Since it’s a “stuff yourself silly” holiday weekend here in the U.S. and given Boxing Day is today - the U.S. version that is, of fighting over deals, everyone’s busy and there’s a lot to digest... how about some fast curious cosmic facts?
Our star’s sunspot activity is the lowest in five years although we have sometime until we reach the next solar minimum - projected to a “deep solar minimum” sometime in 2019 - 2020. According to spaceweather.com, this does not mean a dull time for the Sun. Our upper atmosphere chills out. This allows space junk to accumulate around Earth. Could this mean more unexpected debris falling to Earth as we’ve recently seen? Galactic Cosmic rays slip through with greater ease... possibly portending greater cosmic insight? That would be nice. Geomagnetic storms and subsequent auroras are projected to continue, but caused by the solar wind instead of solar outbursts.
Astronomers believe they have evidence of a slushy ocean lying beneath Pluto’s heart.
So does that underworld bad boy have a soft heart after all? Is stepping into his domain like stepping off a curb into a salty slush freeze that always seems to run over the top of your boot?
How about: It’s cool and can accommodate whatever shifting shapes it encounters? How about there’s just enough Pluto deep ocean chill to emotional reactions such that calm prevails long enough for soulful response to occur, and in any charged emotional interaction the needs of the spirit transcend the needs of the ego.
A new interval of time has been defined by physicists. It’s quicker than a New York minute. It’s faster than a speeding bullet (from the Superman TV show intro of long ago). Gone is glacially slow millisecond, the constitutionally tardy nanosecond, the particularly leisurely picosecond. Meet the zeptosecond. The zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second.
Evidently, the zeptosecond has something to do with how fast money can disappear with the quick click of a mouse on boxing day.
There will be more to come soon to guide through the transits of the waning days of 2016 and to invigorate the personal and collective commitment to consciousness as 2017 commences.