Thursday, June 12, 2008

Hide and Seek

Science defines Electromagnetic Spectrum as the distribution of radiation according to Energy. So, what is this spectrum and what are the different types of energy that we think we know, understand and can interpret. The chart below presents a brief summary -

Amongst, the above energy spectrum what the naked human eye can see, is represented as under -
For the other regions of the spectrum, left and right of the "Visible" region we need to rely on many devices (complex and simple). But have we ever paused and thought that are we really sure that the spectrum that we know contains all possible "Energy Forms" available in the vast span of the universe?

What if there are other forms of energy beyond Radio and Gamma Rays. None of the equipments available today would be able identify those Energy. They would be BLACK to us. Till date all the images relayed to us by Hubble are nothing but graphic representation of different energy patterns put together, which are comming from a common source. What if a celestial body emmit other patterns of energy. Hubble won't be able to understand that energy because we don't understand that energy and the only image that Hubble would be able to draw would be something that would make little or no sense (again this is only my guess and I'm not questioning the Genius behind Hubble.). Again, another question that spontaneously comes to my mind that what if we could camafauldge the energy being radiated from our planet ..... i.e. what if we could create a force field arround out planet that would stop of any of the energy radiations from getting transmitted beyond Earth's gravitational field? Wonder what would Hubble see in such a situation.

Therefore what I think is, if we think there are Extra Terrestrial Intelligent Life forms other than us (which we know there are!!) and they do visit us (which we know they do!!) then they should have the technology to do what I've stated above, because it's a real smart move to keep the element of surprise going because that's the best way for defending oneself and one's technology. It's an inter planetary Hide and Seek, magnitude we can't even imagine where an entire Planet and it's civilization is being hidden from those spying eyes of technology!!!

5 comments:

shwetank said...

dear sajal
im becoming fan of ur blog real nice thoughts. well you hav givn a strategy to stop any radiation to leav the earth cover that i imagine to be a layer above the earth you r talking abt now to make that happen as you said we have 2 design a device which can use gravitational force to archive this situation. and dont you think that this will be exacly wat black hole do. they are nothing but super dense point mass with such a heavy mass so it exerts a great amount of gravitational force which dont even allow the radiations to escape.

Sajal said...

Shwetank dude!!

Actually what I propose is that, instead of using Earth's Gravitational Pull, if we can discover the energy patterns which is beyond the Range what we know currently, then that energy filed would automatically shield off the range below it. For example, if we look at the Alpha, Beta and Gamma energy range, Gamma Rays don't allow Alpha and Beta Rays to escape throught it because Gamma Rays lie above the Alpha and Beta rays.

Knowing the mamoth power of the Black Hole, simulating a Black Hole can be quite dangerous, any malfunction (which we know is bound to happen) can prove to be of catastrophic proportions.

What say??

shwetank said...

"i didnt get wat u mean by this....
if we look at the Alpha, Beta and Gamma energy range, Gamma Rays don't allow Alpha and Beta Rays to escape throught it because Gamma Rays lie above the Alpha and Beta rays."

Sajal said...

Shwetank Dude!!

I mean if in a given environment, Alpha, Beta and Gamma rays coexist, then what do you think which one would make it's presence felt more? my theory says it would be Gama rays because Gama rays sits above the other two rays in the energy table!

But again, this again as per my theory and I can be wrong ;)

Ateesh Dwivedi said...

Well, scientists aren't totally unaware of this possibility. There is this concept of the unknown dark energy - we know something exists, but do not know its nature. Also, matter and energy are two ends of the same dimension, of the same spectrum. Matter, perhaps is the cooled form of energy. There is unknown matter too - dark matter. We know it exists, but we don't know what its nature is. So as we stand today, more than 95.3% of matter-energy lies in the dark range - the unknown range. But we have sniffed that out.

If humanity survives itself, we may get answers to most of these questions. Gravity, quite known, is also a force that needs to be brought into the overall equation of the universe's energy. We've just found gravity waves (that's what they say.)

I personally think that there needs to be an alternate energy that can transmit faster than electromagnetic radiation to explain the universe. The initial inflation was faster than speed of light (electromagnetic radiation) - around 10^-32 seconds for it to expand from the size of a 1 rupee coin to the size of the Milky way. Now, whether that energy can be used to transmit only information (pattern) or even matter is beyond me. Does matter even matter there, I am not sure.