Thu 13 Aug 2020
In The News
Welcome to our "In the News" page, featuring summaries of Internet news, relevant to Catastrophism and Ancient History.
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25 Jul 2020 More on First Americans At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-humans-americas-years-earlier-previously.html ... humans in the Americas 15,000 years earlier than mainstream allowed. The findings are published in two Nature articles - see for example https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2491-6 ... and here we have an interview, short, with Dr Becurra-Valdera of the University of New South Wales in Australia, and Tom Higham of Oxford University. The research papers included various others. |
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25 Jul 2020 Homeric Minimum The Homeric Minimum is a postulated solar minimum event dated between 2800 and 2550 years ago, an inordinately long time for the sun to remain quiet. See www.thegrandsolarminimum.com/homeric-minimum/ ... a period of low solar activity is hypthesized in a period of time which Velikovsky was to locate his series of fly bys by an errant planet. |
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23 Jul 2020 Earliest Americans Yet At https://anthropology.net/2020/07/22/new-archaeological-evidence-of-the-f... ... the evidence comes from a cave in Mexico. New archaeological evidence of the first Amricans dated to 33,000 years ago. Two major papers in Nature concern the excavation of 1900 stone tools from sediments in a cave. They were dated in two ways. Firstly by carbon dating (and Bayesian methodology) and by optical stimulated luminescence. Two separate strata were found. |
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23 Jul 2020 Magnetic Fields in the Universe At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-cosmic-magnetic-field-galaxy-ngc.html ... spiral galaxies have sprawling magnetic fields. The process of how they aquired them is not understood. However, a new study claims galaxy wide magnetic fields are in some way connected to supernova explosions and even to star formation. When evaluating the data beamed back from NGO4217, a galaxy which resembles the Milky Way, they found an X shaped magnetic field structure extending far out of the galaxy disc. In addition, they also found a helix structure and two large bubble structures. |
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23 Jul 2020 Group Think Anthropology is a funny field of science. Lots of waffle. At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-shamans-world/ ... shamanism dates back to an early stage of humanity, we are told (quoting Eliade, 1964). Is this clever stuff or are they getting their bootlaces in a mix. It sounds like clever stuff and it is certainly erudite. However, it occurred to me that it highlights the different way in which a catastrophist, including a Velikovskian, might interpret mythology as opposed to the great and the good. |
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22 Jul 2020 Breaking Plates At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-idea-earth-outer-shell-broke.html ... In this article we are told that it is well understood that volcanoes and earthquakes can be explained by the 50 year old theory of Plate Tectonics. This theory claims earth's outer shell, or lithosphere, is subdivided into plates that move relative to each other, concentrating most tectonic activity along the plate margins. Surprisingly, we are then told, the scientific community have no firm concept on how plate tectonics began. |
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22 Jul 2020 Venus Volcanoes I thought it was already recognised that volcanoes on Venus were a source of its anomalous heat. That heat was used by Velikovsky to suggest Venus was a young planet - and had not yet cooled down. The idea Venus suffers from runaway global warming as a result of Venusian greenhouse gases, such as co2, has been accepted for a number of years. It seems even the presence of volcanoes on Venus did not cause a second thought. Apparently, mainstream insisted they were inactive. That sounds like not facing up to the facts, an all too common attribute nowadays. |
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20 Jul 2020 Update on Storegga Clarification on the recent piece from the Daily Mail. The actual study does not mention climate change at all and has been inserted by the Daily Mail journalist, or an editor. It may of course have been inserted by whoever released the press story to the media. The full paper can be read at www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/7/270/htm ... The event has nothing to do with climate change and is purely a geological phenomenon. |
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18 Jul 2020 Gary, William and Robert Gary, William and Robert have been sending in links, often to the same stories. The next four posts are links sent in by them. |
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18 Jul 2020 Close up images of the sun At www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02136-4 ... a photograph of the sun, at the closest point ever ... |