Is there a secret history?

[Guest Xangopbh]

We are all familiar with the dating methods and everything, but what if they are way out?

 

Has anyone heard of George Dodwell an Autralian astrologer? He looked at all the different facts that show the earth has been at different tilts in the past. Plotted these on a graph and showed the correlation with a spinning top when being she struck by an object. There was a correlation and appeared to him that the earth has been wobbling for the last few thousand years, as though it had been struck around 4500 years ago.

 

Cheers

 

Paul http://uk.geocities.com/paulbryhanson/

[Sayonara]

The variability of the Earth's tilt in its axis is well-documented.

[ecoli]

is the 4,500 yr thing accurate? My gut tells me its not.

[CPL.Luke]

yeah why wouldn't the earth wabble? is it even remotely cncievable that every chunk of matter that ever hit the earth at any point its history was moving exactly in the "plane" of our solar system.

 

and why would it have started 4500 years ago and not 10 million, 100 million, or even 4.5 billion years ago?

[Bluenoise]

4500 years ago!!! lol I think not. That's 2500BC not all that long ago in geological terms.

[JohnB]

Firstly, he was an Astronomer, not an Astrologer.

Secondly, he was a nutter. You know, white jacket with reall, really long sleeves?

 

He concluded that the axial tilt of the Earth was only 5 degrees until the impact in 2345 BC when it moved to it's current tilt.

 

Some of his other worldveiw shattering conclusions. (From here.

1.With an axial tilt of only 5 degrees the planet is not subject to seasons and even the poles are a good deal warmer than those of today. It is, moreover, a world where it never rains. How plants grow in the absence of this vital commodity is not revealed but apparently there are modest rivers and a 'mist which rises from the ground', the combination evidently being sufficient to do the trick.

 

2. There are also no oceans. There is however, a canopy containing 820 million cubic kilometers of water weighing 90 million, million, million tonnes, suspended some 240 kilometers above the surface of the Earth.

 

3. Now, although it rains for forty days and nights, causing massive and destructive flood damage and the loss of every creature on Earth - except those safely in the Ark - another much more significant event with far reaching effects occurs. In the vast empty basin now occupied by the Pacific Ocean the water arrives in one huge deluge. The force of its fall is so great that the land around the basin is thrust up into mountains and thus remain to this day.

 

What's that old song?

Oh yes;

They're coming to take me away, HA HA

They're coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA

To the funny farm

Where life is beautiful all the time

And I'll be happy to see

Those nice, young men

In their clean, white coats

And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

[Rocket Man]

theres the scientific method which is making a theory to fit the facts, and then theres the unscientific method which involves taking a theory, messing around with all applicable variables in an attempt to make evidence to support the original theory and hoping no one will notice the vast number of errors.

[bascule]

This has been studied for thousands and thousands of years:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession_of_the_equinoxes