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Researchers are predicting that our Sun is about to enter a period of long-term quiet called a grand solar minimum, a state that might begin as soon as 2020, and could last as long as fifty years. While this period will see a decrease in sunspot formation, magnetic activity and ultraviolet radiation output, the decline in solar radiation isn’t expected to help alleviate the problem of global warming in any meaningful way; however, it may cool the extreme upper atmosphere to the coldest it’s been for the past 70 years.
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Although quantum physicists have been making breakthroughs in the field of quantum teleportation, we’re still limited to the instantaneous transmission of information, and are a long ways away from being able to reconstruct matter or energy at a distance. But as humans, we may already be ready for such a mode of transportation, as the results of a new study suggests that our minds are capable of orienting themselves, despite the effect of being relocated in such an instantaneous fashion.
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Riffing on a brief conversation the host had on Twitter, Jeremy Vaeni answers the question of whether his encounters with, and research into, Visitor phenomena has made him more fully human. Can it? Is there a concrete answer to this? It turns out, there is. And it will most definitely defy your expectations, no matter what your outlook or experiences!


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