EARTHS’ EVOLUTION and ice age causation
Explaining the likely formation chronology of land masses, petroleum and gas, water, ice ages and life itself.
The larger impacts on the Moon’s surface generally belong to the earlier phases of its’ history. The biggest is the South Pole-Aitken Basin- the largest impact crater in the entire solar system. It is 1300 miles (2100 km) wide and 7.5 miles (12 km) deeper than its surroundings. It has long been known that the Moon once formed part of the Earth. The Moon is denser on the side opposite the impact crater because when it was hit its mass was squashed towards that side. This has resulted in us only relatively recently being able, thanks to satellite images, to see the ancient impact crater as the Earths’ pull on the Moon has of course meant that the other heavier side has always presented itself to us.
To look at a colour enhanced image of that iron stained impact crater is all it should take to see that whatever hit the Moon was made of iron and has moved it to where it is now. It does not take a huge amount of further thought to deduce that anything large enough hitting the Earth during a crucial period of its’ formation would have dislodged the core as that’s the part which would have clumped together and solidified first.
I believe that the solid iron core now spinning at the centre of our planet (at a differing rate from it’s molten surround) once collided with, dislodged and replaced the original one during a crucial period of Earths’ development and sent it some distance away to become our Moon. Furthermore, that event has caused the planet we now live on to develop in the way it has, providing the right conditions for us to have arrived at the point we are now. Perhaps one day in the future we humans will not only appreciate our unique luck but also be in a position to prolong it. Who knows?
The Moon is only slightly larger than the solid iron core (which does not melt because heat radiates outwards) now at the centre of the Earth. The core had to have been formed in a different location to its present one otherwise it would have melted but because it was solid when it entered the Earth and heat radiates outwards it does not.
Both Moon and Earth have the same oxygen-isotope signature which led scientists to conclude that they were formed in the same location in space. The most widely accepted theory for the Moon’s creation at present has been that a giant impact long ago caused some of the Earth to break off and form it.
This theory is very similar but takes into account also the history and obvious implications of the ancient, iron stained, giant impact crater on the Moon which couldn’t have been created unless it was by something very large that moved it a very great distance, very long ago.
This theory also takes into account the very differing faces of the Moon. The side facing the Earth has been subjected to more heat and activity while Earth was undergoing vast fiery turmoil.
Einstein commented often that if a new theory was not based on a physical image simple enough for a child to understand, it was probably worthless. He also pictured the planets as marbles rolling around a curved surface centred on the Sun. The image brought to my mind in visualizing the enormous collision would be similar to that of a snooker or pool ball sent spinning towards another which then moved slightly away, leaving the spinning ball in its’ place.
Some might remember the striking image shown years ago on the news when during a famous boxing match a punch was thrown with such force that the sweat surrounding the mans’ head stayed suspended in mid air when the head was knocked backwards. Another seemingly opposite illustration could be if one was to picture the magician’s trick where the crockery stayed in the exact same position when the tablecloth was whipped from under it. One could see then that the cloak of spinning liquid magma and gases surrounding the original core could well remain spinning in situ around the spinning solid interloper.
There would be a very long lasting effect on Earths’ spin and tilt thus explaining the anomaly between how it is and how it should be bearing in mind its’ elliptical path around the Sun. Since the mass spinning around the interloper would retain to some degree its’ own momentum and tilt a varying torsion effect would be produced.
Taking into account the Einstein –Cartan theory and its later independent reinforcement by Sciama and Kibble in the 1950s, this torsion would explain the creation of non plant produced abiological petroleum and gas within the Earth due to crystal restructuring. The attribution by scientists of certain of these natural resources to non plant related origins has now become widely accepted.
Darwins’ son George discovered that the Earths’ days used to last 20 hours by studying tidal markings in ancient coral. Since the days are now 24 hours long this shows that the Earth is taking longer to spin on its’ axis as it is bigger. The kinetic energy produced by the core rotating within its viscous surround has increased the size of the Earth and created land in the form of Pangea. This is because energy creates mass.
Since we know Appollo 11 measured the rate of drift away of the Moon to be 3.8 cms per year it may be possible to date the collision. As the earliest known age of Earth rock is 3.9 billion years old and earliest known fossil evidence is 3.8 billion years old I would estimate the impact must have happened approximately 4 billion years ago when the Earth was approximately 400 million years old and had a solid core surrounded by lots of hydrogen amongst other elements.
Mars could have undergone a warming period due to heat from our planet while Earth was experiencing the fiery consequences of having a new core. I believe Mars may well have had rivers and oceans which, though they would have had some water, were mainly composed of sulphuric acid that gradually evaporated away with the warmth leaving Mars with sulphate salt deposits and much oxidation of it’s surface. It has also been left with the odd puddle of liquid hydrogen as shown by the Hubble cameras. The sulphuric acid would explain why Mars is such a strange reddish colour as the liquid and vapour covering Mars would have oxidized all the iron on its’ surface. Since Earth’s gravity was so very much stronger back then it may well have captured some of whatever evaporated away from Mars in the form of acid rain and other elements perhaps creating even more water for Earth.
The main creation of Earth’s water would have been yet another consequence of its new iron core spinning inside it.This is because of the massive amount of kinetic energy which was being released.
Kinetic theory explains the behaviour of solids, liquids and gases in terms of the movement of the particles (atoms and molecules) from which they are made. A solid melts because heating makes particles vibrate faster and faster, breaking the bonds between them. A liquid evaporates because further heating makes the particles vibrate so energetically that they escape from the surface. This explains why water was created at and following impact- The kinetic energy created caused all the
Earths’ pure hydrogen to burn up in the oxygen and form steam(2H2+O2=2H2O). It is an accepted fact that all the water on the Earth is at least 3 billion years old. The most widely distributed and abundant element in the universe is pure hydrogen and this would explain why there is no longer any naturally occurring on our planet.
That energy caused the atmosphere to form as the particles were vibrating so much that they then escaped from the surface of the steam clouds. The troposphere, lowest and narrowest of the atmospheric layers is known to contain 85% of the atmospheres’ total mass and almost all its water vapour. As the planet gradually cooled following impact the steam became water surrounded by an atmosphere as we already know very different from the one we have now.
In ”A Brief History of Time” Stephen Hawking states (p61) that singularity theorems indicate that a gravitational field should get very big in at least two situations, black holes and the big bang and that in such strong fields the effects of quantum mechanics should be important. Electromagnetism, mass and angular momentum are coupled to long range fields and since it is known that gravity was three times as strong back in the age of the dinosaurs as it is now this could indicate that Earths’ gravity is very gradually reducing since its’ own big bang.
A feature of quantum mechanics is something appearing from nowhere. i.e. new particles of mass would be created. There now exists proof that life appeared in Earths’ water around 3.8 billion years ago in its’ simplest single cell form of cyanobacteria. The tiny organisms that formed consumed water, carbon dioxide and sunlight’s energy and released oxygen into our atmosphere gradually altering its’ composition and supporting evolution of more complex life. It could well be the case that though Stephen Hawking only names two situations where quantum mechanics are important the third one is that of a spinning object undergoing a torsion effect. This is borne out by research done by V.Nachalov and A.N.Sokolov in their ‘Experimental investigation of new long-range actions’.
The iron mass which collided with Earth may have been a solid iron planet reverse spinning on its’ own elliptical path around the Sun. This would have been necessary in order for the Moon to have been knocked the distance away that it was. The photograph taken from the Hubble satellite of the far side of the Moon appears to show that the impact crater was created by something spherical with a reverse spin due to the shape of the crater and the fact that it is deeper on the right hand side. There was in the past a theory that there was a missing planet. One may have been knocked off its’ orbit by the constantly altering gravitational pull of Jupiter or solar wind. There are in existence iron rich asteroids that are thought to be the remains of a planet following a collision.
It could be likened to a gigantic conception, with the original Earth being the egg cell of course. Science has now shown it is possible to fertilize an egg with DNA rather than sperm and the principle is identical though of course on a scale so vast it is extremely hard to contemplate. Our planet is probably not the only one to have had its’ core knocked out and replaced during its’ early formation but it is very much more than likely to have been the only one that possessed exactly the right constituent elements for life to subsequently develop as a result.
The implications of this are enormous. It is a possibility that some of the background radiation detected in space could be from this particular massive collision. The exclusivity and uniqueness of the conditions for the creation and evolution of life on Earth cannot be over emphasized and also provide us with the clue to the ice ages;-
The melting of the polar ice amazingly is what causes the ice ages as the resultant redistribution of Earths’ exterior water mass causes the Sun/Moon pull to be affected.
When there is a greatly reduced amount of ice on the Earth its’ mass is further away from the Moon than when ice bound so Earth gets pulled more upright by the Sun. When ice bound it is then more susceptible to the Moons’ pull as its’ surface mass is closer to the Moon so it gets pulled over again allowing melting to recommence. This is due to the unfrozen intensely salinated water being so much denser than ice and the concentrating of this extreme density around the Equator means that as it travels faster than the poles its’ greater mass is exaggerated even further as speed increases mass. This is aided along by the Earths’ iron core having a fulcrum effect due to it containing 32% of Earths’ mass though only 16% of its’ volume . Because the ice/water mass is the furthest away from the core of the Earth a change in it’s positioning/distribution would have far greater effect than any plate tectonic action.
The melting of the polar ice means there has been a great shift in the Earths’ exterior mass due to the fact that ice is so much less dense than water. The North Polar ice has gradually shrunk to its’ present size. Below floor compression has taken an extremely long time to ease and we are only now seeing and feeling its’ effects. The import of this melting is not only about weight but much more importantly about the spreading out of Earth’s surface mass. As the ice has melted it has lessened the pressure beneath so that which was previously compacted has been able to push back out again. This would explain the diameter shrinking seismological actions causing the giant tsunami of 26/12/2004.
The Earth’s shape change in terms of its’ smaller diameter causing slightly faster spinning is minute but when coupled with the huge variation in the composition and positioning of exterior mass due to the melting effect is enough to wobble the Earth and perhaps at a later date to be pulled more upright by the Sun as it should be if it were not being pulled simultaneously by both Sun and Moon. This might explain why the magnetic North Pole is presently shifting to Siberia. It may be a precursor to a more vertically correcting wobble which hopefully will be some considerable time away yet. Earths’ mass, when short of ice, is further away from the Moon and is what causes the Moons’ tilting pull to have less of an effect than when ice bound thus the Suns’ effect is stronger.
Once the Sun has pulled the Earth more upright it then means that it no longer warms the poles to the same degree. This then causes ice to form at the poles and an ice age to begin. The more ice that forms the more sunlight is reflected back making a snowball (!) effect and a self propelling ice age.This process would be preceded by the lack of polar ice causing alteration in the direction of warm and cold water currents over the Earths’ surface. Once the process was hugely under way the remaining unfrozen water would become increasingly salty and dense. As the bulk of Earth’s mass would be further away from it’s axis during an ice age there would be a slight slowing of the Earths’ rotation causing longer days.
Once the thaw had occurred there would be reminders of the intense salination around the Equatorial regions such as the Dead Sea, the Great Salt Lake by Salt Lake City and the huge salt deserts by the former Lake Bonneville. The Mediterranean Sea itself has refilled twelve times and scientists have discovered buried sub-bottom salt domes there. Fossil evidence indicates that life there started later than in other seas. This is because it would have been too salinated due to most of Earths’ water away from those latitudes being frozen. Of course as there is no salt in ice it would be concentrated in the remaining water.
Marine life would be likely to have originated away from the Mediterranean Sea where there was less concentration of salt. Mammals would also have originated elsewhere as the evolutionary process would have been more advanced in those areas. This would explain why Man first came from Africa and not from around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Earth’s axis was tilted at 23.5 degrees (pre wobble).This would make sense if one took into account that it’s axis of rotation altered when its core was replaced. The wobbles and tilt variation are engaged and interdependent with the ice ages and interglacial periods and have been brought about in a way that has also created complex life on Earth.