[ExI] Tabby's star, computronium size

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 15:22:53 UTC 2018


On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
wrote:

*> Tabby's star is taking another  dip and it would be interesting to
> measure the size and consistency of the dust.  Dust dims blue light more
> than red light.*

The dimming of the ultraviolet is much more than the dimming of the
infrared so they are able to get an idea of the size of the dust particles
around Tabby's Star, they can't say exactly because that depends of the
total mass of the cloud and its precise radius which is unknown, but they
can say the dust particles are larger than 10^-6 meters and smaller than
2*10^-3 meters. That's pretty small, I can't see any reason a ET engineer
would make a computronium node that small.  And how does the computronium
theory explain the observations better than the dust theory does? Are
Saturn's rings made of computronium too? Even Tabetha Boyajian after whom
Tabby's Star is named thinks its just dust, probably because she believes
in Occam's razor .

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07556.pdf

John K Clark
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