PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
Monday September 12, 2005
By MIKE FOSTER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a
mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves
everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and
entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!
Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the
swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened
to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed
of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on
June 1, 2014.
"The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge
ideas in theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a
Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA.
"The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is
imminent."
Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned
near the event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called
Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted by mangled information
spewed from the hole.
"A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from
Earth at the center of our galaxy," explained Dr. Sherwinski.
"Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory
of black holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape
the hole's powerful gravitational field. He demonstrated that
information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted
in mangled form.
"It now appears that mangled information can distort matter.
"Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten
letter.
"Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the
words dissolve as the stain spreads. That's what the chaos cloud
does to every star or planet it encounters."
To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming
discovery public. But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's
Chandra X-ray Observatory leaked to him striking images of the
newly discovered chaos cloud obliterating a large asteroid.
"It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of
acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski.
Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless.
"It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event
horizon of a black hole," Dr. Sherwinski explained. "The intense
curvature of space-time of the hole can cause the positron to fall
in, while the electron escapes."
But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the
particles become a chaos cloud, which in turn mangles everything it
touches.
"If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce
our galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the
birth of the universe," the astrophysicist warned.
Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space
ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million
light-years away.
"We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but
perhaps the best and the brightest," observed British rocket
scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the feasibility of such
a project.
But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth
might prove fruitless if theories about the origin of the chaos
cloud are correct.
"A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size
of the one in our own galaxy," Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be
like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire."
Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House
official said the president's top science advisors are taking the
findings in stride.
"This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on
whether it's real or not," said the official.
"The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory.
Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."