<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 9:46 PM Stuart LaForge <<a href="mailto:avant@sollegro.com">avant@sollegro.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Congratulations on your recent retirement, John.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Thanks.</font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>As an electrical engineer, signal processing is one of your fortes so would you care to <br>
opine as to what causes FRBs? </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">I really don't know. There are plenty of theories but they're all pretty wild involving very exotic stuff. One involves White Holes: </font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.4031.pdf">Fast Radio Bursts and White Hole Signals</a><br></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Another idea involves a very rapidly rotating neutron star of more than 2.2 solar mass but less than 2.7, normally such a thing would collapse into a Black Hole but not if its spinning fast enough; however its powerful magnetic field would gradually slow it down and when it reached a critical point it would collapse and form a Black Hole and maybe produce a radio pulse. But of course something like that couldn't repeat and at least 2 FRB's do. </font></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Another idea for the cause involved the decay of hypothetical Dark Matter </font></span><span style="line-height:1.5">Axion Miniclusters</span><span class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5">, but of </span>course<span style="line-height:1.5"> even if they exist they couldn't </span>repeat<span style="line-height:1.5"> either:</span></font></span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3900" target="_blank"><font size="4">Fast Radio Bursts and Axion Miniclusters</font></a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">Yet another weird idea involve superconducting cosmic strings, maybe that could repeat:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10956" target="_blank">Superconducting cosmic strings as sources of cosmological fast radio bursts </a> </font></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-size:large">I wouldn't be surprised if we're dealing with 2 different phenomena that require 2 different explanations, one for FRB's that repeat and one for FRB's that don't. As I said I don't know what causes them but I'm pretty confident sometime in the next few years we'll figure it out. </span><br></div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Frequencies in 111 MHz range are used for aircraft navigation in the US</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I don't think FRB's are caused by ET if that's what you mean.</font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>but are there any known non-technological sources of that frequency?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">We know of lots of things in nature that can produce radio waves, but not in a single burst at that enormous intensity (the sun's 80 year energy output) compressed into a radio burst lasting just a 1/1000 of a second with no corresponding optical Xray or Gamma Ray emissions. So whatever it turns out to be it will be something we didn't know about before, that's why they're so interesting. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div></div></div></div>