We've all heard the theory that what we fear the most, we eventually cause. It's a well known phenomenon that all humans seem to, at some point, succumb to. We create that which frightens us the most, then stand back and cry out a pitiful, "why?".It's certainly happend to me a number of times, and I'm sure that at other points in my life, it will happen again. What if, though, this phenomenon was not mearly contained on the human side of things? What if it's reaches went far beyond even our Earth and comprehension?One would surely think that such a thing would not be possible. One would read this and assume that the author was either suffering some sort of mental constraint, or had extremely odd sleeping patterns, at the very least. However, I would like to purpose to you that it really is possible.Now, the raw emotion that we as humans go through as we manifest our own fears of death and lonliness, will not be experianced in the succeeding case, but the similarities between the two are suprising.This brings me back to my title, which goes yet unexplained. "Planetary Suicide"...it sounds like a band, honestly, but its actually a phrase that many scientists are choosing to use in refrence to the planet WASP-18b .This inflamed, insendiary planet seems to be on the brink. This huge body is so oddly close to its star, WASP-18, that death is a near certainty.
The planet's star is so breathtakingly close, approximately only a 50th of the distance between Earth and the sun, with a pull massively stronger than the pull of our Moon, that WASP-18b is sure to spiral into it's doom.This is a slow process, however. Scientists believe that the newly discovered planetetary enigma will be around for at least a million years more, perplexing our galactic neighborhood, and playing the ultimate game of chicken.
The celestial body that defies our definition of how planets and our stars should react, just shouldn't exist. So already, theories are being re-researched, ideas being changed, all because of this huge, odd, suicidal planet. Though it's odd and confusing, I think that it may be a blessing in a misshapen package; a doorway to new discoveries and innovative ideas about how the choas around us truly works.
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