One of the most mysterious and most beautiful natural phenomena can rightfully be called the northern lights. But strangely enough, such a miraculous phenomenon has enjoyed a notoriety for centuries, and was considered a harbinger of disaster, war and tragedy. The northern dawn (Aurora Borealis) is directly related to the sun, and some ufologists believe that this is not just a natural phenomenon, but a living being of solar origin. intelligent and powerful.
Bombing from above
Official science agrees that the northern lights are in direct connection with the sun and depend on solar activity. The Americans generally said that they had finally revealed the main secret of the polar Aurora, namely, the reason for its origin.
It turns out that substorms are “to blame” for everything - short disturbances that arise during a magnetic storm. Substorms release the energy stored in the tense lines of the magnetic field, and this energy "throws" charged particles back into the Earth's atmosphere. It is this space bombardment that causes the Northern Lights.
According to experts, sub-storms often coincide with intense space and solar storms bubbling near the planet. The more active the Sun is, the more area of the sky is covered by the polar lights. The most beautiful auroras are during the maximum 11-year cycle of solar activity - such Auroras are called squalls and are characterized by a whitish-greenish glow.
Usually, the auroras, if you observe them from the Earth, have the appearance of a common, rapidly changing sky or moving multi-colored stripes, crowns, "curtains". The duration of this wonderful phenomenon ranges from several minutes to several days. But what this duration depends on is a mystery.
Not everyone knows that the lights do not stand still - they move! In the northern hemisphere, this movement occurs westward at a speed of 1 kilometer per second. And the lights are not "silent": bright flashes of Aurora are often accompanied by sounds like crackling. In addition, the upper layers of the atmosphere in the region of auroras are so strongly heated that this leads to the appearance of ascending gases and the density of the gaseous medium increases at high altitudes. Auroras can also be accompanied by strong eddy currents in huge areas of space.
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There is no explanation that the northern lights occur more often in spring and autumn than in winter and summer. The maximum peak of "occurrences" is those closest to the autumn and spring equinoxes.
During the aurora, a huge amount of energy is released. For example, during one of the disturbances recorded in 2007, the same amount of energy was released as is emitted during an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5!
Fiery reflections
It is wrong to say that the Auroras exist only in the north, which is why they are called northern. A more correct name is aurora borealis. Because this phenomenon exists in both hemispheres: both northern and southern. The natives of Australia can also observe the auroras, as, for example, the Eskimos in Alaska.
What was previously only an assumption, thanks to modern technology, has received its confirmation: the auroras in the northern and southern hemispheres are not only interconnected, but also are mirror images. In fact, these are rings around each pole, with a diameter of about 3000 kilometers during a quiet Sun and almost 4000 kilometers during an active Sun. By the way, one of the first who, back in the 18th century, not only gave descriptions of the northern lights in the southern hemisphere, but also pointed out that the polar Auroras appear in high latitudes of both hemispheres at the same time, was none other than the famous navigator James Cook.
A bridge to the other world?
Everything that was written above is the achievements, observations and hypotheses of the official science. But official science is too young compared to millennia of human history and too cynical when it comes to metaphysics. And long before scientific research, people themselves tried to understand and explain this unique natural phenomenon. And for some reason, they most often associated him with the afterlife.
For example, Eskimo and Native American legends said that the northern lights are the spirits of fallen enemies who want to awaken again. In other legends of the North American Indian tribes, the northern lights are presented as the light of lanterns carried by spirits seeking the souls of dead hunters.
Norse mythology mentions the Bifrost Bridge - a burning trembling arch crossing the sky, along which the gods can descend from heaven to earth, and the Ruja River - which burns with fire and signifies the border between the kingdoms of the dead and the living. In other Norse legends, the spirits of the aurora borealis are represented as lights carried by the Valkyries. And in other legends, the northern Aurora is presented as the heavenly dance of the dead virgins.
A number of researchers suggest that, perhaps, the wriggling ribbons of the aurora borealis, which were observed by the inhabitants of Scotland and a number of other European states, were the cause of the legend of dragons. These "shining" ribbons were very often depicted in the chronicles in the form of snakes. Some of the scientists generally put forward a sensational hypothesis: the legendary battle of St. George was actually a fight with the aurora, not a dragon!
In the Middle Ages, the inhabitants of northern China also had the opportunity to see the auroras (here are the legends about Chinese dragons!), As well as Scandinavia and northern Russia. In our country, by the way, they were called grooves, or flashes. The first comes from the word "dawn", "dawn", and the second from - "garnish", which means "disturb", "disturb".
Beautiful evil
One way or another, but the northern lights, according to many peoples, harbored evil in themselves. For example, the Eskimos at such a time did not leave the house without weapons and generally believed (and still believe) that those who gaze at the northern lights for a long time will soon go crazy. Auroras were associated with all sorts of troubles, for example … with the fall of Jerusalem and even the death of Julius Caesar.
Surprisingly, gloomy predictions were most often confirmed. If the sky is on fire, expect trouble. However, scientists now, trying to understand this connection between auroras and disasters, tend to blame not the auroras themselves, but the Sun and solar storms with which the auroras are associated. After all, it is known that solar rhythms affect various aspects of life on Earth and earthly processes. The ozone content and the electric potential of the noosphere change, the heating of the ionospheric plasma excites waves in the atmosphere. All this affects the weather, climate change, the occurrence of droughts, floods, earthquakes (and hence crop failures and, as a result, riots, wars, etc.). Due to additional ionization, significant electric currents begin to flow in the ionosphere, the magnetic fields of which distort the Earth's magnetic field, which affects human health. And this is already the reason for all kinds of epidemics.
Cosmos Mediator?
Some ufologists believe that the northern lights are not a natural phenomenon at all, but … a form of existence of intelligent plasmoid solar energy. Unlike ray energy, which streams over the entire earthly world from the cosmic depths, radiance is a directed stream of particles that can cause a strong physical transformation. And at the so-called points of power, it comes into contact with the matrix of the power place and merges into the processes of energy synthesis, uniting with the energies of the earth and the people who are in these places.
The color of the auroras depends on contact with the Earth. If it is white, it means that it is neutral, which has not yet touched the energies of our planet, and if it blooms with a whole spectrum of shades from green to violet, it means that the radiance is already in the zone of planetary energies.
The fact that it is very sensitive and actively responds to sound waves can speak in favor of the intelligence of the northern lights: any sharp sound immediately causes color flashes scattering across the sky. And the incomprehensible sounds that are heard during the radiance may be his speech (or even the voice of the Cosmos itself), which we do not understand.
Proponents of this unusual hypothesis warn: people who are in contact with the northern lights, in no case should show negativity, and then insights and even visions of other worlds that are inaccessible to human perception at other times are possible.
In a number of cases, the impact of radiance on people causes the activation of metabolic processes and even rejuvenation. According to ufologists, it is in the influence of the northern lights that the secret of the longevity of the indigenous peoples of the North and their phenomenal ability to survive, as well as the amazing abilities of northern shamans and their gift of clairvoyance, are hidden.
So, it may happen that the really great and incomprehensible Cosmos communicates with the Earth and people with the help of its beautiful mediator - the northern lights - and through it influences our nature and its inhabitants. It is the auroras that signal the place and time of the influence of the Cosmos on earthly life.