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Today, we continue our examination of arguably
the most perplexing meteorite ever discovered on planet Earth.
As science headlines have announced in recent weeks, the so-called Hypatia stone,
a tiny rock fragment found in a Libyan desert glass field is
"rattling" the solar system's status quo,
challenging astronomers' fundamental ideas
about our solar system's formation and history.
In 2015, a number of research teams reported that the material
could not be identified based on any known type of meteorite or comet.
As reported by phys.org in January of 2018,
new scientific research by a team at the University of Johannesburg has
"...provided unsettling answers that spiral away from conventional views
of the material our solar system was formed from."
The matrix of minerals composing the Hypatia stone
resembles no known meteorite or comet fragment
and consists of strange and never-before-seen combinations of minerals.
The dust material found in the fragments confounds the very core
of the solar nebula hypothesis.
As described by phys.org,
"Generally, science says that our solar system's planets
ultimately formed from a huge, ancient cloud of interstellar dust
(the solar nebula) in space.
The first part of that process would be much like dust bunnies
coagulating in an unswept room.
Science also holds that the solar nebula was homogeneous,
that is, the same kind of dust everywhere.
But Hypatia's chemistry tugs at this view."
Scientists analyzing the fragments suggest they may be pieces of a deep space
cometary intruder which impacted Earth around 29 million years ago.
But it's essential to remember what we've actually observed
when comets have encountered planets in modern times.
On two occasions in recent decades, when astronomers have been able to anticipate
close encounters between comets and planets,
the electromagnetic effects have been exponentially greater than scientists had anticipated.
When Shoemaker-Levy 9 reached Jupiter in 1994, the electromagnetic explosion
and unprecedented brightening of the gas giant's radiation belts
"knocked" the astronomical world off its feet.
More recently, when comet Siding Spring approached Mars,
NASA's MAVEN team was amazed when the comet "blew off" part of Mars's upper atmosphere
and the electrical nature of these kinds of events
is finally becoming a part of mainstream science literature.
In 2017, a scientific study published in the Geophysical Research Letters
proposed that the mysterious radiophonic sounds produced by some meteors
may ultimately be caused by giant electric fields driving electric currents.
In this episode, our guest, archaeologist Peter Mungo Jupp
continues his case that the Hypatia stone's bizarre composition
may have resulted from the transmutation of elements by high-energy electrical discharge.
Although reference is made to the Hypatia stone's,
positioning in the green glass fields of Libya,
it's mainly assumed that this part of a disintegrating comet
allied with the formation of the pebble.
Why is not the green glass or a silicon unique as well?
Further, the vast stretches of sand that make up the underlying component
of both of these geological curios, are themselves relatively historic
as judged by the Egyptian sources and petroglyphs strongly related to modern man.
Now also, we've got to take into account the existence nearby
of Oasis crater and Kibera crater.
They may be well involved in producing these tektite-like formations.
These could well be plasma discharge craters
with electrical machining able to produce effects over a wide area.
The newly discovered role of electrical discharge
in producing not only shocked quartz,
but in all probability shock diamonds, is not taken into account.
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania reinforces this alternate,
but I suspect, prime method of shocked rock creation. And I quote,
"To bolster the notion that rocks were beat up in an extra-terrestrial impact,
geologists search for a distinctive signature:
that is microscopic bands in the mineral quartz,
created when powerful pressure waves ripple through the rock.
This study suggests that a different sort of shock can create the same banding patterns:
that is a lightning bolt."
The result of the study could cast further doubt on claims of asteroid impacts
that relied on observations of shocked quartz."
Now let's pause for a moment. This could even more apply
to Anthony Peratt's historic plasma discharge events
which are theorized to be millions of times more powerful than ordinary lightning.
Mythology often talks of the cosmic thunderbolt.
Could the Oasis crater be the result of such a strike?
Does mythology provide us with examples from this area?
In Greek mythology, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phaethon set out
but was entirely unable to control the Sun chariot's horses.
They wandered too close to the Earth and began to scorch it.
To prevent further damage, Zeus, or as we name, Jupiter,
hurled a cosmic thunderbolt at Phaethon
who fell to the earth at the mouth of the river Eridanus in the Red Sea.
Such an archetypal scenario may often reveal
historical clues to a geological disaster.
Moreover, the role of electrical discharge in creating new elements and compounds,
as per Matsumoto's studies of cold electrofusion, does not rate a mention.
A cosmic electro-discharge or magnetic reversal,
with its massive attendant current flow, has shattering power,
particularly in the case of a major z-pinch effect occurring above or below the Earth.
This could be a decisive factor in explaining the curious, so-called,
cosmic mixture of compounds and elements found in the Hypatia stone.
Finally, the noting of the rarer C-13 isotope of carbon as distinct from carbon-12,
which is mainly found in crustal carbon deposits,
assumes a cosmic origin for the carbon components of the pebble.
However, deep earth layers of methane, kerogens, petroleum and concretized crack filling,
as mentioned by Thomas Gold, are well sourced with much higher levels of C-13.
So this may well be a simpler explanation for the source of this phenomenon.
And I just note in passing the possibility of scenarios of cosmic naphtha or petroleum
pervading the atmosphere mentioned in ancient historical sources such as the Talmud.
It's also a clear possibility if we can rely on historical fact.
Just remember, so often in science we reject the clear witnesses to events
in ancient history not seen today.
Can you imagine, an atmospheric invasion of volatile hydrocarbons
well may be a source of diamonds when a plasma discharge enters it.
So let's discuss some of the counters to the extra-terrestrial theory.
The Hypatia stone differs from the normal chondritic meteorites
due to dominance of carbon as distinct from silicon.
It also contains compounds not normally found in Earth's source rocks.
But could it, nevertheless, be an ejection from a faraway impact source
similar to silicon based tektites?
Tektites too are claimed to be produced by impacts
that created tiny classically shaped rocks.
These then travel long distances to be found in a few strewn fields around the world.
But, remember, they're essentially made of material from the impact source.
Could not the extraordinary conditions needed for tektite production
be of a similar methodology?
Remember, there are several different types of tektites,
even if they are essentially silicon based.
This presumption of a cosmic source for tektites, however,
rests purely on the pebbles' relative uniqueness.
However, I would advocate that a massive plasma discharge,
rather than a conventional meteor impact,
presents a more likely scenario for the eccentric creation
of the Hypatia stone's rare combination of compounds.