Super Earths & StarGates

Celluloid hero, the invincible Superman from the fictional planet Krypton had another incarnation at a world première a fortnight ago.

While this swashbuckling alien either wowed or bored movie fans, serious planet watchers announced a breakthrough discovery about what they called ‘ Super Earths’ that may have an answer to humankind’s ceaseless quest for intelligent life in the cosmos.

In a headline grabbing announcement astronomers at Germany’s Gottingen University revealed that the new planets were found orbiting about 22 light years away near exoplanet Gliese 667c, a habitable zone that could support life.

Scientists also endearingly refer to this area as the “Goldilocks Zone’. They contend that it is an ideal place for water. One of the SuperEarths is strikingly similar to that of ours.

This exciting news invariably sparked various theories and even hints at possible missions to these planets.

For instance the prestigious Smithsonian Institution in a blog titled

‘Surprising Science’ spelt out variables of powering such expeditions.

Besides conventional rockets it mentioned other fuel sources like anti-matter, solar cells, nuclear power and ion energy.

The late great Sir Arthur C Clarke who convincingly upheld the theory of life in other galaxies envisaged the so-called Space Elevator in his 1979 best seller ‘Fountains of Paradise.’

Understandably, a space elevator could facilitate interstellar travel sans any spacecraft.

Sir Arthur, who first envisioned geostationary satellite communications that eventually became world phenomena, also wrote about wormhole physics, which allows intergalactic travel.

In his classic 2001 – A Space Odyssey, Sir Arthur propounded the metaphysics of Stargate (a word first coined by him)as an open cosmic portal between two separate points in space.

Since then the very idea of Stargate is being pursued in arenas of science fiction and science fact, Hollywood blockbusterists notwithstanding.

Also referred to as the Einstein Rosen Bridge by scientists, these wormholes may already have had some galactic influence on earth.

Unresolved mysteries that surround the origins of the Pyramids of Egypt, Chichen Itza of the Mayan, and Peruvian Machu Pichu some believe may have had some sort of alien input or influence.

Did any extra-terrestrial intelligence have a hand in the creation of these great edifices and the inherent scientific marvels?

Did ancient Sri Lankan ruler Ravana who is credited with superhuman powers have any alien support? If so was such help rendered through a stargate wormhole?

Sounds incredible. But one unique stone inscription on a boulder at Isurumuniya in North Central Sri Lanka may shed some light on this mystery.

Known in Sinhala as a Sakwala Chakra this petroglyph is claimed to have been created at least 5000 years ago, around the same time Ravana ruled Lanka.

This rock inscribed boulder is located at Ran Masu Uyana about 500 meters away from the famous Isurumuniya Vihara at Anuradhapura.

Hitherto no rational explanation has been made about what this stone inscription means. A caretaker at the site however claimed that this may have been a rock carving by ancient Buddhist monks where they meditated.

Meanwhile it remains shrouded in mystery, yet plain to see if one were to visit the RanMasu Uyana, which was once a royal pleasure garden over a thousand years ago.

It was here that Crown Prince Saliya met and fell in love with fair maiden Asokamala a commoner. He sacrificed the throne by marrying her and went down into history as a romantic epic.

Some believe Sakwala Chakra to symbolize a stargate with inter-dimensional potential. Such claims have however been rebuffed as illogical by certain local architects and archeologists. Whatever the case may be the Sakwala Chakra stone inscription is regarded as one of the clearest indication of a stargate in the world.

This inscription is quite precise denoting Zen like squares, rectangles and lines plus various hieroglyphs and seven circled chakra.

Similar inscriptions are reportedly found at Abu Ghurab close to the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and as star codes in Chichen Itza in Mexico.

Until someone steps in with a plausible explanation, I choose to remain somewhat intrigued as any other by this message on a rock.