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More and more frequently, I hear people comment about how “weird” things are right now. It’s not just the inexorable march toward December 21, 2012 and all the hoopla surrounding that date. It’s something deeper, intangible, an intuitive sense that we are in the midst of something extraordinary, a paradigm shift, perhaps, or are being swept into a phenomenon for which we don’t yet have a name. Nothing, it seems, can be taken for granted. Change is the operative word, even in the world of science.
But when that change includes fundamental shifts in a scientific law that is supposed to be constant, scientists snap to full attention. Theories are tossed around. The mystery deepens.
The decay rates of radioactive elements are supposed to remain constant, the values are NOT supposed to change. Carbon-14, for example, which is used to accurately date ancient artifacts – a technique known as carbon dating – has a half life of 5,730 years. This dating process rests on the assumption that the decay rate never varies. Well, toss that constant out the window.
Researchers at Purdue first noticed something was screwy when they were using radioactive samples for random number generation. “When they compared their measurements with other scientists’ work, the values of the published decay rates were not the same,” writes Ian O’Neill in in Discovery News. “In fact, after further research they found that not only were they not constant, but they’d vary with the seasons. Decay rates would slightly decrease during the summer and increase during the winter.”
In 2006, a nuclear engineer at Purdue, Jere Jenkins, was testing the decay rate of manganese-54 and noted an inexplicable drop in its decay rate. This drop occurred just over a day before a large flare erupted on the sun.
As O’Neill writes, the scientists began to theorize that: “The sun may be emitting a preciously unknown particle that is meddling with the decay rates of matter. Or, at the very least, we are seeing some new physics…Did the sun somehow communicate with the manganese-54 sample?”
Peter Sturrock, a Stanford professor emeritus of applied physics, felt that neutrinos might hold a key to this mystery. As the article notes, these subatomic particles are born from the nuclear processes in the core of the sun and pass through the Earth like ghosts. But it turns out that Sturrock was onto something. The decay rates “vary repeatedly every 33 days – a period of time that matches the rotational periods of the core of the sun. The solar core is the source of solar neutrinos.”
Project world awareness goes into this anomalistic mystery in some depth. “If particles interacting with the matter are not the cause – and matter is being affected by a new force of nature – then time itself may be speeding up and there’s no way to stop it.”
How many of us awaken in the morning, blink, have coffee, blink again, and suddenly the sun has set and it’s dark outside? How many of us joke about how, as we get older, time speeds up? Maybe age doesn’t have anything to do with it. Maybe time actually is speeding up.
And if time is speeding up, what does that mean for us down here on the third rock from the sun? Again, I’m not a scientist, but there’s something about this information that resonates intuitively. If the decay rate of matter is speeding up, then it affects all of us. Information is flowing at an ever increasing speed globally, and to be informed is to be empowered. The more we know and discover, the greater the chance that our consciousness expands. With an expansion of consciousness, we evolve. As we evolve spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, then the self we are today is vastly different than the self we are tomorrow or next month or next year.
As Jenkins says, “What we’re suggesting is that something that doesn’t really interact with anything is changing something that can’t be changed.”
Perhaps this solar fluke – which affects both matter and time – will accelerate the evolution of human consciousness. Maybe, as a species, we’ll evolve to the point where we recognize that war, greed, hatred, discrimination, and everything else that divides us as inhabitants of the same planet spell just one thing: a path to intractable destruction. Maybe we’ll reach the point where so many people are awakened to this shift that a tipping point occurs and a new paradigm is born.
The sun, after all, is the giver of life. And if it is changing at fundamental levels that defy the laws of physics, that turn quantum reality inside out like a dirty sock, and destroy scientific constants, then we, too, are changing, evolving, becoming…well, something else. Right now, in the quantum sense, it’s a wave. Through out intentions, prayers, desires, and evolution as a species, we can collapse that wave and bring it into reality. And that’s where synchronicity shouts and seizes your attention.
How’s that saying go? Change begins one step at a time, with you and you and you until the you becomes us.
