NuclearPlanet.com Science About the True Nature of Earth and Universe
"The purpose of science is to
discover the true nature of Earth and Universe and to share that
knowledge with people everywhere. That's what I do."--
J. Marvin Herndon, Ph.D.
Humans tend to be creatures of habit,
plodding along through time, eagerly looking toward the future, but
rarely looking with question at circumstances from the past which have
set them on their present course. Much of astrophysics and geophysics
has been built upon flawed ideas that are 40 or more years old. J. Marvin
Herndon, pictured at left, has discovered and corrected past flaws.
The consequence is a whole different way of understanding Earth and
Universe that is securely anchored to the properties of matter. Sharing
that understanding is what this website is all about. J. Marvin Herndon's Scientific
Discoveries and Insights with Descriptions, References, and Download
Links (click here)
Since
at least 1958 the military has engaged in spraying particles into the
air presumably to study weather modification. These activities were
sporadic in time and location. But about 2010, during the Obama
Administration, the aerial spraying of particulates became a near-daily
activity across North America, the European Union, the British
Commonwealth, and other countries including China, Egypt, India, Russia
and perhaps others. This was a covert activity with denial and
disinformation seemingly coordinated at all levels of government. No
information was made available on the particle compositions sprayed into
the air we all breathe, and no information on potentially adverse health
risks. Following are statements/questions with links to answers:
J. Marvin Herndon, PhD and Mark Whiteside, MD, MPH and a few colleagues to date are
the only scientists to publish in the peer-reviewed scientific
literature
on the compositions, human and eenvironmental health risks of the aerial spraying
and their psuedo-legal basis:
How can a non-scientist understand the
aerial spraying and its consequences, particularly on health? One way is
to listen to and view the scientifically-correct music videos whose
lyrics were written by J. Marvin Herndon.(click here)
What are they spraying into the air we
breathe? Forensic scientific investigations
are consistent with coal fly ash the toxic waste product of buring coal
being the main substance sprayed into the air we breathe(click here).
How do particles sprayed into the air affect the weather?
Persistent aerial spraying of particulate matter into the regions where
clouds form (1) inhibits rainfall to the point of massive downpours, the
so-called "drought or deluge" effect, (2) heats the atmosphere, (3)
retards heat loss from the Earth, and (4) upon falling to earth, absorbs
sunlight. In short, the aerial spraying destroys the natural weather
cycle, contaminates Earth’s biosphere, and causes global warming —
consequences falsely blamed on fossil fuel burning.
How does the aerial spraying endanger human health?
The adverse public health effects of aerosolized particulate matter can
be inferred from pollution studies of particulates 2.5 mm and smaller.
Exposure to such particles has been shown to be associated with
increased hospital admissions, morbidity and premature mortality, risk
for cardiovascular disease and lung cancer, other lung diseases
including asthma, diabetes, risk for stroke, Alzheimer’s disease,
reduced renal function in older men, low birth weight, reduced male
fertility and decreased cognitive ability in older women. Adverse health
effects of aerosolized coal fly ash (CFA) include (1) neurological
disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
disease, (2) lung cancer and respiratory disorders, and (3) numerous
other disorders resulting from the plethora of toxic elements in this
material, including arsenic, mercury, and radioactive elements. The most
at risk are the young, the old, and those with compromised respiratory
and immune systems.
Earth scientists, even those who study the
atmosphere, are silent about the near-daily aerial particulate spraying
as if it does not exist. Why would they not tell the truth when science
is all about telling the truth, the full truth?
What corrupted Earth scientists?(click
here)
Explanations of three attempts (two successful) by a
disinformation team to cause retractions of peer-reviewed and published
public health scientific papers that provide evidence of slow and
insidious aerosol poisoning of millions of people. No one has the right
to poison people and no one has the right to hide public health risks
from the public. Their actions prove that those ordering the aerosol
spraying know well the health risks and want to hide that knowledge from
the public. (click here for pdf)
J.
Marvin Herndon's discovery of the highly reduced, low-oxygen, chemical
composition of Earth's interior led to the understanding of why
substantial quantities of uranium would occur in Earth's core, settle by
the action of gravity to the center of the Earth, and begin to function
as a natural nuclear reactor. He demonstrated the feasibility of
a natural nuclear fission reactor, called the georeactor, at Earth's
center and provided evidence of its existence. For more details,
references, and links to download scientific papers, please check out
the following WebPages: WebPage:Herndon's Nuclear
Georeactor
(click here) WebPage:Frequently Asked Questions
about Earth's Georeactor (click here) Many first learned about the georeactor from the cover feature of the
August 2002 issue of Discover magazine, entitled "Nuclear
Planet". For a link to that article,
click here:
J.
Marvin Herndon's concept of Earth originally having formed as a
Jupiter-like gas giant leads to a new vision of Earth's internal
composition, new geodynamics
that correct and extend plate tectonics,
powerful new energy sources (stored energy of protoplanetary compression
and nuclear fission georeactor energy), georeactor magnetic field generation,
and a new concept for the formation of fold-mountain ranges that does
not necessitate plate collisions.
In short, a whole new indivisible geoscience paradigm, securely anchored
to the properties of matter as described in detail under various
relevant headings below on this website.
Fjords
occur in different parts of the world suggesting a common origin.
Although being the subject of debate for more than a century, a common
origin has not yet been disclosed; the relative importance of glaciation
is still controversial. Here J. Marvin Herndon proposes that the primary
origin of fjords, like submarine canyons, occurs as a consequence of
decompression-driven Earth surface curvature changes, and suggests that
glaciation, rather than being the primary agent of fjord formation, as
widely assumed, instead is the principal agent of fjord preservation.
J. Marvin
Herndon, Origin of Fjords... (click here)
Oil and Gas Exploration Implications
The
geology of planet Earth according to Herndon's Whole-Earth Decompression
Dynamics (WEDD) is primarily the consequence of two processes: (1)
The progressive formation of surface cracks to increase surface area in response
to decompression-increased planetary volume, and; (2) The
progressive adjustment of surface curvature in response to
decompression-increased planetary volume.
Crustal fragmentation, called rifting, provides all of the crucial components
for petroleum-deposit formation: basin, reservoir, source, and seal. Rifting
causes the formation of deep basins, as presently occurring in the Afar triangle
of Northeastern Africa. Augmented by georeactor heat channeled upwards from deep within the
Earth, uplift from sub-surface swelling can sequester sea-flooded lands to form
halite evaporite deposits, can lead to dome formation, and can make elevated land
susceptible to erosion processes, thus providing sedimentary material for
reservoir rock in-filling of basins. Moreover, crustal fragmentation potentially
exposes deep basins to sources of abiotic mantle methane and, although still
controversial, methane-derived hydrocarbons. For more details, see the
following WebPage:WEDD Implications for Petroleum and
Natural Gas Origination (click here)
Origin of Mountains and Primary Initiation of Submarine Canyons
Mountain
systems characterized by folding have been the intensively studied and
debated since the 19th Century. The age-old problem of fold-mountain
formation reduces to this question: How can one account for the “extra”
surface area, contained within the continental boundaries, that
observations reveal folded atop other layers? In plate tectonics
continent requisite plate collisions are assumed to "elongate"
continents leading to "extra" surface area thought to be necessary for fold-mountain
formation. But, as revealed by J. Marvin Herndon, fold-mountain
formation is a natural consequence of Earth's early formation as a
Jupiter-like gas-giant and does not necessarily require plate collision.
Fold-mountain formation results from decompression-caused surface
curvature changes, illustrated at right. For more
information, see: WebPage:Origin of
Mountains and Primary Initiation of Submarine Canyons (click here). Important Paper:Origin of mountains and primary initiation of
submarine canyons: the consequences of Earth's early formation as a
Jupiter-like gas giant. (click here for pdf)Current Science,
2012, 102, 1370-1372.
Fictitious Supercontinent Cycles
Descriptions of phenomena, events, or processes made on the basis of
problematic paradigms can be unreasonably complex (e.g. epicycles) or
simply wrong (e.g. ultraviolet catastrophe). Supercontinent cycles, also
called Wilson cycles, are, J. Marvin Herndon submits, artificial
constructs, like epicycles. Herndon provides the basis for that
assertion and describes published considerations from a fundamentally
different, new, indivisible geoscience paradigm which obviate the
necessity for assuming supercontinent cycles.
The
visionary evolutionist, Lynn Margulis, taught the importance of
envisioning the Earth as a whole, rather than as unrelated segments
spread among various scientific specialties. In that spirit, and in the
broader framework of the Solar System, J. Marvin Herndon presents a new,
indivisible planetary science paradigm, a wholly self-consistent vision
of the nature of matter in the Solar System, and dynamics and energy
sources of planets which differs profoundly from the half-century old,
popular, but problematic paradigm. This is a new foundation from which
much development is possible.
Abstract: I
present here a new, indivisible planetary science paradigm, a wholly
self-consistent vision of the nature of matter in the Solar System, and
dynamics and energy sources of planets. Massive-core planets formed by
condensing and raining-out from within giant gaseous protoplanets at
high pressures and high temperatures. Earth’s complete condensation
included a ~300 Earth-mass gigantic gas/ice shell that compressed the
rocky kernel to about 66% of Earth’s present diameter. T-Tauri eruptions
stripped the gases away from the inner planets and stripped a portion of
Mercury’s incompletely condensed protoplanet, and transported it to the
region between Mars and Jupiter where it fused with in-falling oxidized
condensate from the outer regions of the Solar System and formed the parent matter of ordinary chondrite
meteorites, the main-Belt asteroids, and veneer for the inner planets,
especially Mars. In response to decompression-driven planetary volume
increases, cracks form to increase surface area and mountain ranges
characterized by folding form to accommodate changes in curvature. The differences between the
inner planets are primarily the consequence of different degrees of protoplanetary compression. The internal composition of Mercury is
calculated by analogy with Earth. The rationale is provided for Mars
potentially having a greater subsurface water reservoir capacity than
before realized.
Major Developments Related to the Solar
System
For
twenty years, NASA-funded scientists were unable to explain in a
logical, causally related way why Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune radiate
about twice as much energy as they receive from the Sun. Then, J. Marvin
Herndon published the concept of planetocentric nuclear fission reactors
as the cause.WebPage:Feasibility of Nuclear Reactors in the
Giant Outer Planets (click here)
Herndon followed by demonstrating the feasibility and providing evidence
for a natural nuclear fission reactor, the georeactor, at the center of
Earth as the energy source and production mechanism for the geomagnetic
field:
Natural nuclear fission reactors may provide reasonable explanations for
other "NASA mysteries" including: (1) Our Moon having a soft or molten
core; (2) Tiny planet Mercury having a magnetic field; (3) Mars
displaying evidence of an ancient magnetic field; (4) Our Moon
displaying evidence of an ancient magnetic field; (5) Jupiter’s moon
Ganymede having an internally generated magnetic field; (6) Jupiter's
moon Io being extremely volcanic; (7) Saturn’s moon Enceladus showing evidence of internal heating;
and, (8) Evidence of internal heat generation in Pluto’s moon Charon:
J. Marvin Herndon discovered a fundamental
relationship using published whole-rock chondrite molar Mg/Fe and Si/Fe
ratios. This relationship admits the possibility that ordinary chondrite
meteorites are derived from two components: one is a relatively
undifferentiated, primitive component, oxidized like the CI or C1
carbonaceous chondrites; the other is a somewhat differentiated,
planetary component, with oxidation state like the highly reduced
enstatite chondrites. Such a picture would seem to explain for the
ordinary chondrites, their major element compositions, their
intermediate states of oxidation, and their ubiquitous deficiencies of
refractory siderophile elements. J. Marvin Herndon suggested that the
planetary component of ordinary chondrite formation consists of planet
Mercury’s missing complement of elements.
MESSENGER
Mercury Hollows Explained by Hydrogen
Geysers
The
MESSENGER spacecraft currently orbiting Mercury sent back images of
recent volatile-related activity on Mercury's surface characterized by
pits associated with highly reflective surface material that puzzled
NASA scientists. In a recent scientific communication, J. Marvin Herndon
proposed an explanation. If Mercury's core material condensed from
primordial matter at pressures of one atmosphere or more, iron would
condense as a liquid capable of dissolving copious amounts of hydrogen.
Later, as Mercury's core solidified, the hydrogen would be released and
would escape at the surface, producing hydrogen geysers, forming the
observed pits, and reducing iron sulfide to metal, thus accounting for
the associated highly reflective material.
Major Developments Related to Stars, Galaxies,
and Exo-planets
More than seven decades ago, scientists thought they had solved the
problem of how thermonuclear reactions in stars ignite automatically
during formation. Later, although
there were indications of serious problems, no one except J. Marvin Herndon,
thought to ask "What's wrong with this picture?" and to re-think the
problem. The result was realizing that thermonuclear reactions in
stars, as in hydrogen bombs, are ignited by nuclear fission. Without
fissionable elements to spark ignition, the stars remain dark.
Before
Herndon, the characteristic features of galaxies were inexplicable, because
astrophysics had been built upon a flawed foundation for more than seven
decades, i.e., the belief that stars automatically ignite upon formation.
Now, Herndon points the way toward understanding for the first time
galactic luminous star distributions, which are a prominent, common feature
of galaxies, making the galaxies appear as they do.
How,
one might ask, is J. Marvin Herndon, able to make so
many fundamental scientific discoveries? There are methodologies, not
taught in schools, that Herndon shares in his book, Maverick's Earth
and Universeclick here,
and in his new paper, entitled "Inseparability of Science History and
Discovery".
Science
is about truth, not deception, not to the scientific community and not
to the general public. Science provides a
truth-standard, securely anchored in the properties of matter. J. Marvin Herndon reveals the causes
and extent of science corruption, suppression and misrepresentation and he proffers
practical solutions. Important Article: Corruption of Science in America (click here
for pdf) WebPage:Science Suppression and
Misrepresentation (click here)
YouTube Video:Origin of Earth's
Magnetic Field (click here) This video is best
"watched in high quality" as it contains an experimental demonstration
of why long-term convection, and hence dynamo-action, in the fluid core
is impossible. Download .mp4 video file (click here).
YouTube Video:
Lighting the Stars (click here) The nature of star ignition has been misunderstood since
a mistake was made in the 1930s and subsequently built upon J. Marvin
Herndon reveals the mistake and describes the rationale for his
correcting it. (click here for notes and references)
Download .wmv video file (click here).
YouTube Video:The Origin of
Galaxies (click here) Observations arranged
into a logical order reveal causal relationships leading to a new
fundamental understanding of the origin of galaxies. Download .wmv video
file (click here).
YouTube Video:
No
Mantle Convection!!! (click here)
Plate tectonics theory is incomplete, providing no energy source for
geodynamics and depends critically on the assumption of mantle
convection. This video shows the reason that mantle convection is
physically impossible. Download .wmv video file (click
here).
+ Richard D. Oldham's Discovery of the Earth's Core
(click here)
+ Inge Lehmann's Discovery of the Earth's Inner Core (click here)
+ Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann's Discovery of Nuclear Fission and Consequences
(click
here)
+ Paul K. Kuroda's Feasibility of Natural
Nuclear Reactors in Uranium Mines (click here)
+ French Discovery of Fossil Natural Reactors at Oklo, Republic of Gabon
(click here)
The scientific foundations
described on this website have been published in the
following, premiere scientific journals: Naturwissenschaften,
Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity, Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences USA,Current Science, and Earth, Moon, and
Planets. When an important new contradiction to prevailing ideas
arises in the realm of ethical science, the new concept should be
discussed and debated, subjected, if possible, to experimental and/or
theoretical verification, refuted if wrong, or otherwise acknowledged.
Scientists throughout the world are invited to ascribe to that standard.
Secure in the belief that science and truth should go hand in hand with
the freedom to learn about and to understand the world in which we live,
this web site is dedicated to the dissemination of information to all
people: to scientists and, especially, to interested persons everywhere.