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That the planet Earth has been subject to catastrophic events is beyond dispute,
but the nature and timing of these events is not.
One of the clearest testimonies to ancient upheaval is our planet's craters,
which consensus scientific theory proposes are the result of meteoritic impacts.
But we have never directly observed a kinetic impact from space
producing such a crater.
The Electric Universe has proposed for many decades
that laboratory experiments with high-energy electrical discharge
provide the clearest analog for craters seen on rocky bodies throughout the solar system.
In this episode, Thunderbolts Picture of the Day managing editor Stephen Smith
discusses some of the clearest evidence for the electrical scarring of our planet,
including some of the most famous so-called impact sites on Earth.
One of the principal tenets of Electric Universe theory
is that sometime in the recent past, there were catastrophic events
involving the planets of our solar system, including the Earth.
Exactly when those events took place is uncertain,
because we're so far removed from them in time.
However, forensic evidence is available,
including ancient archaeological sites,
land-based geological formations,
ocean basins, and other structures that often reveal anomalous data.
Information from those sources indicates that there were multiple catastrophic occurrences.
Indeed, it seems as if pre-catastrophic and post-catastrophic conditions
are what 99% of the human race has experienced over its existence.
Times of peace and plenty are rare in the historical record.
Many articles on The Thunderbolts Project website describe various regions around the world
where manifestations of those catastrophic events are visible.
The list of articles is extensive,
describing places on Earth that are difficult to explain using conventional theories.
Places like the Norwegian fjords,
the Brandberg Massif in Africa,
the Great Trango Tower,
the Grand Canyon,
Lake Victoria,
the Himalayan mountains,
along with the principal topic of today's discussion,
the Sudbury impact structure and its attendant anomalous elemental deposits.
Most, if not all, large craters in North America
are thought to have been caused by asteroid impacts.
In fact, it was an asteroid that's thought by consensus geologists
to be the event that wiped out the dinosaurs,
although that idea is no longer as hard and true as it once was,
proving the asteroid theory is not easy,
because rocks where the evidence is found can't be accurately dated.
The fossil record is also indeterminate when it comes to causal issues.
Was it a catastrophic event
or a gradual decline in species?
It appears that some marine species died out millions of years
before the so-called impact event.
According to an article in the science journal Nature,
platinum group element anomalies are found in sedimentary deposits all over North America.
No one is sure where the additional heavy elements came from,
but there are several ideas proposed.
1) a comet or meteorite storms
2) debris from collisions in space
3) volcanoes
4) mantle plumes
The time of the mostly platinum enrichment is thought to be the Younger Dryas period
between 12,900 and 11,700 years ago.
Some of the elements include platinum, osmium, gold, ruthenium and copper.
It's also called the Younger Dryas cooling event
when the Northern Hemisphere monsoon declined.
How that period, called an ice age, began and ended is a mystery
although it's often trucked out as an example of massive and rapid climate change.
One of the reasons for the warming at the end of the Younger Dryas
is thought to be the impact from a massive comet or a huge number of meteors.
There are many large craters in North America
and most of them look like they come from a similar time period.
The Weaubleau-Osceola structure,
the Decaturville and Crooked Creek Missouri formations,
the Flynn Creek and the Wells Creek Tennessee craters,
might belong to an anomalous chain of craters stretching across the United States,
called the 38th parallel anomaly.
Most of them exhibit unusual features such as flat floors, steep walls
and lightning-like patterns of trenches and gullies that extend from their centers.
Geologists speculate that tremendous shock waves from the collisions
caused earthquakes and dense pulverized rock fallout all over the world.
Modern theories about a post-war nuclear winter
are relevant to the dimming of sunlight
and significant cooling trends from atmospheric dust.
The question no one's asking however is, what if there was no rock?
As mentioned, Sudbury Basin in Canada is a large crater, more than 63 kilometers long,
31 kilometers wide, and 15 kilometers deep,
the second largest crater on Earth.
Ejecta from Sudbury was found more than 800 kilometers away near Lake Superior.
The area around Sudbury is shattered into multi-megaton blocks
that were pushed away and piled up along the crater rim.
Some of the largest fragments were thrown over a hundred kilometers in all directions.
Gneiss deposits were fused into a glass-like compound
that covered the floor of the crater and splashed up and over the crater rim.
The molten glass inundated several hundred square kilometers of the surrounding terrain
with a thick layer capping chaotic breccias.
Platinum family minerals are found throughout the region
including sperrylite,
froodite, michenerite and sudburyite.
Some records indicate that 1,600 million tons of nickel, copper, platinum and lead,
have been extracted from Sudbury over the last hundred years.
There are so many anomalous formations in North America
that it's impossible to count them all.
Even the Great Lakes possess characteristics that could point to an electrical foundation.
The gigantic bowl of hardened limestone in which they rest, for instance.
In a gradual curve north of the Great Lakes are Lake Winnipeg,
Lake of the Woods, Lake Athabasca,
Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake and many other smaller bodies of water.
Near the largest of them are gold mines, led mines, radium and uranium mines,
along with mines producing platinum, silver and palladium.
Unusual concentrations of heavy metals
could mean that transmutation of local elements might have occurred
because of the intensity of the electrical discharges.
That idea has been suggested in the past
as the cause for hematite blueberries on Mars.
Electric arcs transmuted silicon into iron.
That same phenomenon could have created
some of the strange conglomerations of minerals seen on Earth.
In an Electric Universe, asteroids are not a primary cause for anomalies.
Instead, electric arc discharges are suggested as the sculptor of earth terrain.
As I said earlier, where those arcs came from, can't be determined at this late date.
Were they from charged celestial bodies
encroaching into the electric fields of Earth and other planets like Mars and Venus?
Was it a plasma cloud from outside the solar system?
Was it a solar flare that charged up Earth's ionosphere?
Those questions whose answers can only be guessed at today,
await further investigation.
The Electric Universe hypothesis offers another perspective on observations.
Several factors come into play
that are not available to the consensus theories of geophysics,
because the lexicon of descriptions available to them
doesn't include electric arcs or travelling subterranean electric discharges.
There are of course many possible explanations for craters,
canyons, escarpments, mountains and ocean basins,
but once the electric force is included in the search for those explanations,
an entirely new way of seeing the world becomes possible.
In this realm, that of deep background in the origination of basic theoretical foundations,
those viewpoints must be considered diametrically opposed
to the gradualism that dominates science today.
Rather than basing opinions on the slow steady familiar processes of erosion,
temperature changes, rain, windblown sand, ice and snow,
the proponents of Electric Universe theory
are attempting to reclassify geophysical processes
as rapid, catastrophic and world-changing.
In many cases, the almost unimaginable must be acknowledged.
Gigantic formations like the Grand Canyon or Manicouagan crater
were created in a time period that encompasses the historical memory of humanity.
This new paradigm means words like 'crater' for example
must be stripped of all previous assumptions that are stimulated by it.
One almost immediately thinks volcano or meteor when the word is used.
Catastrophism should be part of a new way to see the world
and volcanoes or meteor strikes are indeed catastrophic,
but geological theory consigns them to the rare or infrequent category.
When was the last time a volcano blew out a 100 kilometer-wide crater, for instance?
Considering the presumption of an electric discharge,
a better description might be circular formation, rather than crater.
Lake of the Woods for example,
one of the long arc of lakes stretching northwest of the Great Lakes,
certainly displays those features that have been described elsewhere as electrical.
Concentric rings and radial force patterns are immediately evident,
as well as the scalloped edges of the southwestern shoreline.
A primordial characteristic of electric arcs is that they spin.
They are composed of multiple independent plasma current filaments
in a collimated beam.
The independent filaments are attracted to one another in a linear relationship
but are prevented from coalescing because of electrostatic repulsion,
which also causes the filaments to form twisted pairs or Birkeland currents.
Electrical engineers use twisted pairs of wires
because it's the most efficient means of transferring electrical energy
with the least loss.
A spinning electric arc will machine down through the strata like an auger of fire.
In the case of Lake of the Woods, the three lobed bays
that twist in a northerly direction are intriguing,
as are the many islands that follow multiple chords
like outwardly expanding waves across a wide area.
Lake of the Woods is a 110 kilometers long and up to 95 kilometers wide.
It has an area of approximately 4,400 square kilometers
and more than 14,000 islands.
So it's by no means small.
Due to its location,
it could be considered among one of the lesser cousins to the Great Lakes
and could have been formed alongside them in a single cataclysmic event.
The Great Lakes, Sudbury, along with but not detailed in this presentation,
Manicouagan and Hudson's Bay,
reflect just a few of the ways that an Electric Universe paradigm
can completely change a worldview.