Andy Lloyd's Dark Star Blog 04, July 2013

It's interesting to note that NASA's program to monitor the heliosphere is known as ENLIL, one of the chief gods of the Sumerians. Readers of the Dark Star website will be acquainted with the heliosphere, particularly with regard to the asymmetrical structure of its outer boundary turned up by the exiting Voyager probes (1). NASA have put this dent in the heliosheath down to 'interstellar fluff', where I have argued that the anomaly may be evidence of the existence of a sub-brown dwarf companion orbiting the Sun in a highly eccentric orbit.

"ENLIL is a time-dependent 3D MHD [magnetohydrodynamics] model of the heliosphere. It solves for plasma mass, momentum and energy density, and magnetic field, using a Flux-Corrected-Transport (FCT) algorithm. Its inner radial boundary is located beyond the sonic point, typically at 21.5 or 30 solar radii ... The outer radial boundary can be adjusted to include planets or spacecraft of interest (eg 2 AU to include both Earth and Mars, 5 AU to include Ulysses, 10 AU to include Cassini). It covers 60 degrees north to 60 degrees south in latitude and 360 degrees in azimuth." (2)

Theoretically, the model could solve for magnetohydrodynamics calculations right out to the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft, assuming they can provide useful data. This would then allow NASA to model the heliosphere right out to its boundary with interstellar space, where the interaction of exterior magnetospheres might be measured. This might include the influence of the interstellar plasma flung outwards from the galactic core, or of local companions whose own magnetospheres might press against the Sun's own shell at its heliopause.

The Sun is a complex MHD system that is poorly understood, where momentum is passed from the Sun to its planets through the expulsion of hot solar plasmas, including violent solar flares.

"Previously, theories describing the formation of the Sun and planets could not explain how the Sun has 99.87% of the mass, yet only 0.54% of the angular momentum in the solar system. In a closed system such as the cloud of gas and dust from which the Sun was formed, mass and angular momentum are both conserved. That conservation would imply that as the mass concentrated in the center of the cloud to form the Sun, it would spin up, much like a skater pulling their arms in. The high speed of rotation predicted by early theories would have flung the proto-Sun apart before it could have formed. However, magnetohydrodynamic effects transfer the Sun's angular momentum into the outer solar system, slowing its rotation." (3)

Any extant companion sub-brown dwarf would provide substantial angular momentum to the solar system, filling in the gap that this MHD effect currently explains away. Bearing in mind how mysterious the dynamics of the Sun remain, there is certainly room for debate on this issue. Furthermore, given the potential link between the magnetospheres of the Sun and a proposed massive companion object, it seems telling indeed that NASA should choose ENLIL as the program's moniker.

Andy Lloyd, 16th July 2013

2) ENLIL webpage no longer available on CEOS International Directory Network, except:

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer "IBEX" has revealed a massive heliotail, extending away from the Sun in a comet-like manner. The structure of this tail is similar in shape to a four-leaf clover, and rotated slightly due to external interactions from the local interstellar neighbourhood.

Readers may recall that IBEX previously revealed a previously unknown ribbon of energetic neutral particles stretching across the heliopause - the magnetic boundary of the solar system which the exiting Voyager spacecraft have shown to be asymmetrical.

Various ideas have surfaced to explain the anomaly and, once again, the complexity of the newly revealed heliotail might allude to the presence of a local 'external' phenomenon lurking beyond the heliopause. It also seems like that the Sun creates a bow shock-like effect as it ploughs its way through the Milky Way, highlighting the strength of these interactive effects.

1) "NASA Spacecraft Maps the Solar System's Tail" 10 July 2013, with thanks to Tarkin

I've thought a lot about the home world, the dark star, and if it's still out there. And I've concluded that (like you've said) it either hasn't been detected or it's not there anymore. Just thinking about how our climate is changing today, I just imagine a world being much more advanced than ours and the challenges they have faced over the years with climate change or nuclear war or whatever. I think about if one day any physical evidence is found that it might be just ancient ruins of one of the dark stars outer planets. It could be that the dark star is out there, but it's completely burnt out and life on the home world has ended. Look at mars. We have curiosity up there and it seems as if mars has once had water. Maybe earth was to preserve their blood line and pass on their legend. I believe however, if all these things have happened in the past and has been so influential to humanity, then one day we will stumble upon compelling evidence. The dark star theory is revolutionary.

I think it's just like the rediscovery of the earth being round. Before the Middle Ages, the Romans knew the earth was round. They knew this because when they looked out to sea at the incoming ships, their masts would rise from the horizon until the ship was fully visible. Then the dark ages came and that knowledge was lost. And anyone who thought the earth was round was a lunatic. Same thing with Galileo, he was thrown in prison for saying Jupiter had moons. Copernicus was ridiculed for think the sun was the center of the solar system. It could be that knowledge of the sun being apart of a binary system was lost as well. If not lost through the dark ages but maybe earlier. In Fingerprints of the gods, by Graham Hancock, he researches that maybe there was an ancient civilization older than the Sumerians. A civilization flourishing before the last ice age and being wiped out by a global flood. Maybe then the binary knowledge was lost only waiting to be rediscovered.