Ask an Amateur Scientist: The Bermuda Triangle
I. The Setup
Because he has an obscene amount of disposable income, my Amateur Scientist Podcast co-host Richard Peacock, editor of SkepticalDigest.com, is currently traipsing about the crystal clear tropical waters of the Caribbean Sea on a Carnival cruise ship. No, I’m not jealous. He’s missing out on the preternaturally humid Louisiana air that just caked my lungs as I went outside to clear the garbage men’s debris from my driveway. (This is a little game I play with Waste Management. I fill my garbage cans with refuse, they spill it all over my driveway in an attempt to “pick it up”, and I fill it right back again. The cycle repeats. My soul blackens.)
Besides, there are untold dangers to be faced aboard a Carnival cruise ship. What if you needed to dry yourself off really quickly, but you couldn’t unfold the origami monkey your porter made out of your bath towel? What if you were caught in a tempest and washed ashore on a deserted island full of cannibals or buxom, sex-starved savages with sexy bronze skin? What if they ran out of all-you-can-eat jumbo shrimp, and you were forced to choke down all-you-can-eat regular sized shrimp?
And then I considered the chilling fact that Richard may very well be chugging along into the heart of the Bermuda Triangle itself. As the witty gender-based jokes of the ship’s lounge comedian pierce their reverie, the complacent cruise-o-nauts aboard the “Celebration” could be spinning toward an atom-annihilating temporal vortex.
Of course, I quickly realized I don’t know why I assume the Bermuda Triangle would be so scary. I’m not even really sure where it is. Bermuda?
Time for some research.
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II. The Findings
Well, depending on who you ask, the Bermuda Triangle is the triple-sided area bounded by Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico-about 500,000 square miles. Or it’s about three times that size and includes most of the Caribbean Sea. Or it’s “extra-dimensional” and “phases” in and out of our reality according to its “vibrational frequencies”. Regardless, everyone seems to agree on its basic triangular shape. Roughly.
And just what do cruise-o-nauts have to fear from the Triangle? According to legend, there have been numerous disappearances of boats, planes, swimmers, and large fish unfortunate enough to find themselves in its heart. The first such mysterious disappearance can be traced back to 1945, when five Navy planes flew a training mission into the Triangle, never to be heard from again.
There are other stories, to be sure. If you look hard enough, you can find tales of European explorers meeting similar fates hundreds of years ago. But there’s no good evidence that those stories were ever discussed before 1945. Since then, the legend has grown to include just about every shipwreck, accident, disappearance, or misplaced course off the coast of Florida. The Bermuda Triangle suffers more blame than the international banking conspiracy. (They exist, dammit! And they control the world from their subterranean bunkers!)
But with so many goings on whispered about, you’d expect to find a higher than average number of shipwrecks within its borders. Turns out, not so much. Once again, the size of the Triangle is disputed, but even when considering its smallest supposed area, it gets a higher than normal amount of ship traffic. Compared to the open ocean, the Bermuda Triangle is a veritable traffic jam of cruise ships, cargo carriers, and drunken pirates. And even still, there are no more disappearances or sinkings reported there than anywhere else on the high seas.
In fact, most of the Bermuda Triangle’s greatest hits aren’t even sourced in the books that collect them. They’re little more than tall tales-rumors upon rumors upon rumors. Pick up a typical “Death in the Water: The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle!” book, and you’re likely to find all sorts of pseudoscientific explanations for the Triangle phenomenon-aliens, dimensional vortices, wormholes, electromagnetic fields, Al-Qaeda-but no evidence that there was ever any unexplained phenomenon in the first place.
III. The Conclusion
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The most likely explanation for the disappearance of the 1945 Navy mission was simply a faulty compass. The planes were flying through a thunderstorm and had no navigational equipment. If a compass broke, there was no way of knowing where they were. They were probably taken by the salty waters of the sea, but only after they fell to the surface, lost and out of fuel. One of the rescue planes sent after the mission exploded on takeoff due to a faulty fuel tank, only serving to compound the myth of the cursed Bermuda Triangle.
So of all the things that could spoil Richard’s trip and bring his enjoyment level down to mine, the Bermuda Triangle doesn’t hold much promise. Now if only there was an outbreak of scarlet fever. Try and enjoy a vacation when you’re cooped up in quarantine with only all-you-can-eat snow crabs to quench your hunger.
No, I’m not jealous.
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About The Amateur Scientist: Brian Thompson is a professor of amateur science at a major imaginary university. He has been able to read and write for over seventeen years.
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are there any UFO in Bermuda triangle. Aliens don’t exist if they do then the people in world are seeing aliens everyday. Also like the black sea do you think it is part of aliens area. It can be different reason too this world is actually weird but it doesn’t means the aliens are upon us, maybe it is different reason that all scientists are trying to prove about ocean like i heard according to my religion that devils live in ocean (some parts of oceans)
Miroslav Provod centrum11@volny.cz
Cells versus capacitors
During the experiments regarding cells and capacitors, we have seen yet unpublished properties, which could explain phenomena that have been thought of as mysteries till now. These could show many other solutions. Because there are new terms used in the results I will try to demonstrate these new findings on three natural phenomena.
On cellular membranes, there is spontaneus transformation of cosmic energy into electric energy if they are located in energetic overcharge in the same way as on the electrodes of capacitors. If two or more auras of matters are interconnected their auras merge into a bigger common aura and then their energetic values are equalised.
If we think about the human body according to the new knowledge, we could say that bilions of cells are in contact and their auras overlap, which means that the whole body has a common aura. This phenomenon works not only in between the human cells but also in electronics. The memory of a computer comprises of a great amount of miniature condensers and is able to store information in the form of 0’s and 1’s (0 = there is no charge, 1 = there is charge). Therefore, we could say that human body and electronics have some similar properties. This tells us that if the charge is increased it could cause harm not only to cells in the human body but also to electronics (this could be proved by some simple experiments).
According to the procedure that I’m describing in the article “Dowsing versus aura” it is easy to prove the reactions of energetic parts of water flows (aura, zones, interzones). By this we get an idea about the energy of small water flows and we could orientate in the energetic properties of great water flows more easily. By this I mean sea currents. There are many of these and their flow is in the order of hundreds of millions m3/sec and it could be assumed that they are in interaction with large streams around the Earth. The Gulf stream has various bends and meanders where there is multiple energetic concentration. In the Sargas sea there are also whirlpools whose diameter reaches up to 300km and they reach depth of 5000m. These further increase the local energetic concentration. These places could be thought of as critical from the point of view of further energetic increase from other sources, which could be thunderstorm clouds, moon, planets and other sources. Also, the planes that have been lost in this area could have connection with energetic overvoltage.
The zones of the Gulf stream copy in the shapes of cylindrical shells the US East coast. The energy of one of these zones could be artificially significantly increased by the use of groups of great capacitance capacitors and this would create a barrier that would destroy all organisms and electronics. However, there is a great amount of sea currents and this gives us the opportunity to built such a barrier anywhere on the Earth. This piece of knowledge could also be used for other purposes.
This knowledge about the energetic overvoltage of cells could also explain a strange phenomenon that occurred in the streets of capital of Nairobi on 24.July 1956 at 15:00 (03:00p.m.). About 200 men and women danced on the main street in Nairobi. The dancing people had a regretful look in their faces such as if they danced because they were forced to dance. It wasn’t possible to communicate with them and they didn’t perceive anyone who asked them a question. One hour later, there were 20.000 men, women and children dancing. Eventually, there were about 50.000 people dancing in a strict circle whose diameter was 3.5 kilometres. It looked like they weren’t perceiving anything but they kept about a metre of space between them and they didn’t bump into anyone. It’s interesting that even older people could dance in this dancing marathon for about 5 hours without any visible signs of getting tired. Later accounts of the dancing showed that they didn’t remember anything because their sences were totally crippled. Their memory and thinking didn’t work. It’s very interesting that even that there was no music playing with this dance all the dancers kept the same rhytm.
In this magic circle, not all the people were dancing. The dancers were those who had some metal objects such as coins in their pockets. The dance participants later realised a feeling that their body gained energy from these metal objects. Everything suddenly ended =at 20:00 (08:00p.m.). Nobody has been hurt or dead. This is a very rare phenomenon, which was also noted with some differences in Rheinland at spring equinox in 1374. Between 1871 – 1878 in the Savoy there was an epidemic obsession in women monasteries that was changing into diabolic feakout. The cause of these incomprehensible events hasn’t been found yet.
The knowledge of the empiric research also gives us an explanation of this mysterious event. People that were affected by the dance were located in the energetic space of the town that had greater energetic overcharge than the optimal cellular charge. This caused greater charge on the cells (including brains cells) and was followed by disorder of thinking. The fact that is peculiar on this event is that even older people didn’t feel tired after 5 hours long dancing. Not less interesting is the information that only those people that had metal objects in their pockets were affected by the dance. Three great time intervals between similar events show that the energetic overcharge could be caused by astronomical influences. I don’t doubt that similar anomalies in the region of aura could also be created by groups of great capacitance capacitors, which would create optimally enhanced overcharge in this given region. We noticed similar health disorders during the experimetns, but we interrupted such experiments due to the possibility of health damage. The fact that similar situation can’t be evoked by the people that don’t have metal with them prompts us to many useful applications. Bank robbers usually have metal objects with them, but bank workers don’t, so a button could be pressed and the bank robbers would give us a dance before the police arrives. There are many other such applications.
Another mysterious event, which could be assigned to the zones of the cosmic energy is the spontane human combustion (SHC). The spontane human combustion is one of the most controversial phenomena for serious researchers. The spontane combustion means that human body could be ignited without any optically noticed source. Very intense and unbelievably localised fire transforms most of the human body into ash. In many cases part of a limb, like a leg, remains untouched. Similarly, some parts of clothes or surrounding objects remain untouched. Nothing similar exists in nature that would be similar to those fires and the accompanying phenomena don’t follow laws of physics and findings of medicine. Some researchers also describe this phenomenon by “candlewick effect”. They wrap a body of a pig into a sheet and leave it slowly burning all day. They forget about the fact that the process of burning during SHC happenes in a matters of seconds, not hours. There is a great amount of information about this phenomenon on the internet and therefore I won’t further describe it, but will limit myself only to the classification from our research’s point of view.
Cellular membranes have a capacity of about (1µF/cm2), which means that they work like a capacitor. If we keep increasing the charge on a capacitor after reaching the threshold value, which is the maximum value up to which it’s sized, the isolator would eventually brake and in that moment, all the energy is released and the capacitor is destoryed. Similar disastrous process happens with billions of cells in humans. When the threshold energetic value for which nature sized our cells is reached, the cells explode in the same way as capacitors do.
I have written about three different phenomena, which by their specific show confirm functionality of other properties of cells and condensers. I would be delighted if some research centers used this new knowledge.
04.April 2008
Miroslav Provod
http://www.miroslavprovod.com
Completely ignoring the above waste-of-a-good-half-hour-typing, I would like to recommend the following research regarding the Bermuda Triangle.
1. NOVA did an excellent program on the legend. It is only on VHS but you can get it on eBay (watch out, eBay has been alleged to exist in another dimension). It is called “The Case of the Bermuda Triangle” and it is well-worth it.
2. Two different books by Larry Kusche (alma mater, Arizona State University. Go Sun Devils). His books are “The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved” and “The Disappearance of Flight 19″. Both of Kusche’s books are well-researched, and they show you where and when the authors that purport a “mystery” to the area have skewed information, out-and-out falsified information, and omitted revelant facts that would explain disappearances.
But, if you’re a believer, grab your crystal and portable pyramid and head for Sedona for the coming of the Mother Ship. Remember, we are not alone!!!!