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Evolutionary Leaps

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Reader asks, “What  exploded?”
21 Jun 09

I've just finished reading your new book and find it fascinating. It's written to a very non-technical audience. Yet this is surely one of its great strengths. Your compilation of extinction events and the subsequent explosions of life lends itself to no gradualist interpre-tation.  The evidence you've compiled cries out for explanation and you've not hesitated to offer one. Kudos!

My problem is that I can't for the life of me figure out what material it is in our atmosphere (or underground, or in the ocean) that's supposed to go critical or what forces exactly are supposed to cause that criticality. I find myself in the same boat I was in when reading Velikovsky; unable to dispute the raw facts presented (explosions seem to have happened); yet unable to wholly agree with the conclusion. (what exploded?)

Did I simply miss something?
Joe Sevy 
………..

Hi Joe,

I’ll try to explain with this excerpt from my book (pp 154-155). 

Explosions in the sky

     "The idea of explosions in the sky recently got a big boost
      from NASA.  

     "NASA launched a fleet of spacecraft in early 1997 to study
      eruptions of Northern Lights called substorms. One un-
      expected result of the mission, dubbed THEMIS,[1] was
      that the satellites observed small explosions in the earth's
      magnetic bow shock where the solar wind first feels the
      effects of the earth's magnetic field.

     “Sometimes a burst of electrical current within the solar
      wind will hit the bow shock and—Bang! We get an explosion."
      said David Sibeck, project scientist for the mission at NASA's
      Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Magnetic ropes

     "The satellites also confirmed the existence of giant magnetic
      ropes - twisted bundles of magnetic fields – connecting the
      earth’s upper atmosphere directly to the sun. "We believe
      that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing
      energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras," said Sibeck.

     "During a substorm over Alaska and Canada in 2007, the
      THEMIS mission spotted auroras surging westward twice
      as fast as anyone thought possible, crossing 15 degrees
      of longitude in less than one minute. The storm traversed
      an entire polar time zone, or 400 miles in 60 seconds flat,
      said Vassilis Angelopoulos, the mission's principal inves--
      tigator at the University of California, Los Angeles.

     "Angelopoulos estimated the total energy of the two-hour
      event at five hundred thousand billion Joules, equivalent to
      the energy of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake.[2]

     "The first magnetic rope that THEMIS encountered was
      very large, about as wide as the earth, and was located
      approximately 40,000 miles (70,000 km) above the earth
      in an area called the magnetopause.[3] The rope formed
      and unraveled in just a few minutes, providing a brief but
      significant conduit for solar wind.

     "If such explosions can happen in today’s world, just
      imagine how close to earth those explosions could occur
      during a magnetic reversal when we’ve almost completely –
      perhaps completely - lost our magnetic shielding."

           See entire NASA article:  
           http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/northern_lights.html

So there you have it, Joe. One quote from the NASA article that I didn’t include in the book might help:

     "The satellites have found evidence of magnetic ropes
      connecting Earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun,"
      said David Sibeck, project scientist for the mission at
      NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
      "We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these
      ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras."

We’re looking at the incredible power of electromagnetic forces, Joe. The particles in the solar wind spiral toward the earth on those magn-etic ropes. When they come in contact with our magnetopause they collide with other particles to create those giant explosions.

It’s a giant particle accelerator aimed directly at our heads.     

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Robert

I Just could not put it
down - I received the
books last night. I started
with Magnetic Reversals
and Evolutionary Leaps. 
I just could not put it down.

I will need to read it many
times before I can even
begin to digest the depth
of knowledge it contains.
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