Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Speculation on the Deccans and Creation

Alright, as usual, I'm a bit busy with class related work. I need to do a lot more research for my lecture on the Simplon fault zone. I was hoping for the Himalayas since it's near to my favorite volcanic province, the Deccans. I actually had a theory I wanted to follow on it - possibly relating slab rollback - a process theoretically possible in Plate Tectonics - in which a subducting oceanic crustal plate literally rolls back like a conveyor belt - underneath itself. The Deccans, being a likely hot spot volcano initially, may have changed late in the Cretaceous to a subduction related one. It would be relatively simple to determine by the type of rocks erupted from it - prior to and during the Cretaceous event. Basically, if the Deccans erupted outer core material initially - then changed chemical composition to erupting crustal slab material - then the hypothesis would be verified. There are just way too many things that happened at the end of the Cretaceous that it's difficult to determine if each major thing is related to the others or not. There's the famous collision - the Deccans - and the end of the Cretaceous Normal Superchron a very unusual polarity reversal - one of these could very likely have set off the other two. But what caused the polarity reversals to just stop altogether for such a very oddly long period of time before the CNS? And we aren't quite sure what actually causes the reversals in the first place.

As to other issues: The wild and crazy physicists have decided that it's time to see exactly how the entire Universe was created. they've got the CERN super accelerator up and running already. Looking for a new source of energy among other things. One problem with their project: nobody has yet determined how exactly the Big Bang actually took place - I am talking specifics here. There is the one itty bitty tiny issue they haven't quite applied to the theory yet - The Law of Conservation of Energy [LCE]- energy can NOT be created nor destroyed - it can only be changed from one form to another. They actually believe that the Big Bang means that the entire Universe - energy - matter [which just happens to be very concentrated packets of energy], etc. - came into being from nothing at all - basically a complete absence of matter, energy, etc. This completely defies or ignores the LCE entirely. And the brainy physicists decided to just recreate the Big Bang under Europe. Common sense just did not enter their minds at all, apparently. Here's a fun and jolly what if scenario - the only way a Big Bang could conceivably work and follow from the LCE is by means of a Black Hole/White Hole scenario. Now, that's just a worst case scenario. So how exactly do they intend to reverse the formation of a black hole after they create one? We can't save thousands of people from a hurricane in New Orleans, prevent terrorist nutbags from trying to annihilate everyone who says boo to them, or stop global warming [though we do have the technological capabilities to prevent these disasters, but we just don't use them] - but we'll just have a good ol' time recreating the creation of the Universe right here on our own home planet. And if something goes horribly wrong we'll, what - run to another planet and ruin it, too?! Pray to God to save us from our sins and close up the damn hole we just burrowed through space time? Yeah, some religious nuts will likely say that humanity deserves its fate for its sins and evilness.

Hey, to all the religious loobies out there, listen up: maybe the vast majority of humanity does not want to die according to your wishes - we did not create hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. - it's part of the imperfect universe we happen to live in - if everything in the known universe was as perfect as you people seem to believe it should be - then life would be pretty boring - but then maybe you all like life boring - and you're all stupid to boot. Get with reality people - stop living in a fantasy world - it's your ideal fantasy world that is causing damage to a hell of a lot of people - we are sick and tired of it. And why the hell do you want to dumb down American society? Do not deny that you are behind all that intelligent design crap you are pushing down legislator's throats - that and lowering standardized test scores. Rewarding the nation's children for being stupid and lazy is not exactly what I'd call in our nation's or our world's best interests - not to mention our species. Remember folks, we are actually designed to be more intelligent than our cats. Just in case the religious nuts are watching...

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