Radio signals discovered from a galaxy far far away !!
The main theme of my book The Agathon is centred around a mysterious signal being transmitted to Earth which nobody is able to decode. Well guess what? There may very well be signal being beamed to our planet from an unknown source !.. Well, sort of. These fast radio bursts (FRB’s) where first detected in 2007 and have baffled scientists as to their origin. Now before I go to where we all want to go which is ALIENS!!! we should probably look at the more probable explanations. While originating billions of light years away the sources for these bursts remain purely conjectural ranging from Magnetars to cataclysmic detonations from colliding stars. There has not been, as yet, a solid explanation. ALIENS!!… ok so maybe not but still… ALIENS!!!
The Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico has detected regular incidents of these FRB’s which only last a millisecond.
Check out the below links from National Geographic for more detail on the background to this astonishing new phenomenon happening somewhere deep in the cosmos !!..
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/20/mysterious-energetic-radio-burst/
