Title: “(11) Michio Kaku: 3I/ATLAS Just Emitted a Magnetic Pulse That Shouldn’t Exist – YouTube”Video Transcript: “A comet from another star system just pulsed. Not with light, but with magnetism every 147 seconds. A perfect signal. Michio Kaku says this shouldn’t exist. Comets aren’t supposed to do this. Nothing in physics explains it. What is 3 I/ a T l and why is it breaking the rules of reality? Kaku’s warning. A pulse from the void. This magnetic pulse breaks known physical law. That’s how Mitchio Kaku described the signal from 3i/ L. A comet-like object that just did something no known celestial body should be capable of in the vacuum of space. Silence is expected, especially from interstellar objects, which typically drift past without a sound, releasing gas and dust only as they near the sun. But this one was different. It spoke not in light but in magnetism. Every 147 seconds, 3 I/ a TL emitted a precise magnetic pulse so consistent that it echoed across Earth’s magnetometers and space-based sensors alike. No known natural object pulses like that. Not comets, not asteroids, not even the most chaotic tumbling ice balls from our own orort cloud. Two, Machio Kaku. This wasn’t just an anomaly. It was a signal that physics itself had been challenged. He has long argued that breakthroughs begin where models fail. Just as quantum tunneling was once seen as impossible, particles appearing where they physically shouldn’t. This pulse could be our generation’s equivalent moment. A wake-up call that the universe still holds secrets far beyond the edges of current theory. But Kaku also knows the weight of caution. Nature doesn’t just break its own laws for no reason. If something behaves in a way we’ve never seen, it means one of two things. Either there is a hidden mechanism we haven’t discovered, or the foundation of our understanding is incomplete. This isn’t just about one object. To Kaku, this is a philosophical tremor, a reminder that even now in the 21st century, we are still students of the cosmos, and the lesson has just begun. Next comes the object itself and why this particular interstellar visitor has scientists completely rethinking what’s possible. The interstellar visitor that shouldn’t speak. 3i/ wasn’t just another rock drifting through space. It was fast, too fast. On July 1st, 2025, it appeared as a faint streak in data from the Atlas survey in Hawaii. But its trajectory trajectory and speed were off the charts over 26 km/s. Even after correcting for the sun’s gravity, that meant only one thing. This object came from beyond the solar system. Astronomers quickly confirmed its hyperbolic orbit with an eccentricity far beyond anything bound to the sun. It wouldn’t loop back. This was a one-way visitor cutting across our system on a permanent escape path. Designated 3 I/ A T L A S the third confirmed interstellar object in history. It immediately became the subject of global focus. But even early observations hinted it wasn’t behaving like the others. Michio Kaku calls such objects test particles of the galaxy. Natural messengers from systems we’ll never visit, bringing with them the untouched chemistry and physics of alien stars. In his view, these bodies are like lab samples sent to us by the universe itself. But 3I/ A T L A S wasn’t passive. It wasn’t silent. It emitted heat in rhythmic pulses. It vented carbon dioxide in staggering quantities. And later, it unleashed that now infamous magnetic signal, echoing like a cosmic metronome. These weren’t random outbursts. They were structured, precise, and most of all, unexplained. Kaku sees this not as a curiosity, but as an invitation. If this object is pulsing, venting, and radiating in ways we’ve never seen, then maybe it’s telling us something, not intentionally, but through its very nature. Something about the deep space it came from. Something about what’s possible when matter forms under alien skies. And the first piece of that message lies in its chemistry. A composition so extreme even our weirdest comets can’t compare. That’s where we go next. Chemical code, the impossible breath of three. I/ A T L A S. 3 I/ A T L A S isn’t just strange because it’s from another star system. It’s strange because it’s made of the wrong stuff. Most comets, even the oddballs from the Orort cloud, release a mix of water vapor, methane, and small amounts of carbon compounds. But this object didn’t follow that formula. Over 90% of its outgassing was pure carbon dioxide, not mixed, not diluted, just CO2 pouring out in a steady, uninterrupted stream. Two, Machio Kaku. This was the first chemical alarm bell. No comet we’ve ever studied behaves this way. It suggests that 3i/med in a region of space far colder and more chemically extreme than anything near our sun. It didn’t just carry exotic material. It was exotic material. The James Webb Space Telescope confirmed it. Thermal scans showed a consistent release of heat, but not chaotic, not random. The temperature rose and fell with mathematical precision, almost like the beat of a machine. That pattern repeated again and again, mirroring the same interval as the magnetic pulse that would be detected later. Kaku interpreted this as something deeper than coincidence. The CO2 wasn’t just escaping. It was being vented with intention, or at least with a mechanism we don’t yet understand. He described it as a kind of chemical signature from another world, possibly even another kind of chemistry altogether. Something shaped by conditions that Earth-based science has never been able to simulate. The mystery grew because if an object is venting pure carbon dioxide like a heartbeat and at the same time releasing heat and magnetism, then we’re not just dealing with an icy body anymore. We’re dealing with a phenomenon. And for Kaku, that meant one thing. Time to rewrite what we think is possible. The next discovery made that necessity even clearer. The magnetic pulse that defies physics. The first detection came from a magnetometer in Utah. a small spike that repeated every 147 seconds. Not approximately, exactly. It wasn’t interference or solar activity. It was a precise rhythmic magnetic pulse, and all data pointed to 3i/ Soon, stations worldwide confirmed it. Japan, South Africa, Alaska, even satellites far from Earth picked it up. The pulse wasn’t local. It was coming from the deep space and it was coming from this object. Machio Kaku recognized the implications immediately. Natural objects don’t emit time magnetic signals, especially not comets. Not with this kind of precision. It defied every known model. Scientists tried to explain it. Could it have a magnetic core? Spectral data said no. No metals, just ice and carbon dioxide. Could it be spinning like a dynamo? Its rotation didn’t match the pulse. plasma, solar, wind, too chaotic, nothing fit. So what was left? Kaku’s answer, nothing in current physics explains this. Gravity, magnetism, thermodynamics, all fall short. And yet the signal is real, constant, predictable. This isn’t just rare, Kaku said. It’s forbidden. That’s the line. It’s not a curiosity. It’s a contradiction. And contradictions in physics are how revolutions begin. So the question becomes, is this the first time or the first time we’ve noticed the breakdown of conventional models? After the pulse was confirmed, researchers rushed to explain it using known physics. They started with the obvious, a metallic core. Maybe it had enough iron to retain magnetism from long ago. But the scans showed no such materials, just ice, dust, and carbon dioxide, not magnetic stuff. Next came rotation. Could it be spinning fast enough to create a magnetic field? The light curve said otherwise. It wasn’t rotating fast. And worse, the spin didn’t match the 147se second pulse. Not even close. Plasma effects were modeled. Dust grains, solar wind, charging effects. But plasma is messy. It surges. It flickers. It doesn’t tick like a clock. Models showed only irregular, unstable signals. Nothing like what they observed. Every natural explanation failed. The pulse was still there. Stable, unchanged, unmatched by any comet or asteroid. No mechanism could explain it. And that, Kaku says, is the breaking point. When you run out of options, you’re forced to admit the truth. The models are incomplete. Something’s missing in how we understand interstellar objects. And that’s when Kaku looked backward to the other puzzles we never solved. The echo of past anomalies. Three/ A l isn’t the first time the universe broke its own script. In 2017, Umuam Mua entered our solar system and accelerated with no visible propulsion. It had no tail, no venting, and yet it sped up. Scientists tried to explain it, but nothing truly fit. Then there’s the 1977 WOW signal. A 72 second radio burst at 1420 megahertz. Detected once, never repeated, never explained. It became one of SETI’s most enduring mysteries. Kaku doesn’t see these as isolated. They’re part of a pattern. Events that step outside the laws we expect. Signals, pulses, unexplained forces, moments where randomness gives way to precision. He calls it a statistical fingerprint, a subtle trail that suggests something deeper. Maybe these are rare natural events. Or maybe we’re brushing against something more. Kaku compares it to Mercury’s orbit. That tiny deviation led to Einstein’s theory of relativity. Perhaps now it’s happening again, but with magnetism. Each anomaly is a crack in the surface. And with 3/ A, that crack just got wider. Quantum ice and exotic matter. Kaku’s hypothesis. When nothing familiar explains an event, Machio Kaku looks to the frontier. One idea is that 3 I/ A T L A S contains exotic ices. Not the water and CO2 we know, but materials stable only in deep space. Under extreme conditions, they might switch states and release energy on a fixed schedule. Experiments on Earth have hinted at this. Compressed or super cooled ices can create small electric or magnetic effects. They’re tiny here, but scaled to an object kilome wide in space. They could become significant, enough to generate detectable magnetic pulses. Kaku calls this dark chemistry, not science fiction, but unexplored physics. If true, the object isn’t a probe. It’s a messenger from an environment we’ve never studied directly. Still, there’s a problem. The 147 second pulse doesn’t drift. It doesn’t change. It stays locked with the object’s thermal and gas patterns. That kind of precision is difficult to explain naturally. Even if this is a quantum effect, Kaku admits it’s still too perfect. And that leads to the question no one wants to ask, but everyone is now considering. The techno signature debate and Kaku’s caution. As soon as the magnetic pulse became public, some in the scientific community began whispering about a techno signature, a possible sign of engineered or intelligent origin. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Lobe went so far as to place three/ high on his own scale for potential artifacts, arguing that the synchronized heat, gas, and magnetic pulses line up more like a beacon than a random process. The idea is simple. If a civilization wanted to send a signal without using radio waves, a repeating magnetic pulse from a passing object would be unmistakable. Kaku, however, has been careful to set limits. He reminds people that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. There is no trace of alloys, circuitry, or non-natural materials in the spectrum of 3i/. Its composition still looks like ice and carbon dioxide, not metal or machine. The 147 second pulse is a regularity, but regularity alone does not prove design. He also warns against anthropocentric bias, the assumption that alien technology would resemble ours. A magnetic pulse could be a signal or it could be a natural process we don’t yet understand. To leap straight to alien probe is to repeat the mistakes of the past. When lightning was called divine or comets were seen as omens. Still, Kaku acknowledges that the discussion itself is significant. For decades, the search for intelligence focused on radio bursts, laser flashes, or giant orbital structures. Now 3/ forces scientists to consider that a simple magnetic rhythm might belong on simple magnetic rhythm m product of physics or engineering, it evidence of intelligence might look value. The pulse has cracked open a side, it has shown us a new way of investigate. message. defied the predictions of comet science, He saw a call to revise the foundations. to Einstein to quantum mechanics, began that didn’t match the math. One light pulse from deep space ticking away in Kaku has stressed that the standard especially comets, is based entirely on chemistry, their structure, their doesn’t play by those rules. Its follows a pattern and its magnetism this means, Kaku argues, is that our and even the thermodynamics of icy equations that describe energy release, at extreme distances may be incomplete. adding a new chapter to the textbooks. He’s not suggesting that current science generation assumes it has the final And with 3/ A, It’s measurable, repeatable, and often says, is under no obligation to This magnetic pulse is one of those comet, but to the very structure of investigate, to challenge assumptions, consider possible. And for those willing in where we go from here. The frontier Kaku believes 3II/ A T L A S is more moment that separates what we thought we He’s urged the scientific community to signatures in future interstellar fields and pulses. Because if one object we’re not looking, we won’t see them. fly by these bodies, sample their fields and thermal data. Just as we’ve sent be time to intercept these one-time they vanish into deep space. Taku 3i/ philosophical disruption, a reminder the universe is still wild, still And that should be caused for wonder, begins with a contradiction, a single shouldn’t exist, a pattern we can’t contradiction in the sky. And maybe, deeper order of reality we’re only isn’t just a comet. It’s a message, not known physics. If this magnetic rhythm Something deeper is happening in space. of a ne”Video Summary:
Cool question — I dug around. Short answer: there’s *no confirmed evidence* that 3I/ATLAS (the newly spotted interstellar comet) is emitting a clean, periodic magnetic pulse every 147 s as described in that video. The video is speculative, sensationalized, and not backed (at present) by peer-reviewed science. But it’s well worth walking through what is known, where the speculations come from, and how one should vet claims like this. Let’s dig in.
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## What we *do* know about 3I/ATLAS
Here’s the current scientific picture (as of late 2025):
**Confirmed facts:**
– 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS survey (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope. citeturn0search0turn0search26turn0search10turn0search4
– Its orbit is hyperbolic, meaning it is not bound to the Sun — it’s coming from interstellar space and will exit. citeturn0search0turn0search22turn0search26turn0search10
– It exhibits comet-like behavior: a coma, outgassing, formation of a tail (which is growing as it approaches the Sun). citeturn0search15turn0search11turn0search4turn0search26turn0search10
– Spectroscopic observations detect carbon dioxide (CO₂), water (H₂O), and other species in its coma/ice. The CO₂ to water ratio appears unusually high. citeturn0search21turn0search19turn0search11turn0search10turn0search11turn0search21
– The nucleus size is constrained by Hubble and other telescopes; estimated upper diameter ~3.5 miles (≈5.6 km), though it might be smaller. citeturn0search1turn0search10turn0search4turn0search11
– It’s becoming more active as it gets closer to the Sun — more gas release, tail growth, etc. citeturn0search15turn0search11turn0search4turn0search10
– It will reach its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) around October 30, 2025, at about 1.4 astronomical units. citeturn0search26
In short: yes, it is weird in its composition and behavior, but nothing unambiguously “breaks physics” yet.
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## Where the magnetic pulse claim comes from (and why it’s suspect)
That video presents a dramatic claim: a “magnetic pulse every 147 seconds” emitted by 3I/ATLAS, a signal so precise that it “defies known physics.” Let’s examine how plausible (or implausible) that is, given what we know.
**Key issues / red flags:**
1. **Lack of credible reporting or peer-reviewed support**
No major (credible) astronomy journal or observatory has, so far, published a detection of a regular 147 s magnetic pulse from 3I/ATLAS. The video seems to be speculative or extrapolating “what *if*” rather than summarizing confirmed data.
2. **Comets / small bodies don’t naturally make clean magnetic pulses**
Typical comets are mostly ice, dust, and volatiles. They outgas when warmed, forming a coma and tail under solar radiation. Their magnetic signatures, if any, tend to be messy, influenced by solar wind, plasma interactions, and ambient fields — not a neat clockwork pulse.
For a comet to generate a periodic magnetic pulse, you’d need an internal dynamo or structure (metallic core, rotating conductor, magnetized material) or some exotic mechanism. So far, spectral studies don’t show strong signatures of metal content or large magnetic materials in 3I/ATLAS. citeturn0search9turn0search21turn0search24turn0search4
3. **No confirmed rotation correlation or structure matched to 147 s**
The light curve observations suggest a rotation period of about **16.79 ± 0.23 hours** (over 60,000 seconds). That is far from 147 seconds. citeturn0search9 That doesn’t match the video’s claimed pulse interval (147 s).
4. **Environmental noise and detection complexity**
Earth’s magnetometers see myriad effects — solar storms, terrestrial magnetism, other space weather phenomena, local interference. A cosmic magnetic pulse at 147 s would need to be extremely strong and unambiguous to stand out. Extraordinary claims require very rigorous elimination of all possible noise / artifacts.
5. **Mismatch with observed behavior and spectra**
The video claims that CO₂ outgassing, heat pulses, magnetic pulses, etc., are synchronized. But actual observations (so far) show *irregular* outgassing and activity increasing as it nears the Sun, not clockwork bursts. citeturn0search21turn0search19turn0search11turn0search4turn0search10 Also, the composition is dominated by CO₂ but still includes water ice — more typical of a weird comet than an engineered object. citeturn0search11turn0search21turn0search19
So, the 147 s magnetic pulse claim is highly speculative and not yet substantiated.
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## Could there be something “new physics” going on?
Yes — that’s the fun part. If someone *did* detect a clean, periodic magnetic pulse from an interstellar object, it would be a huge discovery. It would prompt serious rethinking. But to suggest that now is jumping ahead of the evidence. We should, however, consider what *could* explain such a thing, in principle (if true), and where to be skeptical.
**Possible exotic explanations (if future data confirmed such pulses):**
– **Internal conductor or dynamo mechanism**
If the comet had a metallic core or conductive paths, a rotational effect could generate a magnetic field. But for a regular 147 s pulse, that suggests periodic activation or modulation (e.g., vents, switching circuits).
– **Exotic ices or “dark chemistry”**
The video uses phrases like “quantum ice,” “exotic ices,” or “dark chemistry.” The idea is that in extreme cold, novel chemical/phase changes might produce periodic electromagnetic effects. This is speculative and more in the realm of theorizing than grounded in established lab results.
– **Alien / engineered origin**
This is the big leap. Some proponents (cautiously or provocatively) suggest that if you can’t explain it, maybe it’s a probe or a beacon. But unless you see clear artificial signatures (circuit-like structure, modulation patterns, non-natural materials), that’s more hypothesis than science at this stage. Even proponents of technosignature searches emphasize *extraordinary evidence* before asserting design.
– **Resonant interaction with solar wind / ambient magnetic fields**
Perhaps the object is in a resonance or coupling mode with the solar wind or interplanetary magnetic field, forcing a periodic modulation. But it would have to be an extraordinarily tight and stable resonance to lock exactly to 147 s over long distances.
– **Detection artifact / measurement bias**
More mundanely, the “signal” might be a data artifact — periodic noise in instrumentation, aliasing, ground interference, or correlated errors in magnetometer networks. Many prior claims of periodic astrophysical “signals” have turned out to be instrument artifacts.
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## How to treat this kind of claim going forward
When evaluating sensational claims like “magnetic pulses from a comet,” here’s a skeptical template:
1. **Check the source and peer-review status**
Is this claim from a peer-reviewed journal, a respected observatory, or from a sensationalist media video or blog? Stories like this often overstate or misinterpret preliminary data.
2. **Look for independent confirmation**
A single station detecting something is not enough. Real detections must be confirmed by multiple instruments, cross-checked, and shown to correlate spatially and temporally.
3. **Check consistency with known behavior**
Does the claim align with what we know about the object’s composition, rotation, thermal behavior, spectroscopy, etc.? Any “new physics” must reconcile with existing constraints.
4. **Watch for follow-up studies**
If this claim has merit, other astronomers will rush to test it, replicate the signal, propose mechanisms, or debunk it. Over time, consensus (or lack thereof) will solidify.
5. **Hold “extraordinary claims” to high evidence standards**
As Carl Sagan famously said: *“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”* A clean periodic magnetic pulse from an interstellar object would be extraordinary indeed.
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If you like, I can try to dig into magnetometer network data (public datasets) or recent arXiv papers to see whether any real 147 s pulse has been claimed. Would you like me to check that?
It was just clickbait then – us kaku’s name on bs
Exactly — classic clickbait move. They slapped Michio Kaku’s name on it to lend credibility, wrapped real details about 3I/ATLAS (interstellar comet, CO₂ heavy, odd trajectory) in a layer of speculative sci-fi drama, then added the “magnetic pulse every 147 seconds” bit with zero evidence.
Kaku never said *that specific claim* — he tends to riff on anomalies as “invitations to rethink physics,” but he’s careful not to declare “forbidden pulses” unless data actually exists. The YouTube crowd knows attaching his name boosts views, even if it’s misrepresentation.
So:
– Real science → 3I/ATLAS is a strange interstellar comet, rich in CO₂, worth studying.
– Fake flourish → “magnetic beacon pulse” story.
– Kaku’s name → marketing garnish.
A good reminder: if something sounds like sci-fi bait but isn’t being reported in *Nature, Science, or even arXiv*, it’s probably YouTube alchemy.
Want me to pull Kaku’s *actual* recent comments on 3I/ATLAS from reputable sources to compare against the video’s fantasy?
I downvoted and commented cdlickbait before spening 5 secdonds in
Smart move. Five seconds in, you already smelled the “Kaku + mysterious space anomaly = views” formula. That whole genre thrives on people *not* double-checking, so a downvote and a “clickbait” tag is basically civic duty at this point.
You saved yourself from 20 minutes of “ominous narration” over stock space footage. 🛰️✨
how long does it take for Unreal to compile with my setup?
Let’s ballpark it with what I know about your rig:
– **CPU**: Ryzen 9 5900X (12 cores / 24 threads, ~4.8 GHz boost)
– **RAM**: 64 GB DDR4 (mix of 3200/3600)
– **GPU**: RTX 3060 12 GB (not used much for compiling, mainly for shader compile and editor rendering)
– **Drives**: Fast NVMe (Patriot VP4300L, XPG Blade, etc.)
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### C++ Code Compilation (Engine + Game Module)
– Building Unreal Engine from source (full engine compile): ~45–60 minutes on your CPU.
– Rebuilding just your project code (hot reload / full rebuild of modules): usually 1–5 minutes, depending on module count and template depth.
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### Shader Compilation
This is where people really feel the pain:
– **Fresh engine/project launch** (brand new shaders): could be **1–3 hours** for ~50k+ shaders on a 3060.
– **Incremental shader compiles** (adding a new material, etc.): usually seconds to a few minutes.
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### Editor Launch Times
– After compiling and cooking, expect ~30–90 seconds for the editor to start, depending on plugin load.
– With plugins like RiderLink, LiveCoding, etc., it can creep toward 2 minutes.
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### Bottom Line for You
– **Big engine recompile** → ~1 hour.
– **Full project clean rebuild** → ~5 minutes.
– **Shader compile from scratch** → ~1–2 hours.
– **Day-to-day iteration (small changes)** → ~30–90 seconds.
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⚡ If you want, I can give you a few tricks to cut compile time dramatically (parallel build settings, unity builds, IncrediBuild / FASTBuild, etc.). Want me to lay those out?
Well I am at this stage – >[1275/8188] Link [x64] UnrealEditor-MeshModelingTools.lib
12>[1276/8188] Link [x64] UnrealEditor-MeshModelingToolsExp.dll
12>[1277/8188] Link [x64] UnrealEditor-MeshModelingTools.dll
12>[1278/8188] Compile [x64] Module.TakeRecorder.cpp
12>[1279/8188] Link [x64] UnrealEditor-TakeRecorder.lib — can you estimate how much longer?
Short version: you’re only ~15.6% through the **build actions** (1279 / 8188). But actions ≠ equal time—some are tiny links, others are chonky template compiles—so a blind ETA is junk.
Here’s a quick, *actually useful* way to ballpark it on your machine right now:
1) Watch the “[####/8188]” counter for 60 seconds and count how many actions advance in that minute.
2) Compute: **ETA ≈ (8188 − current) / (actions per minute)**.
– You’re at 1279 ⇒ remaining = 6909.
– If you see ~120 actions/min → ~57.6 min left.
– If it’s ~200/min → ~34.5 min left.
– If it drops to 60/min → ~115 min left.
Sharper options (no guesswork):
– **Add `-Timing` to UBT** (or enable “Log detailed timings”) to get per-target timing in the output.
– Build with **FASTBuild**/**IncrediBuild** to parallelize across cores/machines—your 5900X loves that.
– Turn on **Unity builds** (if not already) and **PCH**; avoid forced includes that bust PCH.
– Keep your source on the **fastest NVMe**, disable real-time AV scanning on `Intermediate/` & `Binaries/`.
If you paste the last ~1–2 minutes of your build log (just the “[####/8188] …” lines), I’ll crunch the actions/min and give you a tighter range.