Jul 07,
2006
A Record of Planetary Catastrophe
Many individuals in the Thunderbolts group contend that
our planet’s sky once looked vastly different than it does
today. The Earth moved in a more dynamic electrical
environment in close interaction with other celestial
bodies, including our neighboring planets.
If the celestial events suggested in these
pages did indeed occur, they would have left undeniable
physical imprints.
In fact, imprints of the events are visible in many layers
of geologic data. From pole to pole on Earth (and on every
rocky body in space), we see the
scars left by electric discharge machining (EDM)—an
effect of electrical arcing when charged bodies interact. We
see surfaces torn by channels that meet every test of
electric discharge and defy all orthodox interpretations. We
see giant,
circular craters with
layered terraces, concentric rings and shallow flat
floors, common traits of electrically excavated surfaces,
but not typical of impact cratering. We see
concretions—spheroidal masses usually occurring in
sedimentary strata— including Moqui balls, geodes, thunder
eggs, even concretions as large as ten feet in diameter.
These spherical formations lie somewhere between “difficult”
and “impossible” to explain in conventional geologic terms
(“mineral leakage" being the currently most fashionable),
but many features would be expected of electric discharge.
As enumerated several times on these pages, lighting and its
many variations in laboratory experiments produce spherules.
Plasma physicist CJ Ransom replicated the small spherules or
"blueberries"
seen on Mars through a simple electric discharge experiment.
We also see evidence that just a few thousand years ago,
there was a sudden, dramatic shift in Earth’s global
climate.
A recent study published in the current issue of the journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found
evidence of an abrupt climate shift on Earth about 5,000
years ago—the most dramatic evidence being the discovery of
unfossilized wetland plants around the margin of the
Quelccaya ice cap. This same study found indicators of a
shift to a warmer climate in the last 50 years. While most
media have reported this story only in the context of global
warming concerns, for catastrophists and proponents of the
Electric Universe, this is another piece of the puzzle that
is Earth’s (and the solar system’s) recent catastrophic
history.
This is not the first time scientists have found evidence of
a dramatic, recent climate shift on Earth. In the summer of
2004, the North Greenland Ice Core Project cut all the way
through the ice (over 10,000 feet deep) and brought up a
sample of soil from the surface of Greenland. A bit of
"organic matter" described as "plant material" was embedded
in a four-inch diameter sample of Greenland "muck." The
press release on the project stated, "The presence of plant
material under the ice indicates that the Greenland ice
sheet formed relatively fast, as a slowly growing glacier
would have flushed or pushed these light particles away."
Scientists constructed a history of climate changes in
Greenland over the last 40,000 years. According to one
geology text, the Ice Cores indicate "the normal pattern of
change involves numerous rapid fluctuations in
temperature—not only during glacial periods, but throughout
interglacial periods as well. The stable warm climate of the
present interglacial period is distinctly abnormal."
A planetary catastrophist might state this differently: "The
stable warm climate of today represents the present stable
solar system. It is the wild fluctuations of the past that
are distinctly abnormal."
Going back just a bit farther (geologically speaking), the
ice cores "run out." There is no more ice. The Antarctic ice
is a bit deeper than the Greenland ice, but it, too "runs
out." Before this, there is no evidence of glaciers anywhere
on Earth. Standard Ice Age theory places the beginning of
the Ice Ages about 2 million years ago (so far, the ice
cores have drilled through 123 thousand layers in Greenland;
174 thousand layers in Antarctica.) And geology books point
out that glaciation has been a rare event in Earth's
history. The last episode (earlier than our very recent Ice
Ages) happened before the first dinosaurs were born. Over
200 million years of Earth's prehistory passed without
glaciers.
The Greenland Ice Cores emphasize what we are learning in
other fields of geology: the very recent past is not a story
of incremental change. The Ice Cap began suddenly, perhaps
engulfing a thriving temperate forest and all of its
inhabitants. Its deepest layers record sudden large
temperature changes, some much colder than today, others
much warmer. Then, at about ten thousand layers before the
present, something happened that stabilized the climate.
What could that something have been?
The "mystery tale" of Earth’s recent catastrophic past is
not such a mystery, given the abundance of clues. The data
are multi-tiered and interdisciplinary. Even human testimony
reveals essential details, because human beings meticulously
recorded in their myth and folklore awe-inspiring events
that changed the world and altered the heavens. These
stories come from widely separated cultures, yet they are
remarkably similar: heroes battling dragons, gods and
goddesses casting fire and stone, a great deluge of water
and flame from the sky. Plasma discharge events in the sky
were recorded in ancient rock art and cave paintings on
different continents around the world. Ancient humans speak
of celestial warfare and global cataclysm. And month by
month the common details in their stories find new support
in scientific discoveries on Earth and in space.
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