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Significance of the discovery of FRB 150418



For the first time a team of scientists has tracked down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), confirming that these short but spectacular flashes of radio waves originate in the distant universe.The breakthrough, published today in the journal Nature , was made using CSIRO radio telescopes in eastern Australia and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan’s Subaru telescope in Hawaii. “Our discovery opens the way to working out what makes these bursts,” Dr Simon Johnston, Head of Astrophysics at CSIRO and a member of the research team said. FRBs emit as much energy in one millisecond as the sun emits in 10,000 years, but the physical phenomenon that causes them is unknown. Feb.25   http://goo.gl/K3kiuz






A fast radio burst (FRB) is a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon manifested as a transient radio pulse lasting only a few milliseconds. FRBs show a frequency-dependent dispersion consistent with propagation through an ionized plasma. As of February 2016 seventeen bursts have been detected,all but one by the Parkes radio telescope. The Parkes telescope detected the new FRB 150418 on 18 April 2015 at UT 04h29m [1].  A chart for the discovery at Parkes, Australia is shown here.  Notice that a Venus-Saturn-Neptune T-square straddles the meridian.

In the past few years since Neptune has been in Pisces, we are seeing a proliferation of images  unlike at any other time in history. With their mobile phones everyone now is a photographer. As the images flood in, how can we make sense of them? This is where Saturn in Sagittarius comes in. Among its many associations, Saturn as an archetype correlates with structure, particularly the structure of consciousness itself; Sagittarius is the sign of cosmology, philosophy, and meaning. On the one hand, this combination can be the careful and disciplined (Saturn) search for meaning.  
When Saturn in Sagittarius is engaged with consciously,there is a patient working through of the
images encountered on our adventures, inside and out. We become strong and well-boundaried travelers who can journey thoughtfully and groundedly with the figures of our dreams and screens. Less consciously, Saturn in Sagittarius can describe how rigid belief structures and cosmologies — truths with a capital “T” — gobble up images and convert them to predetermined meanings. In place of the explorer, we find the believer, the crusader, the consumer — guided by the heavy hand of narcissistic, capitalist, or fundamentalist logics, and threatened by the possibility of dissolution in the sea of images. This defensive approach to the image seeks to freeze-frame the image, determine exactly what it means and exactly where it belongs, and (where possible) to crop it to fit into existing structures of meaning, safe and secure. [2]

To understand the meaning of the T-square all we need to do is to simply think of the foregoing in connection with Venus – the planet of love and relationships. Have we allowed our concept of love to be defined by the fundamentalist logic of some religion or belief system or are we ready to let the dissolving power of Neptune work on those fossilized ideas?


[2] Saturn square Neptune Navigating an Ocean of Images by Jason Holley

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