8.6 – THE OTHER EARTH (9.28.15)

DARK MATTER ^[7g]

Lively, Ontario, Canada. Just over one mile deep underground is one of the most isolated physics labs in the world, SNOLAB. The facility was built deep within the Earth in order to block out cosmic radiation. This could allow scientists to possibly catch a glimpse of an element that they are confident exists throughout the cosmos, but have been unable to detect. Physicists claim that everything we can observe accounts for less than five percent of the Universe. What constitutes the rest is completely unknown, but is thought to include a mysterious substance called dark matter.

“We know that most of the matter in the Universe is not made of atoms or atomic nuclei. It’s something else entirely. There’s a long list of what dark matter might be, and some things we know about already, black holes, for example, that’s making up part of the mass of the Universe.” – Paul Davies, Ph.D. (Theoretical Physicist/Astrobiologist, ASU)

“If you look out in the solar system, you can see the orbits of various galaxies, Universes, solar systems, planets, all of these, and you can map their orbits, and you realize that there’s missing matter that you can’t see through light. This is what we call dark matter.” – Michael Dennin, Ph.D. (Physicist/Prof. of Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine)

The existence of dark matter was not scientifically accepted until the 1980s. Since that time, many scientific speculations have been made as to its true nature. Theories range from it being the glue that holds together the visible Universe to a shadow galaxy that contains within it a parallel Universe.

“One theory is, is that the dark matter particles are particles that are not really part of this Universe. These hidden dimensions somehow allows this dark matter to exist. It’s like a secret room. You own a big mansion and it turns out there’s a secret room in it and you just don’t know where it is.” – John Brandenburg, Ph.D. (Plasma Physicist, Orbital Technologies), (Author, Life and Death on Mars)

“Scientists are saying these higher dimensions may, in fact, coexist with our own and could, in fact, represent habitable layers of reality that are hidden from us a world that is outside of our physical ability to measure but that has people living in it. And those people could be coming and going to our reality all the time.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), (Author, The Source Field Investigations), (The Synchronicity Key)

Could an extraterrestrial world actually be located in a parallel Universe, hidden within dark matter? If so, might our current scientific exploration of dark matter lead us to discover that we are not alone in the cosmos? But whether an Other Earth exists in another dimension under our feet or in a distant galaxy what would its discovery mean for the future of humanity?

“If we were to discover the Other Earth, the place we have sought, the missing world, it would be profoundly humbling. So, this would be quite a paradigm shift. History would change in a very major way.” – Jonathan Young, Ph.D. (Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives)

“If we were to find another planet with life on it, it would affirm what spiritual and sacred traditions have been saying: that we are, in fact, part of a larger family of, perhaps, other civilizations.” – William Henry (Author / Investigative Mythologist), (Author, Freedom’s Gate), (The Judgment Day Device), (Lost Secrets of the Watchers), (The Secret of Sion), (Egypt: The Greatest Show on Earth)

“We have this cosmic origin. We have this imprint within all of us that our origin is out there. If we discover intelligent life, the question we then have to ask, are those the same people that visited us in the past?” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine)

Is mankind on the brink of uncovering definitive evidence that we are not alone? Will we learn that there is other intelligent life in the Universe, perhaps far older and more advanced than humans? And might such a discovery force us to redefine everything we know about ourselves? Perhaps, one day soon, we will find that there is an Other Earth and not just one, but thousands.

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Next: 8.7 – Creatures of the Deep (9.4.15)

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