The University of Bürgerweldt has just reported an exciting discovery based on images captured using the Amateur Space Telescope Remote Observatory (ASTRO) - the first space telescope launched by amateur astronomers - which was first announced in Alternate Universe in 2008.
Appearing in the University’s 2009 Annual Science Digest, the report covers research by Professor Audi Biemer who considers he may have discovered a wormhole in the space-time continuum using the University’s new “Optio Telescope”, which is a hybrid optical/radio telescope combining an optical imaging camera and a 22-metre radio dish which was recently completed by the University's Department of Particle Physics – See photo, top right.
Located in the zodiacal constellation of Ophiuchus, close to the magnitude 3.2 star Epsilon Ophiuchi (e Oph. - aka Yed Posterior), the mysterious object known to astronomers as WTF16.3-04.7B has long been a source of interest to amateur Astro-Imagers.
Following the recent publication of Professor Biemer's paper on the subject, a dedicated group of Astro-Imagers from the ASNSW who wish to remain unanimous conducted a vigorous symposium earlier in the year in which the nature, appearance and imaging quality of the object had been carefully examined.
Latent Astrophysicists within the ASNSW Astro-Imaging group, taking account of recent developments in cosmic superstring theories, speculated that the sudden snapping of a string whose event horizon had approached breaking point had caused a ripple in the space-time continuum with subsequent reverberations continuing for an indefinite period.
They have captured an initial series of images themselves and plan on an ongoing series of images to determine whether rapid changes can be visually detected.
To test one theory that time itself may have been compromised, a project has been inaugurated using the defunct Radio Telescope at Wiruna to precisely point at selected coordinates within the ripple and feed the signal to both an FM radio receiver and a high definition television set to ascertain if evidence of a “time anomaly” can be detected.
It is considered that picking up old episodes of “I Love Lucy” would prove nothing, as the show is undoubtedly showing on TV channels in some part of the world to this very day.
However, if the final episode of “Lost” should be reflected back from some future era or possibly something really remunerative like the 2012 Melbourne Cup results, or some glimmer of when the world stock markets bottom out, if ever, then science would have made a great leap forward and the potential of some sort of wormhole in time would have been established.
Professor Biemer is continuing his ongoing research in collaboration with the University's Patron, Baron Beavis von Büttkopf, using the 2-metre telescope at the Schlöss Rattshärz Observatory to produce high quality optical images to supplement the original optical/radio hybrid images already captured by Professor Biemer.