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Scott Creighton
reply to post by dragonridr
Hello Dragonridr,
You seem to be under the impression that I do not discuss the theories of Woelfli & Baltensperger with any other physicists/scientists. Your assumption is quite wrong. Paleomagnetic research is fine for determining the former poles of (slowly) rotating tectonic plates and the Earth’s magnetic pole. But the science of paleomagnetic research is not as straightforward as you seem to think. As with much of science, many different interpretations of the paleomagnetic data can be made. There are also problems with the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field over the ages as well as the rate at which magnetic reversals happen. Take this one small example:
Just north of a truck stop along Interstate 80 in Battle Mountain, Nevada, lies evidence that the Earth’s magnetic field once went haywire.
Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa. Such “geomagnetic field reversals” occur every couple hundred thousand years, normally taking about 4,000 years to make the change. The Nevada rocks suggest that this particular switch happened at a remarkably fast clip.
Anyone carrying a compass would have seen its measurements skew by about a degree a week — a flash in geologic time. A paper describing the discovery is slated to appear in Geophysical Research Letters...
“We’re trying to make the case that [the new work] is another record of a superfast magnetic change,” says lead author Scott Bogue, a geologist at Occidental College in Los Angeles…
Bogue and his colleague, Jonathan Glen of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, went to Nevada to study a series of well-preserved lava flows. As each flow cooled, it preserved the orientation of the magnetic field at the time, frozen like a tiny compass needle in the rock’s magnetic crystals.
One particular flow caught the scientists’ attention because it seemed to carry a complex magnetic history. This lava, Bogue says, initially started to cool and then was heated again within a year as a fresh lava flow buried it. The fresh lava re-magnetized the crystals within the rock below, causing them to reorient themselves a whopping 53 degrees. At the rate the lava would have cooled, says Bogue, that would mean the magnetic field was changing direction at approximately 1 degree per week.
The Steens Mountain rocks have been reported to preserve a change of 6 degrees per day...
The Nevada rocks bolster the idea that such changes could be happening, says Bogue — even if scientists still can’t explain why.
Source
New evidence for extraordinarily rapid change of the geomagnetic field during a reversal
So, whilst it is true that the relationship of the continents (tectonic plates) to the Earth’s rotational axis can in general terms be determined using paleomagnetic data, this allows only the testing of the dipolar nature of the paleomagnetic field in past epochs from paleomagnetic data. This cannot test the axial nature of the field which requires the use of paleoclimatic data. However, the problem is that the geomagnetic pole is often at considerable variance from the actual geographic pole--by as much as 23 degrees (and even more during a complete magnetic pole reversal). In 2001 the North Magnetic Pole was around 9 degrees from the geographic north pole, whilst in the southern hemisphere in 2004, the divergence between the two was around 23.5 degrees. Thus, simply measuring the past geomagnetic pole is hardly a clear or reliable guide as to the former position of the geographic pole given that such a large variance in the physical location between the two can occur and can do so over a very short period of time.
At the end of the day, the anomalous evidence has to be explained. The eye-witness testimonies written in numerous ancient texts that describe the stars moving from their normal course have to be accounted for. Whether you agree or not, RTPW is a means to explain all of this evidence.
Regards,
SC
edit on 22/12/2013 by Scott Creighton because: (no reason given)
dragonridr
Scott Creighton
reply to post by dragonridr
Hello Dragonridr,
You seem to be under the impression that I do not discuss the theories of Woelfli & Baltensperger with any other physicists/scientists. Your assumption is quite wrong. Paleomagnetic research is fine for determining the former poles of (slowly) rotating tectonic plates and the Earth’s magnetic pole. But the science of paleomagnetic research is not as straightforward as you seem to think. As with much of science, many different interpretations of the paleomagnetic data can be made. There are also problems with the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field over the ages as well as the rate at which magnetic reversals happen. Take this one small example:
Just north of a truck stop along Interstate 80 in Battle Mountain, Nevada, lies evidence that the Earth’s magnetic field once went haywire.
Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa. Such “geomagnetic field reversals” occur every couple hundred thousand years, normally taking about 4,000 years to make the change. The Nevada rocks suggest that this particular switch happened at a remarkably fast clip.
Anyone carrying a compass would have seen its measurements skew by about a degree a week — a flash in geologic time. A paper describing the discovery is slated to appear in Geophysical Research Letters...
“We’re trying to make the case that [the new work] is another record of a superfast magnetic change,” says lead author Scott Bogue, a geologist at Occidental College in Los Angeles…
Bogue and his colleague, Jonathan Glen of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, went to Nevada to study a series of well-preserved lava flows. As each flow cooled, it preserved the orientation of the magnetic field at the time, frozen like a tiny compass needle in the rock’s magnetic crystals.
One particular flow caught the scientists’ attention because it seemed to carry a complex magnetic history. This lava, Bogue says, initially started to cool and then was heated again within a year as a fresh lava flow buried it. The fresh lava re-magnetized the crystals within the rock below, causing them to reorient themselves a whopping 53 degrees. At the rate the lava would have cooled, says Bogue, that would mean the magnetic field was changing direction at approximately 1 degree per week.
The Steens Mountain rocks have been reported to preserve a change of 6 degrees per day...
The Nevada rocks bolster the idea that such changes could be happening, says Bogue — even if scientists still can’t explain why.
Source
New evidence for extraordinarily rapid change of the geomagnetic field during a reversal
So, whilst it is true that the relationship of the continents (tectonic plates) to the Earth’s rotational axis can in general terms be determined using paleomagnetic data, this allows only the testing of the dipolar nature of the paleomagnetic field in past epochs from paleomagnetic data. This cannot test the axial nature of the field which requires the use of paleoclimatic data. However, the problem is that the geomagnetic pole is often at considerable variance from the actual geographic pole--by as much as 23 degrees (and even more during a complete magnetic pole reversal). In 2001 the North Magnetic Pole was around 9 degrees from the geographic north pole, whilst in the southern hemisphere in 2004, the divergence between the two was around 23.5 degrees. Thus, simply measuring the past geomagnetic pole is hardly a clear or reliable guide as to the former position of the geographic pole given that such a large variance in the physical location between the two can occur and can do so over a very short period of time.
At the end of the day, the anomalous evidence has to be explained. The eye-witness testimonies written in numerous ancient texts that describe the stars moving from their normal course have to be accounted for. Whether you agree or not, RTPW is a means to explain all of this evidence.
Regards,
SC
edit on 22/12/2013 by Scott Creighton because: (no reason given)
You do realize were not talking about magnetic poles they can change alot. We are talking the spin axis of the earth. That doesnt change drastically and the reason is the moon. Magnetic pole at one point was in the middle of the pacific. So showing an article about magnetic pole shifts isnt what were talking about your confusing the two.
D: Ok im not sure if your doing this on purpose or not but read the paper. Its talking about using geomagnetic dadt to show there was very little true polar wander.
Scott Creighton
reply to post by dragonridr
Hello Dragonridr,
D: Ok im not sure if your doing this on purpose or not but read the paper. Its talking about using geomagnetic dadt to show there was very little true polar wander.
SC: Paleo-geomagnetic data cannot directly determine the geographic pole; it is used only to determine the position of the magnetic pole and then infers the position of the geographic pole. Again--it cannot directly determine the position of the geographic pole. The abstract you cite speaks of TPW of the magnetic pole (it has to) as opposed to Apparent Pole Wander (APW) of the magnetic pole. APW is when it appears that the magnetic pole has moved but, in fact, it is a tectonic plate that has moved giving a greater or lesser distance to the magnetic pole, thus giving the impression that the magnetic pole has move. True Pole Wander (TPW) is when the actual magnetic pole itself moves to a different location. This is to say that there is TPW of the magnetic pole and TPW of the geographic pole.
The question of the abstract you cite is whether TPW or APW of the (magnetic) pole occurred.
Now, science asserts through the hypothesis of Geocentric Axial Dipole (GAD) that the magnetic pole and the geographic pole were pretty much in the same location. That is how the abstract you link to implies there was little geographic TPW by using geomagnetic data. But GAD is but a theoretical model beset by a number of problems and whilst you may like to think it, it is not supported by all geo-physicists. Why? Well, you only have to look at the wide divergence between the magnetic pole and geographic poles we observe today—as much as 23.5º —to see how very different the two poles actually can be. Inferring the two poles were in the same place in ancient times is but an assumption of paleomagneticists—it has never been definitively proven.
You also have to look at the anomalous evidence—which you consistently ignore—to see that the paleoclimatic data suggests a very different pole in ancient times. And you consistently ignore the ancient eye-witness accounts that write of such a change in the heavens. You ignore also the fact that paleomagnetic data shows rapid changes—6 degrees in a single day! In short, you ignore everything that doesn’t suit your own case and carry on regardless. That is not how good science works. Science is quite literally a graveyard of dead hypothesis and theories. Assuming the magnetic and geographic poles were in the same place is a scientific assumption. I will take the eye-witness accounts over a theoretical science any day of the week.
Regards,
SC
edit on 23/12/2013 by Scott Creighton because: (no reason given)
D: What eye witness accounts are you talking about….
”The global deformation is catastrophic, although compatible with the continuation of life on Earth.”
Scott Creighton
reply to post by dragonridr
Hello Dragonridr,
D: What eye witness accounts are you talking about….
SC: This is discussed in my forthcoming book but there is considerable information on the internet that you can research for yourself. You can perhaps begin by reading the other paper of Woelfli & Baltensperger : Traditions connected with the pole shift model of the Pleistocene.
But it is not merely eye-witness accounts in ancient texts that have been passed down to us; there is also the paleoclimatic evidence that needs to be considered and explained. And as for the effects of such a geographic pole shift—in the Woelfli & Baltensperger model, they have this to say:
”The global deformation is catastrophic, although compatible with the continuation of life on Earth.”
Once again, I will take the eye-witness accounts over theoretical science any day of the week.
Regards,
SC
D: So if we take the ancient text in to account the earths axis switched for 1 day if you believein the bible and 2 days if you go by egyptian text. And then switched right back which would again require another major event.
D: And you wonder why no one took them seriously?
”A frequent objection to this hypothesis is that the phenomena should be reported in old traditions. This paper quotes such traditions from passages of Platon, Herodotus, Ovid, papyrus Ipuwer, Gilgamesh, the Bible, American Indians and other civilizations. Far from being exhaustive the examples show that apparently strange traditions can report observed facts. This connection is of mutual benefit for science and humanities.” Source.
D: And when problems were pointed out with there theory they kept modifying it …
D: …to the utter ridiculous.
D: If we go by science they figure a shift occurred about 800 million years ago long before the pyramids or man was on the planet. This was based off sediments in norway. And it appears it was about 6 degrees from current position this is believed to be caused by an imbalance such as a super volcano causing the earth to have to rebalance.
D: The idea of an outside body such as a planet zooming by causing the earth to have to rebalance is silly.
D: There is no evidence this occurred there would be orbital disruptions of earth the moon and possibly other inner planets as well. This is why we know it didnt happen …
D: …this theory was developed 150 years ago to explain siberia being a tundra. However the area continues to change and is now becoming a dessert so it isnt that mysterious after all.
Deaf Alien
reply to post by dragonridr
However his idea of dating the pyramids by a calendar the egyptians left in the layout.
I don't understand this? Please explain?
The pyramids line up perfectly as he has shown you over and over again.
I don't claim to understand it but I have followed his work and Graham Hancock and other's work. I read and I follow the evidence, logic. possibilities, and understanding.
From what I read in your posts... you keep saying that Scott believes in AAT or some far fetched theories. Why? What does it have to do with it?
At those depths the carbon dates indicate that the megaliths were put in place more than 10,000 years ago and in some cases as far back as 24,000 years ago.
I can only conclude that we’re looking at the work of a lost civilization and a fairly advanced one.”
“The archaeologists won’t like that,” I point out.
“They don’t!” Natawidjaja agrees with a rueful smile. “I’ve already got myself into a lot of hot water with this. My case is a solid one, based on good scientific evidence, but it’s not an easy one. I’m up against deeply entrenched beliefs.”
That date is just too close to Gobekli Tepe's age, I think.
Since 2007, however, masses of scientific evidence have come to light that have identified the smoking gun for me in the form of a comet that broke into multiple fragments now known to have hit the earth 12,980 years ago.
You do realize for them to be able to predict an astronomical event with enough certainty as to undertake a multi-decade project like the pyramids, they would need to be on about our technological level right now?
Scott Creighton
Originally posted by Mike.Ockizard
Great post! Well researched and it makes good sense. The one thing that doesnt make sense is the size of the pyramids. Why so large? ....
Hi Mike,
Thank you for your post and apologies for not replying sooner.
If you are building a series of Recovery Vaults to facilitate the 'rebirth' of the Kingdom after an anticipated natural disaster, then one of your priorities is to make them very strong and highly visible - they need to be found quickly and sooner rather than later. That necessitates that they be seen for miles in all directions and, therefore, be built on the high plateaus of the land - and that is precisely where we find the pyramids.
Ironically, this is the precise antithesis of what you would do for the tomb of a king whose mortal remains needed to be protected at all costs. Such a highly visible tomb would only serve to attract robbers for miles around, placing the king's mortal remains at greater risk.
In short, high visibility would be essential for Recovery Vaults. Not so for tombs of Egyptian kings.
Regards,
SC
Voltaire's 1750 short story "Micromégas", about an alien visitor to Earth, also refers to two moons of Mars. Voltaire was presumably influenced by Swift. In recognition of these 'predictions', two craters on Deimos are named Swift and Voltaire
In the 20th century, V. G. Perminov, a spacecraft designer of early Soviet Mars and Venus spacecraft, speculated Swift found and deciphered records that Martians left on Earth.
PerfectAnomoly
Afternoon Scott... hope you're well sir?
Any further news/developments regarding this story? Any definitive news re: testing?
Any information you can offer would be greatly appreciated....
Regards.
PA