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7111501 No.7111501 [Reply] [Original]

can /sci/ pls explain the so called photon cloud that new age people preach it will bring disasters and the end of human life unless we improve our conciusness or some shit.

They seem to cite top scientists talking about the photon cloud earth will pass through very soon.

What is that photon cloud?
Can /sci/ pls explain the topic to a pop sci pleb?

>> No.7111519

>>7111501
Photons don't form clouds

>> No.7111520

>>7111501
Google brings up no relevant results for "photon cloud" "new age" so I'm gonna call bullshit.

>> No.7111523

>>7111519
>>7111520
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_belt

>> No.7111531

>>7111523
Ah.
You have to be one gullible mother fucker to swallow this shit.

>> No.7111534

>>7111531
>OP claimed to be a pop sci pleb

>> No.7111537

>>7111534
I'm a pop sci pleb too and it doesn't even take any knowledge to know that light travels in straight lines.

>> No.7111539

>>7111537
try again capitalist pig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQLMyQNoXCs

>> No.7111541

>>7111537
I'm sure you will enjoy this:
https://deusnexus.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/photon-belt-earths-shift/

>> No.7111596

>>7111539
I should have said "in a vacuum."
While there are no doubt metamaterials capable of making light move in closed loops, I'd not a lot of convincing that one such permeates entire swathes of the galaxy.
>>7111541
I do not enjoy pseudoscience.

>> No.7111682

>>7111541
So much bullshit.

>> No.7111919

>>7111537
A certain Austrian physicist's ghost would like to have a word with you...

>> No.7111923

>>7111919
German even