Engineer's invention continuously captures alien and past life images from across the universe

LONDON - Jan. 2, 2018 - PRLog -- Following private research since 2007, an engineer has successfully built a device that picks up and records live (past) images from across the universe. The images are from unknown light-years away, in the past.

Two major desires of humankind have now been made possible in one technological breakthrough. Humans have always wanted to be able to see things that happened in the past, dinosaurs living out their lives, humans of the past going about their daily routine of survival, and possibly seeing our ancestors too. The implications of and applications for being able to view the past in this way are immense.

A second and perhaps just as powerful desire is to see what other life (if at all) there is out in the known universe. Not just the type of life but also their environment, their technology and more. What such a capability will mean to us is unfathomable.

In particular, the second objective has been the holy-grail sought by many establishments over the years. The engineer, Tayo Akiwumi, has taken a different route to achieving the above from that of established scientific bodies such as SETI, national space agencies like NASA and privately sponsored entities like Breakthrough Initiative. He chose to find a direct imaging method instead of listening to radio signals and sampling for chemical signals. These are of course viable and logical alternative methods but which have not yielded conclusive results to-date.

The device produces flowing streams of images from which lifeforms, objects and structures can sometimes be made out. Originating from various unknown but distant (distant in time and space) sources, the images are interlaced and will require tuning, following further technology development.

"To hunt successfully and catch your quarry, it is often best to either bring along the right tool or invent it," said Akiwumi. "The tools we have been using until now have not produced conclusive results one way or other. That's why I invented a new tool. I believe that, when we see things differently, we think differently, and then we discover".

One prominent layer of images appears to show teeming life-forms moving in surface liquid (possibly viscous or foamy). They are so numerous, varied and closely packed that it is extremely difficult (currently) to identify individual forms. The images are estimated to be coming from a location 35 to 45 light-years away. A light-year is the distance that light travels in a year which is about 10 trillion km (9,500,000,000,000 kilometres). The Moon is about 1.25 light-seconds away. The Sun is about 8 light-minutes from Earth and the nearest star to us (Alpha-Centauri) is about 4 light-years away.

Also prominent and persistent are images of octopus-like life forms with large eyes, short 4-5 'legs' and long tentacles with cups (perhaps suction). This idea is further supported by the observation that most of these life-forms are also bioluminescent.

Interestingly, earlier this year, astronomers announced detection of a solar system called TRAPPIST-1 which is a dwarf-star orbited by 7 Earth-sized planets. Some are thought to be water-worlds or at least to contain surface water. TRAPPIST-1 is 2,000 times less bright than our sun but thought to generate sufficient warmth to its planets for life to exist on some. As most of its light energy is generated in infrared, if surface oceans do exist, very little light will penetrate the surface. Water absorbs infrared energy easily so assuming these are water oceans, this could lead to ocean life on the TRAPPIST-1 planets developing large eyes and bio-luminescence. We see this here on Earth as we get to depths where light does not reach. We also see prevalence of transparency and gelatinous body forms. Similar traits to some of the life-forms in images captured by the device.

The images are best viewed in darkness or minimal ambient light for best contrast. And as they are intermixed, viewing from different angles and distances may reveal different content.

Short examples of some captured astrobiology related footage can be seen here https://vimeo.com/249252065 .



A series of books will be released and published on Amazon within the next 7 days which will start sharing examples of the initial images captured. The objective is to broaden access for the general public. The public can examine images and discover for themselves. As, at this stage, no one is an expert on what life beyond Earth is.

Akiwumi stated. "I had been hesitant to make an announcement about the successes of the device over the past ten years for a couple of reasons. The main one being that the result had to be continuous, not just repeatable once or twice. Although we are a long way from being able to selectively view, we can now already answer a few fundamental questions spanning a range of disciplines. I totally welcome collaboration interests across all disciplines".

About
Tayo Akiwumi is a British engineer based in England, United Kingdom. His research has been conducted during private time since 2007 while working full time in various countries. His innovation of the device described has been inspired by great scientists and engineers such as Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla.