From: ChemE Stewart
I kinda agree, we are in a cosmic wash, rinse and repeat cycle with the vacuum. The 95% and 5% going back and forth between each other. I think the CMB is because the whole damn place, including our 3 dimensions of space are decaying all of the time, which sorta sucks for us. Hey Stewart - I won't start a new topic for this, because it is way off topic to begin with. But as the resident prophet of Cosmic Catastrophe, at least with your web page, here is a new one which you might want to look into. (if you haven't already covered it). The Decline of the Maya. Many theories - none of them good. http://www.history.com/topics/maya Sometime around 850 A.D. the Maya were almost gone from a thriving civilization, at its peak -and for no obvious reason other than severe weather change. Was there a cosmic catastrophe to account for both? Maybe. Here is one catastrophe which AFAIK has not been mentioned before wrt the Maya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_carbon-14_spike http://phys.org/news/2013-03-large-solar-proton-event-.html Which appears to be something like a CME or corona mass ejection from the Sun which happened in the years 774-775. We know that from ice cores and tree rings. The date is not in question but the location of maximum effect is not known. There are brief mentions of something in the Northern Hemisphere- a large "red cross" but this event could have hit Central America spot on - as the prime target. It could have also partly have caused the "Dark Ages" in Europe in a trickle-down effect. These things could happen every 1000 years or so - and we could be overdue. It would wipe out the power grid. Anyone working outside in the winter of 774 would have received a medium sized but fatal dose of gamma radiation when the CME hit, based on the large spike seen in carbon-14 - a dose which would take years to kill by cancer. Thus the decline of the Maya. There is a NOVA documentary which got me thinking about CME. Scary. Fortunately, we have an agency which monitors the sun, and can give us a few hours of warning of a CME. Let's hope that agency is not defunded. Jones
