Adam Frank, professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester in New York, along with Gavon Schmidt, director of the Goddard Space Research Institute (GISS), published a new paper in mid-April titled The Silurian Hypothesis:
Is it possible to find an industrial civilization in the geological record "(Silurian hypothesis: will it be possible to identify an industrial civilization in the stratigraphic record?). Professor Frank has been working for some time on studying global warming from an astrobiological perspective, which means he is studying whether possible industrial civilizations existed in the past and also caused climate change like ours today. For his research, he contacted Gavon Schmidt from GIS, who confirmed that an ancient highly developed civilization existed on our planet. This was supposed to be an "exo-civilization" that existed many millions of years ago, and it was a global mass extinction of all species during the Silurian era. Silurian - geological periodaccording to the fossil record 420-440 million years ago and on the basis of fossil remains it can be seen that at least 60% of all marine life became extinct at this time. Can we assume that more than 400 million years ago there was an industrial civilization on Earth? At this time, according to the evolutionary time scale, he first came to the development of bony fish and primitive arthropods.
He quickly developed a theory on the topic, and finally the two researchers published their new research in the International Journal of Astrobiology. The study indicates that the possible technical remains of human civilization would only be discovered for about 1.8 million years, and anything outside this time period would be crushed by additional layers of sediment or turned into dust. So how can you prove a civilization that could have existed hundreds of millions of years ago? If these civilizations existed, they were not human; for Homo sapiens, they should only have existed for about 200,000 years. At the same time, new discoveries should have increased the theoretical time frame to 300,000 years, but this is still too little to explain industrial civilizations in the distant past. This is why researchers believethat it was only exo-civilizations, creatures that either evolved through a separate evolution on planet Earth, or were extraterrestrial visitors who inhabited the Earth sometime in the distant past. Such hypothetical civilizations may have been responsible for the mass extinction in Siluria. Gavon Schmidt called his theory of the famous science fiction series Dr. Who "The Silurian Hypothesis" - the series is devoted to the evolution of the species of intelligent reptiles (Homo reptilia) in the past of the Earth. Who "The Silurian Hypothesis" - the series is devoted to the evolution of the species of intelligent reptiles (Homo reptilia) in the past of the Earth. Who "The Silurian Hypothesis" - the series is devoted to the evolution of the species of intelligent reptiles (Homo reptilia) in the past of the Earth.
Nevertheless, such a species could not have evolved more than 400 million years ago, but possibly 60 million years ago in the Paleocene. Until now, there is no fossil evidence for such a theory, but two researchers indicate that only part of the entire living creature is actually fossils, all other traces, as I said, have long been destroyed, even if an industrial civilization existed 100,000 years ago. If after this long time there are no tangible remains, then the existence of such a civilization can be demonstrated in other ways. What traces will disappear? It has been estimated that there will still be traces of our current global industrial civilization in 100 million years if it disappears today. An example of this is the use of fertilizers,which are helping to feed seven billion people - existing nitrogen will still be found in the sediments of our time. But even a huge amount of plastic will not disappear overnight, but will eventually settle in the form of microplastics at the bottom of the oceans, something like this could remain for many millions of years.
However, the best evidence is carbon dioxide, which is found in our atmosphere in the form of fossil fuels. This marker in the form of isotopes is likely to serve as proof of our modern advanced civilization if it suddenly disappears. Therefore, if scientists from the distant future could find traces in the sediments, then today we will be able to find such traces in the layers of sedimentary rocks of the past - and something similar could have just been discovered! About 60 million years ago, during the Paleozoic and Eocene eras, the maximum temperature occurred, while the temperature was unusually high, and all the ice on the planet melted. It can be read from the sediments that at that time there was a high concentration of carbon dioxide and oxygen isotopes. Will this be a sign of a hypothetical industrial civilization?
Researchers say no despite the apparently huge amounts of fossil fuels released into the air because the timing of these releases is critical. Humanity is consumed in a very short period of time by a very high amount of fossil fuels, but the isotope values from the Paleocene show that the increase in time was spent hundreds of thousands of years. In fact, this is too long a period for the Silurian hypothesis to be applied, if these unknown civilizations were more just and resourceful! Conversely, short-lived industrial civilizations, such as ours today, would be almost indefinable, it would be necessary to know exactly what substances to look for in the sediments. If hypothetical civilizations of the distant past used progressive, environmentally friendly forms of energy, today almost nothing would be discovered. The more steadily a civilization deals with its raw materials, the lower will be the remnants they left for future generations. As for the statements of the two researchers.
Of course, no progressive industrial civilization would have used fossil fuels for thousands of years, because even in our modern civilization, clean energy forms could have existed for over 80 years if approved and released! Therefore, a possible civilization in the past may not have needed fossil fuels at all, but would have developed clean and environmentally friendly technologies from the start!
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Another secret that academics don't like to tell is inappropriate technological artifacts found in sedimentary layers hundreds of millions of years old. These artifacts raise many questions and are still ignored by experts today - what is the secret behind this? Perhaps Earth's past is completely different from what is claimed today? Is there any evidence that any kind of intelligent reptile ever developed on our planet associated with dinosaurs?