Amateur Discovers New Universe At Local Astronomy Fest

Amateur Discovers New Universe At Local Astronomy Fest

In spite of threatening and cloudy skies, an amateur astronomer at the Julian Starfest made probably the most important new discovery of the century, even though this century is still young. With the dark skies of Julian and Mike Menghini thoughtfully turning off the light on his loading dock, he spotted what must be a parallel universe, although it was actually almost at a right angle to ours, giving it a little more menacing look. He had just cleaned his lens, eliminating the chance of it being a smudge of mascara from a female or a decked out male guest viewer. Telescopes such as the Hubbell and most large earth based telescopes have such a narrow field of view, they could never make this discovery. Very small telescopes, like many amateurs use with not very powerful lenses, can have a much wider angle of view. The “thing” that was observed was huge- way bigger than even a giant galaxy cluster. There is no other logical explanation for it. There is a cosmological concept of what they call “Bubble universes” and “multiverses” and so if bubbles are also spotted with more powerful scopes, they would definitely serve as evidence that it was a new universe. However, the scientific method requires that observations are repeatable, so we’ll just have to come back to the Starfest next year and make a confirmation sighting.

©2009 Eric Stamets