Gods of Air and Darkness by Richard Mooney

Author:Richard Mooney [Mooney, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780449229392
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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John Baker, 1972, page 177.

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From where did this Greek obtain his truly remarkable information? Was it guesswork, assuming it would need a glassy surface to make it shine so brightly by reflected sunlight? Did he know that the Moon shone by reflected light? Even if he did, was this the reason? Perhaps he had access to more ancient knowledge. We shall, at a later stage, examine some areas of astronomical knowledge from ancient times which it does not seem possible could have been obtained by naked-eye observation alone.

Still bearing in mind the Lunar glasses being formed by temperatures of the range created by thermo-nuclear reactions, we turn our attention to some mysterious objects found in certain areas of the Earth, which are reckoned to have an extra-terrestrial origin, possibly on the Moon. These objects are known as tektites. They are a silica-rich obsidian glass different from terrestrial obsidian, and the greatest number have been found in Australia, Indo-China, the Philippines and Moldavia. They are usually jet-black and take the form of button shapes, spheres and dumb-bells. It is believed (Baker) that they are extra-terrestrial in origin, and have gained their shapes by aerodynamic ablation through high-speed flight and kinetic heating on their passage through the Earth’s atmosphere.

Chapman (Nature 188, 333, 1960) is of the opinion that they have originated on the Moon, but this view is not universally accepted and their origin is still uncertain.

Urey has suggested that they may have originated in a cometary collision with the Earth. He therefore proposes that they are after all terrestrial in nature, and produced by extremely high temperatures almost instantaneously. He likens the explosive heat to that produced by a high-altitude burst of a hydrogen bomb. They represent, in other words, a ‘flash burn’ effect. If the effect which produces tektits is comparable with a nuclear explosion, then perhaps this is how they were in fact produced. We have a certain amount of evidence to suggest that nuclear weapons were used on Earth in the past, although modern nuclear weapons have failed to produce tektites. Did they result from a nuclear explosion on the Moon, or from similar explosions which may have been responsible for the destruction of a planet orbiting beyond Mars? The difference between the vitrified areas on Earth and the Moon, and the Moon ‘marbles’ may lie largely in the fact that these particular objects were subjected to high-velocity flight through the Earth’s atmosphere.

It is not impossible that tektites have the same origin as meteorites, and represent fragments of the vitrified areas of a planet shattered by nuclear explosions of great power.

The destruction of a planet beyond Mars could thus furnish us with an explanation for the appearance of Mars and the Moon, and explain some of the craters on Earth. When this event took place it is difficult to say. Most astronomers who favour the theory that the asteroid belt is the remains of a planet place the event many millions of years in the past, but this may not necessarily be so.

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