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       MF 2/3 onward
       By: Admin Date: February 3, 2017, 9:22 pm
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       Re DRAFT Part 1
       Wednesday, February 8, 2017 7:26 PM
       Lloyd, The forum critic is understandably confused on two
       counts.  First, the SD event was about 300 years after the Great
       Flood, by my estimate.  The high-pressure atmosphere was
       pre-Flood, and down to 1 atm by the time of the SD event.
       Second, the SD meteorite exploded completely underground,
       resulting in totally different effects.  As Carey Sublette wrote
       in describing the effects of nuclear explosions, underground
       detonations can eliminate thermal radiation and reduce the range
       of blast effects substantially.  It would take the meteorite two
       seconds to penetrate from the top of the stratosphere (50 km) to
       Earth's surface.  In a microsecond it would bury itself 40 km
       deep in the continental crust and explode.  Hot gases would race
       back up to outer space along the hole punched in the atmosphere.
       Rock surrounding the impact laterally would be vaporized out to
       400 km, 130 km below it (currently the gravity low south of
       India).  Shock heating would only be 7% of heat lost; remaining
       heat loss would be through conduction.  The rest of the planet
       would be intact, not "molten rock" as the forum critique
       thought.  On the Energy Estimates page only half of the total
       mass x velocity product is used for moving crust, leaving 50% to
       include heat loss and shock pressure not performing work.  Since
       90% energy transfer from impactor to target is standard, that
       should be sufficient compensation.  An underground explosion is
       very efficient at transferring overpressure to the confining
       material, compared to surface and air explosions that burn the
       atmosphere and large surface areas, as the forum critic
       envisioned.  Unvaporized debris from an underground explosion is
       thrown straight up, much of it collapsing and the rest carried
       downwind.  Combining these effects, it seems reasonable to
       conclude that surface damage would have been minimal beyond the
       vaporized crater, unlike the devastating Chicxulub impact.
       ---
       February 03, 2017, 09:22:02 pm »
       Mike, when I mentioned your SD model on a forum almost 3 years
       ago, here's part of a reply that I got:
       "An impact strong enough to move the Americas by 2000 miles in a
       day would have turned the planet into a glowing cinder. It
       wouldn't cause a "Great Flood," as there would be no water left.
       Or air. Or anything else, other than molten rock."
       I just looked at your Energy Estimates page and I see you didn't
       discuss heat.
       - Would the kinetic energy of the asteroid have been partly
       converted into heat?
       - And would that portion be added to your calculation to result
       in a larger size for the asteroid?
       - Do you suppose most of the heat would have entered the crust
       around the impact site?
       - Did you attempt to calculate how much atmosphere that asteroid
       could have pushed away from Earth?
       - Such a calculation might need to take ionospheric electric
       charge into account.
       - I know you said in your chronology paper that 2 or 3 bars of
       atmosphere were lost.
       - Have you calculated how far the heat wave from the impact site
       would have been severe enough to kill living things?
       - Also, would the shock wave - sonic boom - through the air have
       been able to kill animals or fracture rock strata?
       --------------------------------------------
       On Tue, 2/7/17, mike@newgeology.us <mike@newgeology.us> wrote:
       Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 6:32 PM
       
       Lloyd, This looks like the same list as before, so refer to my
       previous reply.  Many of the charges are made in a
       uniformitarian paradigm.  Obviously fossils already in sediment
       would be caught up in tsunamis and redeposited from moving water
       in the manner described by Berthault.  As I said, the assertions
       made below are only one of a number of possible origins, yet
       they are insinuated to be the only ones.  There is
       low-temperature conversion to Dolomite, and the masses found in
       the geologic column are not forming today, implying different
       environmental conditions when they formed, a failure of "the
       present is the key to the past".
       ---
       Date: Mon, February 06, 2017 8:30 pm
       Hi Mike. Out of 13 categories of Flood Criticisms, there are 7
       below that I don't have very good answers for. I don't know what
       time spans #1 refers to. Do you? And do you know what #5 refers
       to regarding Dolomite Overheating? If you can direct me to where
       to find good answers for any of these, that would probably help.
       I'll search at creation.com and elsewhere too.
       ---
       From Mike, Sunday, February 5, 2017 8:22 PM
       Stef's idea for the formation of pure and fossil-free salt
       formations is interesting.  It may be too early to promote it as
       a means for producing them globally since Oldoinyo Lengai is the
       world's only active carbonatite volcano.  Its lava contains many
       types of elements in addition to sodium, and chloride abundance
       is less than sodium.  If examination of other salt formations
       finds an association with elements of carbonatite lavas, in
       addition to the conjunction with oil and gas that Stef found,
       his proposal would gain credibility.  The evaporite theory for
       salt formations clearly needs to be replaced.
       ---
       Mike, thanks for the comments and links. 3 days ago I posted
       this on the TB forum:
       BASINS SUPPORT RAPID DEPOSITION
       That is something Berthault's experiments apparently showed.
       When tsunamis deposit strata they separate the strata according
       to grain size etc. Since they are deposited simultaneously in a
       megasequence they form curved strata in basins. The curves of
       the strata nearly follow the curves of each basin surface,
       except that each stratum is a bit thicker at the bottom than on
       the sides, like this:
  HTML http://www.fortunebay.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/michiganbasin-cross-big.jpg<br
       />. If strata formed in continental shallow seas, they should ha
       ve
       formed at river deltas as sloped fans, like this
  HTML http://www.scielo.cl/fbpe/img/andgeol/v36n1/fig05-10.jpg
       and
  HTML http://www.scielo.cl/fbpe/img/andgeol/v36n1/fig05-09.jpg
       . Or if
       frequent tremors or tides or something caused the sediments to
       spread out across the floor of a shallow sea, the sediments
       should go to the bottom as flat layers, like this
  HTML http://images.slideplayer.com/5/1507022/slides/slide_12.jpg
       .
       - So I agree that the broad horizontal lateral extent of strata
       support very large tsunamis as the cause of deposition. If
       erosion into shallow seas were true, there should only be fan
       shaped strata and they shouldn't be separated into individual
       rock types, since there would not have been pure lime regions
       being eroded for thousands of years followed by similar periods
       of clay erosion and sand erosion. I think those are among the
       strongest arguments against gradualism.
       - Last night I posted this on the TB forum:
       Igneous Origin of Salt
       I just made a good find on salt. See the 20 min. video, PRIMARY
       IGNEOUS ORIGIN OF SALT FORMATIONS, at
  HTML http://youtube.com/watch?v=MfN0MIOnRNQ
       . It's just in time to
       answer most of the next bunch of claims against the Great Flood.
       The host of the video also authored a good paper, which I posted
       on my forum at
  HTML http://funday.createaforum.com/1-10
       .
       - Mike, we're lucky to have critiques of the Great Flood posted
       online. Those seem likely to be the reasons the NCGT members
       support the conventional gradualist timeline. Of course,
       radiometric dating methods are probably their main reason for
       supporting it, but I think we have abundant evidence against it.
       So I look forward to getting all the main pro and con arguments
       listed coherently and organized into a good scientific format.
       --------------------------------------------
       On Sat, 2/4/17, mike@newgeology.us <mike@newgeology.us> wrote:
       Subject: RE: Critique Questions
       It is typical of anti-creationists and other propagandists to
       throw up a flurry of arguments loaded with assertions to give
       their bluster an "overwhelming" appearance.  The certainty of
       the claims in the list you posted is unfounded.  For most,
       either the conditions of deposition stated are not the only
       possibilities, or not enough is understood about them.  For
       example, until recently shale and other mudstones, which
       comprise over 60% of the geologic column, were thought to
       require quiet environments to form.  The 2009 reference I sent
       you demonstrates that they can form in moving water as well
       Schieber, J., and J. B. Southard (2009), Bedload transport of
       mud by floccule ripples - Direct observation of ripple migration
       processes and their implications, Geology, 37(6), 483-486,
       doi:10.1130/G25319A.1.  Salt beds in the geologic column are
       extremely pure compared to evaporites being formed today, as
       described here:
  HTML http://www.icr.org/article/does-salt-come-from-evaporated-sea-water/<br
       /> And how dolomite is formed, especially in depth, remains
       unsolved.  It is apparent that conditions today differ from
       those in place when most of the geologic column was laid down.
       The huge geographic extent of many strata and the dearth of
       erosional interfaces suggests large scale, at least regional
       catastrophic deposition mechanisms.
       - Don't forget the bizarre uniformitarian explanation for many
       deposits - rising and falling landmasses and sea levels
       depositing the same material over the same unchanged areas over
       millions of years.  There is no indication of this happening
       today outside of small local environments.  Note that in Shock
       Dynamics geology, all Cenozoic sedimentary strata formed
       hundreds of years after the Noahic Flood during the SD event.
       - Compression built virtually all mountain chains, and rapid
       compression of continental crust, as in SD, would likely have
       had a substantial global piezoelectric electromagnetic effect.
       I don't see it being associated with radiation, though.
       -----
       Subject: Critique Questions
       Date: Fri, February 03, 2017 10:20 pm
       - I analyzed a long critique of the Great Flood and sorted it
       into 12 claims, along with my questions for each claim about
       what might be answers to them. I didn't number all of the
       claims, because some are closely related. I posted them here:
  HTML http://funday.createaforum.com/1-10/1-62/msg90/#msg90
       - If you have answers to any of them, feel free to let me know.
       Otherwise, I'll eventually try to find answers for them myself,
       at least for the most important ones. I arranged the most
       important ones first.
       - Some of the claims refer to the impossibility of high amounts
       of salt in sediments drying out quickly enough and of high
       concentrations in the ocean being deadly for all life there. I
       was thinking maybe there were more submarine brine lakes like
       the one in the Gulf of Mexico, which got washed ashore in some
       of the tsunamis.
       - A claim about carbonates giving off too much heat is hard for
       me to understand. Maybe you would understand it.
       - I posted more material on my forum lately, like Walter Brown's
       info about electrical effects, lineaments, radioactivity etc at
       LK2. I found a map of lineaments online that seems pretty
       detailed. The lines on it on the Atlantic coasts of Africa and
       South America look like they could have formed when the
       Madagascar strip connected to South America started peeling away
       from Africa. I think there would have been really strong
       electric currents under the continents as they slid apart and
       they could have produced the radioactivity, some of which was
       injected vertically under mountain ranges in granite intrusions
       etc. There probably was a lot of supercritical water too, like
       Brown thought, but not nearly as much. He claimed that it shot
       into the upper atmosphere and came down in Siberia as rock ice,
       which would have been cold enough to freeze mammoths to -150F.
       #Post#: 118--------------------------------------------------
       Re: MF 2/10-2/11
       By: Admin Date: February 11, 2017, 10:22 am
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       Re DRAFT Part 1
       2/11) AM
       Sunday, February 12, 2017 11:26 PM
       My responses in "M2" below. - Cheers, Mike.
       Date: Sat, February 11, 2017 9:53 pm
       I thought I sent this yersterday or this morning, but it
       looks like it went to me. So this might be a repeat for you.
       Mike, you're showing me that I have a few more avenues to
       explore for Part 1.
       _M: Numbers 6 and 7 pose the question: what initiated the
       Great Flood? I see John Baumgardner proposed in 2007 that
       rotational tumbling of the earth induced by catastrophic plate
       tectonics caused megatsunamis. That is quite a leap.
       _L: In 2013 he seemed to propose that an asteroid orbited
       the Earth elliptically, causing monthly tidal pulls &
       megatsunamis.
       M2: Earth's angular momentum is a staggering 7.07 x 10 to
       the 33rd kilograms x meters squared/sec.  Tumbling is out of the
       question.  The Moon causes monthly tides.  Megatsunamis would
       require a much larger body, and an erratic orbit to induce flow
       in orthogonal directions.
       _M: Similarly, getting an asteroid or planetesimal to pass
       near Earth a number of times, but not hit it, and then leave, as
       the cause of megatsunamis requires some difficult and precise
       celestial mechanics, so it seems unlikely.
       _L: What if the planetoid were the Moon? I have a reference
       paper that shows calculations for circularization of elliptical
       orbits by dust or gases in space within decades to centuries.
       M2: The Moon would have to be much closer (but beyond the
       Roche limit) and would only cause water flow along its orbital
       path.
       _M: a meteorite swarm, associated with the first bombardment
       population of Moon craters, collapsed Earth's thick vapor canopy
       ... the sole source of water for the Great Flood.
       _L: Don't you think the oceans existed before the flood? Why
       do you think ICR's claim against a vapor canopy was wrong? I
       think the atmosphere was one or two bars thicker than now, like
       you said onsite, but I'm flexible on what was in the air that
       was lost, whether more water vapor, oxygen, nitrogen, or CO2. I
       didn't think precipitation could raise sea level much. How deep
       flooding do you figure?
       M2: I think a low ocean existed before the Flood.
       Vardiman's main objection to a vapor canopy is his estimated
       temperature at Earth's surface.  I find the vapor canopy to be a
       reasonable source for a one-time global flood, to provide high
       atmospheric pressure that could favor gigantism in dinosaurs,
       and as a reason why rainbows could appear only after the flood.
       Without today's mountain ranges (built 300 years post-Flood by
       SD), Flood waters would only have to rise 1000 feet or less to
       cover the land.
       _M: Members of the meteorite swarm falling into the ocean
       led observers on land to mistakenly call the resulting water
       jets "fountains of the great deep". Note that these started and
       ended at the same time as the rain deluge.
       _L: That's what Gordon says too. But he thinks precipitation
       didn't add significantly to the Flood. He says the Hebrew word,
       "matar", in the Bible meant meteors, and "geshen" meant gushing.
       I'll try to ask Gordon what he thinks of your statement.
       _M: A persistent question for Flood geology has been why the
       sediments of the geologic column did not end up on the Pacific
       Ocean floor. Apparently megatsunamis flowed from the outer
       oceans onto the protocontinent, scouring and depositing sediment
       and quadrillions of fossils of sea creatures. It is reasonable
       to think that each megatsunami grew as the water level rose,
       reaching farther inland with each wave. Precipitated vapor
       canopy water falling on land would leave freshwater remains,
       whereas waves moving in from the coast would leave saltwater
       remains. Each megatsunami would deposit its own stratigraphic
       sequence.
       _L: How are you saying that the water canopy was the sole
       source of the Flood, but that megatsunamis were involved too? I
       came across a website a couple days ago that said salts were
       deposited with the dinosaurs out West. How would you determine
       if Flood deposits involved fresh or salt water? Some NCGT
       articles claim that the ocean floors do have sedimentary rock. I
       think the seafloor drilling project found some sedimentary rock
       above the basalt. Did it not? I found one creationist article
       that said, I think, that some strata formed across North America
       and across north Africa before continental drift, but some
       higher strata also spilled out onto the Atlantic seafloor near
       Africa, apparently after continental drift had started. That's
       one reason I think SD may have occurred toward the end of the
       Flood. Do you think the KT iridium layer came from the SD
       impact? I thought maybe the Chixilub and others deposited the
       glass spherules etc below the iridium layer, and the SD impact
       produced the iridium.
       M2: Paleontologists can distinguish freshwater and saltwater
       denizens, which still exist today.  Clearly the most sweeping
       megatsunamis would have come from the rising ocean waters as the
       rain fell since they covered 60% or more of Earth's surface.  On
       the other hand, water rising on the protocontinent would have
       flowed outward.  The sediment layer on the seafloor averages
       only .5 km thick.  There are lots of examples of spreading and
       stretching of continental crust involved in separation, which is
       another reason that brittle Plate Tectonics is faulty.  I think
       the K-Pg iridium layer and probably the glass spherules are
       associated with Chicxulub.  Conventional geologists require much
       time between deposition layers, whereas creationists expect
       simultaneous multiple deposition.  It was laid down long before
       the SD event, which I think produced the Australasian tektite
       strewnfield.
       _M: Regarding an Earth-killer impact, I think it is safe to
       say that the Moon falling into the Earth would do the trick.
       _L: Sounds like humor there. A friend, Charles, thinks a
       part of the Moon split off from the Moon and made a fairly soft
       landing, forming the supercontinent after the Earth had
       solidified. He reasoned that, otherwise, if it had occurred
       before Earth solidified, the granite would have melted and made
       a thin layer all over the Earth. Charles found that stars and
       planets likely form by electrical forces that cause galactic
       filaments to implode into plasma double layers. The interior
       should be solid because of having no degrees of freedom (and
       absolute zero temperature) where electrons get squeezed out into
       an upper layer. And a star can have about 5 double layers. Any
       spherical body in space about 200 miles or more in diameter
       would have double layers. The inner layers should be liquid. So
       the aesthenosphere should be liquid. Even 12.8 km deep in the
       Kola borehole the rock is too plastic to drill any deeper, so he
       says that's due to lack of sufficient electrons. He thinks the
       Moho is plasma. By the way, I read lately that the Kola borehole
       encountered a lot of saltwater most or all of the way down.
       M2: What evidence is there that the Moon ever split?  I
       think the conventional idea that the Moon formed following a
       planetesimal impact on Earth is right.  However, I agree that it
       happened much later than conventionally believed, so that a
       uniform basalt crustal layer encompassed the Earth at the time
       of the collision.  The subsequent mixing would have refined the
       molten basalt and upper mantle to allow differentiation of
       continental crust.  Seismic tomography indicates that the
       asthenosphere is solid rock at high temperature, allowing
       ductile flow.  Drilling 13 km into inland continental crust is
       less than halfway through.  The rock is probably gabbro under
       high pressure with enough plasticity to collapse a borehole.
       Why would the Moho be plasma?
       #Post#: 120--------------------------------------------------
       Moho, Roche Limit, Tides, Myths
       By: Admin Date: February 14, 2017, 10:56 am
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       Moho, Roche Limit, Tides, Myths
       Hi Mike.
       I have a lot of reading to do to reply to your last email. I'll
       ask later what you know about strata deposition directions etc,
       but for now I'll just reply regarding the Moho, the Roche limit
       and a little about tides. Charles thinks tides are
       electrostatic. So does Miles Mathis in a sense. Mathis says the
       Roche limit is a myth, quoting below. Maybe that means an
       asteroid could make a relatively soft landing on Earth to form
       the supercontinent. Several moons are known to be within the
       supposed Roche limit.
       You said: "Why would the Moho be plasma?" Because the Moho is at
       the depth below which electron degeneracy pressure squeezes the
       electrons out of atoms, so the electrons are pushed up above the
       bottom of the Moho. And the crustal tides cause the crust to
       move up and down 1 meter each day, so the Moho is 1 meter thick
       at high tide and close to zero at low tide. So the Moho is
       continuously getting ohmic heating. See for details Charles'
       paper at
  HTML http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9925
       Charles said privately yesterday: "The formula for calculating
       tidal forces was heuristically deriven, since Newtonian
       mechanics doesn't predict tides as strong as they actually are.
       And heuristic formulas don't scale well — there's no guarantee
       that the results will be correct. If I'm right, that tides are
       electrostatic, the existing heuristic formula for tides won't
       predict the forces at different distances at all."
       =====
       My main interest here is trying to determine if an asteroid or
       planet temporarily orbiting Earth elliptically would produce
       tsunamis at perigee over one or two kilometers high and, if so,
       how close and large the object would need to be.
       Below are a bunch of excerpts from Mathis on Tides and the Roche
       Limit. Can anyone help me find a way to calculate from this the
       perigee and size of an object to raise such tides?
       OCEAN TIDES
  HTML http://milesmathis.com/tide2.html
       E/M FIELD
       The most astonishing thing I have discovered in my Unified Field
       is that small objects have stronger E/M fields than larger ones.
       Given two spherical objects of equal density and make-up, the
       smaller of the two will have a stronger E/M field, not just
       relatively, but absolutely. The Moon has a field that is 110
       times stronger than the Earth's field. ... This is due to the
       ratio of the surface area to the volume, of course. A smaller
       sphere will have the same ratio of mass to volume as a larger
       sphere, by the definition of density. But it will have a larger
       ratio of density to surface area, which proves my point.
       [But doesn't the Sun have a much stronger E/M field than any
       planet?]
       TIDAL E/M PUSH
       ... The gravitational force pulls us down, as an effect, and the
       E/M field pushes us up, as an effect, so the result is mostly
       down, to the tune of 9.8. But now I am saying that instead of
       subtracting, we add. The Moon causes the vector situation to
       switch. So now, directly under the Moon, we have about 9.82 m/s2
       as our resultant acceleration. And this makes the tidal
       acceleration
       .009545 x 2 = .0191 m/s2
       And that is 572 times the maximum tidal force from gravity. So,
       yes, you would weigh about .2% more directly under the Moon.
       ORBITAL DISTANCE
       ... the orbital distance of the Moon is not a coincidence. ...
       the orbital distance, which we are calling R here, is a direct
       outcome of the two fields, E/M and acceleration (gravity). These
       two fields cause the orbital distance. The acceleration creates
       an apparent attraction, and the E/M field keeps the Moon from
       being caught. The Moon's "innate" velocity is also involved, of
       course, but the two fields determine this as well, after any
       amount of time.3 So R is completely determined by the size of
       the bodies and their densities. The Moon must orbit at (or near)
       that radius where its field intercepts 1/3 of the Earth's
       sphere. ... In the center of the circle the force is radial. In
       other words, it comes straight down upon the ocean. ... You can
       see that the initial force will change from radial to tangential
       as we go out from the center of our circle.
       OCEAN WATER PILE
       ... Now, if we look just beyond the tangent — which is to say
       just beyond our circle of initial influence — we find water that
       has not been touched by any force at all. It is completely
       unaccelerated. As our accelerated water meets this unaccelerated
       water, it will pile up behind it, causing a swell. This is one
       of our high tides. In the initial stages of our analysis, it
       must be a complete circle of high tides, with a diameter on the
       curved surface of the Earth equal to 1/3 the circumference of
       the Earth. It will travel at some velocity around to the far
       side of the Earth, until blocked by a land mass or resisted by a
       reverse tide.
       RADIAL FORCE
       But let us return to our central force. ... It hits the Earth
       like a radial meteor, except that this meteor has a radius of
       378,000km. It is like a meteor with a very low density. The main
       difference between our force from the Moon and a real meteor is
       that our force keeps arriving continuously. ... although the
       force is radial, the motion created is tangential. The water
       does not want to move down, and at greater depths it does not
       want to move sideways, either. So the result is motion sideways
       nearer the surface. Another circular wave is created, traveling
       out from the center. Initially this central wave is 60o behind
       the outer wave, and unless we show that it is moving faster than
       the outer wave, it will stay 60o behind it.
       MAGNETIC FORCE
       ... By the right hand rule, if the electrical force is radial
       down, then the magnetic force will be clockwise, looking down on
       the ocean. Toward the center of our circle, this should have a
       magnifying effect on the electrical force, giving it the effect
       of a screw instead of a nail. ... The screws therefore cause a
       spreading, which magnifies the lateral forces already in play
       with the electrical field. The magnetic field and the electrical
       field work in tandem to produce the central wave.
       SOLAR WIND EFFECTS
  HTML http://milesmathis.com/tide3.html
       ... What really causes the spring and neap tide variation is the
       Solar Wind.
       ARCHIMEDES EFFECT
  HTML http://milesmathis.com/tide5.html
       ... If the Moon is directly above you, you are at the center of
       the depression. You are lower than the mean sea level (sea
       levels without a Moon), but the rest of the world is at high
       tide (or would be, minus time lags). This is because the
       mechanism of tide creation is relatively simple: when the Moon
       is over water, it creates a lower sea below it, and this forces
       all the other water higher. Just take a beach ball into the
       bathtub, press it down ... The tangential velocity of the Moon
       is already said to balance the gravitational forces between the
       two bodies, so there is no leftover force to create tides. ...
       Not only is the Moon not oblate to any degree, with apsides
       pointing anywhere, if anything the Moon shows a negative tidal
       bulge on the front.
       ... the force arriving from the Moon is neither negative nor
       positive. It is photonic, not ionic, in the first instance.
       However, once it arrives, it must act by driving free ions. That
       is how the charge field becomes active in the E/M field. The
       photons drive ions.
       BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
  HTML http://milesmathis.com/tide4.html
       ... What we now call the gravitational field is actually a
       differential field made up of both the gravitational pseudo
       field and the E/M field. All fluctuations belong to the E/M
       component; none to the gravitational component. This makes it so
       much easier to explain the menstrual cycle, as well as to test
       the theory. We already know that the brain and nervous system
       work in large part on electrical impulses. The body, like the
       oceans, is mostly saltwater: therefore it is a lovely conductor.
       These and many other facts, too obvious to dwell on, lead
       directly to confirmation of my theory. We also know that manmade
       electrical fields can upset animal and plant cycles, including
       the human menstrual cycle.
       ---
       ELECTROSTATIC TIDES
       Charles Chandler thinks tides are electrostatic (See
  HTML http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9925
       regarding crustal tides). So
       does Miles Mathis in a sense. Charles said privately yesterday:
       "The formula for calculating tidal forces was heuristically
       deriven, since Newtonian mechanics doesn't predict tides as
       strong as they actually are. And heuristic formulas don't scale
       well — there's no guarantee that the results will be correct. If
       I'm right, that tides are electrostatic, the existing heuristic
       formula for tides won't predict the forces at different
       distances at all."
       =====
       See also:
  HTML http://milesmathis.com/tide4.html
       A RECALCULATION OF THE ROCHE LIMIT
  HTML http://milesmathis.com/roche.html
       ["E/M field" means the field of mass-containing photons received
       and emitted by all matter.]
       Now let us calculate the first new Roche limit, where the E/M
       field balances the gravity field. Using the equations from my
       UFT paper, we just set the two fields to equal one another:
       m(A + a) = [GMm/R2 ] – [m(A + a)]
       2(A + a) = GM/R2
       R = &#8730;{GM/[2A + 2a]}
       For the Earth and Moon, that distance would be about 4,006 km.
       To find that number, I used my new accelerations for Earth and
       Moon. In those equations, the accelerations are for the solo
       gravity field, not the unified field, so standard-model numbers
       are not what we want. Current numbers are calculated from
       Newton's unified field equation, and are field differentials. In
       other words, I used the number 2.67 for the Moon, not 1.62.
       What I just found is a Roche limit assuming the Moon has no
       tangential velocity.
       ...
       So let us calculate a new Roche limit assuming the Moon keeps
       its current orbital velocity. We will assume, like Newton, that
       the Moon has an “innate” tangential velocity, uncaused by the
       field itself. I have shown that this is not the case, but we can
       choose any velocity we like to develop an equation, and the
       current one is as good as any.
       [m(A + a)] – mv2 /2R = [GMm/R2 ] – [m(A + a)]
       4R2 (A + a) – v2R – 2GM = 0
       R = v2 + &#8730;[v4 + 32GM(A + a)]
       8(A + a)
       For the Moon, that would be
       R = 4,023km
       ... But let us move on to look at the second sort of Roche
       limit, the one that mirrors more closely the current one. We
       want to find a distance at which the E/M field would break up an
       orbiter. As should already be clear from our analysis of Pan
       above, this limit is a phantom. If Pan is still experiencing
       accretion when it is so near the surface of a huge planet, then
       we may assume that the tidal Roche limit is a complete myth. The
       E/M Roche limit would also be a myth, in that case, because we
       can see from Pan that neither field is strong enough to
       disintegrate a moonlet, even when it is low density and hammered
       by collisions.
       The E/M field would tend to bounce a large body out of a low
       orbit, because a level of balance would be impossible to find in
       a natural way. Large bodies simply don't settle into low orbits
       with little or no impact trajectory. If they have high incoming
       velocities, the primary bounces them away with a quick increase
       in the E/M field. If they have low velocities, the E/M field
       keeps them at a greater orbital distance.
       This is why only very small bodies are found in low orbits. They
       encounter a small section of the charge field [E/M field], feel
       a much smaller repulsion, and settle into orbit much more
       slowly. This is also why they can exist in these low orbits:
       using their own charge fields, they funnel the primary's charge
       field around them, encountering a smaller effect. Larger bodies
       can't do this nearly as efficiently.
       ... Now let us look at a near approach of Jupiter and Saturn,
       using these new equations. How close did the two great planets
       come millions of years ago, in order to create a resonance? We
       can now find out.
       To use my new equation, we have to first calculate new
       accelerations for Jupiter and Saturn, based only on their radii.
       We do that with a proportionality with the Earth.
       9.81/RE = x/RJ = y/RS
       x = 110.7
       y = 92.7
       R = &#8730;{GM/[2A + 2a]}
       R = 18,110 km
       Saturn may have come that close to Jupiter, in being bounced
       away by the combined E/M fields (supposing the planets had no
       tangential velocities relative to one another). That was a very
       close call, and a much closer pass or a hit might have upset or
       destroyed the entire Solar System. Our entire history may have
       depended on that near pass. And in millions of years, when the
       resonant cycle returns to that near pass, the Solar System will
       once again hang on the outcome.
       This means that the rings and satellite systems of Jupiter and
       Saturn must have re-formed since that close pass.
       [Ancient myths suggest that the two gas giants and the inner
       rocky planets were all involved in close encounters about the
       time before the Great Flood.]
       #Post#: 122--------------------------------------------------
       Megatsunamis
       By: Admin Date: February 14, 2017, 8:29 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Okay, Mike, I have some more questions now. Oops. I got your
       next email, so I'll add discussion of that at the end of this.
       _M: Megatsunamis would require a much larger body [than the
       Moon], and an erratic orbit to induce flow in orthogonal
       directions.
       =L: What info do you have on the direction of flow of waters
       that deposited megasequences? All I've read from Baumgardner or
       another creationist is that the floods swept from the NE to the
       SW. A catastrophist, Cardona, has said that the flood came from
       the north. I think he was quoting early Native American sources.
       The Saturn Theory, based on ancient myths etc, is similar to
       Velikovsky's theory and provides several planets, especially
       Venus and Mars, as possible causes of tsunamis, so there could
       have been planets temporarily orbiting Earth on different
       orbital planes (See more at the end).
       _M: The Moon would have to be much closer (but beyond the Roche
       limit) and would only cause water flow along its orbital path.
       =L: Since moons exist within Roche limits and since Mathis
       reasoned that Roche limits don't exist, do you think he is
       likely right?
       _M: Paleontologists can distinguish freshwater and saltwater
       denizens, which still exist today.
       =L: Aren't the dinosaurs considered to be freshwater animals?
       And yet they appear to have drowned in saltwater. Have they not?
       _M: Clearly the most sweeping megatsunamis would have come from
       the rising ocean waters as the rain fell since they covered 60%
       or more of Earth's surface.
       _On the other hand, water rising on the protocontinent would
       have flowed outward.
       =L: How would rain cause tsunamis? Baumgardner calculated that
       the sedimentary strata, which average 1.8 km thick, would have
       needed tsunamis 2.5 km high to transport all the sand and mud
       etc onto the supercontinent. Why would that not be correct?
       _M: The sediment layer on the seafloor averages only .5 km
       thick.
       =L: Do you have figures on how much of that is solid rock? And
       do you know which megasequence/s the rock belongs to? The
       Atlantic shouldn't have any flood-formed strata, should it?
       _M: There are lots of examples of spreading and stretching of
       continental crust involved in separation, which is another
       reason that brittle Plate Tectonics is faulty.
       =L: Do you mean the supercontinent was not hardened granite and
       hardened sedimentary rock when it broke up?
       _M: I think the K-Pg iridium layer and probably the glass
       spherules are associated with Chicxulub.
       ... It was laid down long before the SD event, which I think
       produced the Australasian tektite strewnfield.
       =L: Do you have detailed info on that? Isn't the iridium in a
       layer of clay? And isn't there also charcoal as from a
       conflagration? And isn't the iridium/clay layer above the layer
       of spherules? Can you explain that in detail?
       _M: What evidence is there that the Moon ever split [to form the
       supercontinent]?
       =L: All I know is that the Moon is said to have similar
       composition to Earth's continents, I think, although the mares
       are said to be basalt. I have a few references on that. What I
       read today about the Roche limit makes me more confident that
       close passes of planets, moons, or asteroids would be possible.
       _Mathis says all matter gives off photons that have mass, so
       when bodies are close enough together they cause tides. He says
       the force is like pressing down on a beachball in a bathtub. It
       makes the surrounding waters rise. As the body moves overhead
       it's photon force is like a beachball moving on the ocean,
       causing tidal waves around it. So a large enough beachball would
       make tidal waves large enough to roll over a low-level
       supercontinent, carrying along sediments. What do you think of
       that?
       _M: I haven't heard about fields of mass-containing photons
       before; aren't photons usually considered to be massless? Where
       can I find the myths involving Jupiter, Saturn, and the rocky
       planets interacting before the Great Flood?
       =L: Although conventional science considers photons massless and
       dimensionless, it makes no sense. The photon would be like a
       ghost. How could such a thing have any effect on matter?
       _Regarding Saturn Theory myths, one source is
  HTML http://www.catastrophism.com/intro/search.cgi?zoom_query=
       which does searches of numerous sources, but only like ten lines
       at a time. Others are
  HTML http://maverickscience.com
       and
  HTML http://saturniancosmology.org/files/thoth
       _The evidence from myths etc suggests that Venus, Mars and Earth
       were previously satellites of Saturn, moving in single file
       behind Saturn from distant parts of the solar system to the
       present orbits. In Kronos magazine in the 1980s probably,
       Cardona speculated that Jupiter was once close to Earth and its
       moon Io was the source of the fire and brimstone that fell on
       Sodom and Gemorrah. He may have abandoned that theory later, but
       I'm not sure. Anyway, the most ancient myths called Saturn the
       Sun. Later the name was transferred to the present Sun. This
       video discusses the theory well: youtube.com/watch?v=t7EAlTcZFwY
       #Post#: 123--------------------------------------------------
       Re: MF 2/15
       By: Admin Date: February 16, 2017, 1:22 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       [For reply: The Torah Retold
  HTML http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5675
       ]
       RE: Megatsunamis
       Wednesday, February 15, 2017 8:03 PM
       Lloyd, my responses are "M2" below. - Mike
       _M: Megatsunamis would require a much larger body [than the
       Moon], and an erratic orbit to induce flow in orthogonal
       directions.
       =L: What info do you have on the direction of flow of waters
       that deposited megasequences? All I've read from Baumgardner or
       another creationist is that the floods swept from the NE to the
       SW. A catastrophist, Cardona, has said that the flood came from
       the north. I think he was quoting early Native American sources.
       The Saturn Theory, based on ancient myths etc, is similar to
       Velikovsky's theory and provides several planets, especially
       Venus and Mars, as possible causes of tsunamis, so there could
       have been planets temporarily orbiting Earth on different
       orbital planes (See more at the end).
       M2: Flow over North America appears to have been to the SW.
       Other parts of the world were different.  This ICR article cites
       a report of flow to the NE in Siberia -
  HTML http://www.icr.org/article/4208/
       I don't recall Noah seeing
       Venus and Mars fighting in the sky or passing so close to the
       Earth as to rival the Moon in the sky in order to influence
       tides.  Note that the description in Genesis is that the waters
       rose and the waters fell.  The Ark was not swept all over the
       world by high-energy currents; it landed near where it launched
       in Mesopotamia.
       _M: The Moon would have to be much closer (but beyond the
       Roche limit) and would only cause water flow along its orbital
       path.
       =L: Since moons exist within Roche limits and since Mathis
       reasoned that Roche limits don't exist, do you think he is
       likely right?
       M2: The Roche limit is basic gravitational astrophysics,
       simply identifying the point at which the force of tides
       overcomes the force holding the object together.  Gravity,
       composition, and volume are all factors.  Seems fairly obvious.
       _M: Paleontologists can distinguish freshwater and saltwater
       denizens, which still exist today.
       =L: Aren't the dinosaurs considered to be freshwater
       animals? And yet they appear to have drowned in saltwater. Have
       they not?
       M2: In the Hell Creek Formation Triceratops, who ate
       vegetation, are buried with saltwater seashells.  All variety of
       mixing is evident in the fossil record around the world.
       _M: Clearly the most sweeping megatsunamis would have come
       from the rising ocean waters as the rain fell since they covered
       60% or more of Earth's surface.
       _On the other hand, water rising on the protocontinent would
       have flowed outward.
       =L: How would rain cause tsunamis? Baumgardner calculated
       that the sedimentary strata, which average 1.8 km thick, would
       have needed tsunamis 2.5 km high to transport all the sand and
       mud etc onto the supercontinent. Why would that not be correct?
       M2: The Moon still caused global tides during the Great
       Flood.  If you double the amount of water on the Earth over 40
       days, the tidal waves become tsunamis.
       _M: The sediment layer on the seafloor averages only .5 km
       thick.
       =L: Do you have figures on how much of that is solid rock?
       And do you know which megasequence/s the rock belongs to? The
       Atlantic shouldn't have any flood-formed strata, should it?
       M2: Seafloor sediment is different than continental
       sedimentary rock.  It is composed of organics, clay, and
       minerals that settle to the bottom.  In places, especially near
       continents, there are the remains of avalanches (turbidites),
       but there is nothing like the megasequences found on land.
       _M: There are lots of examples of spreading and stretching
       of continental crust involved in separation, which is another
       reason that brittle Plate Tectonics is faulty.
       =L: Do you mean the supercontinent was not hardened granite
       and hardened sedimentary rock when it broke up?
       M2: As with any material, the dominant forces that hold
       continental crust together change with scale.  While granite and
       sedimentary rock are brittle on a small scale, at continental
       scale they are thixotropic.  When agitated with sufficient
       force, the crust acts as a Bingham Fluid, returning to a
       coherent solid when the agitating force subsides below the
       threshold level.
       _M: I think the K-Pg iridium layer and probably the glass
       spherules are associated with Chicxulub.
       ... It was laid down long before the SD event, which I think
       produced the Australasian tektite strewnfield.
       =L: Do you have detailed info on that? Isn't the iridium in
       a layer of clay? And isn't there also charcoal as from a
       conflagration? And isn't the iridium/clay layer above the layer
       of spherules? Can you explain that in detail?
       M2: Following the Great Flood the highest surface
       sedimentary stratum was Cretaceous.  The Chicxulub impact
       occurred on top of that, depositing iridium, glass spherules,
       and flame products.  However, researcher Gerta Keller has made a
       case for the iridium layer and reworked micro-tektites
       associated with the K-Pg boundary falling 300,000 years
       (uniformitarian), i.e. 50 cm, after the Chicxulub impact.  That
       would mean the SD impact produced them instead, and the
       Chicxulub impact struck at the end of the Great Flood.  The
       attached chart if from one of her papers.
       _M: What evidence is there that the Moon ever split [to form
       the supercontinent]?
       =L: All I know is that the Moon is said to have similar
       composition to Earth's continents, I think, although the mares
       are said to be basalt. I have a few references on that. What I
       read today about the Roche limit makes me more confident that
       close passes of planets, moons, or asteroids would be possible.
       _Mathis says all matter gives off photons that have mass, so
       when bodies are close enough together they cause tides. He says
       the force is like pressing down on a beachball in a bathtub. It
       makes the surrounding waters rise. As the body moves overhead
       it's photon force is like a beachball moving on the ocean,
       causing tidal waves around it. So a large enough beachball would
       make tidal waves large enough to roll over a low-level
       supercontinent, carrying along sediments. What do you think of
       that?
       M2: Similar composition of the Moon and Earth relate to the
       origin of the Moon as a product of a collision with Earth by
       something else earlier.  There is no reason to think a chunk of
       Moon later broke off and fell onto Earth to cause the Great
       Flood.  Celestial bodies have intrinsic mass; photons are not
       involved.  Gravitational attraction between two of them causes
       tides, not photonic pressure.
       _M: I haven't heard about fields of mass-containing photons
       before; aren't photons usually considered to be massless? Where
       can I find the myths involving Jupiter, Saturn, and the rocky
       planets interacting before the Great Flood?
       =L: Although conventional science considers photons massless
       and dimensionless, it makes no sense. The photon would be like a
       ghost. How could such a thing have any effect on matter?
       _Regarding Saturn Theory myths, one source is
  HTML http://www.catastrophism.com/intro/search.cgi?zoom_query=
       which does searches of numerous sources, but only like ten
       lines at a time. Others are
  HTML http://maverickscience.com
       and
  HTML http://saturniancosmology.org/files/thoth
       _The evidence from myths etc suggests that Venus, Mars and
       Earth were previously satellites of Saturn, moving in single
       file behind Saturn from distant parts of the solar system to the
       present orbits. In Kronos magazine in the 1980s probably,
       Cardona speculated that Jupiter was once close to Earth and its
       moon Io was the source of the fire and brimstone that fell on
       Sodom and Gemorrah. He may have abandoned that theory later, but
       I'm not sure. Anyway, the most ancient myths called Saturn the
       Sun. Later the name was transferred to the present Sun. This
       video discusses the theory well: youtube.com/watch?v=t7EAlTcZFwY
       M2: Modern sub-atomic physics is obsessed with particles,
       which I think is a mistake.  In my and other renegades'
       opinions, light is only a wave which propagates in space through
       a medium called "ether".  The wave transfers energy only (which
       can affect mass), so light is massless.  Modern physics
       designates light as particles called photons, to which they
       assign no mass; same result/different paradigm.  Regarding the
       shuffling around of planetary orbits in the solar system, it
       would be wise to try to find out if it is physically possible
       before taking interpretations of myths at face value.  Even if
       an orbital mechanics scenario could be devised, I doubt it could
       be resolved over the relatively short time covering human
       history.
       #Post#: 124--------------------------------------------------
       Re: MF 2/16
       By: Admin Date: February 16, 2017, 1:25 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Hi Mike. Do you have calculations of how much bouyancy a 2 or 3
       bar atmosphere would give to megafauna? I did a calculation some
       months ago that seemed to show that at least 100 bars would be
       needed to provide significant buoyancy, but I don't know if I
       did it correctly. Also, do you have more details about how much
       CO2 would degas from the oceans if the atmosphere lost half or
       two-thirds of its mass, and how much cement would be produced
       from the CO2 for limestone and sandstone?
       I'll respond to your last email later. First I'll send you parts
       of a recent exchange with Gordon on the Thunderbolts forum. He's
       a high school science teacher and an amateur geologist in
       Washington.
       On Fri Feb 03, 2017 9:50 pm he had said to me:
       "You're on the right track. Those are certainly good categories
       of data.
       Tsunamis deposit laminated beds like other alluvial processes.
       The question would be, could mega tsunamis operating as a
       primary (not just occasional) mechanism produce stratigraphic
       sequences like we see represented by the geologic column?"
       On Sat Feb 11, 2017 11:45 am I told Gordon that you said: ""a
       meteorite swarm, associated with the first bombardment
       population of Moon craters, collapsed Earth's thick vapor canopy
       ... the sole source of water for the Great Flood. Members of the
       meteorite swarm falling into the ocean led observers on land to
       mistakenly call the resulting water jets "fountains of the great
       deep". Note that these started and ended at the same time as the
       rain deluge....""
       I commented: I'm not sure what he meant by the canopy as sole
       source of Flood water, but he seems to have made a very similar
       conclusion as you about the fountains. He seems to add that the
       meteors caused the heavy rain. But I thought the meteors
       continued to fall for 5 months altogether. What do you think?
       On Mon Feb 13, 2017 4:46 pm Gordon replied as follows.
       _I agree with the phrase "meteor swarm" here as it seems to
       imply something more ominous than say a meteor shower.
       _The "matar" [meteors - LK] were said to fall for a period of
       about 5 months.
       _I'm favorable to associating the matar with moon bombardment.
       _I disagree with the hypothesis of the canopy, which is
       unsupported by any physical principle you may wish to apply to
       it.
       _I do believe that a "layer" of moisture in the vicinity of the
       tropopause/lower stratosphere did surround the earth, that it
       was disrupted by the introduction of condensation nuclei
       originating from large scale volcanic upheaval at the beginning
       of the deluge period.
       _It was generally the source of the several weeks of
       unprecedented steady downpour, followed by a few months of
       ongoing (but more intermittent) rainfall, followed by the full
       emplacement of the current water cycle to this day; but this
       amount of rain, while an initial signal of the unfolding
       cataclysm was not the primary cause of the deluge.
       _Splashing of the meteor swarm into the ocean was definitely not
       the "fountains of the deep" as I understand them.
       _The fountains of the deep I associate with the mid-ocean rift
       zones as we find them today.
       _It is important to remember that at the beginning of the
       deluge, these rifts were in or on the continental landmass,
       which through the period of spreading became the basins of the
       Atlantic and parts of the Indian and (lesser parts of the)
       Pacific oceans.
       _What began as fountains from the "deep" earth, are still
       fountains from the "deep" earth, coinciding now with the
       mid-ridges of the "deep" ocean.
       _Let's not be too quick to geographically delimit "deep"... it
       is an apt descriptive word applying to a variety of situations,
       but all conforming to a single concept: material erupting out of
       the earth's crust, whether on land or at sea.
       _In my scenario, the sources of the major portion of the deluge
       water were:
       1. the extant ocean waters of the time, powered by massive
       seismic/volcanic upheaval of the spreading ocean basins; these
       forces at probably a much smaller scale are observable in the
       catastrophic action of tsunamis today;
       2. major tidal action of a large (passing) planetoid that was
       responsible also for the bombardment of the matar; it was likely
       temporarily caught in a co-orbital dance with the earth for the
       early part of the deluge period; this bombardment is evidenced
       by astroblemes found throughout the geologic record from
       PreCambrian through Cenozoic, and evidenced on the surface
       today;
       3. subterranean water sources that were/are part and parcel of
       the pressures powering igneous processes in the deep crust or
       upper mantle; huge volumes of water are seen to surface during
       volcanic eruptions.
       _An important part of my scenario is that its mechanisms are
       associated with presently observable/researchable evidence.
       On Mon Feb 13, 2017 5:15 pm Grey Cloud asked Gordon:
       "Quick question so quick answer is fine. Why do you think the
       water(s) came from the mid-ocean rift zones? My (limited)
       understanding is that quakes can cause water to issue from the
       ground."
       On Mon Feb 13, 2017 5:45 pm Gordon answered Grey Cloud as
       follows.
       _I think that a good fraction of the deluge water had a
       subterranean origin.
       _As we see today in steamy volcanic eruptions both on land and
       at sea, a lot of this deep origin water enters into the water
       cycle via billowing into the atmosphere and eventually
       precipitates back to the ground and eventually into the oceans.
       _But also in the rift zones are found the famous "black smokers"
       discovered by R. Ballard (of Titanic fame) and others, which are
       billowing out sulfurous concentrations of very hot water from
       deep below the crust.
       _As to water surfacing during "normal" quakes, and/or near
       active faults, further detail is needed to know whether this is
       from ground water or has a deeper origin.
       _Modern research is showing the creation of subterranean water
       from the mixture of silicates and hydrogen originating deep
       below the surface.
       _Is this the origin of the original seas on the earth? Perhaps.
       _Standard geology has an oft quoted adage: If ... all of the
       known volcanoes, both inactive and active, produced the amount
       of water seen in volcanic eruptions, it would be enough to
       account for all of the world's oceans.
       _There is no reason why this concept cannot apply also (and even
       more aptly) to catastrophic geology.
       #Post#: 136--------------------------------------------------
       MF 2/16-2/18
       By: Admin Date: February 18, 2017, 2:07 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Thursday, February 16, 2017 10:42 PM
       Hi Lloyd.  Buoyancy is not what I am interested in regarding an
       atmosphere with higher pressure.  It is the availability of
       oxygen for breathing.  When climbing a high mountain, the air
       gets "thinner" as you go up because the atmospheric pressure
       decreases with altitude.  If you continue to go up, eventually
       you black out.  The presence of a vapor canopy, or more likely
       an ice crystal canopy at high altitude, would make the
       atmospheric pressure greater at sea level than it is today.  I
       am not the first to think that this hyperbaric situation would
       allow giant animals to survive.  Scroll down to "Changing the
       World: Hyberbaric Oxygen" at this link
  HTML http://www.creationliberty.com/articles/preflood.php
       - The concentration of CO2 in water is directly proportional to
       the atmospheric pressure, using the Henry's Law constant for
       CO2.  So 2 atmospheres doubles the solubility.  Carbonated soft
       drinks are bottled under pressure, and degas when opened.  This
       is complicated by CO2 reacting with water to form hydrated
       carbon dioxide and then carbonic acid (H2CO3), developing
       equilibrium with carbon dioxide and water.  It is infamous for
       weathering the calcite (CaCO3) in marble and limestone.
       ---
       Hi Mike. 2/18/17
       - Gigantism from hyperbaric conditions?
       - Are you sure there's any physical evidence of a Roche limit in
       space? There are several moons that exist within Roche limits.
       And why don't satellites get pulled apart when they near
       planets?
       - Would you like to skim through Charles Chandler's paper, The
       Torah Retold at
  HTML http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5675
       and comment on
       the plausibility of his conclusions regarding Moses and Atenism
       and Biblical laws meant to prevent plagues? Atenism relates to
       the article on your site about Did a Comet Cause the Great
       Flood.
       - When you originally mentioned recently the freshwater and
       saltwater denizens, I thought you meant that geologists can tell
       if fossils formed in freshwater or saltwater, i.e. rainwaters
       and ocean tsunamis. But now you say both are found together all
       over the world, so I guess I misunderstood your first comment.
       - You said: "The Moon still caused global tides during the Great
       Flood.  If you double the amount of water on the Earth over 40
       days, the tidal waves become tsunamis."
       - Why doesn't the Moon cause tsunamis now? Or where did the
       extra water go?
       - I have a lot of reading to do. Yesterday a copied a bunch of
       articles about strata from the Creation.com website.
       - Have you read anything in the NCGT Journal yet at ncgt.org? I
       know you quote David Pratt quite a bit on your site and he has
       written a few times in NCGT, but I think it's only letters, or
       discussion, not articles or papers etc. Not sure though.
       - Below is the conclusion portion of a NCGT paper from last year
       by an author who apparently died last year. It's against plate
       tectonics and for a "fixist" model. Part of the title is "causes
       of horizontal tectonic movements", which I haven't read, but it
       might be informative. When we get to Part 4, it seems like it
       might be good to discuss the arguments below. Your site already
       discusses some of them. I'm marking three paragraphs with this
       mark: >> . Would you like to comment a bit about those for me?
       I'm not clear on how the SD model does or would explain the
       upwelling of new rock formation at ocean ridges. If the
       continents slid over the oceanic crust, why would new crust form
       there? It seems redundant to have pre-existing crust there as
       well as the new crust added to it. Your ideas on formation of
       eclogite and UHD rock would be good to hear, if you've
       considered those problems already.
       204 New Concepts in Global Tectonics Journal, V. 4, No. 2, June
       2016. www.ncgt.org
       - Critical analysis of the plate tectonics model and causes of
       horizontal tectonic movements
       Arkady Pilchin
       Universal Geosciences & Environmental Consulting Company
       205 Hilda Ave., #1402
       Toronto, Ontario, M2M 4B1, Canada.
       arkadypilchin@yahoo.ca
       - Concluding remarks
       All of the above leads to the following conclusions:
       The main problem with the plate tectonics model is
       underdevelopment of its every part, from the model’s inception
       until the present day.
       - The outright dismissal of the geosynclinal model and all other
       fixist models is not justified and was a mistake.
       - Convection throughout the entire mantle or in any mantle layer
       of any significant thickness is highly unlikely, because it
       violates physical laws.
       - The main forces postulated for plate tectonics are too weak
       for any significant tectonic activity, and cannot be involved in
       such tectonic processes as obduction, orogenesis, lithosphere
       uplift, or even subduction. In general, their application
       violates physical laws by ignoring the effect of friction and
       strength limits.
       Plate tectonic forces are incapable of generating any
       significant force in a horizontal or upward direction.
       - The plate tectonics model of the formation of new lithosphere
       in spreading centers violates a number of physical laws; it is
       unclear how it would be possible, with a buildup of only about 1
       cm long, ~50 km deep and thousands of kilometers wide increments
       of new lithosphere per year, for it to independently separate
       into the main oceanic layers (including the peridotite layer) in
       underwater conditions, and over millions of years form solid
       oceanic plates thousands of kilometers long.
       One of the main problems with sea floor spreading is the
       inconsistency between the total lengths of mid-ocean ridges (the
       total length of the mid-ocean ridge system is ~80,000 km and the
       continuous mountain range is 65,000 km) and the total length of
       trenches (30,000-40,000 km). Whereas, according to the plate
       tectonics model, the total length of trenches should be twice as
       long (~130,000-160,000 km) as that of mid-ocean ridges.
       >> Any oceanic lithosphere plate (slab) with a thickness of ~50
       km is composed of three main layers: brittle upper layer with
       temperatures of less than ~573 K; elastic middle layer with
       temperatures within the range of ~573-873 K; and plastic lower
       layer with temperatures of >~873 K, and it cannot be considered
       rigid.
       It is clearly shown in the paper that under no circumstances
       would the average density of an oceanic lithosphere plate be
       denser than rocks of the upper mantle, and the formation of
       negative buoyancy is not possible.
       >> The formation of eclogite requires rocks of the upper
       continental crust to be delivered to depths of about 64 km or
       more, but even if the entire crust of any region were completely
       transformed to eclogite, it would still not be enough to form
       negative buoyancy by even 0.01 g/cm3.
       - An oceanic plate has an average geothermal gradient of ~50-86
       K/km, and a temperature of about 1573 K (or 1603 K) at the point
       of contact between the lithosphere and asthenosphere, so
       technically it cannot be considered cold.
       Numerous problems of the plate tectonics model are mentioned in
       the paper with corresponding references.
       >> The formation of ultrahigh pressure (UHP) rocks cannot be
       accomplished under lithostatic pressures alone, and requires the
       involvement of gigantic (mostly horizontal) forces. This cannot
       take place within a subduction zone.
       Analysis of the causes of formation of significant overpressure
       shows that only the decomposition of rocks (primarily
       serpentinization of the peridotite layer) can generate gigantic
       forces capable of horizontally moving oceanic plates; causing
       obductions, subductions, orogenies, or uplift of lithospheric
       blocks; forming serpentinite and ophiolite thrusts; and more.
       - Analysis of the focus depths of earthquakes on continents
       clearly shows that the absolute majority of them take place at
       shallow and very shallow depths, and almost all of them within
       the temperature range of the serpentinization process (~473-773
       K). This also shows that continental subduction is not possible.
       - It is shown that serpentinization of the oceanic peridotite
       layer may cause formation of either obduction or forced
       subduction of an oceanic plate near the continental margin (see
       Fig. 1), or away from the continental margin (see Fig. 2).
       From all of the above, it is clear that plate tectonics is an
       inconsistent model violating numerous physical laws, and is
       based on a large number of incorrect postulates and assumptions.
       Given all this evidence, the plate tectonics model is shown to
       be a dead end in geology that has unfortunately run its course
       for too long.
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       MF 2/19
       By: Admin Date: February 19, 2017, 6:57 pm
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       2/19 To Mike
       HYPERBARIC
       I read the section of an article a couple days ago that you had
       mentioned, Changing the World: Hyberbaric Oxygen. I actually
       read the whole page. I was pretty impressed with it. The
       Meissner effect to support an icy canopy is very interesting
       too. I suppose the canopy may have come from debris from the
       supercontinent-forming event. I just noticed at
  HTML http://www.calctool.org/CALC/other/games/depth_press
       that a two
       bar atmosphere would apparently produce the buoyancy of ten
       meters of water and three bars would produce that of 20 meters
       of water. So the calculation I did a year or so ago was way off,
       I think. And the buoyancy of the thicker atmosphere should
       greatly help explain gigantism as well, along with the greater
       oxygen supply, and maybe CO2 too. I read about ten years ago of
       an experiment with mice breathing a greater percent of CO2. I
       think the result was that they lived longer or grew bigger.
       CATACLYSM/S
       How certain do you feel that the SD event came centuries after
       the Flood? Gordon thinks they came together and I know of a
       couple of reasons that suggest that too. One is that Baumgardner
       said the CO plateau (the idea being based I think on strata that
       are now partly eroded away, i.e. missing) was initially about 5
       km high. He said the missing strata seem to have been eroded
       away by sheet erosion as the Flood was receding. I figure the
       plateau must have been uplifted at that time in order to be
       eroded away during the Flood. And the uplift likely was due to
       the SD event.
       - The other reason is the rock ice that seems to have frozen
       some of the mammoths. It also flash froze streams with fish and
       cattle swimming in them. You said the SD event pushed the
       northern continents close to the north pole. That would help
       freeze those animals and streams. But it's been claimed that the
       mammoths that had food still in their stomachs must have frozen
       very suddenly, like those streams did, because the food would
       otherwise have been digested or rotted or something like that.
       So it was estimated that the air temperature had to reach at
       least -150F. I think that's stated in Walter Brown's article on
       frozen mammoths. If it's true, then I think the most likely
       source of such cold air or ice would have been cold air from the
       upper atmosphere during the cataclysm making its way to the
       Earth's surface in the Arctic, or ice from the icy canopy doing
       so. The canopy would not have been around after the Flood. So
       I'm wondering if the rock ice is actually from the former
       canopy.
       - What do you think?
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       Sunday, February 19, 2017 11:09 PM
       Hi Lloyd,
       Comparing the Flood with the Shock Dynamics event, all
       continental uplift and induced high-energy waves would occur
       with the latter.  The distinct change in fossil fauna between
       the Mesozoic and Cenozoic make it clear to me that different
       populations occupied the continents prior to the catastrophes
       that buried them.  There are no mammoths or cattle with the
       dinosaurs in Mesozoic strata, and no dinosaurs with the mammoths
       or cattle in Cenozoic strata.  The Septuagint timing for
       dividing the Earth in the "days of Peleg" in Genesis 10:25 and 1
       Chronicles 1:19 is about 300 years, allowing a repopulation of
       the (still intact) protocontinent after the Flood by survivors
       on the Ark.  The megafauna were then buried by the
       less-universally annihilating Shock Dynamics catastrophe.  The
       extensive volcanism and exposed hot seafloor rock acting on
       ocean water and overland megatsunamis, combined with a blanket
       of particulates over the Earth generated by the giant impact,
       explain the onset of a global ice age.  Pushing Siberia
       northward contributed to freezing the mammoths' pastures.
       According to Vardiman, the problem with an ice or vapor canopy
       is high heat at Earth's surface.  The ice would have been in the
       form of tiny crystals in order to stay aloft, and raining them
       down into the hot atmosphere might have cooled but not frozen
       the air.  In favor of a canopy, the global pre-Flood environment
       on the protocontinent was tropical to temperate, unlike the
       extremes we have today without a canopy.
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