Decoding the Message of the Pulsars: Intelligent Communication from the Galaxy [Paperback]

Paul A. LaViolette Ph.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2, 2006

A new interpretation of nearly 40 years of interstellar signals and the prophetic message they contain

• Contains extensive analysis of pulsar data, revealing new ideas about the origins and functions of pulsars

• Provides proof of an extraterrestrial communication network

• Includes information about the formation of crop circles and force-field-beaming technology

In 1967, astronomers began receiving and cataloging precisely timed radio pulses from extraterrestrial sources, which they called pulsars. These pulsars emit laserlike radio beams that penetrate through space much like searchlight beams. Paul LaViolette, who has been researching pulsars for over 25 years, shows that while these pulsars have long been assumed to be spinning stars, the true nature of these radio sources has been grossly misunderstood.

In Decoding the Message of the Pulsars, LaViolette shows that pulsars are distributed in the sky in a nonrandom fashion, often marking key galactic locations, and that their signals are of intelligent origin. Using extensive scientific data to corroborate his theory, he presents evidence of unusual geometric alignments among pulsars and intriguing pulse-period relationships. Equally compelling is the message LaViolette contends is being sent by these extraterrestrial beacons: a warning about a past galactic core explosion disaster that could recur in the near future.

Editorial Reviews

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“. . . well worth reading by those who ponder the great questions of life in the cosmos.”
(Eugene F. Mallove, Ph.D., author of Fire from Ice and former director of the New Energy Research Laboratory
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“Paul LaViolette is among the most advanced scientific minds of our time. His contributions in Decoding the Message of the Pulsars on our populated universe lay a foundation for our future society in space.”
(Alfred L. Webre, J.D., author of Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe )

". . . in an age in which few astrologers can actually cast a chart by hand, let alone identify the Zodiacal Signs in the night sky, LaViolette's ability to demonstrate profound scientific knowledge as well as astrological understanding is impressive."
(Institute for Hermetic Studies, May 2006 )

"[This] book is oveflowing with documented scientific explanations of how supernovae, which have extremely consistent and regular pulses of radio waves, have a high possibility of being of intelligent origin."
(David Paulsen, New Age Retailer, Resource Guide, 2006 )

"Now be warned, this is a very technical book. About half of it is the evidence proving what he's saying, and honestly I think someone needs to listen to this guy! The other half is more digestible for non-astronomy prone individuals. So buy the book, and just take it slow. His research is footnoted, cataloged and needs to be talked about." (
Olav Phillips, The Anomalies Network, Mar 2008 )

" . . . reveals a vast body of scientific evidence that will give you a firm foundation for looking further over the horizon of human understanding." (
Rahasya Poe, Lotus Guide, Issue No. 28, Nov/Dec 2008 )

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“. . . well worth reading by those who ponder the great questions of life in the cosmos.”
--Eugene F. Mallove, Ph.D., author of Fire from Ice and former director of the New Energy Research Laboratory

“Paul LaViolette is among the most advanced scientific minds of our time. His contributions in Decoding the Message of the Pulsars on our populated universe lay a foundation for our future society in space.”
--Alfred L. Webre, J.D., author of Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe

In 1967, astronomers began receiving and cataloging precisely timed radio pulses from extraterrestrial sources, which they called pulsars. These pulsars emit laserlike radio beams that penetrate through space much like searchlight beams. Paul LaViolette, who has been researching pulsars for over twenty-five years, shows that while these pulsars have long been assumed to be spinning stars, the true nature of these radio sources has been grossly misunderstood.

In Decoding the Message of the Pulsars, LaViolette shows that pulsars are distributed in the sky in a nonrandom fashion, often marking key galactic locations, and that their signals are of intelligent origin. Using extensive scientific data to corroborate his theory, he presents evidence of unusual geometric alignments among pulsars and intriguing pulse-period relationships. Equally compelling is the message LaViolette contends is being sent by these extraterrestrial beacons: a warning about a past galactic core explosion disaster that could recur in the near future.

PAUL A. LaVIOLETTE, Ph.D., is president of the Starburst Foundation, an interdisciplinary research institute, and holds advanced degrees in systems science and physics. The author of Genesis of the Cosmos, Earth Under Fire, and Subquantum Kinetics, he lives in New York.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company (May 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591430623
• ISBN-13: 978-1591430629
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Proof of ETs for the super-skeptic, December 4, 2007

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J. Grupp (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Decoding the Message of the Pulsars: Intelligent Communication from the Galaxy (Paperback)

I have been searching for much of my life for concrete proof of high extraterrestrial life. Before this book, I had only come across the same-ole 'testimonial' (and non-scientific) accounts, similar to those that are found on the Discovery Channel, for example, where people tell us they have seen UFOs or something, but can't prove it. This book on pulsars pretty much has proven to me that there is intelligent life throughout our galaxy. The very nature of pulsars, in addition to their layout around the galaxy, cannot be the product of random evolution of the galaxy. Neutron stars have never been observed by scientists, and thus are not scientific entities (they are only theoretical, and only the pulses have empirical). And there are so many well-known problems with the theory of neutron starts (how to neutrons line up together as they are supposed to according to the neutron star theory?). Thus, the problems with neutron stars in the scientific assumptions by experts, combined with the discoveries in this book, are so powerful that this book could involve some of the most earth-shattering information I have ever come across (and I have done a whole lot of reading in my life). I cannot recommend this book enough--it is scientific, professional, academic (in the truest sense), sober and rational, and empirical.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but highly improbable, December 17, 2007

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Babak Makkinejad (Troy, Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decoding the Message of the Pulsars: Intelligent Communication from the Galaxy (Paperback)

I enjoyed reading parts of this book that covered the astronomy and the astrophysics of the pulsar phenomenon. The author clearly knows his technical subject well and his presentation is non-technical and readable which may be viewed as a popular survey of the state of experimental knowledge of the pulsars. Additionally, the author also covers some very interesting scientific material on the effect of the active galactic core on Earth's climate. The author rightly points out the inadequacy of the standard light-house theoretical framework for pulsars and then uses the recent discoveries of periodic generation of cosmic ray fronts in the nucleus of our galaxy and builds upon its shortcomings to advance his hypothesis - namely that the pulsars are artificial.

And it is here that I part company with the author. From the inadequacy of the theoretical pulsar models he makes a leap of faith that pulsars are artificial constructs put out there by an extra-terrestial intelligence as warning beacons. And he assures us that the beacons are there to warn us against the next shockwave that comes of the active galactic nucleus.

He tries to make this plausible by pointing out to certain geometric relationships among various pulsars and their positions on the celestial sphere, by invoking probability theory, and by referencing ancient myths. All of that I found rather unhelpful in supporting his initial hypothesis.

I also did not like his specific usage of probability theory; I think that his treatment was too simple. He had to have developed different statistical hypothesis and then computed their likelihoods. Calculations in the same spirit as his could be used to claim that life was artificially created on Earth. I think the only reliable conclusion that he can draw is that the pulsars are not random phenomena (they do not conform to a Gaussian distribution) but neither does the distribution of galaxies in the cosmos and no one is yet suggesting that they (the galaxies) were put there by an extra-terrestrial intelligence!

Furthermore, to substantiate his initial hypothesis that pulsars are artificial warning beacons he takes detours into crop circles, phase-conjugate mirrors, UFOs, and a number of other subjects. Moreover, his hypothesis leads inexorably to the conclusion that the beacons are designed to warn Earthlings since none of the geometric relations that he has discussed will hold for any other location except the Earth vicinity. Then he is forced to entertain the idea that the aliens had visited Earth tens of thousands of years ago and decided to put the pulsars into their current locations to warn us of the next cosmic ray burst from the galactic core. So he has to assume more and more implausible things to sustain his initial hypothesis.

I cannot credit any of that for surely the beings who could build the pulsars could have encoded messages in the signals themselves rather than solely relying on the human observers' recognition of geometrical relationship in their position. And there is no message that anyone has yet discovered in these signals.

On the positive side, I learnt several new things reading this book; all having to do with solid scientific results. I learnt of Pulsars and their properties, I learnt how the ice core samplings have let us to discover the cosmic ray waves that come out of the galactic core every 13,000 years or so and their effect on the global climate, and I learnt of phase-conjugate mirrors in non-linear optics.

In fact, the precision of the pulsar periods and their glitches very much reminded me of the precisions and plateaus of the Quantum Hall Effect and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Quantum Liquids with magnetic fields - and a neutron star is a quantum liquid with trapped magnetic fields within and around it. It might be possible to build better models that use the Quantum Hall Effect and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.

Many years ago, I read a science-fiction story in which the protagonist comes across a gigantic communication grid in space and follows the direction of the beam to a nearby globular cluster. Which makes me wonder if the globular clusters are also artificial; that clever extraterrestrials are pulling these stars together and keeping them in there as sort of a flotilla of civilized worlds? Well, if you like wondering about things like that (as I do from time to time) then the non-science part of this book is for you.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and well-researched!, May 29, 2007

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Erica L Blomquist (Bethel, Vermont) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Decoding the Message of the Pulsars: Intelligent Communication from the Galaxy (Paperback)

Contrary to the previous review of this book--the writer of which obviously never read the whole book or has ever opened his mind beyond what the mainstream tells him to think--this book is extremely well-researched and presents a very intriguing new hypothesis about intelligent life in our galaxy. Read this book (or any of Paul A. LaViolette's) if you're interested in science but want to know more than just what the intro textbooks tell you, i.e., what has been deemed "worthy" of being part of the mainstream science propaganda mill. Thinking outside the box is what all our great scientists of the past did--they fought the naysayers and are now considered great thinkers. It's a shame that mainstream science isn't allowing more outside-the-box thinkers into the fold. Think of all the great discoveries that are being laughed at as "toilet paper" (to quote the reviewer "GG"). In 100 years, hopefully the story will be different.