Hydraulic fracturing likely cause of Red Deer area earthquakes: Report

Hydraulic fracturing likely cause of Red Deer area earthquakes: Report

CALL EM WHAT THEY ARE FRACKQUAKES, 

MAN MADE EARTHQUAKES FROM FRACKING 

HOW IS KENNEY AND HIS PETRO WAR ROOM GOING

TO DENY THE SCIENCE OF THIS 

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By Sheldon Spackman, rdnewsNOW
ALBERTA
Jan 23, 2020

Preliminary findings into the cause of a pair of earthquakes near Red Deer over the past two years have identified hydraulic fracturing as the likely cause.

According to an open file report published by the Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) last month, early findings confirm that felt earthquake events occurred near Red Deer in both March 2019 and March 2018.

On Mar. 19, 2018, the report indicates a 3.13 magnitude earthquake was identified near Red Deer, with shaking from the event felt by “some.”

On Mar. 4, 2019, a 4.18 magnitude earthquake was recognized south of Sylvan Lake, with shaking reported as far away as Red Deer. Complaints of damage from the event were also received.

The report indicates a nearby operator, Calgary-based Vesta Energy, installed a seismic network and shared their data with AGS. Analysis of the data suggested both earthquakes were induced by nearby hydraulic fracturing operations, and that other smaller clusters of events (up to magnitude 2.0) were also induced in the Duvernay East Shale Basin (ESB), in which Red Deer and areas west are located.

A historical analysis of all nearby seismological data in the basin also discovered an additional well which caused earthquakes (up to magnitude 2.59) in September of 2014.

The AGS report also states that previous studies have noted an increase in the number of earthquakes attributable to petroleum resource development within the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB).

According to the report, previous studies indicate hydraulic fracturing, in particular, has contributed most significantly to the apparent rate change in the past few years.

However, despite the regionally pronounced change in earthquake rates and hazard, only a small proportion of the total wells within the WCSB exhibit induced earthquakes.

Officials with Vesta Energy emailed the following statement regarding the report’s findings.

“Vesta operates in areas with potential for seismicity and continues to take the necessary precautions to ensure compliance with Alberta Energy Regulator (“AER”) regulations. Vesta has sophisticated monitoring equipment placed throughout its operating perimeter to detect seismic activity and works with the AER as needed to report any detections of seismic events in the area.”

It goes on to say, “The safety of employees, contractors, and communities near our operations is paramount for Vesta. We are proud to contribute to the local economy by providing employment opportunities and support to local businesses.”

by Sheldon Spackman, rdnewsNOW

Fracking to blame for earthquakes, seismic 'clusters' in central Alberta
'Suspicious' earthquakes in typically dormant region triggered review
Wallis Snowdon · CBC News · Posted: Jan 23, 2020 

In this March 29, 2013, file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation outside Rifle, in western Colorado. Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is way of extracting natural gas that involves injecting fluid into a well under high pressure to fracture the gas-bearing rock and release the gas inside..' (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)
An earthquake that sent tremors through central Alberta last spring — rattling homes in Red Deer and temporarily knocking out power in parts of Sylvan Lake — was caused by fracking, an investigation by provincial regulators concludes.
A report by researchers with the Alberta Geological Society and the Alberta Energy Regulator examined two earthquakes near Red Deer, one on March 19, 2018, and another on March 2, 2019.
Investigators determined that nearby fracking operations triggered both earthquakes and also induced other "small clusters" of seismic events in the area with tremors up to a magnitude of 2.0.
Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is a way of extracting natural gas that involves injecting fluid into a well under high pressure to fracture the gas-bearing rock and release the gas inside.
Understanding the link between fracking and earthquakes
The practice has been linked to most large earthquakes in Alberta and B.C. interior in recent decades.
Some U.S. residents have sued oil and gas companies over injuries and damage to homes caused by fracking-induced earthquakes.
Still, such earthquakes are rare and because they're a relatively recent phenomenon, they are little understood, prompting questions about why they arise in some places and not others.
'Felt by many'
The 2018 earthquake was 3.13 in magnitude and the "shaking from the event was felt by some," the study said.
The earthquake in 2019 was significantly stronger with a magnitude of 4.18. There were reports of property damage and the "shaking from the event was felt by many," the report said.
The epicentre was located about 12 kilometres south of Sylvan Lake, where the seismic activity is typically dormant, researchers said.
"Recent events were large enough to be felt by nearby residents in Red Deer, who were between four to 10 kilometres away," reads the report.
"The observation of these events in a typically seismically quiescent region was suspicious, considering the recent development of the Duvernay East Shale Basin."
Alberta Energy Regulator suspends fracking well linked to Monday earthquake
'A very short, sharp shock': Earthquake rattles central Alberta
The earthquake was reported to the Alberta Energy Regulator by Calgary-based oil and gas operator Vesta Energy.
At the time, the regulator ordered Vesta Energy Ltd. to suspend hydraulic fracturing operations at the site in order to protect the public and the environment.
It also ordered the Calgary-based company to submit a report on recent seismic activity in the area and specific fracturing data for the well site.
The regulator has also ordered Vesta to file a plan to eliminate or reduce future seismic activity from fracturing.
The report suggests further investigation is needed on the operations causing the increase in seismic activity. For instance, previous research found that earthquakes in the Cardston region in southern Alberta were related to fluid from nearby operations flowing into fault lines.
"At least 13 new clusters of induced earthquakes are recognized," the study said.
"Our next steps were to better understand why this region may be susceptible to these events through comparisons to other regions where geological proxies for seismogenic potential have been identified."
The company's website said it operates in the Joffre Duvernay shale oil basin in central Alberta and had 84 producing wells on-stream last year.
"Vesta operates in areas with potential for seismicity, and continues to take the necessary precautions to ensure compliance with Alberta Energy Regulator," the company said Thursday in an emailed statement to CBC News.
"Vesta has sophisticated monitoring equipment placed throughout its operating perimeter to detect seismic activity, and works with the AER as needed to report any detections of seismic events in the area."
Fracking to be restricted in Alberta region that suffered earthquake
Fracking the official cause of Sylvan Lake earthquake last spring

Alberta Energy Regulators declared their findings in a report released last month
MEGAN ROTH Jan. 26, 2020

A study by the Alberta Geological Survey has concluded the cause of the earthquake that rocked Sylvan Lake in March, 2019.
According to a report published by the Alberta Geological Society, a department of Alberta Energy Regulators (AER), the earthquake was caused by fracking at a nearby site.
The report, released last month, details finding from the ML 4.18 earthquake with the epicentre located about 12 kilometres south of town, as well as ML 3.13 quake a year prior located near Red Deer.
Alberta Energy Regulators (AER) deemed the two quakes suspicious, due to their location.
“The observation of these events in a typically seismically quiescent region was suspicious, considering the recent development of the Duvernay East Shale Basin,” the report reads.
Vesta Energy, a Calgary-based company, was fracking at the time and in the vicinity of earthquake.
AER said they had to use information obtained by Vesta Energy to properly assess the situation, and find a cause for the quake.
“Because deployments of seismic monitoring stations in the province have been skewed to more seismically active areas, assessing the induced status of this cluster based solely on data from those areas was impossible. Instead, the operator of the well in question deployed a passive seismic monitoring network to more thoroughly address the issue.”
Vesta Energy has a site near Sylvan Lake and reported it was fracturing at the time of the quake. Operations at the site immediately ceased, according to an AER order.
Director of Environment and Operational Performance Erik Kuleba said in the order issued to Vesta Energy “that a release of a substance or substances has occurred, and that substances have caused, are causing, or may cause an adverse effect.”
Before Vesta Energy was able resume operations, they had to submit a plan to AER by March 11 “to show how they will minimize the risk of any seismic impacts in the future.”
Vesta Energy had to include all passive seismic data from April 2018 to present.
In May, Vesta was able to start working at the site once again. Alberta Energy Regulators said Vesta’s risk assessment plan showed minimal risk of seismic impacts in the future.
According to the AGS, Alberta has experienced more than 600 earthquakes between 1985 and 2011. During the same time, Saskatchewan only experienced 41 recorded earthquakes.
Most of Alberta’s recorded earthquakes are distributed evenly along the foothills and Rocky Mountains, there are also clusters of earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountain “deformation belt” around Rocky Mountain House, according to AGS.
Earthquake seismologists with the Geological Survey of Canada originally believed the cause of the March 4 earthquake to be natural.
The original cause was believed to be from tectonic movement along the Rocky Mountains. While Central Alberta is a distance away from a fault line, quakes still occur every few years, as stress from the fault lines can often be felts a ways away.
The quake was relatively centralized. Reports say the shock could be felt in Red Deer, Lacombe, Blackfalds, Eckville, Penhold and as far north as Gull Lake

Central Alberta earthquakes “caused” by fracking, the regulator confirms
By Joseph Warner
-January 23, 2020
Earthquakes felt in the Red Deer area have been linked again to nearby hydraulic fractures, the Alberta energy regulator confirmed.
Central Alberta earthquakes that caused damage to the structure and briefly devastated energy in parts of Lake Sylvan City were caused by a bloated oil field, says an Alberta energy regulator report.
An investigation by EAR and its Alberta Geological Survey (AGS), determines seismic activity on March 4 last year and March 19, 2018 in the Red Deer area is caused by hydraulic fractures, the process of liquid injection to release rock formations and free high hydrocarbons.
That kind of earthquake activity was not known in the area, but was very visible when it happened, the report said.
“Within Alberta, most of the earthquake-induced activity is concentrated in the Duvernay Formation development areas near Fox Creek,” she states.
“However, the recent events (March 19, 2018 and March 4, 2019) were large enough to be felt by nearby residents in the City of Red Deer who were between 4-10 km away.”
He says such seismic activity in a typically more stable area “was suspicious, given the recent development of the Duvernay East Shale Basin.”
The magnitude 4.18 earthquake on March 4, 2019 occurred near where Vesta Energy had carried out fracking and the company’s activities there were suspended by the EAR.
“Damage complaints from the event were accepted,” the report states.
None of the tremors caused any injuries.
He also says that a small group of 2.0 magnitude earthquakes in the area is also attributed to fracking and that at least 13 new earthquake clusters caused by fracking have been found through his investigation.
A Fortis Alberta spokeswoman said they discovered a problem at their Lake Sylvan substation at 5:55 a.m. that day “that power had disappeared”.
“This is at the same time that reports of an earthquake in the area started to come in,” Alana Antonelli added.
Power was restored to all 4,600 of its affected customers in about 90 minutes or less, she said.
Before the investigation was completed, Antonelli said “it is still too early to say that the disruption to the substation was caused by the earthquake, but we can probably assume they were related.”
A few days after the March 4 event, Sylvan Lake Mayor Sean McIntyre said there is no need to be alarmed
“We are aware of the conversation about the hydraulic fracturing process,” he said.
“However at this time, we are confident in the ability of the Alberta Energy Regulator (and the province) to protect Alberta’s health and safety, striking a balance in terms of sustainable economic growth,” he said in a written statement.
The EAR and AGS use over 50 monitoring systems across the province to measure and study seismic activity – an issue that requires much more information, the provincial regulator said.
“This approach is constantly being refined as many of the basic features are incompletely recognized, new earthquake clusters continue to emerge, emergence continues to evolve, and our understanding of the triggering mechanisms of these earthquakes increases,” the report said.
In a statement, Vesta Energy said it continues to operate in areas of potential seismic activity while complying with EAR regulations.
“Vesta has sophisticated monitoring equipment deployed throughout its perimeter of operation to detect seismic activity and works with the EAR as needed to report any seismic event detection in the area,” she said.
“The safety of employees, contractors and communities near our operations is essential to Vesta.”

A Meteor That Lit Up Ontario Skies This Week Came All The Way From Beyond Mars (VIDEO)
It even changed colours as it streaked across the sky.

Lisa Belmonte1 day ago
Updated on January 25 

Alan Chen | Unsplash

Parts of the province got an otherworldly visitor that flashed across the dark sky and it had a long journey to get there. A meteor over Ontario came all the way from the asteroid belt which is beyond Mars. Videos and pictures of the space object streaking through the night are spectacular.

If you were in southern Ontario on January 21 and looked up just before 9:00 p.m. you might have seen a bright light streak across the night sky.

That was a meteor fireball that was likely the size of a softball.

It flashed overhead just to the north of Goderich and was spotted by people from hundreds of kilometres away.

Reports about the fireball were sent in from southern Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, New York and Ohio.

Peter Brown, a meteor scientist from Western University, posted videos on Twitter of the celestial object lighting up the sky.

This visitor from outer space lit up about 80 kilometres above the ground and started just east of the Ontario town.

It eventually fizzled out north of the town, about 30 kilometres above Lake Huron.

Based on the path it took through the atmosphere, Brown was able to trace its origin back to the asteroid belt which is just beyond Mars.

If any small meteorites actually fell from the sky, they likely ended up in the lake

Kintail fireball from Jan 22 as captured early in flight by accident on @westernu most sensitive meteor cameras which use EMCCDs from @nuvucameras. FOV is roughly 15x15 degrees and faintest visible stars are near +12. @amsmeteors @IMOmeteors #fireball #Meteorite pic.twitter.com/exv1OqHPr4— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 23, 2020

Yet another capture of the Kintail fireball, this time with an experimental meteor camera system near Tavistock, ON based on https://t.co/JMV1A8Nciu @westernu @IMOmeteors @amsmeteors #fireball #toomanymeteorcameras pic.twitter.com/ZVtQ3aOqd0— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 23, 2020

A meteor is a streak of light across the sky that happens when space rocks, known as "meteoroids" enter Earth's atmosphere.

Since this flash was intense enough to rival the brightness of Venus, it's called a fireball.

Usually, cameras set up to shoot events like this only capture black and white but two of them actually caught this streak changing colours as it flashed through the sky.

In both photos, you can see the fireball change from red to white to blue and back to red again.

Still image of Kintail fireball last night as seen from Collingwood Observatory of @TCObs pic.twitter.com/gyr1wDthTc— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 22, 2020


Still image of Kintail fireball from Elginfield Observatory as captured by @FireballsSky DFN camera last night. @amsmeteors @FireballsSky pic.twitter.com/ClTBr3M96d— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 22, 2020

The colour of the space rock could be based on what it's made of, the flow of air around it, the speed it travelled at or how it broke apart.

The asteroid belt is between 179.5 and 329 million kilometres away from Earth.

So this little guy travelled a long way to flash across the sky over southern Ontario.

Fireball ‘as bright as the moon’ lands in Lake Huron
Posted Jan 25, 2020

By Tanda Gmiter | tgmiter@mlive.com

A fast, bright burst of what were probably softball-size meteors caught the attention of our Canadian neighbors earlier this week, before likely arcing down to land in Lake Huron.

While it wasn’t seen by too many sky-watchers on the U.S. side of Lake Huron, observatories in Canada, including Western University in London, Ontario, captured an image of the fireball last Tuesday night. It likely was a collection of small meteors grouped together, researchers say, according to CTV News in Canada.,

Spotters say the fireballs looked “as bright as the moon” as they whizzed across the sky.

In a Reddit discussion titled “orange fireball in night sky," a handful of people talked about seeing the fireball overhead.

“Anyone see this incredible sight around 9:10 pm in the sky north of London? An orange fireball streaming across the sky," one person wrote.

“Yes!!! Saw it driving home a few minutes ago. I’ve never seen anything like it before!,” another person posted.

Others who saw it chimed in:

“Yes! Omg my husband and I saw this. We were near Masonville mall! It was so bright. I’ve never seen anything like that. With I had a dash cam to capture it.”

“Was sitting at Carey’s and I saw it for a split second. Buddies thought I was nuts. Was cool though.”

“Yeah we saw it on a walk last night. It was around 9. Wonderland and Oxford area. It was tracking north fairly slowly. Saw the white ball, orange tail, and even saw some bits breaking off of it.”

Peter Brown, a professor in Western University’s physics and astronomy department, tweeted a series of photos of the spectacle. He dubbed it the Kintail fireball, for the spot near the Canadian shoreline of Lake Huron where it was believed to have crossed over before going into the water. On a map, Kintail is directly across the lake from Michigan’s Thumb.

“Kintail fireball orbit from last night place origins firmly from the asteroid belt. The initial mass was somewhere between a few to ten kilograms - softball sized. Not quite as bright as the full moon," Brown posted on Twitter.

Fireballs are born when particles of meteors hit the Earth’s atmosphere and burn their way across the sky.

There were some reports of this particular fireball from U.S. sky watchers. These came from people in Port Huron, Flint and St. Clair Shores in Michigan, and other spots in Ohio and New York, as reported to the American Meteor Society.

Bright fireball last night at 8:52 pm EST to the North of London. Video below shot from @WesternU @westernuCRONYN. @amsmeteors #fireball #meteor 1/3 pic.twitter.com/vjfV11OAL2— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 22, 2020

Fireball started near Brussels and ended just offshore over Lake Huron near Kintail. Low velocity (~15 km/s) and end height (33 km) suggest small meteorites may have landed, likely in Lake Huron. @WesternU @IMOmeteors #fireball 2/3 pic.twitter.com/Mrbs4IUson— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 22, 2020

Still image of Kintail fireball from Elginfield Observatory as captured by @FireballsSky DFN camera last night. @amsmeteors @FireballsSky pic.twitter.com/ClTBr3M96d— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 22, 2020

Kintail fireball from Jan 22 as captured early in flight by accident on @westernu most sensitive meteor cameras which use EMCCDs from @nuvucameras. FOV is roughly 15x15 degrees and faintest visible stars are near +12. @amsmeteors @IMOmeteors #fireball #Meteorite pic.twitter.com/exv1OqHPr4— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 23, 2020

Yet another capture of the Kintail fireball, this time with an experimental meteor camera system near Tavistock, ON based on https://t.co/JMV1A8Nciu @westernu @IMOmeteors @amsmeteors #fireball #toomanymeteorcameras pic.twitter.com/ZVtQ3aOqd0— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 23, 2020


Photo of a meteor captured by cameras of Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network.
Fireball recorded in Huron County

BY JANICE MACKAYJANUARY 23, 2020 3:31PM

Video cameras from Western University captured a fireball in Huron County Thursday night.

UWO Meteor Scientist Peter Brown tweeted several images and videos of the fireball.

He reported that the fireball started near Brussels and ended just offshore over Lake Huron near Kintail.

He said a low velocity and an end height of 33 kilometres suggests small meteorites may have landed, likely in Lake Huron.

Yet another capture of the Kintail fireball, this time with an experimental meteor camera system near Tavistock, ON based on https://t.co/JMV1A8Nciu @westernu @IMOmeteors @amsmeteors #fireball #toomanymeteorcameras pic.twitter.com/ZVtQ3aOqd0

— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) January 23, 2020

Bright meteor over southern Ontario traced back to the asteroid belt
Scott Sutherland
Meteorologist/Science Writer
Friday, January 24th 2020, 12:30 pm - Did you see this fireball?

At just before 9 p.m., on the night of Tuesday, January 21, 2020, southern Ontario had an unexpected visitor - a hunk of rock from space that blazed through the sky as a meteor fireball.

The meteor, which flashed overhead just to the north of Goderich, ON, was spotted from hundreds of kilometres around. The American Meteor Society received over 30 reports from various locations around southern Ontario and southern Michigan, and as far away as Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Rochester, New York, and Columbus, Ohio

This map shows the concentration of reports for this meteor fireball, as well as the likely start, end and trajectory of its passage through the atmosphere. Credit: American Meteor Society

According to Dr. Peter Brown, from the University of Western Ontario's Meteor Group, the meteoroid that caused this fireball was likely the size of a softball, so perhaps 10 centimetres wide, with a mass of up to 10 kilograms, and it was travelling at around 15 kilometres per second (54,000 km/h).

Yet another capture of the Kintail fireball, this time with an experimental meteor camera system near Tavistock, ON based on https://t.co/JMV1A8Nciu @westernu @IMOmeteors @amsmeteors #fireball #toomanymeteorcameras https://t.co/ZVtQ3aOqd0Peter Brown on Twitter

As Brown posted to Twitter, the fireball flared to life roughly 80 kilometres above the ground, starting about 50 kilometres east of Goderich, and it winked out around 30 kilometres above the ground, somewhere over the waters of Lake Huron, west of Kintail.

From the path it took during its steep plunge through the atmosphere, Brown was able to trace the meteoroid back to its origin in the asteroid belt, beyond Mars.

Kintail fireball orbit from last night place origins firmly from the asteroid belt. The initial mass was somewhere between a few to ten kilograms - softball sized. Not quite as bright as the full moon. @WesternU @amsmeteors 3/3Peter Brown on Twitter

Given the speed of this meteoroid and the height where the fireball ended, Brown said that small meteorites may have landed from this event. Unfortunately, since the end point of the fireball was over the water, any meteorites that did reach the surface are now likely lying at the bottom of Lake Huron

Meteors are flashes of light, resulting from the passage of some object from space - a meteoroid - travelling at high speed through the atmosphere. As the meteoroid - whether it's a speck of dust, an ice crystal or a chunk of rock or iron - flies through the air, it compresses the air molecules directly in its path, causing them to heat up until they glow. 

Any meteor flash that is intense enough to rival the brightness of Venus is typically called a fireball. If the fireball includes a sudden, intense flash due to the meteoroid breaking apart, it is often called a bolide.

Although most meteor cameras simply capture in black and white, two cameras that caught the Kintail meteor managed to pick up colours as the meteor flashed overhead.

The Kintail meteor fireball, captured by an all-sky meteor camera at Elginfield Observatory, to the southeast of the meteor's trajectory, on January 21, 2020. North is roughly towards the top of the image. Credit: Western Meteor Group

As shown above, the meteor camera at Elginfield Observatory caught the meteor flashing from red to white to blue and back to red.

According to Brown, it is possible to tell something about the composition of a meteoroid based on the colour of the meteor flash it produces. However, the meteor colour can also be influenced by the flow of air around the meteoroid, the speed at which it was travelling, and even how the meteoroid broke apart. So, without actually recovering pieces of it, or having a detailed spectrum from the light to examine, there's no telling exactly what is causing the colours.

Did you see this fireball? Submit a report to the American Meteor Society.

Physics-Defying Particles in Antarctica Still Baffle The Scientists

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Antarctic Experiment Reveals Strange 'Ghost' Particles That Physicists Can't Explain "It's commonly said that neutrinos are 'elusive' or 'ghostly' particles because of their remarkable ability to pass through material without smashing into something," https://t.co/o9TPsfqOwI

Physics-Defying Particles in Antarctica Still Baffle The Scientists
Chin Cullin January 26, 2020 

Scientists had been left in awe after some studies on the Standard Model of particle physics. Such a thing helped them also perform many significant discoveries. On the other hand, it can’t explain the noticed mass of dark matter in the universe, the gravity as detailed by standard relativity, or the Higgs mechanism.

Currently, though, researchers decided to look after another intriguing thing that appears to crash an even massive hole in the Standard Model.

Deeply sensitive tools in Antarctica have been identifying a lot of energetic particles coming from the icy ground, and the Standard Model shows how such a fact shouldn’t occur at all.

It is known as very challenging to identify neutrinos due to their considerably low volume. They’re also known for their non-interaction with most encountered forces.

Physics-Defying Particles in Antarctica Still Baffle The Scientists

Antarctica seems to be a one-of-a-kind place for researchers. Its grounds are perfect for hunting one of the most intriguing phenomenons, such as those particles. Above Antarctica, researchers got a floating instrument on a ballon, to scan every radio waves.

The device has been dubbed ANITA, the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, and it is in a permanent quest for finding the most amazing things. As for those radio waves, they are resulted by an encountering of neutrons with the ice layer. ANITA had been succeeding in capturing three events of ultra-high-energy neutrinos resurfacing from the ice.

The particles appear to have massive cross-parts that make them meet with some regular matter. While approximately all standard neutrinos will pass right through our planet without any issues, that should rarely occur wit ultra-high-energy neutrinos.

Such an event left researchers in awe, mainly because it happened three times/year. Also, new insights suggest that those occurrences couldn’t be part of the Standard Model.

The powers that be at CERN turned on and off and on again the Large Hydron Collider LHC which opened up the Quantum Universe (of everything) allowing Phenomena and events like this to happen. It began with the faster than light neutrinos that could not exist but did the first time they turned it on to find that Goddamn Particle the Higgs Boson. They covered it up by claiming the janitor, unplugged a computer system. That's right the highly paid white collar scientists blamed the janitor, who by profession is trained not to do that.  

Scientists Still Mystified by Physics-Defying Particles in Antarctica

• By Ryan Whitwam on January 24, 2020 

The Standard Model of particle physics has led scientists to many important discoveries, but this framework has strained under the weight of recent discoveries. It can’t explain the observed amount of dark matter in the universe, the Higgs mechanism, or gravity as described by general relativity. Now, scientists are puzzling over a phenomenon that seems to blow an even bigger hole in the Standard Model. Highly sensitive instruments in Antarctica have been detecting extremely energetic particles emerging from the icy surface, and the Standard Model says that shouldn’t happen. 

It is notoriously difficult to detect neutrinos because they have extremely low mass and don’t interact with most known forces. Antarctica happens to be an ideal place to hunt for these particles, though. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) instrument floats above the continent on a balloon, scanning for radio pulses caused by the interaction of neutrinos with the ice sheet. 

Three times since 2016, ANITA has spotted ultra-high-energy neutrinos emerging from the ice. Unlike regular neutrinos, these particles have large cross-sections that cause them to interact with ordinary matter. While almost all regular neutrinos will pass right through the Earth without a problem, that should almost never happen with ultra-high-energy neutrinos. Scientists liken it to winning the lottery, and it’s happened three times in three years. A new study claims these events fall outside the Standard Model. 

The launch of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, which picked up signals of impossible-seeming particles as it dangled from its balloon over Antarctica. Credit: NASA

Scientists know how many ultra-high-energy neutrinos fill the sky because most of them come from cosmic rays interacting with the cosmic microwave background. So, there would have to be some other mechanism at work if there are so many of these particles hitting Earth that we can see them coming out the other side. The best explanation we have for this within the confines of the Standard Model involves “cosmic accelerators,” sometimes known as “neutrino guns.” An accelerator can be a blazar, a fast-spinning neutron star, or even merging galaxies. One or more neutrino guns “above” Earth firing downward could cause some ultra-high-energy neutrinos to emerge from Antarctica… maybe.

According to the new analysis, there aren’t any cosmic accelerators pointed at Earth to explain the particle detections. If the ultra-high-energy neutrinos were coming from such an object, there should also be a shower of lower-energy particles coinciding with each detection. Scientists used both ANITA and an underground neutrino observatory called IceCube to scan for these spikes, but there are none in more than seven years of data. 

The team believes we don’t have the technological means to fully understand what’s happening with these mystery particles. A new generation of neutrino detectors may shed light on the phenomenon and also put the final nail in the Standard Model’s coffin.

Top image credit: The surface facility of the underground IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.

Canadian psychedelic drug researcher featured in Netflix's 'The Goop Lab'

BY CASSANDRA SZKLARSKI, THE CANADIAN PRESS

Posted Jan 26, 2020 

TORONTO — Canadian researcher Mark Haden is quickly getting up to speed on the media circus and skepticism that follows Gwyneth Paltrow’s juggernaut wellness brand, Goop.

The 65-year-old Vancouver professor is the very first interview in Paltrow’s new Netflix series “The Goop Lab,” featured in an episode about the potential healing power of psychedelic drugs.

He says he only learned of Goop’s many detractors after taping his interview with Paltrow, but he adds that he’s faced a few critics of his own as executive director of MAPS Canada, which is the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

MAPS’ mission is to explore the potential psychedelic drugs hold for medical treatment, and so the invitation to appear on a Netflix show helmed by one of Hollywood’s biggest stars appealed to Haden, also an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health.

“We already have engaged fringy folks of the world and so now our next task is to engage the mainstream. You know, we want to heal cops — we’re targeting cops and veterans,” says Haden, whose U.S. counterparts are studying whether MDMA — better known as the club drug Ecstasy — can treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

“We want to appeal to guys in suits and housewives.”

To be sure, Goop’s dedicated following is large and ardent but Haden is now aware that its most famous products are resoundingly fringy — among them jade eggs for vaginas and psychic vampire repellent.

Meanwhile its wackier health claims, including coffee enemas and vaginal steaming, have drawn the ire of much of the medical community.

Nevertheless, Haden said he was pleased with the way his episode turned out, deeming it balanced and concerned with “real issues.”

Judging by the six episodes that rolled out Friday, denouncements by mainstream authorities are a badge of honour for Paltrow and the Goop crew, who seem to revel in declaring the topics they tackle as “unproven” and “out there.”

The trailer certainly highlights a seeming effort to appear cutting-edge with outtakes proclaiming that what you’re about to see is “dangerous” and “unregulated.”

The six episodes range from 29 to 36 minutes, with each tackling a specific topic: psychedelics, cold therapy, sexual health, reversing biological age, energy fields and psychic ability.

But none of this is cutting edge, says longtime Goop critic Tim Caulfield, who took Paltrow and the Goop ethos to task in his book “Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything?” and his (no longer airing) Netflix series “A User’s Guide to Cheating Death.”

“On the contrary, a lot of these things are regressive in their approach to health,” says Caulfield, who blames celebrities including Paltrow, Kim Kardashian West, David and Victoria Beckham and Madonna with spreading a decade of health and wellness misinformation.

“It’s frustrating that she’s given the opportunity to spread not just misinformation about particular therapies, but (also) this idea that we should embrace magical thinking and distrust conventional sources of scientific information…. Whether you’re talking about the cold therapy, energy therapy, the use of mediums, all of these things have no evidence behind them.”

Each episode is prefaced by a disclaimer insisting the content is “designed to entertain and inform — not provide medical advice.”

And it’s hard to believe the media-savvy Paltrow would not be hyper-aware of the scrutiny she seems to invite — one of Goop’s more defiant products, a candle named “This Smells Like My Vagina,” hit the market just before the Netflix premiere.

The show itself includes a lighthearted dig at which Goop staffer is “goopier,” and a jab at Paltrow for being a “princess.”

Still, none of that self-awareness gives Paltrow licence “to push pseudoscience,” says Caulfield.

Especially problematic for him is the fact that “The Goop Lab” functions as an extended infomercial for Paltrow’s online and brick-and-mortar retail outlets.

While products are not overtly pitched on the series, the Goop website includes a dedicated section known as “The Goop Lab Shop” where devotees can buy items associated with themes featured on the show.

Toronto brand consultant Angela Wallace stops short of describing herself as a Goop fan but says she likes the fact it explores non-traditional approaches to wellness, believing “a lot of women feel let down by more traditional health-care systems.”

“A lot of the criticism does seem like: ‘Aren’t women silly? Aren’t they frivolous? Aren’t they ridiculous for buying a jade egg or doing whatever they want in terms of making themselves happy and feeling well?'” says Wallace, who has shopped at Goop’s Yorkville outlet and subscribes to the newsletter.

She feels there is a gender bias in the way women are derided for their choices.

“Men have been doing … what they want for a really long time and not necessarily receiving the cultural criticism that women have,” she says.

“Shouldn’t we have some agency in whether we decide to do that or not?”

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