, like, you could say,
electromagnetic layer that could explain that.
Morphic resonance would exist across, like,
basically everything.
The universe.
Yeah, I mean, at a consciousness level,
at an electromagnetic level, a whole bunch of things.
But this would be a specific subset
that could help explain this.
Right.
But they've done experiments tracking the Schumann residences
in the earth environment,
then also someone's brainwaves at the same time,
and they found time periods
where they entered into coherence with each other,
because they can look at the frequency,
the phase, and see, okay, we have coherence
for one second or five seconds.
And the research in general is that
what they call an atom of thought,
which is like the base smallest unit of like a thought.
It's like a quant of thought, I guess.
measures to like 100, 200, 400 milliseconds, something like that.
Yeah.
And so if you're able to enter into coherence with the Schumal resonances for just even just a few seconds,
you could have perhaps a few thoughts like pop into your brain.
Sure.
Maybe we're stored in the earth resonant field.
That's not just from us, but from all life.
And there's more truth than that as well.
How do we measure this?
study this.
The Schumont Resonies? Yeah. Like if this idea that these, that these ideas can be stored in this
specific resonance and it have human, the human brain be able to pick it up simultaneously on
opposite ends of the earth. Yeah, that would be. Has anyone ever tried that? Not exactly like
that, but there has been a lot of work adjacent to that. There's been work looking at
people's like biosignatures
and then what happens to
Schumont Residences and then like a solar storm impact
and seeing how that affects their
heart and their brainwaves and everything
which is kind of related but not exactly
but for that I guess you would
you would need
a good enough receiver
and a good enough transmitter
so I would think that and you'd probably need a big
sample size of multiple times
so maybe like some mass meditation
event of thousands of people in India
let's say, focusing on one idea.
Right.
And then a receiving group in meditation in South America, let's say, trying to receive that
and then doing that over and over and over to see maybe if they can pull in the information.
That's probably a more elegant, like a experimental design that you can make, but just off the top of my head.
I don't know.
It's kind of a, it connects into these esoteric realms of,
of how do you like measure this stuff exactly there's there's enough data there to point to something
that's interesting but then in terms of like how can we prove it is this in a field that's beyond our
ability to prove empirically like is this too too right brain to to do that right well i mean a lot of
this type of stuff that you're talking about you doesn't really you can't really use the scientific
method to figure it out, right?
Like it doesn't pass scientific method muster,
these kinds of ideas.
I think we'll look back in like 500 years
and we'll see the scientific method
and the scientific revolution as a really cool
thing, but just as a stepping
zone to one new,
more integrated approach.
Yeah, which is, you know, that's a wild thing too
is like the foundation of the
scientific method
hasn't really
evolved much, right?
Like everything is just kind of like floats on
of that. We haven't really like
adapted that foundation
very much. We kind of very, it's very, we've
stuck to that rigid
foundation and
I feel like it has to evolve.
We know it's not 100%
correct because when the scientific
method and the consensus right now
is that consciousness is just an epiphenomenon
that just manifests somehow
in the human brain and basically
nowhere else. Then it's like,
okay guys, like this is nonsense.
So there's
There's a whole bunch, like the big bang is another example of that.
It's just, guys, there's more to this.
Like consciousness isn't, if we're the only conscious beings in the universe
and then everything else is not conscious and just completely materialistic and doesn't
matter, then what does that say about us?
Right.
Like everything except us is not conscious, but it makes us puny in comparison.
because we're basically a speck of nothing
in the vastness of the universe.
So there's just some problems with the scientific foundation.
I think we'll look at it in the future
as one tool of many to use.
And I think the science of the future
is going to be more a science of consciousness exploration.
But how is that going to be done?
And what methods actually turn out
to be verifiable across time?
I'm not sure, like, remote viewing is that.
Yeah, definitely falls into that category.
It's remote viewing.
It's all the 4 million draconians on 3i Atlas, so.
Remote viewing found that.
Yeah, that's what some people said.
Like, I'm seeing 4,000.
Oh, my God.
4 million draconians.
There's a lot of just nonsense out there.
There's just so much nonsense.
And there's so many charlatans out there, man.
Yeah.
It's a low consciousness mindset.
Like, you know, the Yuga cycle, are you aware of, like, the yugas?
Not super familiar.
There's the, I'm sure you're aware of, like, the.
24,000 roughly year processional cycle.
Of the equinox, yeah.
Yeah, and then the Greeks have what they call the Great Year.
Oh, yeah, I'm familiar with this.
Yes.
The Yuga cycle is the same.
It's just the Indian version that we go through cycles of consciousness.
And right now, supposedly, we're basically at the bottom.
And that, well, there's two different main ideas.
The main, one of them is that we were at the absolute bottom of the consciousness cycle
with the fall of the Roman Empire.
around 500 AD, which makes a lot of sense.
Our history of 500 AD is almost non-existent for at least Europe in Rome.
That's when we went to the dark ages, right?
Exactly.
Yes.
500, 600 AD, almost no record of anything.
So it's definitely a dark period in time for Europe.
You know, other places, it was different.
That was right when they destroyed the Temple of Elusus and got rid of all magic, right?
That's when the church got its hold, right?
That's when basically Christianity became like the dominant thing.
They destroyed paganism.
All the other religions kind of went away.
That's when the church took hold and basically like everything like science and everything went stagnant.
Effectively, I mean, the Temple of Assis in Egypt was the last cult temple to be active in Egypt.
And that was going through even the Roman Empire.
that also collapsed around 500 AD.
So that's one time point for the bottom of the Yuga cycle.
It's called the Kali Yuga, with the lowest consciousness.
It's just materialistic.
Everyone's liars and cheaters and more.
And then we'll ascend up into different yugas.
There's the duopraa, the Toreuga, the Treda Yuga, and these are more enlightened states.
And the other idea is that we're at the bottom of the Kali Yuga right now in 2025.
that was the bottom of the colla yuga.
So there's some conflicting ideas,
but it does seem we're more on the ascent,
like the ascent up out of it
because we're coming to more like energy-based technology
and understanding of frequency and information and such.
And that seems to have existed also in the past too.
With like, for example,
we've been talking about the pyramids.
Some of these ancient sites,
this kind of more macro, greater understanding
of the flow of energy around the planet,
there's, I think there's enough evidence there
to say that that probably was the case,
at least with certain maybe more educated groups,
like the druids perhaps, right?
Like this.
So we've seen, and there was like the, you know,
the Babylon battery, and we had evidence
that they were aware of some of these things in the past.
And then we really dipped out of it
and now we seem to be coming back into it.
But I guess according to that,
in 12,000 years,
we're all going to be enlightened masters walking on the planet.
Sounds pretty great.
But yeah, if we can survive the machine rapture,
that's coming.
Yeah.
That'll be our test to see if we actually learned something, I guess.
Yeah.
Pollyuga.
Yeah.
That's scary.
But listen, man, we just did like three and a half hours.
Thank you so much for doing this.
I learned a lot.
Tell people where they can find you on YouTube,
social media and all that stuff.
Sure.
Yeah.
Thanks.
My YouTube channel is at Stefan Burns.
So S-T-E-F-A-N-B-R-N-S and then my X account,
which I post updates there in-between videos.
would be same, Stefan Burns, but then also Geo, so S-E-F-A-N-B-R-N-S-G-E-O.
And I also have a website that's earthevolution.com.
I sell holistic wellness products and some merch there.
Just some basic stuff.
But the YouTube channel, I'm posting video almost every day.
I'm starting to do more podcast interviews.
So it's a good spot.
You'll learn a lot if you watch videos across time.
You'll learn about all this stuff.
Holy shit, dude, you got a huge audience on your YouTube channel.
That's amazing.
it's it's been great people are loving it um it's impressive stuff man i think it's mainly because i'm
independent and just chasing this out and trying to understand it and you know i have my own thoughts
and beliefs but i'm not too attached to anything so i think that's kind of the key going forward and
definitely just wanting to deliver good information to people and keep a roof over my head
yeah that's really those are the and better understand the earth the sun all that that's those are my
goals. Well, good stuff, man. I really enjoyed this and I learned a lot. I'll link all your stuff
below, people to find it. That's all, folks.
