Speaker 1: Okay, imagine this. You're in a physics lab, right, and
there are these two really high energy experiments going on
at the same time, but they're both going wrong, spectacularly
wrong actually, and in ways that completely contradict each other.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good analogy for what's happening right now
up here our sun exactly.
Speaker 1: We've got these two celestial objects, both hanging out near
the Sun, and both are behaving in ways that well,
they really challenge what we thought we knew about comments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of them, this visitor from interstellar space. It
was supposed to be fading out.
Speaker 1: Quiet, right, but instead instead.
Speaker 2: It's violently erupting. We're talking hypersonic jets of plasma. It's
shining way way brighter than any of.
Speaker 1: The models, wildly brighter. And then, almost like cosmic timing,
there's this second object.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the disappearing act. Right in our line of
sight to the first big event, This small, probably very
volatile body just pops up, gets catalog briefly, then bam,
over just a few days it vanishes completely gone, like
a cosmic magic trick on a massive scale, millions of miles.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're diving into today. We've got some
really compelling new data just out Actually, we want to
move past just you know, speculating and really analyze these
highly unusual observations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking at this unique interstellar material, how it's interacting
with the Sun's energy. It's fascinating stuff.
Speaker 1: We'll unpack the physics, the really bizarre timing of it all,
and what these anomalies might mean for you, you know,
the listener who wants to understand what's actually going on
out there.
Speaker 2: Our sources are mainly observations from today, November eighth. We're
focusing on this third interstellar object we've tracked. It's called three.
Speaker 1: Atlists, the interstellar Visitor.
Speaker 2: And this other one that vanished C. Twenty twenty five
V one Borisov. Yeah, we're going to use them to
sort of open a door into understanding the really high
energy electromagnetic reality of our solar neighborhood. Okay, let's dig
into this data.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's start with three iyatlists, the interstellar vi. That
three eyed designation is key, right, It tells us this
is only the third confirmed interstellar object we've ever cataloged.
Speaker 2: That's right, third one, and based on its path, we
had certain expectations, but the latest observations show this sudden,
really violent activation.
Speaker 1: Astronomers are literally saying it has suddenly begun erupting jets
of plasma. That doesn't sound like gentle outgassing, No, not
at all.
Speaker 2: Erupting is the word it implies, you know, a focused,
intense release, not just a general fizzing. And when you
look at the new images, and hats off to the
teams analyzing this, like Michael Jurger's group, you see this complexity.
Speaker 1: It's not the classic comet tale picture we all have
in our heads, not even close.
Speaker 2: We're not seeing that simple smooth tail pointing away from
the sun that's your textbook comment. What we are seeing
is way more complicated, multiple features, you mean exactly. It's
either multiple tales, which could mean it's breaking up inside,
or and this seems more likely, it's multiple distinct jets
of the ass dust and plasma shooting out from specific
spots on the nucleus hypersonic jets.
Speaker 1: Wow, how many are we talking?
Speaker 2: The latest analysis clearly shows at least five distinct jets,
Three of them are really obvious, even in images that
aren't super high res.
Speaker 1: Okay, so picture this spinning rock and instead of a
graceful tail, it's like a chaotic lawn sprinkler shooting stuff
out in different directions.
Speaker 2: Kind of yeah, more like a pinwheel maybe. But why
does that matter? Why do these multiple jets tell us
something's unusual about its physics? Good question, Well, it points
to inconsistencies, either in what it's made of or how
it's built. Normally, a comet heats up evenly on the
side facing the sun right, so you get one main tail.
Makes sense, But when you see separate jets like this,
it suggests specific failure points. Maybe some spots darker, absorb
heat faster, or more likely the inside is really porous,
like a sponge with different vents, and pressure builds up
and bam, these vents just blow open.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes the structure sound weird. But the timing
is the really peculiar part, isn't it. This huge eruption
is happening now, uh huh late. It already passed perihelium,
its closest point to the sun back on October twenty ninth,
the moment of maximum heat that's already passed.
Speaker 2: That's the core anomenally, Yeah, the big physical show These
amazing jets got delayed, and we know the solar environment
it flew through was absolutely charged.
Speaker 1: Up right, We've been in a very active solar period.
Speaker 2: One of the most active in Solar cycle twenty five. Recently.
Forecasts back in July warned this inner solar system region
where Atlas was heading was going to get slammed in
ten solar wind radiation, big solar storms.
Speaker 1: Which started hitting around October twenty first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right around then, and it ramped up through perihelium,
so it soaked up all this energy input maximum bombardment.
But the visible reaction that fireworks took weeks to really
show up.
Speaker 1: So it got hit by this like electromagnetic wave, and
only now days later the show starts and we can't
even see it all properly.
Speaker 2: That's another key point the viewing geometry. Right now from Earth,
it's super close to the Sun of the sky. We
only see it just before sunrise, okay, which means that
most of the tail structure, the stuff being pushed away
from the Sun, is angled behind the main body. From
our perspective, it's skewed.
Speaker 1: So even with these five obvious jets.
Speaker 2: We're probably only seeing a fraction of the total material
coming off it, the actual activity level could be even
higher than these images suggest.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, if we're only seeing part of the physical stuff, now,
does that help explain why people were confused about its
brightness earlier? Before the jets are so obvious?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, people were already scratching their heads because it was
way brighter than expected, even when it didn't seem to
have much of a tail.
Speaker 1: The numbers are pretty stark, aren't they.
Speaker 2: They're staggering models based on its size, its path. They
predicted it should look like magnitude eleven right now, and
remember for magnitude, smaller numbers mean brighter.
Speaker 1: Okay, magnitude eleven predicted, what are we actually seeing?
Speaker 2: The measurements today are consistently putting it between magnitude nine
point four and nine point.
Speaker 1: Eight, and the magnitude scale is logarithmic, right, so that
difference is huge.
Speaker 2: It's huge. Every whole number jump is about two point
five times brighter. So if we're conservative comparing eleven to
nine point eight, that's nearly four times brighter than.
Speaker 1: Predicted four times, and if it's nine point four, then.
Speaker 2: It's closer to five times brighter.
Speaker 1: Five times brighter that's just that needs a ton of
energy reflecting off it.
Speaker 2: It does, and this mismatch huge energy input shown by
the brightness, but a delayed physical output with the jets.
It leads to one main conclusion depeating.
Speaker 1: Depeating.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Sun's energy didn't just heat the surface. It
somehow got inside, maybe channeled by those initial solar wind hits.
Speaker 1: How does that work on what's essentially like a big,
dirty snowball.
Speaker 2: It probably speaks to how porous this thing is. Think
about it. A solid block of ice in the sun
melts slow from the outside end. But if you have
a snow cone, or maybe like a frozen sponge with
lots of cracks and voids, the heat and maybe charged
particles too can travel deep inside along those pathways.
Speaker 1: Okay, I can picture that.
Speaker 2: So for three atlists. Maybe it's structure. Let the heat
get way down deep reaching ice is buried under the surface,
things like carbon monoxide, methane, water ice. It took time
for them to heat up.
Speaker 1: Well, once they did, they.
Speaker 2: Turned a gas super rapidly explosively sublimation yea, and that
caused this delayed spectacular eruption we're seeing now. Basically became
a delayed action cosmic geyser. Okay, so while Atlas is
putting on this crazy light show, we've got this other puzzle,
the second anomaly C. Twenty twenty five v one boris
off the disintegrating body right.
Speaker 1: The seas tells us it was thought to be a
regular comet from our own solar system, unlike Atlas, which
is I for interstellar exactly, but.
Speaker 2: Its story was way more dramatic and much shorter, extremely short.
Speaker 1: It was only spotted a few days ago, right around
November second or third.
Speaker 2: Yeah, brand new discovery, and then within days pooh, it
seemed to just completely disintegrate. Vanish just wrinked out of existence,
which is weird enough on its own, But what makes
it truly bizarre is where it was when this happened.
Speaker 1: It's position relative to Atlas precisely.
Speaker 2: Initially, astronomers were scrambling a bit to nail down its orbit.
Some even confused it with Atlas for a moment, because
it was just this faint, fuzzy spot with no real tail.
Speaker 1: Yeah no tail, small, faint sounds fragile, But the geometry
is the mind blowing part.
Speaker 2: We really have to stress how improbable This alignment was
at the exact time it was seen and then disappeared.
This little comet V one Borisov was positioned almost perfectly
directly between three A Atlists and us here on Earth.
Speaker 1: Wait, really, like if you drew a straight line from Earth.
Speaker 2: To Atlas V one Borisov was sitting right on that line.
Speaker 1: WHOA Okay, the Solar System is mind bogglingly huge for
a random newly found comet, a sea object to just
happen to be exactly in our line of sight to
this highly anticipated interstellar object, that feels like more than
just chance.
Speaker 2: It definitely raises eyebrows, doesn't it? It makes you question
the simple explanation.
Speaker 1: What was its calculated path?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Was it going the same way as Atlas? No?
Speaker 2: Totally different. Initial calculations suggested its orbit was almost perpendicular
to Atlas's path, and its pear helium its closest pass
to the Sun was expected around mid November.
Speaker 1: Mid November, but it disappeared now around the eighth Well.
Speaker 2: One calculation did put its perihelium right around November eighth,
pretty much exactly when it vanished, which suggests it was
extremely volatile and just couldn't handle the heat stress.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's lay out the options for people listening.
Option one standard comet stuff.
Speaker 2: Option one is the simplest physics. Yeah. V one Borisov
was small, maybe weakly held together, possibly packed with really
easy to vaporize ices. It got close to the sun,
hit pearihlium. The heat just overwhelmed it and it completely
fell apart, turned into dust and gas that spread out
so fast in the solar wind we couldn't see it anymore.
Happens to small comments.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's plausible, requires no weirdness. But then there's option
two two. The timing and location are just too convenient,
that's the thing.
Speaker 2: Why should we even consider something else? Because the sheer
coincidence of that alignment and the timing happening right when
three iye atlas was likely at peak magnetic craziness from
those solar storms, it's just too compelling to ignore.
Speaker 1: So option two suggests it wasn't just the Sun's heat.
Speaker 2: Option two raises questions about maybe some kind of non
gravitational interaction. Could V one Borisov, sitting right in the path,
have been hit by an extreme localized electromagnetic shockwave, something
coming off Atlas.
Speaker 1: Like the energy field around Atlas literally blasted it apart.
Speaker 2: Or accelerated its disintegration. Yeah, if Atlas's magnetic field was supercharged,
maybe six times stronger than normal, like we saw with
the Rousetta comet during a storm. Okay, that intense field
could have interacted really dramatically with v one Borisov's own material,
especially if it was already starting to outgas.
Speaker 1: And ionize, So it wasn't just heat, it was maybe
electromagnetically dispersed or ionized right out of visibility by Atlas's powerful,
weird energy field.
Speaker 2: It's a possibility. It paints a picture of that specific
patch of space being incredibly dynamic, electrically complex, where one big,
highly charged object could actually influence a smaller one millions
of miles away. It makes the Solar system feel less
like you know, clockwork and more like a fluid electric soup.
Speaker 1: Okay. To really get why Atlas's activation is so well violent,
we need to zoom in on the physics. Right, we
said deep heating, but why does that make these fierce jets?
Speaker 2: Right? It comes down to the materials. These are highly
volatile ices CO two CO two carbon monoxide, cyanagen, cn,
water ice. When that intense solar energy finally reaches them
deep inside, they don't just melt, No, they sublimate solid
straight to gas. And it's not gentle. It's rapid, almost explosive.
We're talking hypersonic speeds.
Speaker 1: And crucially, Atlas is tiny. It doesn't have much gravity.
Speaker 2: Virtually none. Yeah, unlike a planet. It can't hold onto
this stuff, the gas, the dust grains, once they're free,
they just blore last outwards in incredible speeds. They carry
away the object's mass. Gravity is basically irrelevant here. It's
all thermodynamics, heat and kinetics that outward expansion.
Speaker 1: So the material escapes, but then it enters this hostile
solar environment near the Sun and it lights up forms
the coma and tails we see. That's ionization.
Speaker 2: That's ionization exactly. It's the process that gives the material
an electric charge, and once it's charged, it can interact
with the Sun's magnetic field and the solar wind. That's
what makes it visible and shapes the tails.
Speaker 1: And this happens in a few different ways, primarily three ways.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they all work together to light up allasts.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's the first one?
Speaker 2: The basic one first is just photoonization, simple light bombardment.
High energy photons. Particles of light from the Sun hit
the gas atoms or molecules.
Speaker 1: And knock electrons off.
Speaker 2: Yep, knocks an electron off, leaves the particle with a
positive charge. Ionized. Happens constantly wherever sunlight hits matter.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about the solar wind itself. That's not light, that's.
Speaker 2: Particle, right, that's the second mechanism, charge inzation, sometimes called
charge exchange. The solar wind is this supersonic stream of
charged particles, mostly protons and electrons, flying out from the Sun. Okay,
they slam into the neutral gas expanding from Atlas, and
they can either knock electrons off or literally swap charges.
It's a much more energetic way to ionize the material.
Speaker 1: Makes sense. And the third way you said, the environment
itself plays a role.
Speaker 2: Yeah, general ionization, because the whole area near the Sun
is swimming in these free high energy electrons leftovers from
other processes, bouncing all over. They bump into the cometary
gas too, causing more ionization. So the moment that ancient
material escapes Atlas, it starts getting electrified from multiple.
Speaker 1: Angles and all this charge material. This plasma creates a
complex structure around the comet itself. Right. You mentioned layers,
neutral sheet, ionopause.
Speaker 2: Comma pause, bowshock.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Think of Atlas as this little source spewing out gas
into the oncoming hurricane of the solar wind. The ionization
creates these distinct bunlayer.
Speaker 1: Okay, walk us through them.
Speaker 2: Closest in closest to the nucleus, you have the neutral
sheet or innercoma, mostly gas that hasn't been ionized yet.
As it expands and gets charged, it forms the ionol pause.
That's kind of the edge of the comet's own sphere
of influence, where its outward pressure starts pushing back just
a little against the solar wind.
Speaker 1: And then the komma pause. That sound important, That's crucial.
Speaker 2: The comma pause is the magnetic boundary. It's where the
solar wind's magnetic field lines carried by the plasma, encounter
the denser cometary plasma and can't easily penetrate, so they pile.
Speaker 1: Up like a traffic jam for magnetic fields.
Speaker 2: Exactly like that, the field lines get compressed, draped around
the comet, and the magnetic field strength right there at
the chemopause gets much much stronger. It forms a magnetic barrier.
Speaker 1: Okay, And the outermost layer that's.
Speaker 2: The bowshock because the solar wind is moving supersonically faster
than the speed of magnetic waves in that plasma. When
it first hits the obstacle of the comet's extended atmosphere,
it creates a shock wave like the sonic boom from
a jet but for plasma.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, So you've got these layers, this magnetic barrier,
the comopause. Now connect that back to the crazy solar
activity Atlas flew through. You mentioned magnetic field strength data.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Normally that magnetic barrier at the cameopause is maybe
around fifty nanotesla. That's the unit of magnetic field strength
enough to divert some solar wind.
Speaker 1: But the Rosetta mission saw something different during a solar storm,
didn't it. It orbited Commet sixty seven P for years.
Speaker 2: That was game changing data. Rosetta was right there when
a single powerful solar storm hit sixty seven PE, and
it measured the magnetic field of the cameopas spiking how
high from the typical fifty nanotesla all the way up
to three hundred nanotesla.
Speaker 1: Whoa six times stronger from just one storm six times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the solar storm basically supercharged the entire electromagnetic environment
around the comet.
Speaker 1: Okay, but three i Alis didn't just get hit by
one storm. It flew through a whole barage of them
big ones during one of the most active solar periods
recently exactly.
Speaker 2: So if one storm can boost the field strength sixfold,
what must the magnetic environment around Atlas have been like?
What must it still be like?
Speaker 1: To some extent, it must have been massively supercharged, maybe unprecedentedly.
Speaker 2: So that's the unavoidable conclusion. Yeah, and this insanely strong
magnetic field changes everything. It doesn't just gently deflect the
solar wind anymore.
Speaker 1: So is it do?
Speaker 2: It traps and channels the ionized cometary material much more effectively.
It creates this zone of intense energy exchange between the
solar wind plasma and the comet's own plasma. It dramatically
accelerates the material loss, forces those powerful jets out, and
creates that huge brightness we're seeing. It's like an electromagnetic
pump violently extracting material from the comet. So now we
understand how it's happening, this violent injection. But we have
to step back and consider what is being ejected. This
is interstellar stuff, right.
Speaker 1: Material that didn't form with our Sun and planets, truly ancient,
potentially extragalactic material being sprayed into our inner Solar system.
That's profound, it really is.
Speaker 2: And when we think about where it came from, we're
talking deep time, vast distances.
Speaker 1: Do we have any idea of the.
Speaker 2: Origin, not precisely. If it's on a hyperbolic path, meaning
it's not bound to our Sun, it could be from
a relatively nearby star system. Say if it came from
the vicinity of Bernard's Star, even traveling incredibly fast, that
journey might have taken maybe thirty thousand years.
Speaker 1: Thirty thousand years just floating through the void.
Speaker 2: And that's a nearby star. It could be much older,
much more distant.
Speaker 1: Like from another galaxy.
Speaker 2: It's possible it could be a truly nomadic object, maybe
kicked out of its home galaxy a billion maybe two
billion years ago, traveling through the incredibly thin medium between
galaxies ever since. Compared to our four point five billion
year old Solar system, this stuff is a genuine relic.
It might carry chemical fingerprints from a completely different era
of the universe.
Speaker 1: And traveling through that empty space that preserves.
Speaker 2: It right in a way, Yes, it would have experienced
far left less cosmic ray bombardment than objects born and
raised within our own heliosphere constantly bathed in our Sun's activity,
So it arrives here relatively pristine, holding on to its
original characteristics. Yeah, what our sun is now heating up
and blasting away is truly unique material, possibly holding clues
that pre date our entire solar system.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is where things get really interesting, moving from
just the matter to the information it might carry some
of the source material we looked at. Explores potential non
physical effects connecting this interstellar material to consciousness.
Speaker 2: It's definitely conceptual leap, bridging the hard physics with more philosophical,
even metaphysical ideas, but it often centers on a key
component of Atlas and of us water or water ice analysis.
Speaker 1: Case, water's weird quantum properties exactly.
Speaker 2: The theory explores water's potential quantum dynamic properties, the idea
that water molecules, through their hydrogen bonds, might be able
to form specific resonance structures sometimes called coherency.
Speaker 1: Domains ocurrency domains okay.
Speaker 2: And within these structures, the theory goes water might be
able to capture and store energy or even information encoded
in light photons, particularly at low energy levels, in ways
standard chemistry doesn't fully account for. It views water not
just as a passive solvent, but as an active medium.
Speaker 1: The materials cited some well let's call them illustrative experiments
like with plant growth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those experiments are often mentioned. The setup usually involves
taking water and charging it with focused intent. So water
exposed to positive thoughts or feelings good energy sometimes resulted
in plants growing significantly faster, maybe tripling in size compared
to controls. And the opposite, water charged with negative intent
like anger or hate, reportedly cause plants to wither or die.
The implication is that the water somehow stored and transmitted
that information or energy state to the biological system.
Speaker 1: And then there are the ice crystal experiments flash freezing
water right.
Speaker 2: Those are perhaps even more famous or infamous depending on
your view. Germans where water was flash frozen while exposed
to stimuli music, words, images, even just focused thoughts.
Speaker 1: And the claim is the ice crystals reflected the stimuli.
Speaker 2: The claim is that the geometric structure of the resulting
ice crystals often showed patterns that seem to visually echo
the input. A photo placed underneath might result in a
crystal vaguely resembling it. A focused thought of love might
produce a more symmetrical, beautiful crystal than a thought of hate.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's way out there for conventional science, but it's provocative.
So connecting this back, if water can hold information or
energy states like that, and we are mostly water, and.
Speaker 2: This ancient interstellar water ice plus other volatiles is now
being vaporized, ionized, supercharged by solar storms and blown throughout
our entire solar system by the solar wind.
Speaker 1: Could it be having some kind of subtle influence on us,
on our collective consciousness.
Speaker 2: That's the big speculative question these ideas lead to. Could
this influx of exotic, ancient, energized material, carrying potentially unknown
information signatures from deep space and deep time be acting
as a kind of non physical catalyst, maybe nudging collective awareness,
prompting a kind of expansion or awakening triggered by the
very cosmos interacting with our local environment.
Speaker 1: It's a mind bending thought in this event three iat lists.
It also underscores how much more often we're seeing these
visitors now.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the detection rate is way up. It used to
be purely theoretical than Umua in twenty seventeen. Then that
other object named Borisov C twenty nineteen Q four, also
deemed the interstellar twenty nineteen. Now three iAtlas in twenty
twenty five, YEP detected earlier, but really showing itself down.
Speaker 1: It confirms these aren't just one off freaks, they're common.
Speaker 2: Frequent visitors. Yeah, and we're still mostly blind. Remember three
Iatlis was only properly identified when it got close run
Jupiter's orbit, about five astronomical units five AU from the.
Speaker 1: FUND, But it entered our Solar system or heliosphere way
before that.
Speaker 2: Much earlier, it crossed the boundary the heliosphere the Sun's
bubble of influence maybe a high underd AU out way
back around twenty twenty is probably around sixty AU. Then
it spent years inside our system before we even knew
it was here.
Speaker 1: Which makes you wonder, doesn't it, how many others are
zipping through right now undetected objects on these hyperbolic paths
maybe to fast coming in at weird angles.
Speaker 2: It's almost certainly a significant number. Atlas is noted as
being incredibly fast, maybe the fastest comet like objects seen.
If something that energetic was only spotted around five AU. Yeah,
it's highly likely there are dozens, maybe hundreds of smaller,
dimmer interstellar objects passing through the outer Solar System out
near Neptune or Pluto that we have absolutely no idea about.
We're just starting to get a glimpse of the true
level of cosmic traffic here. Okay, so before we wrap up,
let's quickly look at where Atlas is heading next and
talk about some other forces at play besides just the
Sun pushing it out. It's still in a very dynamic
phase right.
Speaker 1: It's moving away from the Sun fast now. It leaves
Mars's orbital neighborhood around November twenty third, and its closest
approach to Earth, still very distant, is December nineteenth, So.
Speaker 2: We still have a good few weeks to watch these
jets fade.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, and long term it has a rendezvous with Jupiter.
Speaker 2: A flyby, yeah, mid March next year. Jupiter is huge,
but Atlas is moving so incredibly fast. Jupiter's gravity will
just give it a little nudge, a gravitational slingshot, tweaking
its path slightly as it heads out for good.
Speaker 1: Okay, now we've talked a lot about the Sun's forces.
It's gravity holding things or not. In this case, it's
heat causing the outgassing and the solar wind physically pushing
the material away anti sunword. Huh, But you mentioned the
solar system isn't just about outward forces. There are other
things going on, especially for charged objects like this.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is a really important point often overlooked in
basic astronomy. The solar system isn't just pressure pushing out.
They're also powerful inward flowing electric currents. They tend to
run along the ecliptic plane, that flat disc where most
planets orbit.
Speaker 1: Inward currents flowing towards the Sun exactly.
Speaker 2: Think of it like a giant electric circuit. The solar
wind flows out, carrying charge and magnetic fields, but there
are also currents flowing back in radially towards the Sun,
primarily in that ecliptic plane.
Speaker 1: So it's a two way street.
Speaker 2: Electrically speaking, it is, and this raises a really fascinating
possibility for Atlas's material. While the solar wind is definitely
blasting most of that ancient gas and dust outwards.
Speaker 1: Could these inward currents pull some of it back.
Speaker 2: It's feasible, yeah, especially the charged particles of plasma. Instead
of all that unique interstellar material getting completely fleshed out
of the Solar System, these inward currents might actually drag
some fraction of it back closer to the Sun, back
towards the inner planets.
Speaker 1: So some of that supercharge ancient material might actually end
up interacting more directly with Earth's environment, like our magnetosphere
upper atmosphere.
Speaker 2: It's a potential pathway. It wouldn't be like chunks hitting us,
but more like an energetic seting. It highlights how complex
the electromagnetic environment really is. For something low mass and
highly charged like three Ils, Gravity isn't the only game
in town. These electric currents and magnetic fields act like
well cosmic and veyor belts, moving charged material both in
and out.
Speaker 1: It really paints a picture of the Solar System as
this living, breathing electromagnetic entity. Doesn't It way more complex
than just planets orbiting a star. Hashtag tag outro.
Speaker 2: So wrapping this all up, what we've seen is this
incredible convergence two major, really weird events happening at the
same time. First three IYE outlasts, the interstellar visitor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, late fireworks, unexpectedly bright multiple jets, evidence of depeating,
all supercharged by that intense magnetic field from the solar
storms exactly.
Speaker 2: And then second the incredibly strange case of C. Twenty
twenty five v One Borisov, the disintegrating body appearing.
Speaker 1: And then vanishing right in the line of sight to Atlas,
just as Atlas was probably hitting peak energetic activity, reaising
huge questions about whether it was just the Sun or
if something else, maybe Atlas itself played a role.
Speaker 2: It forces us really to look beyond just gravity simple heating.
We have to consider the electromagnetic forces and maybe even
the informational nature of matter itself, like we discussed with water.
We've just had this massive injection of ancient, unique cosmic
material into the most energetic part of our solar.
Speaker 1: System, and we're seeing these visitors more often now Umamua, Borisov, Atlass.
These aren't just rocks. They're carrying stuff, maybe energy, maybe
information from across unbelievable gulfs of space and time. What
does this constant stream of cosmic input actually mean for
us for how we see our place in the universe.
Speaker 2: It feels like the universe is in a way actively
interacting with us more noticeably now detecting these objects, seeing
this ancient material dispersed. Maybe it really is is some
of those more philosophical sources suggested, like the first little
creek open of the door, a crack opening onto a
much larger reality. Perhaps it's nudging us towards a kind
of collective awakening.
Speaker 1: Forcing us to see we aren't isolated on this little planet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were intimately connected to these vast, vast, powerful, electromagnetic,
maybe even information rich systems that govern everything out there.
Speaker 1: It's a wild thought to end on the fastest, brightest,
most puzzling object we've ever tracked is right now, seating
our solar system with stuff that could fundamentally change how
we see everything. Definitely, keep looking up the conversation about
what's happening out there and what it means down here.
It feels like it's only just getting started.