Lecture D
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The Earth: Second Session
Dr Simons walked in as complete silence fell. He scanned quickly over the young
faces, smiled contentedly at the nearly three hundred students now crammed into
the lecture theatre. Casually he sat on the first step, sipped on his mocha
as he reached into his pocket, pressing a small remote. The stage area lights
slowly dimmed and the entire room came to life in dazzling 3D brilliance as
the solar system with all nine planets, and their moons, rotated around the
room.
The students gazed, instantly entranced as the solar plane of magnetic harmony
shimmered as a faint milky flow drifting outward forming a huge misty disk.
They watched as two swirling cyclonic apparitions emanated from planet Earth
and lightning blue flashes with yellow fireflies swirled around each polar cap.
‘Are we all good class?’ he asked to a quiet reply gently urging
the moment. Again he spoke a little louder, ‘Are we good, students of
planetary energies?’
‘Yes sir,’ came a semi boisterous reply.
‘Now that, was much better. It is OK to be heard and not OK to be herded
as in sheep farming,’ he said.
‘Always remember, star-searchers, it is the squeaky wheel that gets the
oil. The good wheel just keeps grinding away. And where is the fun in not mixing
your metaphors, I ask you? Seriously, if you need to ask, please do so.’
He lowered his tone and sat back on the first step and sipped on his cold mocha.
He watched the display of the rotating Earth with the swirling energies set
against the intense blue of the Pacific Ocean. He breathed a sigh and spoke
slowly and calmly.
‘You know’, he said. ‘You lot are the lucky ones. I feel proud
to walk among you. Give yourselves a rowdy clap.’ He warmed them like
an old rock n roller working a Workers’ Club mums and dads’ raffle
night and loved it. Learning should be fun he reminded himself.
He now stood in front of three hundred young students and leaned casually against
the shiny brass bench.
‘You are the first generation of integrated planetary astroneers. It is
your youth and your humanity that will set sail across the universe. On your
amazing journeys of discovery I’m sure you will do the old Earth very
proud. Is that not a beautiful sight?’ he said, changing the subject while
turning and walking through the interactive 3D Earth letting his hands lay caressingly
in the magnetic lines swirling around the Earth and watching the firefly glow
on his fingertips.
Suddenly the 3D vision changed toward the outer rim as the planets shot by and
ahead, in a circular swirling of bluish electrical discharge, a wormhole developed.
Into the hole went the class hanging on to their seats, a little sick at the
induced loss of vertigo.
Instantly they were looking at a binary star system. It was a B type blue giant
nearing the end of its life while courting a white pulsing O type star. The
two stars danced around about each other prettier than the rare sight of a monogamous
old couple in some city park, still very much in love.
The scene moved onward as the class were certain they were accelerating toward
The Horse Head Nebular. They were now in the Constellation of Orion flying freely
over this intensely beautiful and colourful part of the universe. The images
moved further into the gaseous display isolating a beautiful gas array with
colours and intensity not seen on Earth before. It was a scene of turbulence
in motion, never ending and always repeating.
‘Pure unrestricted turbulence is the perfect 3D Fibonacci sequence, don’t
you know,’ Dave said. ‘You never quite get tired of looking at it
unfold.’
The 3D display slowly faded out to leave the bare amphitheatre lecture room
with Dr Simons sitting on the step still drinking his cold mocha coffee.
‘OK. Students now where were we from session one? The planet was just
beginning to take shape, as I believe?’
The 3D imagery came alive again with the planet turning on its axis. There were
small oceans and ice caps and puffy white clouds covering dense green landmasses.
And he began, ‘Plant life has established and the atmosphere is much bigger
now. It extends out three hundred kilometres, which is two hundred kilometres
more than it does in present times. There is an abundance of oxygen and carbon
and life develops by exploiting these avenues. Carbon-based life takes the sunlight
as an energy source and ventures out to explore every possible niche of survival.
Soon there is calcium-based life, like spiders that live in clouds as well as
on the bottom of the oceans. There are animals that choose water over land and
vice versa. Life continues to search and adapt to every possible niche and reaches
up into the limits of the sky under forty-seven per cent of current gravity.
The animals are huge and the trees are very tall on this early Earth where life
has blossomed in monstrous proportions.
However, there is a particle on collision course with Earth. It is not so big
but it has a mass of blackhole proportions. It strikes the earth and spears
deep into the magma layer. The surface crater explodes upwards and ignites the
dust cloud from the high oxygen fuelled atmosphere. The gaseous mixture flash
points and creates Armageddon.
The firestorm only lasts about twenty minutes. With all the oxygen gone, the
few surviving animals suffocate as the planet surface dies off within one single
Earth day.
The impact has created dense clouds that now spread rapidly and within two weeks.
The planet is covered in ice and snow. The sun becomes a dim glow in the grey
sky, and the temperature drops and the world falls into deep hibernation. Only
in a few places has singled-celled life survived, deep in the oceans, as Earth
remains asleep for many millions of years.
Under the surface, the dark star particle draws ever deeper into the magma by
magnetic attraction and sinks toward the core. As it is drawn down its massive
Iron13 density fires up with vast electrical events that increase magma plasma
coil induction-reaction with the core. The planet begins to swell as the Iron13
mass melts and expands back to simple iron. And that melt causes the planet
to swell outward further and quicker changing the position of dry landmasses.
This swelling also reduces the ocean levels as the rouge object oozes down further
to become part of an expanded planet core.
The increase in core size begins to increase gravitational energies. Dragging
the atmosphere downward under an intensified gravity. The force drags all dust
from the sky and compresses the atmosphere as a blue sky again welcomes the
Sun and begins to warm. Life begins again. The suppressive weight of the new
gravity favours the evolution of smaller animals but also creates a fresh avenue
for exploitation. The air is denser now and within a few million years, animals
adapt to take advantage of air pressure. The bird kingdom is born.
Again, the world prospers in warmth and the plant kingdom rises up in glorious
sun worship. Now the plants grow much closer to the ground. No longer will eyes
gaze upon eighteen-hundred metre tall trees covering vast forests. They are
gone, covered by dust to many metres thick. The mighty trees slowly compress
and become solid black stone that will later fire humanities imagination.
Small humanoid type creatures now appear as they struggle and adapt further
and further away from aquatic ancestors. They live together in small family
tribes and their life is easy in the lush warm climates with abundant food and
little need for clothing. Life begins to branch out and explore all genetic
possibilities.
A strange light glows in the night sky as a new rogue travels through the Solar
System. It gathers pace hurtling toward the Sun. The light suddenly glows hotter
than the Sun and stays in the sky for seven days before dying out. Afterwards
the blue star in the night sky has gone. The blue planet of Diamet has become
the asteroid belt as the sky, in both day and night, is showered with fantastic
shooting stars burning up and exploding as great light shows. The Moon is less
fortunate and becomes pockmarked and scarred forever.
Earth settles down as life continues to evolve and adapt for one hundred and
fifty thousand years. New life has branched even further but then, the rogue
star is seen again and ancient songs now foretell of the killer light terrorising
the sanity of early humans. The star keeps coming closer and brighter as the
terror spawns a deep seated fear. Religion is born, and humans pay homage to
an unknowable fear, as logical acceptance of far greater powers.
The dark star flies close to Mars and shakes the planet violently. It catches
Mars with its intense gravity, which is now increasing as it interacts with
the Sun and heats up its core. It pulls the planet and drags it out of its orbit
in the plane of harmony. But the planet fights back and dislodges itself slightly
as the dark star holds tight and pulls and stretches. Finally it is the oceans
and atmosphere of Mars that give way. They are stretched further and further
out into space until they snap, flinging out as one huge sphere of water bouncing
back into itself and then separating into two spheres. Stretching apart and
freezing on the surface, joined only by a surface tension splinter at the limits
of escape. Looking like two giant balls connected by the finest of fishing line
they remain still for only seconds before accelerating back into themselves
smashing and crashing again and again.
Finally the huge spheres of water settle down in space as one huge quivering
glob-like sphere that slowly freezes over completely. Within days it forms a
beautiful perfect sphere of intense bluish reflection. But awkwardly it twists
and wobbles unable to escape as the final journey begins. It is being drawn
inward toward the sun. The Earth crosses its path and grabs hold drawing the
water sphere closer and closer until they are about to collide. But the Moon
gets in the way and part of the sphere scrapes across the Moon cracking the
sphere like and egg and partly spilling itself across the Moon’s surface.
But the major fragmented portion continues on … spinning wildly as a half-frozen
half-globular giant skulled monster screams in deafening tones. It has collided
in a steamy intimacy with Earth’s atmosphere and rains down on the Earth
for some forty days and forty nights. The Earth, left flooded with Martian seas
and some particles of dark star radiation. Life on Earth is wiped out as the
cold dark peace of an Ice Age sets in once again.
However, life was somehow saved and we are here today in testimony of some
greater miracle. We have the legend of Noah’s Ark which brought forth
all the species in pairs of two. A metaphor for science perhaps? Or an accurate
explanation? In any case all life was saved.
Except for a few special species. The fabled Unicorns and perhaps the Dragons
of all mythology. Their DNA sequences are lost forever, until very recently.’
Dave Simons bowed his head in silent respect of all that had come before and
all that now would go forward as the imagery faded slowly out leaving a dimly
lit theatre. He raised his head and turned to address his students slowly.
‘And now, perhaps you see your importance in the scheme of all things
human. Today you came to study planetary energies with thoughts of simply passing
another assignment. But now you walk away this day with much to consider. It
is you who will now walk out of the solar system and ensure humanity’s
place in the universe, just as humanoids walked nervously out of Africa some
seventy-five thousand years ago.’
He switched his remote back to the view of the solar system in total harmony
as he wondered across the stage looking up into the 3D images and wondered if
he managed to drag a few extra young minds screaming and kicking into the light
of Regrav energy as pure planetary motion.
Some had tears in their eyes and one very bright young man sobbed openly. Finally
visualising the beautiful concept of planetary energies and how those extreme
forces were so intrepidly insensitive to the struggles of life.
‘Thank you for today’s interest in this lecture. Deep space navigation
is on directly after lunch, so don’t be late.
And don’t forget to read the chapter on Mr Tesla, re, the next assignment.’
He grabbed his old leather bag and walked out through the technicians’
entrance as the clapping started and rowdy shouts could still be heard as he
walked across to the library.
To inspire and nurture is the giving of a great gift my son, echoed the voice
of his old primary school teacher as Dave imagined him looking down and smiling.
Lecture D