Scientific Terms

1. Sound Waves – The pattern of disturbance caused by the movement of energy travelling
through a medium as it propagates away from the source of sound.
2. Wavelength – Forms of electromagnetic radiation like radio waves, light waves or
infrared waves make characteristic patterns as they travel through space.
3. Frequency – It describes the number of waves that pass a fixed place in a given amount
of time.
4. Anomaly – The deviation in a quantity from its expected value.
5. Planet – An object that orbits the sun, has sufficient mass to be round or nearly round, is
not a satellite of another object, and has removed debris and small objects from the area
around its orbit.
6. Oscilloscope – An instrument that helps us to see what the signal waveform looks like
when there are changes in voltage over a period of time.
7. Biochemist – People who study DNA, proteins, cell parts, and the chemical and physical
principles of living things and of biological processes.
8. Pacemaker – A small device that’s placed under the skin in your chest to help control
your heartbeat.
9. Electromagnetic Pulse – A short burst of electromagnetic energy.
10. Electronic Interference – A disturbance generated by an external source that affects an
electrical circuit by electromagnetic induction, electrostatic coupling, or conduction.
11. Nuclear Reactor – Any of a class of device that can initiate and control a self-sustaining
series of nuclear fissions.
12. Electromagnetic Fields – A field of force that consists of both electric and magnetic
components, resulting from the motion of an electric charge and containing a definite
amount of electromagnetic energy.
13. T1 Line – A communications transmission service that uses 2 twisted pair copper wires to
transmit and receive data or voice traffic.
14. Electromagnetic Waves – It is one of the waves that are propagated by simultaneous
periodic variations of electric and magnetic field intensity.
15. Field Theory – A theory that explains physical phenomena in terms of a field and the
manner in which it interacts with matter or with other fields.
16. Static Discharge – It is the sudden flow of electricity between two electrically charged
objects caused by contact, an electrical short or dielectric breakdown.
17. Electricity – The set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of
matter that has a property of electric charge.
18. Magnetism – A class of physical phenomena that are mediated by magnetic fields.
19. North Pole – The point in the Northern hemisphere where the Earth’s axis of rotation
meets its surface.
20. South Pole – The southern end of the Earth’s axis.
21. Cosmic Radiation – Radiation coming from outside the solar system.
 22. Crust – The outer layer of the Earth which is up to 40 miles deep.
23. Mantle – The part of the Earth between the crust and the core which is about 1 800 miles
thick, and makes up nearly 80 percent of the Earth’s total volume.
24. Outer Core – A fluid layer about 2 200 km thick and is composed of mostly iron and
nickel.
25. Inner Core – The solid material found in the center of some planets at extremely high
temperature and pressure, distinct from the liquid outer core.
26. Lightning Strike – An electric discharge between the atmosphere and an object.
27. Solar Winds – A stream of energized, charged particles, primarily electrons and protons,
flowing outward from the Sun, through the solar system.
28. Radioactive – The spontaneous emission of radiation in the form of particles or high
energy photons resulting from a nuclear reaction.
29. Density – A measure of mass per unit of volume.
30. Microwave Radiation – A type of electromagnetic radiation.
31. Fahrenheit – A temperature Scale that bases the boiling point of water at 212 and the
freezing point at 32.
32. Pulse Lasers – Lasers which emit light not in a continuous mode, but rather in the form of
optical pulses.
33. Resonance Tube – An object used to observe the velocity of sound.
34. Ultrasonic Waves – A sound energy in the form of waves having a frequency above the
human hearing range.
35. Navigation System – An instrument that determines the position of a vehicle and the
route to a particular place.
36. Geophysicist – A person who studies the physics of the Earth.
37. Knots – A unit of measurement used in navigation.
38. Animal Migrations – The regular usually seasonal movement of all or part of an animal
population to and from a give area.
39. Atmospheric Phenomenon – A physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere.
40. PSI – (Pounds per square inch) A unit of pressure.

Acronyms

1. EI – Electronic Interference
2. NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
3. Project DESTINI – Project Deep Earth Seismic Trigger Initiative
4. SAR Operation – Search and Rescue Operation
5. MRI Cameras – Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cameras
6. CIA – Central Intelligence Agency
7. CAT Scan – Computed Tomography
8. EM Spikes – Electromagnetic Spikes
9. EM Fields – Electromagnetic Fields
 10. TSI – Turbocharged Stratified Injection
11. ECS Cabin – Environmental Control System Cabin
12. PSI – Pounds per Square Inch
13. NSA – National Security Agency

Scientific Events with Explanation

1. Death of people with pacemaker

 If a strong electromagnetic interference will happen people with pacemakers
could actually die because pacemaker is a device that relies on electric pulses, and
a device used to stabilize the heart.
2. Birds ‘ disarray of navigation
 There is a theory that birds use the Earth’s magnetic field to obtain at least a
partial map of its position. In theory, a bird might be able to estimate its latitude
based on the strength of the magnetic field.
3. Space Shuttle Rotation
 The jet’s reaction control systems aren’t that powerful in real life, and it takes
quite a while longer for a space shuttle to flip a whole 180 degrees, somewhere in
the range of between 20 seconds and nearly 2 minutes.
4. The occurrence of an Aurora appearing in a less likely place
 Auroras are most visible during the height of sunspot activity; increased activity
in the solar wind could create fluctuations that will make Auroras appear.
5. Earth’s moving outer core can change and lead to collapse, temporary or permanent,
of the electromagnetic field.
 The Earth’s magnetic poles have actually suddenly reversed several times in the
planet’s history.
6. Using a peach as a model of the Earth’s interior design.
 The skin of the peach as crust, the meat of the peach as mantle and it’s pit is the
core.
7. Earth’s collapsing electromagnetic field opens door to deadly cosmic rays.
 Cosmic rays is a general term used to designate everything that’s whizzing around
in space; there are some cosmic rays that are actually lethal to life, but even
without the electromagnetic field, most would be stopped by the Earth’s
atmosphere resulting in low damage.
8. Earth’s spinning outer core moves at ‘1 000 miles per hour’.
 The Earth’s outer core does spin but slower by about half; it is actually estimated
at about 550 miles per hour.
9. Bodies float on Magma
 The human body is roughly the same density as water, whereas Magma being a
molten rock is roughly the same density as rock. Rock being denser than water,
 Iverson’s body should have floated instead of sinking. However, it is possible that
his body actually burned and melted away by the magma causing him to sink.
10. How the Golden Gate collapsed after melting under a microwave beam.
 This contradicts how a suspension bridge actually works but, it is possible that the
destroyed bridge shot was meant to imply that the towers themselves had also
partially melted and weakened, causing them to lean in one direction or another
without just snapping off.